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• A retrospect of early Quakerism : being extracts from the records of Philadelphia yearly meetings composing it ; To which is prefixed an account of their first establishment (T.E. Zell, 1860), by Ezra Michener (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extracts From the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, From 1759-1807, A.D. (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1889), by Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, ed. by Henry D. Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Account of Papoonahoal (Printed and sold by S. Clark, in Bread-street, 1761), by George Dawson Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Memoir of Philip and Rachel Price. (Printed for Eli K. Price and Philip M. Price., 1852), by Eli K. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Friends' Meeting-house, Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia; a centennial celebration, sixth month fourth, 1904 (The John C. Winston Company, 1904), by Friends' Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the religious Society of Friends : called by some the Free Quakers, in the city of Philadelphia (Printed for the society], 1894), by Charles Wetherill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial homes of Philadelphia and its neighborhood (J.B. Lippincott, 1912), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Horace Mather Lippincott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Friends' Meeting-House Fourth and Arch streets, Philadelphia : a centennial celebration. (John C. Winston, 1904), by Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the case of trespass & assault and battery : where-in John Evans was plaintiff, and Ellis Yarnall, Richard Humphreys, Jonathan Willis, Thomas Savary, Isaac Parrish, Caleb Carmalt, Benjamin Kite, John James, David Bacon, Abraham Leddon, John Elliot, Hannah Clark, Robert Haydock, and Susanna his wife, and Caleb Pearce and Jane his wife, were defendants ; including an interesting and important discussion respecting the discipline of the Religious society of Friends ; and containing the valuable speeches of the counsel, revised from the short-hand notes of T. Lloyd ; tried at a court of nisi prius for the city and county of Philadelphia, before the Hon. H.H. Brackenridge, one of the associate judges of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, and a special jury ; in which case , Messrs. Condy, Levy, Ingersol, and Tilghman, were of counsel for the plaintiff, and Hallowell, Rawle, and Lewis, were of counsel for the defendants (Printed for P. Byrne, 1810), by John Evans, Joseph R. Hopkins, T. Lloyd, and Ellis Yarnall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Molly Pryce : a Quaker idyll (The Biddle Press, 1914), by John Russell Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case of Edmund Shotwell, Joseph Lukins, Charles Middleton, and two others. (J. Harding, printer, 1828), by Edmund Shotwell, M. T. C. Gould, Charles Middleton, Joseph Lukins, and Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County) (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Yearly Meeting of women Friends, held in Philadelphia, by adjournments, from the tenth of the fifth month, to the fourteenth of the same, inclusive, 1847, to the Quarterly, Monthly, and Preparative Meetings composing it. (T.E. Chapman, 1847), by Society of Friends (Hicksite). Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, Mary S. Lippincott, and Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends. Women's meeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia Quakerism and its perpetuity. ([n.p., 1903), by William Charles Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the trial of Friends, in the city of Philadelphia, June, 1828, before the Honourable Edward King ... : or, The case of Edmund Shotwell, Joseph Lukins, Charles Middleton, and two others, who had been, by the mayor of the city, committed to prison, whence they were brought up by habeas corpus, June 16th, 1828 (J. Harding, printer, 1828), by Edmund Shotwell, M. T. C. Gould, Charles Middleton, Joseph Lukins, and Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (1st Judicial District) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "orthodox" body in Philadelphia. (1896), by John W. Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the people called Quakers in Germantown, Philadelphia (Enterprise Publishing Company, 1923), by Horace Mather Lippincott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extracts from the journal of Elizabeth Drinker : from 1759-1807, A.D. (J.B. Lippincott, 1889), by Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, Henry D. Biddle, and BookLab (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Epistle from the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, to the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in London. Also, an Epistle from the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in New York, addressed to their subordinate meeting. (T.I. White, 1831), by Society of Friends (Hicksite). Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Society of Friends (Hicksite). New York Yearly Meeting (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the committee on education, appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, by adjournments, from the nineteenth of the fourth month to the twenty-fourth of the same, inclusive, 1830. (T.A. Conrad, 1830), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Education Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical and biographical sketches (R.A. Tripple, 1883), by Samuel W. Pennypacker (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Penn, der Begründer des nordamerikanischen Staates Pennsylvanien : ein Lebensbild, für die Jugend und das Volk gezeichnet (J. Niedner ;, 1882), by Hugo Oertel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A declaration of the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia respecting the proceedings of those who have lately separated from the Society : and also, showing the contrast between their doctrines and those held by Friends. (T. Kite, 1828), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Meeting for Sufferings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vision of Isaac Child, of Plumstead, which he saw concerning the land of his nativity (published and sold by J. Simmons, 1840), by Isaac Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Samuel J. Levick : late of the city of Philadelphia. (William H. Pile's Sons, 1896), by Samuel Jones Levick and Hugh Foulke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations upon the present test-law of Pennsylvania: addressed to the legislature and freemen of the state. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Hall and Sellers., MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]), by Benjamin Rush (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742 : with an introduction respecting the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers, with the first rise of the neighbouring Colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. To which is added a brief description of the said province, and the general state in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760-1770 ... With an appendix. Written principally between the years 1776 and 1780. (Printed and sold by Z. Poulson, 1797), by Robert Proud (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Westtown boarding school 1799-1899. (Press of Sherman & Co., 1899), by Watson W. Dewees, Sarah B. Dewees, and Westtown Boarding School (page images at HathiTrust)

• Publications of the City History Society of Philadelphia v.1, nos.1-13 (The Society, 1908), by City History Society of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Christ Church, Philadelphia; a symposium, compiled in connection with the two hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary (Macrae Smith, 1925), by Louis Cope Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early history of negroes in business in Philadelphia : read before the American Negro Historical Society, March, 1913 ([Philadelphia] : [Historical Society of Pennsylvania], [1913?], 1913), by Henry M. Minton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Making it in 19th-century urban America : another Philadelphia story (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health ;, 1976), by Bertram S. Brown and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early history of negroes in business in Philadelphia : read before the American Negro Historical Society, March, 1913 ([Philadelphia] : [Historical Society of Pennsylvania], [1913?], 1913), by Henry M. Minton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Forty years among the old booksellers of Philadelphia : with bibliographical remarks (A.P. Brotherhead, 1891), by William Brotherhead (page images at HathiTrust)

• Penn's great town; 250 years of Philadelphia architecture illustrated in prints and drawings (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), by George B. Tatum (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, banks and banking interests (Cornelius Baker, 1911), by Andrew Wallace Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Finance and industry : the New York Stock Exchange : banks, bankers, business houses, and moneyed institutions : the great metropolis of the United States : copyrighted. (Historical Publishing Company, 1866), by Historical Publishing Company (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The early Baptists of Philadelphia (W. Syckelmoore, 1877), by David Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lower Dublin (or Pennepek) Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa. ([s.n.], 1869), by Horatio Gates Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Baptists of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia : William Syckelmoore, 1877., 1877), by David Spencer and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Taverns of yesteryear. (C. Schmidt & Sons, 1960), by Inc C. Schmidt & Sons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Forty years among the old booksellers of Philadelphia : with bibliographical remarks (A.P. Brotherhead, 1891), by William Brotherhead (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reports upon bridging the Delaware (Printed for general circulation, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catholicity in Philadelphia : from the earliest missionaries down to the present time (J.J. McVey, 1909), by Joseph L. J. Kirlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• A graphic account of the alarming riots at St. Mary's Church, in April of 1822 : together with the most important extracts from the decisions of Chief Justices Tilghman, Duncan and Gibson, relative to the charter of said church, including letters from Hon. J. R. Ingersol & Thos. Kittera, esq. (s.n.], 1844), by A Reporter and 1844 (page images at HathiTrust)

• First church of the brethren of Philadelphia, Pa., 1813-1943 (Priv. print. [Lancaster, Lancaster press, inc.], 1943), by Howe,Roland L. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philadelphia Communists, 1936-1956 (originally published 1982; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Paul Lyons (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Philadelphia Communists, 1936-1956 (originally published 1982; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Paul Lyons (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Historical sketch of the parish of Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia : read in the church on Sunday, Aug. 2d, 1857 (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857), by Edward Y. Buchanan and Oxford Trinity Church (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gems of the Centennial exhibition : consisting of illustrated descriptions of objects of an artistic character, in the exhibits of the United States, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Russia, Japan, China, Egypt, Turkey, India, etc., etc., at the Philadelphia International Exhibition of 1876. (Appleton, 1877), by George T. Ferris and Pa.) Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

• At the sign of the hand-in-hand, wherein is set forth an account of divers things chiefly concerning insurance before and after the war for American independence ... With many illustrations. (The office of the Philadelphia contributionship for the insurance of houses from loss by fire, 1926), by Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of The Gloucester Fox Hunting Club near Philadelphia (Privately printed by Ernest Gee, 1927), by William Milnor (page images at HathiTrust)

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