Philadelphia Studies: Overview

Modern one-volume history of Philadelphia. Chapters arranged chronologically by subject experts. Not too easy to find material on neighborhoods or city regions.

Surveys the history of voluntary organizations in Philadelphia through organization "biographies". Provides some bibliographic information as well as disposition of archival materials.

Brief entries on persons, places, institutions, and events in Philadelphia history. Some entries have bibliographic references.

Also, print : Van Pelt and other locations F158.3 .S4.
The great history of the city. Volume 1 covers the history of the city. Volumes 2 and 3 cover the history of the city's industries, institutions, and personalities.

Draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived.

Three centuries of the planning history of the city, from William Penn’s original concept to the design of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the renewal efforts that made Philadelphia a national leader in city planning and urban revitalization.

The most significant archaeological discoveries, based on more than thirty years of intensive archaeological investigations in the greater Philadelphia area.

One-volume older history of Philadelphia, produced through the Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration. Divided into two parts: "The city and its background" and "Roads and rambles in and around the city".

Surveys Philadelphia school districts and individual schools through the nineteenth century.