4th floor vault collections to be inaccessible Updated August 19 2013

Early American newspapers to 1799 [Pennsylvania Gazette is available in facsimile]

#1910 Edward A. Acton papers, 1861-1862 #1919 William Frederick Allen correspondence, 1860-1865 #1745 Anderson family papers, 1797-1913 #1972A Ashhurst family papers, 1797-1907 #1972B Ashhurst family papers, 1796-1890 #1992 Ashhurst family papers, 1834-1890 #1976 Humphrey Atherton papers, 1788-1845 #1649 Bank of Pennsylvania records, 1720-1861 #1390A Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania dissolution papers,1840-1855 #1390B Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania dissolution papers,1828-1865 #2145 Alice Beardwood collection of Philadelphia business scrapbooks, 1839-1920 #3132 Beath family menu card collection, 1860-1913 #2158 Berks County legal Papers, 1784-1881 #1889 Charles Malone Betts papers, 1862-1865 #3179 Adele Biddle papers, 1848-1889 #2146 Biddle family papers, 1688-1883 #1792 Biddle family papers, 1683-1954 #3178 Biddle family letters, 1817-1847 #1881 James Cornell Biddle letters, 1861-1865 #1621 James Stokes Biddle papers, 1833-1859 #3180 John Craig Biddle correspondence and miscellaneous items, 1834-1907 #2039 Nicholas Biddle papers, 1776-1863 #1538 A Life of Nicholas Biddle (manuscript) by Burton Alva Konkle, 1928 #3181 William F. Biddle papers, 1861-1876 #1451A Biddle and Craig family papers, 1779-1837 #1339 Biddle stock certificates, 1804-1866 #D0148 Bissell deeds collection, circa 1750-1850 D0059 Elizabeth Boyd collection of miscellaneous deeds and ephemera, 1852-1961 #1863 Bradford family papers, 1774-1923 #1497 Briefs of Title of Philadelphia, 1820-1900 #1983 Brinton Coxe family papers, 1787-1917 #1918 Coleman Peace Brown papers, 1885-1957 #2015 Marjorie P. M. Brown collection, 1763-1871 #1845 Henry Paul Brown engraved invitations, 1914-1954 #1617 Brown-Wistar family papers, 1788-1915 #0091 James Buchanan papers, 1783-1895, undated #1701 Marmaduke Burrough papers, 1814-1843 #0117 Hampton L. Carson papers #3214 Cavan Men's Catholic Social and Beneficial Society minutes, 1907-1956 #2050 Chew family papers [rolled storage only], 1659-1986 #1558 Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee records, 1861-1887 #1770 Citizens’ Municipal Association of Philadelphia records, 1893-1907 #1721 Clark & Raser records, 1817-1849 #1675 James G. Clark papers, 1839-1866 #1658 William Bell Clark collection on Pennsylvanians missing while serving with the United States Navy, 1917-1918 #2007 Arthur Colen collection of Joseph Boggs Beale papers, 1856-circa 1973; bulk 1856-1882 #3243 John M. Collins papers, 1864-1866 #1711 Richard Francis Colton notebooks, 1856-1874 #3247 Confederate States of American currency, 1861-1864 #0676 Constitutional Centennial Commission papers, 1886-1887 #2063 Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania records, 1769-1941 #2091 Coxe papers, 1793-1868 #3250 T. E. Marr Crosswicks House photographs, 1910 #2084 Crothers family papers, 1753-1935 #3251 Cuesta family business papers, 1820-1860 #1686 William Darlington papers, 1829-1861 #1924 Anna Blanchard Blakiston Day papers, 1905-1961 #1593 Dennis F. Dealy papers, 1853-1887 #1707 Delaware County (Pa.) Poor House records, 1812-1880 #3079 Nelson A. Diaz papers [Boxes 1-177 only], 1967-2009 #1584 Drayton family papers, 1783-1893 #0175 Ferdinand J. Dreer autograph collection [Greble journal only], 1492-1925 #3257 Helen F. Dryden collection on George Foust, 1863-1956 #1865 Harold Donaldson Eberlein papers, 1923-1962 #1342 Albert Joseph Edmunds papers, 1844-1941 #2058 Rebecca Ward Elliot collection, 1850-1930 #1982 James Hunter Ewing records, 1859-1884 #1580 Samuel B. Fales collection of Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon papers, 1861-1880 #1673 Christopher Fallon papers, 1824-1863 #1961 Family Service of Philadelphia records, 1878-1999 #3295 John J. Felin and Company deeds, 1820-1958 #2094 Fisher family papers, 1761-1868 #1463 Fort Necessity National Battlefield (Pa.) papers, 1932-1943 #D0322 Friends Penn Tercentenary Committee collection of T. Edmund Harvey BBC recordings, 1944 #1715 Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania collection, 1642-1848 D0057 General Committee of Safety orders on the Treasurer, 1814-1815 #1730a Harrold Edgar Gillingham collection, 1730-1950 #1740 Mr. and Mrs. George Glen Gould notes for a biography of Erza Holden, circa 1950 #1574 Grand Army of the Republic. Courtland Saunders Post No. 21 records, 1890-1923 #1825 Grand Army of the Republic. Philip R. Schuyler Post, No. 51 records, 1874-1931 #1571 Simon Gratz correspondence, 1858-1923 #1491 Great Britain Board of Trade shipping lists, 1771-1772 #1967A Grubb family papers, 1730-1950 #2075 Harrison Brothers and Company account books, 1867-1893 #1809 Charles Adam Heckman papers, 1861-1863 #1569 Historical Society of Pennsylvania bookplate collection, circa 1730-1900 #1605 Historical Society of Pennsylvania Civil War envelopes and currency collection, 1824- 1900 #1546 Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection of Civil War papers, 1830--1923 D0056 Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century deeds, circa 1700-1800 #3206 Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection of ephemera, 1823-1976 #0905 Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection of lodge records, 1731-1903 #0810 Historical Society of Pennsylvania deed collection, 1300-1901 #3540 Historical Society of Pennsylvania miscellaneous Philadelphia scrapbook collection, 1922- 1934 V84 Historical Society of Pennsylvania rolled map collection, 1822-1930 #3441A Historical Society of Pennsylvania scrapbook collection, circa 1850-1920 #3372 Historical Society of Pennsylvania stereopticon views collection, circa 1880-circa 1920 #1561 Historical Society of Pennsylvania War Service Committee papers, 1918-1919 #1424 History of the Second Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, 1775-1917 (manuscript) by W.A. Newman Dorland, circa 1922-1954 #1689 Louis H. Hollis collection on the Improved Order of Red Men, 1817-1902 #1399 C. Evans Hubbard collection on rum trade in the West Indies, 1780-1801 #0304 Andrew Atkinson Humphreys papers [Boxes 1-120 only], 1708-1930 #2008 Ezekiel Hunn records, 1885-1925 #3283 Hunt collection of documents on Ireland and Molly Maguires, 1935-1975 #3290 Thomas C. Hutchinson legal case books, 1692-1863 #1566 Hutchinson collection of transportation passes, 1889-1930 #2026 R. Sturgis Ingersoll collection, 1822-1917 #1563 An Examination of the Causes Which led to the Separation of the Religious Society of Friends in America (manuscript) by Samuel M. Janney, 1859 #2066 Thomas Jefferson Jordan Civil War letters, 1861-1866 #1302 Jefferson Justice papers, 1862-1891 #2069 Edward Smith Kelly collection, 1788-1920 #2005 Kirk family papers, 1688-1897 #2025 Knepper brothers letters, 1884-1907 #1654 Daniel Knight mathematics notebooks, 1831-1834 #1963 Krumbhaar family papers, 1732-1951 #1940 League of Women Voters Philadelphia records, 1920-1984 #1974 Lerner papers, 1918-1945 #1370b Henry Carvill Lewis papers, 1861-1890 #0367 Mrs. Howard W. Lewis collection of early Philadelphia businesses papers, 1799-1866 #1680 William David Lewis papers, 1800-1918 #1618 Malcolm Lloyd collection, 1749-1822 #1990 Malcolm Lloyd papers, 1855-1911 #2068 Charles Winthrop Lowell papers, 1860-1867 #1616 MacVeagh family papers, 1850-1950 #1682 William Mann Company account books, 1854-1902 #0400 Massachusetts papers, 1774-1780 #2006 Maxcy family letters, 1826-1895 D0070 Henry L. Mather collection of miscellaneous US documents, 1826-1876 #1633 Margaret McHenry notebooks, 1929-1949 #1805 Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company land papers, 1851-1918 #3245 Minute book for the Committee on Municipal Corporations of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1883-1883 #1389 Miscellaneous maritime papers, 1770-1804 D0084 Miscellaneous Philadelphia deeds and conveyances, 1695-1837 D0088 Miscellaneous papers from the Customs collector at the Port of Philadelphia, circa 1800- 1850 #2103 R. A. Montgomery collection of Radnor Township deeds, 1682-1910 #3322 Robert L. Montgomery collection, 1682-1793 #3319 Robert C. Moon research papers on the Morris family, 1895-1908 #2153 Morris-Hughes family papers, 1750-1875 #2018A Anthony Morris family papers, 1781-1894 #2018B Anthony Morris family papers, 1730-1888 #2000A Morris family papers, 1723-1930 #2000B Morris family papers, 1695-1965 #2000E Morris family papers, 1682-1932 #3329 Albert Cook Myers collection of early surveys photostats, circa 1933 #0459 Notes of Trials in Columbia, 1609-1829 #1472 Stephen H. Noyes papers, circa 1916-1925, undated #1575 William Rudolph O’Donovan papers, 1846-1920 #2032 Nicholas Gouverneur Ogden correspondence, 1817-1823 #1669 Uriah Hunt Painter Papers, 1855-1936 D0076 Out of the Past (photograph albums) compiled by J. E. Coonan, 1720-1933 #1360 Papers related to Philadelphia City Hall, 1860-1881 #1564 James P. Parke marriage and death records, 1751-1850 #1802 Parker family papers, 1787-1904 #2033 Paul family papers, 1709-1956 #1435 Penington family papers, 1796-1882 #1436 Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform League papers, 1881-1935 # 1662 Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities journals, 1849- 1879 #1570 Pennsylvania Court Papers, 1773-1845 #1989 Pennsylvania Magistrates Court (Philadelphia Judicial District) records, 1875-1903 #1964 Pennsylvania Militia, Company D records, 1861-1951 #1473 Pennsylvania National Guard, Regiment 20th records, 1877 #2100 Galusha Pennypacker military papers, 1863-1881 D0473 Pennsylvania petitions and papers of Levi Hollingsworth and Sons, Edward Armstrong, and James T. Mitchell, 1802-1849, undated #3543 Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, 42nd Regiment muster rolls, 1861-1864 #0594 Pennsylvania ship register books, 1722-1776 D0082 Pennsylvania Statutes at Large and Pennsylvania Laws, 1700-1801 #2078 Pennsylvania Volunteers. 28th Regiment papers, 1861-1863 #1791 Philadelphia Board of Trade, 1801-1942 #1908 Clearing House Association of Philadelphia records, 1858-1958 #1359 Philadelphia Child Welfare Association records, 1893-1933 #1714 Philadelphia County (Pennsylvania) miscellaneous court records, 1797-1835 #1965 Philadelphia Public Schools, 16th District records, 1835-1914 #0678 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard papers, 1831-1877 #3262 Philadelphia Quartz Company, 1892-1917 #1440 Philadelphia Vacant Lots Cultivation Association records, 1895-1928 #3702 Photo album documenting the Liberty Bell's trip from Philadelphia to San Francisco, 1915 #3347 Pike Beneficial Society records, 1814-1865 D0087 Annie Pile collection on Samuel Pile, circa 1796-1810 #0515 Port of Philadelphia bills of lading, 1716-1772 #1916 Port of Philadelphia bills of lading, 1866-1869 #0157 Port of Philadelphia Custom House records, 1704-1789 #0516 Port of Philadelphia record books, 1796-1804 #2073 Ruth Pearson Cook Porter letters, 1858-1866 #3351 Philip Price collection of Philadelphia deeds, 1681-1863 #1205 Progressive Literary Association of Philadelphia minutes, 1860-1902 #1496 Queens County (N.Y.) loan office record book, 1770-1778 #1356 Records of Company D, Infantry Regiment 1st of the Pennsylvania National Guard, 1861- 1923 #2061 Richard Renshaw family papers, 1683-1911 #2097 John J. Reilly papers, 1922-1973 #1979 Howard Richards papers, 1808-1912 #2087 Roberts family papers, 1684-1897 #1986 Roberts-Smith family papers, 1702-1898 #O.04-486 Rare atlases #1691 John W. Rulon papers, 1807-1861 #2161 Saint Patrick's Day Observance Association papers, 1954-1977 #1650 Sartain Family Papers, 1771-1929 V05 Sartain Family #3361 Edward Stalker Sayres collection of Philadelphia social functions memorabilia, 1896-1923 #3362 Charles Henry Scott scrapbook, 1883-1909 #1622 Samuel Scoville papers, 1942-1950 #2040 Second Baptist Church of Philadelphia #0587 Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition papers, 1926 #1547 Sesqui-Centennial papers, 1926 #3366 Alfred Percival Smith collection, 1865-1901 #1871 Thomas W. Smith letters, 1862-1864 #1597 Smith family real estate papers, 1890-1934 #1708 Edward Taylor Snow papers, 1890-1913 #1415 Society for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Masters of Ships, Their Widows and Children records, 1765-1923 #1152 Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick records, 1771-1982, undated #1911 Charles H. Speckman papers, 1898-1899 #1565 Frank S. Stone collection, 1764-1887 D0094 Edgar Nyce Sloanaker collection, 1840-1960 #1725 Smyth family papers, 1785-1897 D0098 James K. Starr and Franklin McFadden photo album, 1898 #0619 Southwark Commissioners records, 1789-1842 #1598 Stevenson-Harris miscellaneous legal records, 1776-1915 #1878 Sword family papers, 1751-circa 1940 #0651 Jacob and Isaac Taylor papers, 1672-1775 #1794B Townsend family collection, 1784-1893 #1674 Nathan Trotter and Company correspondence, 1825-1859 D0149 Unidentified photograph album, circa 1880 #2074 Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon (Philadelphia) telegrams, 1861-1864 #0052 United American Mechanics, Fredonia Council #1626 United States Army Pennsylvania Infantry, 52nd Regiment papers, 1861-1864 #1573 United States Army muster rolls, 1809-1812 #1808 United States Army, 29th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Papers, 1861-1926 #1246 United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Celebration papers, 1937 #3380 U.S. Armed Forces Publication Index, 1941-1945 #0679 United States Sanitary Commission Philadelphia Branch collection, 1861-1875, undated #1214 United States Marine Corps payrolls, 1811-1848 D0158 Veteran Fireman's Association minutes book and scrapbook, 1863-1905 #1759 George Walker records, 1775-1873 #0685 James W. Wallace collection of Joseph Wallace papers, 1794-1863 #3124 War Welfare Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity War Chest Drive records, 1918 #1672 William J. Warren business papers, 1855-1966 #0695 Washington Benevolent Society of Pennsylvania records, 1814-1829 #1773 James N. Weems records, 1810-1831 #1529 John Welsh papers, 1806-1935, undated #2051 West family papers, 1810-1881 #1973 West family papers, 1764-1893 #1895 West End Free Library records, 1912-1937 #1980 Westcott & Thomson records, 1856-1924 #1975 Western North Carolina Land Company records, 1873-1945 #3429 George D. Wetherill and Company records, 1898-1910 D0248 Wharton family Bible, 1727-1925 #2014 Wharton and Willing families papers, 1669-1887 #1936 Louis F. Whitcomb Sesquicentennial papers, 1904-1927 #1748 Wickham collection of Tioga County Bank documents #1720 Wier family records, 1830-1860 #2009 William Wister papers, 1790-1899 #2079 Richard Wood diaries, 1801-1821 #1589 Wood and Bacon account books, 1787-1824 #2096 William Redwood Wright family papers, 1752-1928 #3436 Wright family papers, 1730-1935 #3437 Wurts and Frothingham diaries and estate papers, 1853-1912 #1988A Wurts family papers, 1796-1884 #1988B Wurts family papers, 1817-1907 #3438 Wurts and Wister family papers, 1800-1905 #3439 Wurts family papers, 1860-1960 #1494 Yeates family papers, 1733-1894