To the public : Here is, I fear our unhappy and lamentable condition set forth in short, in a few verses, and some close considerations ...

Essays on the public charities of Philadelphia : intended to vindicate benevolent societies from the charge of encouraging idleness, and to place in strong relief, before an enlightened public, the sufferings and oppression under which the greater part of the females labour, who depend on their industry for a support for themselves and children /
by: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Published: (1830)

Interesting essays, chiefly on the subject of the yellow fever : interspersed with some remarks on the progress of the preparations for permanent bridge : and occasionally containing a few observations, relative to the great cause of general humanity /

Compete or close : traditional neighborhood schools under pressure /
by: McWilliams, Julia A.
Published: (2019)

Rules for the good government and discipline of the scholars in the different schools under the care of the Overseers of the Public School founded by charter in the town and county of Philadelphia.
Published: (1795)

Ethics, politics, and anarcho-punk identifications : punk and anarchy in Philadelphia /
by: Avery-Natale, Edward Anthony
Published: (2016)

Skid Row and its alternatives ; research and recommendations from Philadelphia /
by: Blumberg, Leonard U., 1920-
Published: (1973)

To the public : The subscriber, having resigned the charge of the Young Ladies' Academy to its visitors*, intends to establish a printing-office in this city. The Federal gazette and the Philadelphia evening post, was conducted by him ... Though the gazette had met with uncommon encouragement, the gentleman concerned with him did not incline to continue the publication ... This paper the subscriber proposes to resume ...
by: Brown, Andrew, 1744?-1797
Published: (1788)

A new periodical publication : Proposal of James Watters, for publishing by subscription, a new work, entitled the Weekly magazine.
by: Watters, James, -1798
Published: (1797)

M'Culloch's pocket almanac, for the year 1795 ...
Published: (1794)

An ordinance, for the suppression of nuisances, for the regulation of the drivers of carriages and horses in and through the streets and alleys, and for regulating the cording of wood, and paying of wharfage for the same, and other commodities landed on the public landing places within the District of Southwark, and for enforcing useful regulations, and other purposes therein mentioned.
Published: (1794)

Philadelphia, September 10, 1785. A robbery. Fifty dollars reward : Last night a store on Jacob Bright's wharf was broken open and robbed of nine pieces of raven's duck ... Whoever apprehends the thief or thieves, so that they may be brought to justice, shall have the above reward, or four dollars for every piece of the goods detected: paid by Levi Hollingsworth.
by: Hollingsworth, Levi, 1739-1824
Published: (1785)

Report of the library committee of the Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Public Economy : containing a summary of the information communicated by sundry citizens, in reply to the circular letter of the committee of superintendence of February 21, 1817.
Published: (1817)

The last speech and confession, of Henry Halbert : who was executed at Philadelphia, October 19, 1765, for the inhuman murder of the son of Jacob Woolman. : To which is added, a letter from the criminal to the father of the murdered son. : [Six lines of verse].
by: Halbert, Henry, -1765
Published: (1765)

Wisdom taught by man's mortality; or, The shortness and uncertainty of life, the certainty and suddenness of death, considered : A discourse adapted to the awful visitation of the city of Philadelphia, by the yellow fever, in the year 1793, by which more than four thousand persons were swept off in about three months. : In this discourse, all the Scripture metaphors, respecting the shortness and uncertainty of life, are mentioned, and commented upon; and a hymn added at the close, in which they are all recited. /
by: Winchester, Elhanan, 1751-1797
Published: (1795)

A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia : for the reflecting Christian. /
by: Helmuth, Justus Henry Christian, 1745-1825
Published: (1794)

Typhoid and the politics of public health in nineteenth-century Philadelphia /
by: McCarthy, Michael P.
Published: (1987)

A sermon, preached September 20th, 1793 : a day set apart, in the city of New-York, for public fasting, humiliation and prayer, on account of a malignant and mortal fever prevailing in the city of Philadelphia. /
by: Mason, John M. (John Mitchell), 1770-1829
Published: (1793)

A sermon, delivered, October 9, 1793, at Bristol : at a time set apart for public prayer & humiliation, by several Christian churches in the state of Rhode-Island, &c. on account of the distressing sickness in the city of Philadelphia. /
by: Wight, Henry, 1752-1837
Published: (1794)

We the subscribers, owners and possessors of wharfs in this city, having considered the great cost, charge and expence of erecting, building and keeping the same in repair, for the ease, benefit and advantage of vessels ... : have agreed, and we do hereby each for himself agree, that from and after the first day of March next, the following rates for wharfage at all and every of our wharfs, shall be paid ... In testimony of our concurrence and agreement, that the above rates and regulations shall be absolutely kept and observed on our parts, we have hereunto subscribed our names, this seventh day of February, one thousand seven hundred and sixty two.
Published: (1762)

Acres of skin : human experiments at Holmesburg Prison : a true story of abuse and exploitation in the name of medical science /
by: Hornblum, Allen M.
Published: (1998)

Sir, Being on the point of commencing the publication of a literary Weekly magazine, I am led to solicit, in a particular manner, the patronage of gentlemen distinguished by situation and an attachment to science ...
by: Watters, James, -1798
Published: (1797)

Full Committee Consideration of H.R. 12640 and Senate Amendments to H.R. 8522 : hearings before the United States House Committee on Armed Services, Eighty-Fifth Congress, second session, on Aug. 12, 1958.
Published: (1958)

Philadelphia, May 15, 1789 : By virtue of a writ of levari facias, to me directed, will be exposed to sale, by public vendue, at the Old Coffee-House, in the city of Philadelphia, on Tuesday the 2d day of June next ... a certain two story brick messuage or tenement, & lot of ground, situate in Wiccacoa (near the Swedes church) and County of Philadelphia ...
Published: (1789)

Philadelphia, March 4, 1799 : By virtue of a writ of levari facias to me directed, will be sold by public vendue, at the Merchants Coffee-House, (by adjournment) on Tuesday, the 26th of March inst. ... All those eleven adjoining tracts, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the Northern Liberties, in the County of Philadelphia ...
Published: (1799)

Investigation of vice, crime, and law enforcement ; presentments of the Special (October 1937) Grand Jury and instructions of the Court.
Published: (1974)

Streetwise : race, class, and change in an urban community /
by: Anderson, Elijah
Published: (1990)

At a general meeting of the subscribers to the New Theatre, held (in pursuance of public notice) at the city tavern, on Thursday, the 25th of June, 1795 : Henry Hill, Esq. in the chair. Resolved unanimously, that the original subscribers to the New Theatre are of opinion, that for the relief of the managers, in paying their existing debts ... a subscription for a loan of forty-three thousand six hundred dollars should be opened ...
Published: (1795)

The charter, laws, and catalogue of books, of the Library Company of Philadelphia : With a short account of the library prefixed. : [One line of quotation in Latin].
Published: (1770)

Philadelphia, Sept. 11, 1770 : Sir, Be pleased to permit me to inform you, that I have been in this city a few months more than two years ...
by: Mecom, Benjamin, 1732-approximately 1776
Published: (1770)

Philadelphia, 11th month, 18th, 1793 : Respected friend, As our correspondence with most of our friends, both at home and abroad, has been interrupted on our part, for nearly three months past, it is proper that we should account to them for so extraordinary a suspension ...
by: Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834
Published: (1793)

Subcommittee No. 3 Consideration of H.R. 12640, To Authorize the Secretary of the Army To Convey to the City of Philadelphia, Pa., Certain Piers and Other Facilities of the U.S. Located in Such City : hearings before the United States House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee No. 3 (Armed Services), Eighty-Fifth Congress, second session, on Aug. 5, 6, 8, 11, 1958.
Published: (1958)

A catalogue of the books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia : to which is prefixed, a short account of the institution, with the charter, laws and regulations. : [One line of quotation in Latin].
Published: (1789)

A few more numbers belonging to the gentleman's very valuable library : which will be sold by auction, at the city vendue store, on the evening of Saturday the 26th of October, 1782.
by: Bayard, John
Published: (1782)

Short history of the yellow fever, that broke out in the city of Philadelphia, in July, 1797 : with a list of the dead; of the donations for the relief of the poor, and a variety of other interesting particulars.
by: Folwell, Richard, 1768?-1814
Published: (1798)

The Rise and progress of the Young-Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia : containing an account of a number of public examinations & commencements; the charter and bye-laws; likewise, a number of orations delivered by the young ladies, and several by the trustees of said institution.
Published: (1794)

Global Philadelphia : immigrant communities old and new /
Published: (2010)