Bibliography of Philadelphia explained
The following is a list of works about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
List of works, arranged chronologically
Published in the 18th century
- Book: Philadelphia Directory . 1785 . Philadelphia . Printed by Young, Stewart, and McCulloch . Francis White .
- Book: Philadelphia Directory . 1791 . Philadelphia . Printed by James & Johnson . Clement Biddle .
- Book: Prospect of Philadelphia and Check on the Next Directory . 1795 . Edmund Hogan . Philadelphia . Printed by Francis & Robert Bailey .
- Book: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews . Boston, Massachusetts . J. Morse . Jedidiah Morse . American Gazetteer . https://archive.org/stream/americangazettee00mors#page/n437/mode/2up . Philadelphia . 1797 .
- Book: Philadelphia Directory for 1799 . Cornelius William Stafford . 1785 . Printed by William W. Woodward . Philadelphia .
Published in the 19th century
1800s–1840s
1850s–1890s
- City Directory. 1856; 1857; 1858; 1861; 1866
- Book: John Leander Bishop . History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 . 1868 . 3rd . Edward Young & Co. . Philadelphia . Statistics of the Principal Manufacturing Cities ... with Descriptions of Remarkable Manufactories: Philadelphia . 2027/nyp.33433066379151 .
- Book: Smith's Hand-Book and Guide in Philadelphia . Smith's new guide to Philadelphia . 1869 . G. Delp . Philadelphia .
Published in the 20th century
1900s–1940s
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- Book: Philadelphia Colored Directory . 1907 . Philadelphia Colored Directory Company . 9780598574510 . R.R. Wright . .
- Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) . 21 . 367 - 373 . 1 . .
- Book: John Van Ness Ingram . 1912 . A Check List of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress . (Philadelphia) . https://books.google.com/books?id=RQItAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111. .
- Book: . Cyclopedia of American Government. 1914. D. Appleton and Company . Philadelphia . https://archive.org/stream/cyclopediaofamer02mcla#page/676/mode/1up . 2 .
- Book: Automobile Blue Book . 1918 . 3 . (Philadelphia) . https://archive.org/stream/automobileblueb01unkngoog#page/n262/mode/2up. Automobile Blue Book .
- Book: Market Street, Philadelphia: The Most Historic Highway in America, Its Merchants and Its Story . Joseph Jackson . Philadelphia . 1918 . .
- Book: Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth. Stephen Elliott Kramer. Great Cities of the United States . 1922. Iroquois Publishing Company . Syracuse, New York . Philadelphia . https://books.google.com/books?id=Jb9EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA67 .
- Book: George Morgan. The City of Firsts: Being a Complete History of the City of Philadelphia from Its Founding, in 1682, to the Present Time . 1926. Historical publication society . Philadelphia.
- Joseph Jackson. Encyclopedia of Philadelphia. 1931
- Ellis Oberholtzer. Philadelphia: A History of the City and Its People. (4 vol 1936) online
- Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness-The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625–1742 (1938) online
- Herman Collins. Philadelphia: A Story of Progress. (1941)
- Book: The Negro Motorist Green Book . 1949 . Philadelphia . http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Casestudy/Negro_motorist_green_bk.htm . 63 . The Negro Motorist Green Book .
1950s–1990s
- Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776 (1955)
- Philadelphia the Fabulous City of Firsts. 1976.
- Documenting Modern Cities: The Philadelphia Model . Fredric Miller . . 5 . 2 . 75–86 . 1983 . 3377252. . 10.2307/3377252 .
- Traditions in Conflict: The Philadelphia City Hall Site Controversy . Michael P. McCarthy . Pennsylvania History . 57 . 4 . 301–317 . 1990 . 27773404. .
- 'Saving the City's Reputation': Philadelphia's Struggle over Self-Identity, Sabbath-Breaking and Boxing in America's Sesquicentennial Year . Bruce J. Evensen . Pennsylvania History . 60 . 1 . 6–34 . 1993 . 27773587. .
- Book: M.S. Gillam & J.B. Toll . 1995 . Invisible Philadelphia: Community through voluntary organizations . Philadelphia . Atwater Kent Museum . 0964107406 .
- Ershkowitz, Herbert. John Wanamaker: Philadelphia Merchant (Signpost Biographies-Da Capo Press, 1999)
Published in the 21st century
- Book: David Patrick Geggus. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. 2001 . University of South Carolina. 978-1-57003-416-9 . Saint-Domingue Refugees of Color in Philadelphia .
- Giberti, Bruno. (2002) Designing the Centennial: a history of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia (University Press of Kentucky).
- Book: David Levinson. Encyclopedia of Homelessness . 2004. Sage Publications. 978-0-7619-2751-8 . Philadelphia .
- Phillips, Anne E. (2005) "A history of the struggle for school desegregation in Philadelphia, 1955–1967." Pennsylvania History 72.1 : 49-76. online
- Arrigale, Lawrence M., and Thomas H. Keels. (2012) Philadelphia's Golden Age of Retail (Arcadia Publishing).
- Jordan, David M. (2012) Occasional Glory: The History of the Philadelphia Phillies (McFarland).
- Web site: Philadelphia. America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. November 11, 2013. American Cities Project. Washington, D.C.. Pew Charitable Trusts.
- Abigail Perkiss, (2014). Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Adams, James H. (2015). Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia: The Faithful and the Fallen. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
- Wilson, Arthur Herman. (2017) A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835-1855 (University of Pennsylvania Press).
- Golden, Janet, and Charles E. Rosenberg. (2017) Pictures of health: A photographic history of health care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945 (University of Pennsylvania Press.)
- Harris, Michael C. (2020) Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777 (Savas Beatie).
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