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William Penn Tavern, Gruber Road & State Route 183 (Penn Township), Mo...

See also HAER PA-14 for additional documentation. The Tulpehocken Creek Survey was undertaken in compliance with Executive Order 11593 as a mitigative effort in the construction of Blue Marsh Lake in cooperatio... More

Penn School Historic District, Frissell Community House, SC Route 37, ...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. Survey number: HABS SC-588-J Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Pla... More

Penn School Historic District, Jasmin Cottage, SC Route 37, 1 mile Sou...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. Survey number: HABS SC-588-N Building/structure dates: 1911 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Pla... More

South Penn Oil Company, Lockwood Warrant 2921 Lease, Wardwell Field, W...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

The case of Messieurs Penn, and the people of Pensilvania, and the thr...

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Herbert Hoover Birthplace House, Southwest corner of Penn & Downey Str...

Significance: Birthplace of President Herbert Hoover. Architecturally, interesting as an example of vernacular construction. Survey number: HABS IA-21 Building/structure dates: ca. 1871 Initial Construction... More

William Penn House, 206 Delaware Street, New Castle, New Castle County...

Survey number: HABS DE-101 Building/structure dates: ca. 1681 Initial Construction

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), Harper Building, 723-72...

Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps & photographs. Significance: The Harper Building is significant as a tribute to John Arunah Harper, a prominent financier, organizer, and philanthropist in l... More

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), Harper Building, 723-72...

Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps & photographs. Significance: The Harper Building is significant as a tribute to John Arunah Harper, a prominent financier, organizer, and philanthropist in l... More

William Smith House, Corner Mud Road & Penn's Park Road, Wrightstown, ...

Significance: This is among the oldest house extant in the county (some say the oldest). It is of log (walnut) construction and represents a house type that was prevalent in this area during the days of early s... More

Stamm Farm, Summer Kitchen & Smokehouse, Gruber Road vicinity (Penn To...

See also HABS PA-266 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-266-F Building/structure dates: after. 1800- before. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished

Shadrach Penn, Jr. to Andrew Jackson, December 9, 1825

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Dundore Farm, Smokehouse, State Route 183 vicinty (Penn Township), Mou...

See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-157 Survey number: HABS PA-261-G Building/structure dates: after. 1800- befor... More

Pollock-Capps Residence, 1120 Penn Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County,...

Significance: This house, an elaborately gabled and galleried Victorian structure with Renaissance detail, is typical of the large homes built in Fort Worth for early cattlemen and businessmen at the turn of th... More

Pollock-Capps Residence, 1120 Penn Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County,...

Significance: This house, an elaborately gabled and galleried Victorian structure with Renaissance detail, is typical of the large homes built in Fort Worth for early cattlemen and businessmen at the turn of th... More

Pollock-Capps Residence, 1120 Penn Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County,...

Significance: This house, an elaborately gabled and galleried Victorian structure with Renaissance detail, is typical of the large homes built in Fort Worth for early cattlemen and businessmen at the turn of th... More

Pollock-Capps Residence, 1120 Penn Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County,...

Significance: This house, an elaborately gabled and galleried Victorian structure with Renaissance detail, is typical of the large homes built in Fort Worth for early cattlemen and businessmen at the turn of th... More

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

Dundore Farm, Barn, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn Township), Mount Pl...

See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-158 Survey number: HABS PA-261-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1788 Initial C... More

Penn School Historic District, Brick Church, SC Route 37, 1 mile South...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. This is the oldest building on the complex. Slaves built the church and the pews and took the building over after the... More

Penn School Historic District, Brick Church, SC Route 37, 1 mile South...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. This is the oldest building on the complex. Slaves built the church and the pews and took the building over after the... More

John H. Shoenberger House, 425 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Coun...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-75 Survey number: HABS PA-43 Building/structure dates: ca. 1847 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after. 1847- before. 1935 Subsequent Work

Isaac Stamm House, Gruber Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks ...

Significance: This is a good example of the Pennsylvania German adaptation of a highly ornamented, Italianate dwelling house design. The building is brick and decorated with the full regalia of mid-Victorian br... More

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), McCormick Building, 635...

Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps & photographs. Significance: The McCormick Building at 635 Liberty Avenue was significant as part of a row of buildings erected at the end of the 19th centur... More

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), 600 & 700 blocks Libert...

Written data includes photocopies of maps & photographs. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-202 Survey number: HABS PA-5152 Building/structure dates: after. 1875- before. 1925 Initi... More

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), 600 & 700 blocks Libert...

Written data includes photocopies of maps & photographs. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-202 Survey number: HABS PA-5152 Building/structure dates: after. 1875- before. 1925 Initi... More

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), 600 & 700 blocks Libert...

Written data includes photocopies of maps & photographs. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-202 Survey number: HABS PA-5152 Building/structure dates: after. 1875- before. 1925 Initi... More

Dundore Farm, State Route 183 & Church Road vicinity, Penn Township (...

Significance: This is a good example of a nineteenth-century Pennsylvania German family farm. Although once very prosperous, the farm failed to adjust to agricultural modernization in the late nineteenth and ea... More

Dundore Farm, State Route 183 & Church Road vicinity, Penn Township (...

Significance: This is a good example of a nineteenth-century Pennsylvania German family farm. Although once very prosperous, the farm failed to adjust to agricultural modernization in the late nineteenth and ea... More

Pony Express Stables, 914 Penn Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, ...

Significance: The original building on this site was the starting point for the Pony Express, which carried mail form St. Joseph to Sacramento, California between April 1860 and October 1861. Survey number: HA... More

Officers of 139th Penn. Inf'y. American Civil War 1861-1865.

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Riem-Schmidt-Deppen Farm, Barn, State Route 183 & Church Road (Penn To...

Survey number: HABS PA-264-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ca. 1965 Subsequent Work Building/structure ... More

USS Olympia, Penn's Landing, 211 South Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphi...

Significance: USS Olympia is a partially armored or protected cruiser which was constructed as part of a congressional program to build a new steel U.S. Navy prior to the turn of the century. Her innovative des... More

USS Olympia, Penn's Landing, 211 South Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphi...

Significance: USS Olympia is a partially armored or protected cruiser which was constructed as part of a congressional program to build a new steel U.S. Navy prior to the turn of the century. Her innovative des... More

USS Olympia, Penn's Landing, 211 South Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphi...

Significance: USS Olympia is a partially armored or protected cruiser which was constructed as part of a congressional program to build a new steel U.S. Navy prior to the turn of the century. Her innovative des... More

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), Arbuthnot Building, 719...

Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps & photographs. Significance: The Arbuthnot Building stands as a monument to the Arbuthnot-Stevenson Company, a wholesale dry-goods firm that ranked among the... More

Penn Alto Hotel, 1120-1130 Thirteenth Avenue, Altoona, Blair County, P...

Significance: Perhaps better than any other single building in downtown Altoona, the Penn Alto Hotel symbolizes the civic spirit of the 1920s. Initiated by the newly formed chamber of commerce and financed by p... More

Loyal Order of Moose Building, 628-634 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Penn High School, Penn Avenue at Main Street, Greenville, Mercer Count...

Significance: The Jacobean Revival details displayed on this school building are unusual in Western Pennsylvania. It served as the only high school for the Greenville area until 1958. Survey number: HABS PA-54... More

Review of the returned veterans by Gov. Curtin--General Meade and staf...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1865 July 1, p. 236.

Hallstead, Penn. 1887 - Print, Library of Congress collection

S30542 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Burleigh Lito.

Aquaduct [sic] on old Penn'a Canal at Johnstown, 1845 / Storm ; George...

29011aa U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of drawing(?) by Geo. W. Storm.

Penn R.R. [Pennsylvania Railroad] site, Otc. '08 [New York]

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The William Penn house, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

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Penn. R.R. [i.e., Railroad] men talk strike

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Concourse, Penn. [Pennsylvania] Station, New York, N.Y.

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Inaugural parade for Taft, Penn. Ave., Washington, D.C.

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Entrance, Penn Valley Park and South Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.

H128110 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. H. Jones; June 7, 1909; DLC/PP-1909:43822. Copyright claimant's address: Kansas City, Mo.

Penn. coal strike - in Atlantic camp showing guns of deputies

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Penn. Memorial - Gettysburg - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Illuminations on Penn. Ave. Wash'n. for inauguration

Photo shows night view of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., decorated with electric lights for the first inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Pittsburgh, Penn., Nov. 12, 1924, Panoramic Photograph

Gift; A. K. Fisher; August 30, 1934; DLC/PP-1934:340150. Photographer's address: Pittsburgh, Pa. American Ornithologists' Union Meeting of 1924. Photo forms part of Ruthven Deane Collection.

Penn School Historic District, Implement Building, SC Route 37, 1 mile...

Survey number: HABS SC-588-M Building/structure dates: after 2000 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74001824

Harrisburg U.S.O., Penn Station, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Rear map, w...

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[Treaty between William Penn and the Indians]

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Weber & Co.

Washington, District of Columbia. Group of officers and soldier of 31s...

Caption from negative sleeve: A group of soldiers of the 31st Penn. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2407A) and right (LC-B811-2407B) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4187. Credit line: ... More

Strafford Railroad Station, East side of Old Eagle School Road, betwee...

Significance: This structure was built in 1876 as the Centennial Catalogue Building for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It was then purchased at auction by the Pennsylvania Railroad for use as a... More

Strafford Railroad Station, East side of Old Eagle School Road, betwee...

Significance: This structure was built in 1876 as the Centennial Catalogue Building for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It was then purchased at auction by the Pennsylvania Railroad for use as a... More

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...

Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...

Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...

Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...

Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More

Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Swing Bridge, Penn. R.R. over Bran...

Survey number: HAER DE-12-B Building/structure dates: 1903-1905 Initial Construction

Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Swing Bridge, Penn. R.R. over Bran...

Survey number: HAER DE-12-B Building/structure dates: 1903-1905 Initial Construction

South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, ...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

Speicher Bridge, Church Road over Tulpehocken Creek between Penn & Nor...

Significance: Speicher Bridge, a rural iron highway bridge, is a good example from the important mid-19th century era of metal bridge technology. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7... More

William Penn Tavern, Gruber Road & State Route 183 (Penn Township), Mo...

See also HAER PA-14 for additional documentation. The Tulpehocken Creek Survey was undertaken in compliance with Executive Order 11593 as a mitigative effort in the construction of Blue Marsh Lake in cooperatio... More

Joseph Conrad Farm, House, State Route 83 & Bright School Road (Penn T...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-174, FN-175 Survey number: HABS PA-260-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Wo... More

Old City Hall, Penn Square, Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA

Significance: 1. This is the sole Georgian style governmental structure from the eighteenth century now remaining in Lancaster City or County. 2. As built in 1795-1798, the Public Office (Old City Hall) illustr... More

Dundore Farm, Corn Crib & Wagon Shed, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn T...

See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-159 Survey number: HABS PA-261-C Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial C... More

Penn School Historic District, Cedar Cottage, SC Route 37, 1 mile Sout...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. Survey number: HABS SC-588-F Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Pla... More

A map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the improved parts of that P...

Scale ca. 1:365,000. Hand colored. LC copy mounted on cloth and paper backing. LC copy imperfect: Bottom and right margin deteriorated. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown pictorially. Shows county bound... More

South Penn Oil Company, Lockwood Warrant 2921 Lease, Wardwell Field, W...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

Robert Ashton House, Road 418, West of Route 2, Port Penn, New Castle ...

Significance: The Ashton House is the oldest documented dwelling extant in Delaware. Commissioned by Robert Ashton (a cousin of William Penn), the house retains elements of original trim and the configuration ... More

Herbert Hoover Birthplace House, Southwest corner of Penn & Downey Str...

Significance: Birthplace of President Herbert Hoover. Architecturally, interesting as an example of vernacular construction. Survey number: HABS IA-21 Building/structure dates: ca. 1871 Initial Construction... More

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), Harper Building, 723-72...

Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps & photographs. Significance: The Harper Building is significant as a tribute to John Arunah Harper, a prominent financier, organizer, and philanthropist in l... More

William Smith House, Corner Mud Road & Penn's Park Road, Wrightstown, ...

Significance: This is among the oldest house extant in the county (some say the oldest). It is of log (walnut) construction and represents a house type that was prevalent in this area during the days of early s... More

Penn School Historic District, Johnson Fellowship Hall, SC Route 37, 1...

Survey number: HABS SC-588-G Building/structure dates: 1985 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74001824

U.S. Allegheny Arsenal, Fortieth, Thirty-Ninth & Butler Streets, Penn ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-9 Survey number: HABS PA-8-1 Building/structure dates: 1814- 1820 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: before 1868 Subsequent Work

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondi...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondi...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

Stamm Farm, House, Gruber Road vicinity (Penn Township), Mount Pleasan...

See also HABS PA-266 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-266-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1750- ca. 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Subsequen... More

Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), Whitten Building, 641 L...

Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps & photographs. Significance: The Whitten Building's primary significance was tied to its use as a commission house in the last quarter of the 19th century. A... More

Stamm Farm, Barn, Gruber Road vicinity (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant...

See also HABS PA-266 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-266-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1860 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished

Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Railroad Bridge, Abandonned Penn Centra...

Significance: This bridge is one of the oldest remaining bridges on the former Cincinnati, Jackson & Michigan Railroad line and is a rare example of the nineteenth century engineering practice of using a deeper... More

William Penn Tavern, Washhouse & Butcher Shop, Gruber Road & State Rou...

Survey number: HABS PA-263-C Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1976 Demolished

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

Young boy is Ciriakos Keiradimos, a young Greek shoe-shiner, working i...

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Penn & Liberty Avenues (Commercial Buildings), King Building, 639 Libe...

Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps & photographs. Significance: The King Building's primary significance dated to the latter half of the 19th century when it housed a procession of commission ... More

Penn School Historic District, Brick Church, SC Route 37, 1 mile South...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. This is the oldest building on the complex. Slaves built the church and the pews and took the building over after the... More

Isaac Stamm House, Gruber Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks ...

Significance: This is a good example of the Pennsylvania German adaptation of a highly ornamented, Italianate dwelling house design. The building is brick and decorated with the full regalia of mid-Victorian br... More

Dundore Farm, Root Cellar, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn Township), M...

See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure & HABS PA-261-G for floor plans, elevations, & sections. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-157 Survey number: HAB... More

[Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Penn.]

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