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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

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 School Historic District, Arnett House, SC Route 37, 1 mile South...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. Dr. Martin Luther King made plans of his movement in the building (1st floor front room). Survey number: HABS SC-588... More

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

See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-156 Survey number: HABS PA-261-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial C... More

Wynnewood Railroad Station, Wynnewood & Penn Roads, Wynnewood, Montgom...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

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

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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

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

Glen Afton Spring, near Penn Mar [sic] Park

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The Belt of Wampum delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the "Gr...

Independence, Kans., Penn. Ave. & Myrtle St.

H127576 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; F. J. Bandholtz; May 24, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Des Moines, IA.

Penn Fresh Crew, 1914 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Penn. R.R. Station when Sunday arrived

Photograph shows crowd gathered around exit at Pennsylvania Station in New York City awaiting the arrival of Billy Sunday. (Source: similar image: LC-USZ62-84387)

["Andorra," William Warner Harper house, Wyndmoor, Penn. Ornamental po...

Site History. House Architecture: Robert Rodes McGoodwin in partnership with Samuel D. Hawley 1912. Landscape: Duhring & Howe, house garden; overall plan, James Frederick Dawson and Percival Gallagher, Olmsted ... More

15th and Penn. Ave., 4:30 rush hour

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Photograph of Robert Penn Warren, undated

Robert Penn Warren, Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Shenandoah Valley. Worker in the Penn Foundry Manufacturing Company at...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shenandoah Valley. Broken windows of the Penn Foundry Manufacturing Co...

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

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Aerial view of the construction of Penn Quarter building, Washington, ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the... More

William Penn Tavern, Privy, Gruber Road & State Route 183 (Penn Townsh...

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Arts on Foot Festival, 7th and F St. at Penn Quarter, NW, Washington, ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Penn's tree with city & port of Philadelphia, on the River Delaware fr...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Birch, W.

Washington, District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st Penn. Infantry...

Caption from negative sleeve: Tent life of the 31st Penn. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2406B) and right (LC-B811-2406A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of C... More

Display of Civil War relics, including tattered flags, sword, canteen,...

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: The Civil War Image Shop, Milan, Ohio, July 2016. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Li... 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

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

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

Philadelphia City Hall, One Penn Place, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

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Stamm Farm, Butcher Shed, Wash House & Root Cellar, Gruber Road vicini...

See also HABS PA-266 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-266-E Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished

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

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

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

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

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

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

Significance: This nineteenth-century brick residence maintains the traditional Pennsylvania German, three-room layout, complete with two identical front entry doors placed side by side. Unprocessed Field not... 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

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

See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-154, FN-155 Survey number: HABS PA-261-H Building/structure dates: 1842 Initi... 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

Canary-Naudine Store, Corner of Route 72 & Route 9, Port Penn, New Cas...

Significance: The Canary-Naudine Store, located in Port Penn in St. Georges Hundred, stands as an important example of a circa 1785 combination dwelling and store erected in a small maritime trading community o... 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

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

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 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

Stone Creek Bridge II, South of Penn Street between First & Second Str...

Significance: This bridge was constructed when the tracks through Huntingdon were moved from Allegheny Street to the bed of the defunct Pennsylvania Canal, replacing an older stone bridge upstream (Stone Creek ... 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

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

Delaware Water Gap, Penn. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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), 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

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Penn School Historic District, Cafeteria, SC Route 37, 1 mile South of...

Significance: Part of a complex of buildings of one of the first black schools in the south. Survey number: HABS SC-588-E Building/structure dates: 1917 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 194... More

401 Penn Street (House), Reading, Berks County, PA

Significance: This structure was constructed at two different times. The rear section was built first, probably late 19th century and has 6 bays facing on N. 4th Street. The corner building which has four bays ... More

Benjamin A. Fahnestock House, 408 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-45 Survey number: HABS PA-45 Building/structure dates: after. 1835- before. 1840 Initial Construction

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

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

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

See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-156 Survey number: HABS PA-261-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial C... More

William Penn's treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province o...

Illustration shows William Penn standing with a group of settlers and Native Americans.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 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

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

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

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

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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