Author: Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: pennsylvania, rail, images, trolleys, southeastern
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-09-24
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738556920
ISBN-13: 9780738556925

An extensive number of trolley car lines linked the city of Philadelphia to the rich farmland and picturesque towns of southeastern Pennsylvania. These trolley lines traversed miles of narrow streets lined with row houses whose residents were proud working-class Americans. These historic photographs trace the trolley cars’ routes, including Route 23, the region’s longest urban trolley route, from the expanses of Northwest Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill through the crowded commercial Center City to South Philadelphia with a variety of neighborhood stops at everything in between.

Author: Carol Mccleary Innerst
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: pennsylvania, history, campus, york, college
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-04-09
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738555169
ISBN-13: 9780738555164

The history of York College of Pennsylvania begins shortly after the Revolutionary War. The college traces its lineage directly to three ancestral schools. The foundation was York County Academy, an English classical school chartered in 1787. The academy merged in 1929 with York Collegiate Institute, founded in 1873. Under one roof, both schools survived the Great Depression. In 1941, the charter was amended to allow two years of college-level courses and the institution became York Junior College. With an influx of war veterans, York Junior College quickly outgrew its downtown building and in

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: pennsylvania, railway, sites, trains, historic, guide, railroads
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0760332452
ISBN-13: 9780760332450

Few states have a railroad heritage as rich as Pennsylvanias. This illustrated book offers a colorful look at the Keystone States historic railroads, the men who built and ran them, and the engineering feats that made them possible. Railway historian Brian Solomon also shows readers the legacy those railroads have left in the form of todays historic tourist roads, museums, and destinations. Railroads of Pennsylvania travels from Scranton, home to Steamtown USA and the Laural Line trolley, to Altoona, the heart and soul of Pennsylvania railroading; from East Broad Top, one of the nations bes

Author: Matt Lake
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: pennsylvania, legends, secrets, local, guide, travel, weird
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402766866
ISBN-13: 9781402766862

Praise for Weird Pennsylvania: “Fun, amazing, and arrestingly illustrated.”  —Booklist “…a real fine read and can serve as a travel guide for a trek among the unusual, odd and scary parts of our “weird” state.”  —Pennsylvania Magazine

Authors:Roberta Wiener, James R. Arnold,
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Keywords: pennsylvania, colonies, history, colony
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1410903109
ISBN-13: 9781410903105

Where in Pennsylvania was the First Continental Congress held? Who was William Penn? How did the Quakers come to get their name? Find the answers to these and many other questions in ‘Pennsylvania’, a book about one of the original thirteen colonies.

Authors:Corinne P. Earnest, Russell D. Earnest,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: german, pennsylvania, tradition, publications, society, fraktur, family, posterity, latest, registers
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0271023686
ISBN-13: 9780271023687

The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, the family register also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. To the Latest Posterity is the first major study to explore the colorful world of Pennsylvania German family registers and their place in American social, religious, and cultural traditions.Renowned authorities on fraktur, Russell and Corinne Earnest trace the evolution of decorative family registers from their roots in medieval European illuminated manuscripts to thei

中文参考译名:宾夕法尼亚州（你好美国）
Author: Gwenyth Swai
Publisher: Lerner Publicatio
Keywords: usa, pennsylvania
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822540614
ISBN-13: 9780822540618

Introduces the history, geography, people, industries, and other highlights of Pennsylvania.