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United States Pennsylvania  Archives and LibrariesHistorical Society of Pennsylvania

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:ssmith@hsp.org Public Services Librarian] For assistance using any of our research tools, please contact our ready reference staff  [mailto:ReadyReference@hsp.org Reference Staff Email]

Address:


 * Historical Society of Pennsylvania
 * 1300 Locust Street
 * Philadelphia, PA 1907-5699

Telephone: 215-732-6200 Fax:  215-732-2680

Hours and holidays:


 * Closed Sundays, Mondays, Saturdays
 * Tuesdays &amp; Thursdays 12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
 * Wednesday 12:30p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
 * Friday 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Holiday schedule

Directions, maps, and public transportation:


 * By Car: Directions and Parking Options


 * Public Transportation
 * Find bus and train information at [www.septa.com www.septa.com] or PATCO Hi Speedline
 * Bus Route: SEPTA bus route 12 stops on Locust Street directly in front of HSP.
 * Subways: HSP is two blocks east of the Walnut/Locust stop on the Broad Street Subway or four blocks south of the 13th/Market stop on the Market/Frankford Subway. There is a PATCO stop at the corner of 13th and Locust Streets, directly in front of HSP.
 * Train: Take any SEPTA commuter rail line to Market East Station. Walk south on 12th Street to Locust Street. Then turn right and walk one block west on Locust to 13th Street. If you prefer to ride the train into Suburban Station, you may walk past City Hall south on Broad Street to Locust, where you turn left and walk two blocks.

Internet sites and databases:


 * Historical Society of Pennsylvania Home Have materials from the colonial to the current period. Access to Ancestry.com, Balch Manuscript Guide, Online catalog, Genealogy workshops, Digital Library and history projects, Newspapers, Photographs, Publications.


 * Discover Online Catalog Information on all of HSP's collections is available in the online catalog "Discover." Discover includes listings for publications (books, pamphlets, serials and newspapers) as well as some graphics and manuscript collections. Searches include title, author, subject, call number, ISBN/ISSN, HSP Websites. This search interface has Advanced Searching, Alphabetical Browse, and Browse.


 * The Digital Library is a growing online repository of images from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's collection. There are more than 50,000 images in the database, including photographs, artwork, maps, manuscripts, as well as archived video and audio records.

Collection Description
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is one of the most complete and professional genealogy centers in the nation—and the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region. The Society collects genealogical materials from Pennsylvania and every other state east of the Mississippi River. Its collections also cover pre-migration from Europe, the genealogical “stepping stones” across the Caribbean, and out-migration to Canada.

The Genealogists &amp; Community Historians Page: Genealogical Resources at HSP, Research by Mail, How to Begin, Information on Genealogy Workshops, Events and News for Genealogists, Roots &amp; Branches Blog, History Hits, and Question of the Week. It also has Ethnic &amp; Immigrant History, Balch Institute, PhilaPlace, and a sign up for E-News.


 * Ethnic History Resources HSP’s collections document the experiences of more than sixty ethnic groups in the United States.
 * Balch Institute The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, which documented the ethnic and immigrant experience.
 * Link to PhilaPlace Home Explore Philadelphia - the City of Neighborhoods - through maps, stories, photographs, and documents.

Tips

 * There is a Library Admission for non-members.
 * All first-time visitors to the library must complete a Research Registration Form.
 * Photocopy services are available to both on- and off-site researchers for $0.50 a page.
 * The use of film or digital still-image cameras is permitted in the library at no additional cost.
 * Entry to the library, photocopy service, and paging all end 45 minutes prior to closing time.
 * Notice of weather or emergency closings will be posted on the Historical Society's website and on the Society's weather phone line at 215--732-6200 ext. 505.

Guides

 * List of online Finding Aids that represent a small portion of our holdings provide background information, descriptions, and inventories for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania collections.


 * Subject Guides. There is a search capability available to browse subject guides. Sampling: African-American Collections, Civil War Manuscripts and Newspapers, Civil War Resources, Ethnic History Resources, Family History &amp; Genealogy, Federal Census Records, Jewish Resources, Land Records Guide, Military Records, City Directories, Vital Records.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service &amp; pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.
 * National Archives II, College Park, MD, Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, and Treasury all after 1900.
 * Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, indexes and original sources of, such as vital records, military records, naturalization, prisoners, land records, censuses, and ships lists 1728-1808. Also, unfilmed transcripts from many historical societies and courthouses.
 * State Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, indexes and surname files, histories, atlases, land records, maps, ship lists, church and cemetery records, censuses, regimental histories, ethnic and religious groups, newspapers, obituaries, naturalizations, and city directories.

Similar Collections


 * National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO., has millions of military personnel, health, medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services starting with World War I, and federal employee records.
 * Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room is part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, books, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records.

Neighboring Collections


 * Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records, Philadelphia, birth and death records 1906-present. Order in-person, order online through VitalChek, or order births by mail, or order deaths by mail.
 * Philadelphia City Archives births 1860-1915, marriages 1860-1915, divorces 1851-1975, deaths 1803-1915, naturalizations 1800-1933 (except 1905-1913), house deeds 1683-1952, tax lists, prisoners, mayors' warrants, cemeteries, constables, streets and city directories.
 * Clerk of the Orphans' Court, Philadelphia, marriages 1885-present.
 * Office of the Prothonotary, Philadelphia, divorces 1875-present, and Court of Common Pleas records, Municipal Court records, and Orphans Court records since 1874.
 * Register of Wills, Philadelphia, wills 1692-present, and marriages records.
 * City of Philadelphia Department of Records deeds 1952-present, mortgages, and partnerships.
 * Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has early Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish and other ethinc groups in PA, NJ, DE, and states east of the Mississippi River, Balch Institute passenger arrival lists, huge manuscript collection including many indexes, and Philadelphia neighborhood records.
 * Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has great online indexes to books, periodicals, family folders, genealogies, and research aids for Pennsylvania and surrounding states.
 * Library Company of Philadelphia has huge German-American collection, Pennsylvanians in the Civil War, and early Philadelphia documents as if it were a second city archives.
 * Free Library of Philadelphia very large book collection, periodicals, genealogies, city directories, maps, family folders, vertical files, manuscripts, and Pennsylvania histories.
 * University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Philadelphia, many manuscripts, newspapers, county records, ethnic sources, denominational records, and county histories.
 * Temple University Urban Archives, Philadelphia, churches, fraternal groups, unions, guilds, clubs, businesses, and societies especially related to the growth of Philadelphia and vicinity.
 * U.S. District Court Clerk, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, court records.
 * American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, Swedish heritage in the Delaware Valley.
 * Chestnut Hill Historical Society, images, maps, real estate atlases, deeds, diaries, genealogies, and oral histories of the western-northern most part of Philadelphia.
 * German Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, church history, genealogy, immigrants, immigrant aid records, German newspapers, old GSP memberships, and German-American periodicals.
 * Germantown Historical Society (Germantown, Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill) manuscripts, maps, deeds, business records, newspapers, church and cemetery records, oral histories, and photos.
 * Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia ELCA archives for Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Upstate New York (excluding New York City) and New England. Includes clergy and synod papers, and some parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals, confirmations) (some in German).
 * Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, national archives of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
 * Repositories in surrounding counties:  Pennsylvania:  Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery; New Jersey:  Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester.
 * Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society (ERHS), Lancaster, Reformed Church records and genealogy resources including parish registers.
 * Franklin and Marshall College Library, Lancaster, "Hessian" (German) soldiers in the American Revolution, history, government, Pennsylvania-German culture, U.S. Civil War.
 * Haverford College Library, Haverford, Quaker Collection of diaries, photos, family papers, meeting and organizational records; 35,000 books, 2,400 linear feet of manuscripts.
 * Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia, Melrose Park, Jewish genealogy research manuals, society newsletters, regional cemeteries, and resource guide for south PA, NJ, and DE.
 * Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, card index to over 800,000 persons, genealogies, local histories, biographies, directories, passenger lists, census, deeds, obituaries, surname files.
 * Swarthmore College Friends Hisorical Library, Swarthmore, has 45,000 books, 60,000 photos, and 9,000 volumes of original Quaker meeting records, plus local history of the Mid-Atlantic states.
 * Repositories in other surrounding states: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ontario.
 * Historical Society of Delaware Library, Wilmington, colonial records, newspapers, church records, state records, Revolutionary War records, Civil War records, Delaware histories, and genealogies.
 * Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, colonial and state records from 1634, county probate, land, and court records, church records, newspapers, 130 card indexes to deeds and early settlers.
 * Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, good genealogies, local history, early Ohio records, Inland Waterways Library, Ohio River (and tributaries) boat traffic from Pittsburgh to Louisville.
 * Library of Virginia, Richmond, has historical maps, land patents and grants, Dunmore's War, and Blandford Cemetery Survey, government publications, newspapers from 1736, state records, manuscripts, archival records, rare books, prints and photographs.
 * Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, county records, militia lists, bounty lands, tax lists, genealogies, newspapers, Bibles, and index to 10 million documents about Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
 * Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, records of Germans and Scots-Irish who traveled the Great Valley Road from Penn. to Virginia, including manuscripts, newspapers, biographies, and histories.
 * West Virginia Archives and History Division, Charleston, manuscripts, biographies, county histories, and tax records, family folders, birth, marriages, deaths, maps, naturalizations, newspapers, periodicals, photos, directories, and county court records.
 * Archives of Ontario, Toronto, births, marriages, deaths, wills, land, naturalizations, passenger lists, maps, cemeteries, church, court, military, hospital, schools, city directories, and voters’ lists.
 * Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, national collections including genealogy and family history, portraits, biographies, censuses, citizenship, ethno-cultural groups, immigration, land records, maps, military, roads, canals, and railroads, settlement, births, marriages, deaths, and divorces.