Location: 1300 Locust Street, I blk from Academy of Music
Hours: Tues, Thurs 12:30 – 5:30
Wed. 12:30 – 8:30
Fri. 10:00 – 5:30
Closed weekends
Will require a photo ID, pay or be a member
and requests
that guests abide by their rules.
The building that it is housed in dates from
1824 and was
rebuilt in 1910 specially prepared to serve as a safe library
and repository
Events:
Ancestry.com and HSP are offering a seminar at the Convention
Center, March 3rd,
9AM to 4PM. Lisa Arnold from Ancestry will be speaking on the
Quakers and many
other topics not yet defined.
Collections: are from east of the Mississippi, some from Ohio, Connecticut, Virginia, New York , New Jersey, and North Carolina
Have 18 copies/drafts of the US
Constitution, copies and drafts of the Articles of
Confederation, copy in German
Organizational History
Educational History
Community and neighborhood
Histories
Regimental Histories of those who
served in the Pa area
Family Histories – including
notes, scrap books and bible records
Newspaper: Public Ledger 1834,
Phila Record and (photos by topic), people by Alphabetical order
Slavery/Abolition database
Jay-store data base
Hereditary Societies of Penna,
i.e. Mayflower, Hugenot, Canadian
Microfilm: Deeds, Wills
(1683-1900, and Marriages and Deaths (1860-1906)
Business History – catalogs and
trade papers for Phila 1791-1935
Federal Passenger Lists 1883-1942
Cemetery and funeral homes,
Undertaker Records 1880-1980 from Oliver Bair , Andrew Bair, and
Kirk and Nice
Has some Phila Jewish Archived
CityChurch Records
The Balch Institute
archives/ethnic studies
Native American collections from
the whole country
Penna German Pioneers – lists of
passengers
Services available:
Research by mail (hourly fee)
Research genealogy with a
professional genealogist