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The library is pleased to present the following additions to our collection.

Updated August 2, 2010

Additional information and amendments to the North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 seventeen volume roster / compiled by Charles E. Purser Jr.

UNC E 573.3 .M3 2010


American gothic : the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion is a glorious study of Victorian life in the 1860s and 1870s / by Diane Richardson, photography by Kathy Liepe-Levinson.

NK 2115.5 .V53 V52 vol. 29 no.4

American women prose writers to 1820 / edited by Carla Mulford, with Angela Vietto and Amy E. Winans.

REF PS 149 .A54 1999

Beat cop to top cop : a tale of three cities / John F. Timoney ; foreword by Tom Wolfe.

HV 7911 .T563 A3 2010

Beautiful pictures of all kinds / James S. Earle & Sons, 816 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

UPA/PAM NB 35 .J35 B43 1899

 Gift; Philip S. May, Jr.; July 12, 2010.


Cemeteries of Centralia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania / compiled 1988-1989 by Phillip A. Rice.

UPA/Co F 159 .C32 R53 1990 2008r

The changing image of George Washington / written by Barbara J. Mitnick ; with a foreword by Marcus Cunliffe.

E 312.43 .M69 1989

Corrected index for Peckham genealogy / [Charles Wesley Peckham].

Fa 929.2 P368p 2009 Index

 Gift; Charles W. Peckham July 21, 2010.


Early charcoal iron works in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1744-1800 : including sketches on the works and a finding aid for the original forge and furnace books at the Montgomery County Historical Society.

UPA/Mt TS 229.5 .U6 G59 2006

 Gift; Daniel A. Graham; July 20, 2010.


The family bible of Moses Gray (1771-1853) and Elisabeth McNall (1785-1863) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / [by] Daniel A. Graham.

Fa 929.2 G778g 2010

 Gift; Daniel A. Graham; July 21, 2010.


Free! : great escapes from slavery on the Underground Railroad : based on true stories / by Lorene Cary.

PS 3553 .A78944 F74 2005

Freedom & slavery documents in the District of Columbia / compiled by Helen Hoban Rogers.

UDC E 185.93 .D6 R64 2007

Genealogy of the Kay family in America / by Dr. Isaac Kay.

Fa 929.2 K231k

 Gift; Stephen Kay; June 7, 2010.


George Washington : American symbol / Barbara J. Mitnick, general editor ; essays by William Ayres ... [et al.].

E 312.4 .G46 1999


Imagining Philadelphia : Edmund Bacon and the future of the city / edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles.

HT 168 .P43 E56 2009

Jonathan E. Rhoads, M.D. : Quaker sense and sensibility in the world of surgery / John L. Rombeau, Donna Muldoon.

RD 27.35 .R46 R66 1997

Joseph an historical poem : in the footsteps of providence as discoverable in his eventful life / by Thomas Loud; transcribed and edited by Joseph F. Beglan.

PS 2299 .L68 2008

 Gift; Joseph F. Beglan ; July 21, 2010.


My 66 years in the big leagues / Connie Mack, with a new introduction by Rich Westcott.

GV 865 .M27 A3 2009

The Peckham family / by Charles Wesley Peckham, Sr.

Fa 929.2 P368p 2009

 Gift; Charles W. Peckham July 21, 2010.


Pennsylvania Inquirer and Daily Courier Marriages and Deaths index.

MFILM INDEX AI 21 .P46 P46 2010 v.1

Philadelphia maestros : Ormandy, Muti, Sawallisch / Phyllis White Rodri´guez-Peralta.

ML 402 .R63 2006

 


Portrait presentation and symposium on the life of the Honorable William Lewis first United States Attorney and Second Judge of the District of Pennsylvania.

UPA/PAM KF 368 .L49 P67 2010

Report of the Commission to locate the site of the frontier forts of Pennsylvania / edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery.

UPA F 152 .P41 1916 2010r

Rufus Jones : essential writings / selected with an introduction by Kerry Walters.

BV 4501.3 .J66 2001

A taste of power : a black woman's story / Elaine Brown.

E 185.97 .B866 A3 1994