This is one of the first American publications on medical education.

Original ed. issued as no. 4 of Municipal government, history, and politics, which forms the 5th series of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.

A discussion and statistics on the occupations, means of livelihood, real estate owned, rate of population increase since 1837, schools, beneficial societies, penitentiary inmates, and churches of Philadelphia's African American community.

Includes "Dilatory domiciles"; for some volumes, some of these updates are issued separately as supplements.

Largely letters from physicians to support the theory of the College that yellow fever came to Philadelphia from the West Indies.

Little Primrose was the child of Friends, or Quakers. The story relates her strict upbringing and her expierences among the worldly.

The spirits of a Quaker and a colonel in the Continental Army visit a descendent living in early twentieth century Philadelphia, and tell of their participation in events in the colonial and revolutionary Philadelphia of their own day.

John Bringhurst came to Philadelphia from London or Amsterdam about 1691-1700. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, New York, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, Utah and elsewhere.

"Set in Philadelphia some sixty years ago, [this novel] traces the lives of Joanna Marshall and Peter Bye, whose families must come to terms with an inheritance of prejudice and discrimination as they struggle for legitimacy and respect. ...