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SC01 - Schuylkill County, PA - Everything Collection (All Collections on Schuylkill County)

SC02 - County History & Biography Collection
History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon and Schuylkill Counties (I. Daniel Rupp, 1845, 578 pages)
History of Schuylkill County, PA with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (W. W. Munsell & Co., 1881, 500 pages)
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania (Samuel T. Wiley, 1893, 880)
Old Schuylkill Tales (Mrs. Ella Zerbey Elliott, 1906, 359 pages)
History of Schuylkill County in Two Volumes (State Historical Association, 1907, 937 pages)
History of the County of Schuylkill (Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, 1911, 125 pages
Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County Vol. 1-4 (Schuylkill County Historical Society, 1907-1914, 1784 pages)
Blue Book of Schuylkill County (Mrs. Ella Zerbey Elliott, 1916, 505 pages)
Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. Genealogy - Family History - Biography. Vol. 1 & 2 (J. H. Beers & Company, 1916, 1353 pages)
Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania... (H. Frank Eshleman, 1917, 389 pages)

SC03 - Regional History Collection - Pottsville-St. Clair & Vicinity
St. Clair, Pa (1873, Fowler & Bailey)
Historical Sketch of Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa (George Chambers, 1876, 19 pages)
Minersville, Pennsylvania (1889, by T. M. Fowler)
Pottsville, Pennsylvania (1889, by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer)
Pottsville School Board 1901 (Anonymous, 1901, 25 pages)
Pottsville School Board 1902 (Anonymous, 1902, 27 pages)
Directory of the Public Schools of Pottsville, Pa. 1907-1908 (Anonymous, 1907, 14 pages)
Souvenir of Pottsville and Vicinity (George V. Millar & Co., ~1910, 25 pages)
History of Port Carbon (J. H. Zerbey Newspapers Inc., 1934, 12 pages)
General Marshall's Victory Report [St. Clair] (U.S. War Department, 1946-47, 146 pages)
100th Anniversary - St. Clair (Anonymous, 1950, 61 pages)
1851-1951 The One Hundreth Anniversary of the Founding of the English Evan. Lutheran Church, Minersville, Pa. (Anonymous, 1951, 56 pages)
Pottsville High School Centennial Souvenir History 1853-1953 (Board of Education, 1953, 138 pages)
Pottsville's Sesquicentennial Celebration 1806-1956 (Pottsville Sesquicentennial Corporation, 1956, 36 pages)

SC04 - Regional History Collection - Pottsville Directories
Gopsill's Directory of Reading, Allentown, Easton, Pottsville, and Bethlehem Pennsylvania for 1864-5 (James Gopsill, 1864, 270 pages)
Boyd's Directory of Pottsville 1871-72 (W. Harry Boyd, 1871, 343 pages)
Boyd's Pottsville Directory 1879-1880 (W. Harry Boyd, 1879, 220 pages)
Boyd's Directory of Pottsville 1905-1907 (Including Yorkville, Palo Alto, Mt. Carbon and Mechanicsville) (W. H. Boyd Co., 1905, 368 pages)
Boyd's Directory of Pottsville 1907-1909 (Including Yorkville, Palo Alto, Mt. Carbon and Mechanicsville) (W. H. Boyd Co., 1907, 398 pages)
Boyd's Pottsville City Directory 1926-1928 [Including Mechanicsville, Mt. Carbon & Palo Alto] (W. H. Boyd Co., 1926, 548 pages)
Boyd's Pottsville Directory 1928-1929 (Including Palo Alto, Mt. Carbon and Mechanicsville) (W. H. Boyd Co., 1928, 512 pages)
Boyd's Pottsville City Directory 1936-37 [Including Mechanicsville, Mt. Carbon & Palo Alto] (R. L. Polk & Co., 1936, 460 pages)
Boyd's Pottsville City Directory 1941 (Including Mechanicsville, Mt. Carbon and Palo Alto) (R. L. Polk & Co., 1941, 586 pages)
Boyd's Pottsville City Directory 1953 (Including Mechanicsville, Mt. Carbon and Palo Alto) (R. L. Polk & Co., 1953, 552 pages)
Polk's Pottsville City Directory 1955 (Including Mechanicsville, Mt. Carbon and Palo Alto) (R. L. Polk & Co., 1955, 544 pages)
Polk's Pottsville City Directory 1958 [Including Mechanicsville, Mt. Carbon & Palo Alto] (R. L. Polk & Co., 1958, 556 pages)

SC05 - Regional History Collection - Orwigsburg-Schuylkill Haven & Vicinity
Centennial Anniversary Orwigsburg Penna. 1813-1913 (Orwigsburg Civic Association, 1913, 150 pages)
1928 Almanac and Business Directory of Schuylkill Haven and Vicinity (The Call, 1928, 42 pages)
Who’s Who in Schuylkill Haven - 1942 Directory of Schuylkill Haven (Advertising Publishing Associates, 1942, 124 pages)
1946 Directory - Orwigsburg, PA (J. F. Snyder, 1946, 36 pages)
General Marshall's Victory Report [Schuylkill Haven] (U.S. War Department, 1946-47, 152 pages)
200th Anniversary of Schuylkill Haven 1750-1950 (Anonymous, 1950, 66 pages)
Schuylkill Haven Directory 1955 (The Call, 1955, 140 pages)
Sesquicentennial Anniversary Orwigsburg PA 1813-1963 (Sesquicentennial Committee, 1963, 99 pages)

SC06 - Regional History Collection - Pine Grove-Tower City & Vicinity
History of Reilly Township (J. H. Zerbey Newspapers Inc., 1935, 30 pages)
History of Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (Judge George B. Haas, 1935, 351 pages)
1939-40 Report and Directory of St. John's Evangelical Church, Hegins, PA. (Anonymous, 1939, 12 pages)

SC07 - Regional History Collection - Ashland-Mahanoy City & Vicinity
Frackville, Pennsylvania (1889, by T. M. Fowler)
Girardville, Pennsylvania (1889, by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer)
Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania (1889, by T. M. Fowler & Jas. B. Moyer)
Shenandoah, Pa (1889, by T. M. Fowler & J. B. Moyer)
History of Frackville, Schuylkill County, Pa. (Rev. Jonathan W. Miller, 1904, 92 pages)
Souvenir of Mahanoy City and Vicinity (J. V. O'Connor, ~1910, 27 pages)
Ashland Pennsylvania Borough Directory 1910-1911 (J. H. Lant, 1910, 72 pages)
The Personal Directory of Mahanoy City, PA - 1948 (Albert J. Matalavage, 1948, 68 pages)

SC08 - Regional History Collection - McAdoo-Tamaqua & Vicinity
Bradstreets Reports of the State of Pennsylvania - Tamaqua, PA (Bradstreet Press, 1876, 5 pages)
Mercantile Agency Reference Book, July 1889 - Tamaqua, PA (R. G. Dun & Co., 1889, 9 pages)
Friedens Church at the Little Schuylkill (H. A. Weller, 1898, 105 pages)
West Penn Township - Past and Present (Anonymous, 1976, 52 pages)

SC09 - Church, Family, Education, Military and Miscellaneous History Collection
Memorial of the Patriotism of Schuylkill County in the American Slaveholder's Rebellion (Francis B. Wallace, 1865, 559 pages)
Industrial and Commercial Resources of [Northern] Pennsylvania (Historical Publishing Company, 1887, 125 pages)
Industries and Wealth of the Principle Points in Southeastern Pennsylvania (Excepting Philadelphia) Embracing Dauphin, York, Lancaster, Schuylkill, Berks, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware Counties (American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1890, 148 pages)
Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever Baptismal and Marriage 1730-1779 (Anonymous, 1896, 79 pages)
Scotch-Irish Pioneers of the Schuylkill Valley, PA with Notes Relating to the Porter Family (Samuel Gordon Smyth, 1901, 13 pages)

Maps & Atlases
1830 Schuylkill County Pennsylvania (H. S. Tanner, Color)
1855 A Map of Schuylkill County Penna (P. W. Sheafer, Color)
1863 Map of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania (James D. Scott, Color)
1864 Map of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania (James D. Scott, Color)
1875 County Atlas of Schuylkill Pennsylvania (F. W. Beers & Co., 104 pages, B/W)

SC10 - Directory Collection (1886-1923)
List of Subscribers - March 1st, 1886 [Telephone Directory, Eastern PA] (Pennsylvania Telephone Company, 1886, 84 pages)
A Directory of the Eleventh Census of the Population of Schuylkill County (E. E. Schartel, 1891, 1059 pages)
Harrisburg, Carlisle, Chambersburg, Waynesboro and Nearby Places Telephone Directory - June 1, 1913 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1913, 116 pages)
Shamokin, Sunbury, Bloomsburg, Milton, Berwick and Nearby Places Telephone Directory - September 15, 1916 (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1916, 68 pages)
Telephone Directory - November 1919 - Reading-Lebanon-Pottsville and Nearby Places (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1919, 156 pages)
Classified Business Directory of Eastern Pennsylvania [1919] (Lehigh Valley Review, 1919, 212 pages)
Harrisburg, Carlisle, Chambersburg, Waynesboro and Nearby Places Telephone Directory - October 15, 1920 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1920, 156 pages)
Telephone Directory - May 1921 - Reading-Lebanon-Pottsville and Nearby Places (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1921, 172 pages)
Telephone Directory - November 1921 [Reading-Lebanon-Pottsville and Vicinity] (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1921, 188 pages)
Telephone Directory - April 1922 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1922, 172 pages)
Telephone Directory - May 1922 [Reading-Lebanon-Pottsville and Vicinity] (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1922, 200 pages)
Telephone Directory - May 1923 [Reading-Lebanon-Pottsville and Vicinity] (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1923, 160 pages)
United Telephone Directory - June 1923 - Northern District (United Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1923, 176 pages)
Telephone Directory - November 1923 [Reading-Lebanon-Pottsville and Vicinity] (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1923, 164 pages)

SC11 - Directory Collection (1924-1942)
Telephone Directory - October 1924 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1924, 152 pages)
Telephone Directory - Winter 1925 [Reading-Lebanon-Pottsville and Vicinity] (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1925, 218 pages)
Carlisle and Nearby Points - Telephone Directory - Winter 1928 (Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1928, 410 pages)
Reading and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - Summer 1932 (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1932, 288 pages)
Bangor and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - December 1936 (Blue Mountain Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1936, 282 pages)
Sunbury and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - February 1938 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1938, 130 pages)
Phillipsburg - Including Nearby Points Telephone Directory - December 1939 (New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, 1939, 245 pages
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - April 1941 (Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1941, 134 pages)
Carbondale and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - July 1941 (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1941, 402 pages)
Telephone Directory - Pottsville, Minersville, Orwigsburg, St. Clair, Schuylkill Haven, Silver Creek and Nearby Points – May 1942 (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1942, 144 pages)
Tamaqua and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - May 1942 (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1942, 76 pages)

SC12 - Directory Collection (1946-1956)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - May 1946 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1946, 152 pages)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - May 1947 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1947, 188 pages)
Hazleton and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - November 1948 (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1948, 320 pages)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - July 1949 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1949, 212 pages)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - July 1950 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1950, 212 pages)
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1951 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1951, 324 pages)
Pine Grove - Auburn and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - November 1952 (The Lycoming Telephone Co., 1952, 52 pages)
Ashland - Frackville - Girardville - Mahanoy City - Shenandoah and Nearby Points Telephone Directory – March 1953 (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1953, 248 pages)
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1954 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1954, 72 pages)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - September 1954 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1954, 234 pages)
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1955 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1955, 168 pages)
Pine Grove - Auburn and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - November 1956 (The Lycoming Telephone Co., 1956, 76 pages)

SC13 - Directory Collection (1955-1961)
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1957 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1957, 176 pages)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - September 1957, (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1957, 244 pages)
Lansford - Coaldale - Summit Hill Telephone Directory - April 1958 (Carbon Telephone Co., 1958, 72 pages)
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1958 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1958, 172 pages)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - September 1958, (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1958, 136 pages)
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1959 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1959, 176 pages)
Bittler's Schuylkill County Farm Directory (Charles F. and C. M. Louise Bittler, 1959, 52 pages)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - July 1960, (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1960, 136 pages)
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1960 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1960, 176 pages)
Mount Carmel - Shamokin and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1961, (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1961, 128 pages)
Pottsville and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - September 1961 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1961, 168 pages)