• National Archives and Records Administration homepage. Many nice images!
• National Register of Historic Places homepage.
  • National Register Information System. Look up historic sites by state and county.
    NOTE:If you do this for Philadelphia, think before clicking on your "print" icon, because you will get 28 pages of results!
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania homepage.
  • Philadelphia neighborhood history research tools available at the HSP.
• Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
• Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
• Philadelphia Historic Commission. The Commission bears the responsibility for the designation as historic of buildings, structures, sites, objects and districts of historical and architectural significance in Philadelphia.
• University City Historical Society website (you're already at the UCHS website, but just in case you're printing out this page...) .
• Philadelphia history (especially West Philadelphia), a special bibliography prepared by Lauris Olson of the Van Pelt Library Reference Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Places in Time. "Project is an effort to bring together some resources -- images, documents, tools, and links -- for pursuing historical information about place in the five-county Philadelphia area."
• Links related to historic preservation, particularly in Philadelphia (compiled by former UCHS member Roberta Dougherty)
• Arden Press, an online publisher of books about Philadelphia history.

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