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NH01 - Northampton County PA - Everything Collection (All Collections on Northampton County)

NH02 - County History & Biographical Collection
History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon and Schuylkill Counties (I. Daniel Rupp, 1845, 578 pages)
History of the Lehigh Valley (M. S. Henry, 1860, 477 pages)
History of Northampton County, Pennsylvania (Peter Fritts, 1877, 324 pages)
Portrait and Biographical Record of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon Counties, Pennsylvania (Chapman Publishing Co., 1894, 984 pages)
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania (John W. Jordan, 1905, 1370 pages)
History of Northampton County and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh (William J. Heller, 1920, 1389 pages)

NH03 - Town, Township and Regional History Collection
Bethlehem and Bethlehem School (C. B. Mortimer, 1858, 207 pages)
Historical Sketch of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania With Some Account of the Moravian Church (John Hill Martin, 1872, 197 pages)
Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton's Prominent Citizens (Frank B. Copp, 1879, 390 pages)
The History of Easton, Penn'a from the Earliest Times to the Present 1738-1885 (Uzal W. Condit, 1885, 521 pages)
The Centenary of the City of Easton (Daily Express Print, 1891, 77 pages)
Bethlehem, Pa. Photo-Gravures (Aug. H. Leibert, 1894, 44 pages)
Souvenir of Bethlehem, Pa. (Anonymous, ~1900, 11 pages)
Forks of the Delaware - Illustrated (Ethan Allen Weaver, 1900, 230 pages)
Some of the First Setters of "The Forks of the Delaware" (Henry Martyn Kieffer, 1902, 423 pages)
Views of Easton and Bethlehem (L. H. Nelson Company, ~1905, 33 pages)
Local Historical and Biographical Notes (Ethan Allen Weaver, 1906, 321 pages)
Souvenir of Bethlehem, Pa. (Geo. V. Millar & Company, ~1910, 25 pages)
Souvenir of Lehigh University and the Bethlehems (1910, 25 pages)
Men of Easton and Phillipsburg (George L. Seibel, 1920, 107 pages)
Bethlehem - Long Ago and To-day (Raymond Walters, 1923, 162 pages)
The Early Days of Bethlehem (The Bethlehem Rotary Club, 1924, 30 pages)
Old Nazareth - A Brief Sketch of Early Moravian Life (Susan Kachline, 1933, 42 pages)
History of Bath (Reginald H. Helfferich & Asa K. McIIhaney, 1937, 62 pages)
A Frontier Village - Pre-Revolutionary Easton (A. D. Chidsey, Jr., 1940, 246 pages)
1740-1940 Nazareth, PA Bicentennial Souvenir Program (Nazareth, PA. Bicentennial, Inc., 1940, 179 pages)
Two Centuries of Nazareth 1740-1940 (Various contributing authors, 1940, 377 pages)
Consider the Years - The Story of the Jewish Community of Easton 1752-1942 (Joshua Trachtenberg, 1944, 366 pages)
225th Anniversary - Bath, Pennsylvania 1737-1962 (Anonymous, 1962, 116 pages)
1872-1972 Hellertown, PA. Centennial (Centennial Booklet Committee, 1972, 108 pages)

NH04 - Church, Family, Education, Military and Miscellaneous History Collection
The Moravian Graveyards at Nazareth (John W. Jordan, 1873, 55 pages)
History of the Allen Township Presbyterian Church and the Community which has Sustained it (John C. Clyde, 1876, 202 pages)
Burial Record of Zion's (Stone) Church Grave-Yard and Cemetery Near Kreidersville, Northampton Co., PA. (Anonymous, 1880, 8 pages)
St. John's Lutheran Church, Easton, PA 1832-1882 (D. H. Geissinger, Rueben Kolb, 1882, 84 pages)
Inscriptions of Stone Church, Northampton Co., PA (W. E. Wenner, 1883, 15 pages)
A Brief Sketch of the Principal Events of St. John's Church, Howertown, PA (Anonymous, 1885, 36 pages)
The Old Grave-yards of Northampton and Adjacent Counties in the State of Pennsylvania (John Eyerman, 1899, 1901, 213 pages)
Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Northeastern Pennsylvania (American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1890, 125 pages)
Souvenir Program - 81st Annual Session Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Independent Order of Odd Fellows (1904, 90 pages)
Centennial History of the First Presbyterian Church of Easton, Pennsylvania 1811-1911 (Anonymous, 1911, 140 pages)
A History of Grace Reformed Church, Northampton, Pennsylvania (Stoudt, Borger, Smith & Werner, 1912, 80 pages)
The Whitefield House on the Ephrata Property at Nazareth, PA 1740-1914 (A. L. Oerter, 1914, 45 pages)
Official Souvenir Welcome Home - Northampton Pennsylvania (Rev. John Baer Stoudt, 1919, 90 pages)
The Story of the Arndts (John Stover Arndt, 1922, 444 pages)
Historical Souvenir of Christ Lutheran Church Stone Church, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (Anonymous, 1924, 19 pages)
Brief Biographical Sketches of the Ministers Who Served the Christ Reformed Congregation of Lower Saucon Church (Anonymous, 1926, 33 pages)
The Scotch-Irish of Northampton County, Pennsylvania (Northampton County Historical Society, 1926, 629 pages)
Jubilee of Methodism in Bethlehem Pennsylvania 1852-1927 (Wilbur L. King, 1927, 19 pages)
1859-1934 Seventy-Fifth Anniversary - St. John's Reformed Church, Nazareth Pennsylvania (Anonymous, 1934, 29 pages)
Members of the Bar and Officials of Northampton Co., PA 1752-1935 (A. Thurman Schlabach, 1935, 54 pages)
Burial Record of Zion's Stone Church, Kreidersville, Northampton County, Penna (Anonymous, 1940, 80 pages)
A check list of imprints of the German press of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1766-1905 (Alfred L. Shoemakers, 1943, 179 pages)
125 Years - Trinity Church 1819-1944 (Anniversary Committee, 1944, 65 pages)
Young American Patriots - The Youth of Pennsylvania in World War II (National Publishing Company, 1946, 674 pages)

NH05 - Maps Atlases & Images Collection
Maps & Atlases
1850 Map of the Townships of Upper and Lower Nazareth, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (J. C. Sidney, Color)
1851 Map of Northampton County Pennsylvania (M. S. Henry, Color)
1860 Map of Northampton Co. Pennsylvania (G. M. Hopkins, Jr. and Smith, Gallup & Co., Color)
1874 Atlas of Northampton County Pennsylvania (A. Pomeroy & Co., 35 pages, B/W)

Birds-eye Town Views
Bethlehem and South Bethlehem, PA. (1877, Scwartz & Weaver)
Bangor Pennsylvania (1885, O. H. Bailey & Co.)
Chapmans' Quarries Pennsylvania (1885, O. H. Bailey & Co.)
Nazareth Pennsylvania (1885, O. H. Bailey & Co.)
Pen Argyl Pennsylvania (1885, O. H. Bailey & Co.)
Portland, Penn. (1885, O. H. Bailey & Co.)
Pen Argyl Pennsylvania (1894, T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer)
Easton, Pa. and Phillipsburg, N.J. (1900, Landis & Alsop)
Aero View of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania (1916, T. M. Fowler)
Aero View of Bangor, Pennsylvania (1918, Hughes & Bailey)

NH06 - Directory Collection (1860-1914)
Boyd's Directory of Easton 1860 (William H. Boyd, 1860, 21 pages)
Gopsill's Directory of Reading, Allentown, Easton, Pottsville, and Bethlehem Pennsylvania for 1864-5 (James Gopsill, 1864, 270 pages)
The Northampton County Directory, for 1873 (J. H. Lant, 1873, 278 pages)
List of Subscribers - March 1st, 1886 [Telephone Directory, Eastern PA] (Pennsylvania Telephone Company, 1886, 84 pages)
West's Directory of Easton (George W. West, 1889, 291 pages)
Directory of Bethlehem, South Bethlehem, and West Bethlehem - 1890 (Jos. A. Weaver, 1890, 216 pages)
1890 Census Directory of Northampton County (Eleventh U.S. Census) Also Directory of Phillipsburg, N.J. (Joseph H. Werner, 1891, 644 pages)
Three Bethlehems Directory for 1893-94 (J. E. Williams, 1893, 322 pages)
1906 Directory of Easton City - Easton and South Side, West Easton, Cedarville, Glendon, Glendon Heights and Phillipsburg, NJ (George W. West, 1906, 620 pages)
Farmers' Directory of Northampton County 1914 (Wilmer Atkinson Company, 1914, 308 pages)

NH07 - Directory Collection (1919-1946)
Classified Business Directory of Eastern Pennsylvania [1919] (Lehigh Valley Review, 1919, 212 pages)
1927-28 Polk's Nazareth Directory (R. L. Polk & Co., 1927, 158 pages)
Lehigh Telephone Directory - January - June 1928 (Lehigh Telephone Co., 1928, 246 pages)
Miller's Bethlehem, PA City Directory - 1931 (Piedmont Directory Co., 1931, 1124 pages)
Bangor and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - December 1936 (Blue Mountain Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1936, 282 pages)
Phillipsburg - Including Nearby Points Telephone Directory - December 1939 (New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, 1939, 245 pages)
Allentown and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1940 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1940, 284 pages)
1942 Directory of Nazareth Pennsylvania (Advertising-Publishing Associates, 1942, 118 pages)
Polk's Bethlehem City Directory - 1945 Including Fountain Hill and Hellertown (R. L. Polk & Co., 1945, 1172 pages)
Northampton Directory and Business Guide 1946-47 (Byron H. Thomas, 1946, 116 pages)
1946-1947 Nazareth Directory (Byron H. Thomas, 1946, 100 pages)

NH08 - Directory Collection (1948-1959)
Phillipsburg - Including Nearby Points Telephone Directory - March 1948 (New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, 1948, 92 pages)
Bittler's Northampton County, Pennsylvania Farm Directory - 1948 Edition (Chas F. & C. M. Louise Bittler, 1948, 76 pgaes)
Bittler's Northampton County, Pennsylvania Farm Directory - 1950 Edition (Chas F. & C. M. Louise Bittler, 1950, 96 pgaes)
Polk's Bethlehem City Directory - 1953 Including Fountain Hill, Freemansburg and Hellertown (R. L. Polk & Co., 1953, 1250 pages)
Bangor - Pen Argyl - Portland - Saylorsburg - And Nearby Points Telephone Directory - March 1955 (PA Community Telephone Co., 1955, 136 pages)
Easton and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - February 1956 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1956, 308 pages)
Polk's Bethlehem City Directory - 1957 Including Fountain Hill, Freemansburg and Hellertown (R. L. Polk & Co., 1957, 1242 pages)
Polk's Easton (Northampton County, PA.) City Directory 1957 and Phillipsburg (Warren County, NJ) (R. L. Polk & Co., 1957, 1456 pages)
Bittler's Northampton County, Pennsylvania Farm Directory - 1958 Edition (Chas F. & C. M. Louise Bittler, 1950, 72 pgaes)
Polk's Easton (Northampton County, PA.) City Directory 1959 and Phillipsburg (Warren County, NJ) (R. L. Polk & Co., 1959, 934 pages)
Polk's Bethlehem City Directory - 1959 Including Fountain Hill, Freemansburg and Hellertown (R. L. Polk & Co., 1959, 1224 pages)