America250: Special Populations Materials

These are materials from the collections of the State library of Pennsylvania digitized as part of the State Library's contribution to the America250 celebration. Most of the materials are newly-digitized items, now freely available to the public for the first time. Visit the individual America250 theme pages on this site to view all utilized digitized materials, both newly-digitized by the State Library of Pennsylvania and other materials held by the State Library of Pennsylvania but already freely-available.

Books and pamphlets focus on notable Pennsylvania populations, such as European settlers and Quakers, and also sheds light on people whose perspectives have historically been downplayed or ignored, including Indigenous Peoples, and African Americans.