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Pennsylvania Calendars
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Pennsylvania: State Map
Pennsylvania:
State Map


Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth
Pennsylvania:
A History of the Commonwealth


Backroads of Pennsylvania: Your Guide to Pennsylvania's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures
Backroads of Pennsylvania:
Your Guide to
Pennsylvania's Most
Scenic Backroad
Adventures


Weird Pennsylvania
Weird Pennsylvania


50 Hikes in Central Pennsylvania: Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips
50 Hikes in
Central Pennsylvania:
Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips


K is for Keystone: A Pennsylvania Alphabet
K is for Keystone:
A Pennsylvania Alphabet




Famous Pennsylvanians

Edwin Austin Abbey
Louisa May Alcott
Marian Anderson
Edmund Bacon
Pearl Bailey
Ethel Barrymore
John Barrymore
Donald Barthelme
William Bartram
Stephen Vincent Benét
Nellie Bly
Daniel Boone
Ed Bradley
Hallie Quinn Brown
James Buchanan
Alexander Calder
Rachel Carson
Mary Cassatt
Noam Chomsky
Rebecca Cole
Mary Colter
Henry Steele Commager
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W. W. Denslow
Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey
Billy Eckstine
Andrew Ellicott
W.C. Fields
Renee Fleming
Stephen Foster
Robert Fulton
Benjamin Franklin
Howard Gardner
John Taylor Gatto
Dusolina Giannini
Elizabeth Shippen Green
Grimke sisters
Alexander Haig
H. J. Heinz
Milton Hershey
Edward Hicks
Earl “Fatha” Hines
Billie Holiday
Marilyn Horne
Lee Iacocca
Reggie Jackson
Jane Jacobs
Judith Jamison
Louis Kahn
Florence Kelley
Gene Kelly
Grace Kelly
Gelsey Kirkland
S. S. Kresge
Patti LaBelle
Mario Lanza
May Lillie
Alain LeRoy Locke
Jeanette MacDonald
George C. Marshall
George B. McClellan
Charles Follen McKim
Margaret Mead
Andrew Mellon
James A. Michener
Tom Mix
Anna Moffo
Christopher Morley
Clifford Odets
Arnold Palmer
Maxfield Parrish
Robert E. Peary
Frances Perkins
Fred Rogers
Betsy Ross
Edith Spurlock Sampson
B.F. Skinner
John Sloan
Will Smith
Gertrude Stein
Wallace Stevens
James Stewart
Sharon Stone
Ida M. Tarbill
John Updike
Honus Wagner
Fred Waring
Ethel Waters
Anthony Wayne
Passmore Williamson
Mary Lou Williams
David Wilmot
August Wilson
Duchess of Windsor
Owen Wister
Andrew Wyeth




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State of Pennsylvania Posters, Prints, Photographs, Calendars
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Pennsylvania Mid State, PA From Space, Art Print
Pennsylvania Mid State
from Space,
Art Print

(41º0'0"N 77º30'0"W)

Pennsylvania, known as the Keystone State, and once known as the Quaker State, joined the Union on December 12, 1787 as the 2nd state. Pennsylvania is one of four states that is called a commonwealth (the others: Massachusetts, Virginia, and Kentucky). The name Pennsylvania is a combination of the Latin sylvan which means woods, and the last name of the founder of the colony, William Penn.

State Animal : White Tail Deer
State Beverage : Milk
State Dog : Great Dane
State Game Bird : Ruffled Grouse
State Flower : Mountain Laurel
State Insect : Firefly
State Fish : Brook Trout
State Tree : Hemlock
State Capital : Harrisburg
State Motto : “Virtue, Liberty, and Independence”
Pennsylvania Map by county.
US Census Bureau facts
more Pennsylvania facts.
PA State Symbols page







Located in the Middle Atlantic Division of the Northeast Region, Pennsylvania is bordered on the north by Lake Erie and the State of New York, the east by New Jersey, the south by Maryland and West Virginia, and the west by Ohio.



There are 44,700 miles of state-administered paved roads in Pennsylvania – more than in New Jersey and all of New England combined. Yet along those miles a driver might encounter such things as a horse and buggy reined by a bearded farmer or his bonneted wife. Or around the next curve one of the state's 300 covered bridges. Or an old fieldstone barn bright with hex signs. Or a battleground of the Civil War, the Revolution, the French and Indian War.

Past and present are close neighbors in Pennsylvania, the “Keystone State” of the original 13.

Northeast, USA Map, 1978
Northeast, USA Map, 1978




(poster text about Pennsylvania)


Pennsylvania Flag Art Print
Pennsylvania Flag
Art Print

Old State House, Philadelphia, PA, 1735 Art Print
Old State House,
Philadelphia, PA, 1735
Art Print

Philadelphia

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State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Art Print
State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Art Print

University of Pennsylvania Art Print
University of Pennsylvania
Art Print


Autumn View of a Rural Landscape in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Photographic Print
Autumn View of a Rural Landscape in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Photographic Print

Greeting from Punxsutawney, Penna, Print
Greeting from
Punxsutawney, Penna,
Print

winter posters
February 2nd

Mountain Laurel Art Print
Mountain Laurel
Art Print

Young Hemlock Needles, Photographic Print
Hemlock Forest,
Photographic Print

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Ruffed Grouse, Audubon Art Print
Ruffed Grouse, Audubon
Art Print

Brook Trout Art Print
Brook Trout
Art Print

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Showing Both Sides of the Firefly, Also Called Lightning Bugs, Photographic Print
Showing Both Sides of the Firefly, Also Called Lightning Bugs,
Photographic Print

Fireflies, also known as lightening bugs, are beetles that produce light in their abdomen to attract mates. The males fly about flashing, a waiting female will flash back if she is interested. The firefly even has a song - Glow Little Glowworm, The Mills Brothers hit of the 1950s.

The Firefly is the Pennsylvania and Tennessee State Insect and proposed as the Indiana State Insect.

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• State insects


Northeast Native American Cultures -

Poster Text: The northeastern part of the U.S. and Canada includes coastal lands, rivers, the Great Lakes, valleys and mountains. before the arrival of European settlers, this region was mostly one vast forest. In these woodlands teeming with deer, bear, rabbit, and other animals, most of the Indians were hunters and gatherers. They also fished in the lakes and rivers. In wet marshy areas Indians gathered wild rice. And in the summer, some tribes planted crops of corn, squash, and beans. ...


William Penn, Giclee Print
William Penn,
Giclee Print


William Penn
b. 10-14-1644; London
d. 7-30-1718; Berkshire, England

William Penn, a pacifist Quaker, was the founder and “Absolute Proprietor” of the Province of Pennsylvania. Penn received what was to become the state of Pennsylvania as a land grant from Charles II in repayment for a loan made by Penn's father to the king.

Penn, who visited the colony several times and wanted to settle in Philadelphia, hoped an income would be generated by those who were drawn to Pennsylvania because of his charter guaranteeing “free and fair trial by jury, freedom of religion, freedom from unjust imprisonment and free elections”.

William Penn's Treaty with Indians, November 1683; Benjamin West, Giclee Print
William Penn's Treaty with Indians, November 1683; Benjamin West, Giclee Print

FYI - In 1681 Penn decreed that one acre of old-growth forest must remain for every five acres cleared, making him an early environmentalist and conservationist.

Edward Hicks- Peaceable Kingdom with William Penn in the background Lesson Plans
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Washington's Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Photographic Print
Washington's Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
Photographic Print

Valley Forge, 22 miles northwest of Philadelphia, was the site chosen by George Washington for the Continental Army to over the winter of 1777-78.

The site was far enough away from the British to make surprise attacks less possible and still close enough to keep the British from foraging outside their Philadelphia encampment.

Continental Army Hut, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Art Print
Continental Army Hut, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Art Print










The name Valley Forge comes from an iron forge on Valley Creek.

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Child Laborers Pennsylvania Coal Company Photograph No.2 - South Pittston, Pennsylvania, Giclee Print
Child Laborers Pennsylvania Coal Company Photograph No.2 - South Pittston, Pennsylvania,
Giclee Print

The northeastern region of Pennsylvania has the largest known deposits of anthracite coal in the Americas and the mining industry was a primary economic engine until the 1950s.

Surrender of the Pinkerton Men to the Strikers at the Carnegie Steel Company, 1892, Giclee Print
Surrender of the Pinkerton Men to the Strikers at the Carnegie Steel Company, 1892,
Giclee Print

One of the most serious labor disputes in U.S. history occurred in the Pennsylvania town of Homestead. On July 6, 1892, a union strike and company lock-out resulted in a battle between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency hired by the Carnegie Steel Company to protect the physical plant.

The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892


Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Art Print
Independence Hall,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art Print

First Flag, Liberty Bell Art Print
First Flag, Liberty Bell
Art Print

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Anthony Wayne Block House, Erie, Pennsylvania Art Print
Anthony Wayne
Block House,
Erie, Pennsylvania
Art Print

The replica of a blockhouse that was once part of the American Fort located on Presque Isle is named for General “Mad” Anthony Wayne who died there while on a diplomatic mission to the old Northwest Territory in 1796.

General Wayne was serving as the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and was appointed to this position by president George Washington.


Lincoln with Text of Gettysburg Address, Pennsylvania Art Print
Lincoln with Text of Gettysburg Address, Pennsylvania
Art Print

Dead on the Field of Gettysburg, July 1863, Photographic Print
Dead on the Field of Gettysburg, July 1863,
Photographic Print

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is located on the state's southern border with Maryland. It is known primarily as the site of the US Civil War Battle of Gettysburg.
Lincoln posters

Chocolate Factory, Hershey, Pennsylvania, Art Print
Chocolate Factory, Hershey,
Pennsylvania,
Art Print

Milton S. Hershey founded the Hershey Chocolate Company and the “company town” of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar


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