Banks and Bankers of the Keystone State: containing a complete history of the banking interests of Pennsylvania from the organization of the first bank in 1780 to the present time, together with portraits and biographical sketches of the prominent figures in a century and a quarter of financial history.

Mode of access: Internet.

Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, at West Point, N.Y., from its establishment, March 16, 1802, to the army re-organization of 1866-67.

v. 1. 1802-1840.--v. 2. 1841-1867.

Friends' miscellany: being a collection of essays and fragments, biographical, religious, epistolary, narrative and historical; designed for the promotion of piety and virtue ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Half-hours with the best authors. Selected and arranged, with short biographical and critical notices,

Vol. 1,2,4 pub. 1849; v.3, 1848.

Essays on some modern works; chiefly biographical.

v. 1 The dukes of Urbino; Edward Baines; Francesco Pforza; Social life in past centuries; Harford's Michael Angelo; Decade of Italian women; Peden the prophet; Filippo Strozzi; Lord Macaulay as a translator; The pope & the friar; Whittington & his cat; Autobiography of Mrs. Piozzi; Early years of Pitt; Last years of Pitt.--v. 2 Washington Irving; Irving at Sunnyside; Reliques of Mrs. Knight; Marc Isambard Brunel; Colossal vestiges; Lady Morgan; Lord Stanhope; Pictor ignotus; Miss Berry; Windham; Our merchant princess; Lucrezia Borgia; America by an American.

An account of the New-York Institution for the Blind : together with a brief statement of the origin, progress, and present condition, of the institutions for the blind in this and other countries, to which is added biographical notices of some of the most illustrious blind.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of engraved portraits of noted personages, principally connected with the history, literature, arts and genealogy of Great Britain. With brief biographical notes, and a topographical index ...

Mode of access: Internet.

How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods,

"A brief bibliography of books on art readily procurable" : p. 481-483.

How to study the modern painters by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Watteau to Matisse, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods,

Includes index.

How to study the old masters by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Lorrain, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods,

Includes index.

The poetical works of Horace Smith and James Smith ... with portraits and a biographical sketch.

"Our reprint of this work is from the twenty-third London edition, and the notes inclosed in brackets are from the pen, we believe, of Mr. Peter Cunningham."--Pref.

Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware,

"The material comprising 'The story of Delaware' in 1 v., is from the pen of John F. Meginness, an author of large experience in this kind of literary lore." - Pref.

Life of Major General Zachary Taylor : with notices of the war in New Mexico; and biographical sketches of officers who have distinguished themselves in the war with Mexico /

Title vignette.

A Dictionary of painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers : containing biographical sketches of the most celebrated artists, from the earliest ages to the present time, to which is added an appendix, comprising the substance of Walpole's Anecdotes of painting in England, from Vertue, forming a complete English school.

Compiled by John Gould.

A series of original portraits and caricature etchings : with biographical sketches and anectoes.

Mode of access: Internet.