The Almanac Collection consists of almanacs printed in Lancaster County and other locations. They contain long-range weather predictions, calendars, moon phases, planting guides, and natural remedies. Many publications also contain articles and poems about historical events and persons, as well as government and political information, housekeeping information, recipes, songs, titles of sheet music, music for a variety of instruments, times and places of the Meetings of the Friends on the Continent of America, and engravings and descriptions of battles. Some almanacs are illustrated.
System of Arrangement
Organized by language. Each series has paper indexes arranged alphabetically, chronologically, and by box and folder numbers.
Signers of petition: Jacob K. Eckert, Henry Lechler, George H. Skiles, John Rutter, John Miller, Joseph Shnavely, Peter Smoker, Joseph Slack, John Beiler, Benjamin Hoover, John Reed, John L. Lightner, Isaac Bair, Moses Eaby.
1 item, 1 piece
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Located as the stopping place of the mail stage and the election house.
April term.
Signers of petition: R. Ream, John Schlott, Daniel Wise, Jeremiah M. Sallada, Abraham Myers, John Lesher, Elias Weitzel, William S. Breneiser, Jacob R. Reddig, Cyrus Ream, Elias Rhoads, John Mishler Jr., [signature in German].
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Signers of petition: George Seldomridge, John Sheaffer, John R. Krider, R. J. Rutter, John Reed, Martin Herr, George H. Skiles, John Seldomridge, S. L. Robison, Henry Hurst, Isaac Bitzer, Jacob K. Eckert, Moses Eaby, Henry [Pickler], Eli Rutter, Peter B. Eckert.
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Sign of the Stage Office, being the stopping place of the mail stage.
April term.
Signers of petition: Daniel Wise, Charles B. Reber, Jeremiah M. Sallada, Daniel S. Kinsey, Abraham Myers, John Reddig, Jacob R. Reddig, John Misher Jr., Elias Weitzel, William Musser, John S. Royer, Samuel Bucher Sr.
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Signers of petition: Daniel M. Eaby, John Reed, Martin Herr, George Skiles, Moses Eaby, John Miller, Jacob Eaby, Thomas S. Woods, Benjamin Hoover, Henry Lechler, Isaac Hoover, Daniel Ruth, George Marshall, John Seldomridge, Peter B. Eckert.
1 item, 1 piece
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