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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-09-03-12
Date Range
1960
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Charles G. Hoffman and a steam engine at Pasadena, California, in 1960. Photo is glued to a page from a scrapbook with articles about the Hoffman family of Rheems and their engines and farm equipment.
Provenance
Donated by the Lebanon County Historical Society
Date Range
1960
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Hoffman, Charles G.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association
Steam engines
Tractors
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Condition
Good
Object ID
2-09-03-12
Images
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The reports of Sr. George Croke Knight; late, one of the justices of the Court of Kings-Bench; and formerly, one of the justices of the Court of Common-Bench, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said Courts, the time that he was judge in either of them: collected and written in French by himself; revised and published in English by Sir Harebotle Grimston Baronet

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20942
Author
Croke, George,
Date of Publication
1657.
Call Number
Book 118 1657
Alternate Title
Mentissa
Author
Croke, George,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
printed by R. Hodgkinsonne, and are to be sold by William Leak at the Crown in Fleetstreet, betwixt the two Temple gates, by Thomas Firby neer Grays-Inne Gate in Holborn, and at Lincolns-Inne Gate,
Date of Publication
1657.
Physical Description
[24], 669, [3] p. : ill. ; 2o.
Notes
With a final leaf entitled: Mentissa.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title above the struck signature of the preveious owner; previous owner's signature also strong from second flyleaf.
Book number 118 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten marginal ntoes and references of Thomas Leach, 1972.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
Binding: calf over boards, blind fillets, mid/late 17th century. Rebacked and spine title added, mid 19th century.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Grimston, Harbottle,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 118 1657
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Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Object ID
MG0237
Date Range
1880-2003
around the system, drawn by The Marley Company, Inc. Drawing number 54-4226. Dated 23 February 1954. Folder 29 Blueprints titled, “Alterations to Heating System in store building for Watt and Shand, Lancaster, PA”. The plan was drawn for the renovations on the first floor of the building. Plans drawn by
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Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Description
The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.
Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.
Admin/Biographical History
On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged by series.
Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory
Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners
Date Range
1880-2003
Year Range From
1880
Year Range To
2003
Date of Accumulation
1880-2003
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 06
People
Ammon, Cora Mae Fox
Ammon, John M.
Appel, Eva Rengier
Appel, Percy L.
Baker, Miriam Rengier
Bell, Louise Price
Berger, R. R.
Blatchley, Charles A.
Breyers, C. J.
Buchanan, James
Drukenbrod, Lee Roy
Fehl, J. Herbert
Frantz, I. E.
Fritz, C. C.
Goodhart, E. C.
Groff, Alpheaus S.
Groff, Ella L.
Hermansader, T. F.
Hirsh, Bertha
Hirsh, Gabriel
Hostetter, D. B.
Lively, Henry
Long, Jacob M.
Loss, Natalie M.
Loss, Nathan
Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.
Marshall, Elizabeth Weber
Marshall, George A.
Marshall, George W.
Marshall, Maria L. Good
May, Jennie H.
Miller, E. N.
Myers, Harry
Myers, Maria
Myers, Patricia Marshall
Myrtetus, George B.
Noonan, Ella O.
Noonan, Raymond Smith
Prangley, James
Reed, George R.
Reichley, Jacob Christian
Reifsnyder, Arden P.
Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman
Rengier, Charles F.
Rengier, John S.
Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen
Rohrer, George Redsecker
Rohrer, Jeremiah
Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker
Roth, George R.
Rupert, L. H.
Schaller, Kimberly
Shand, James
Shand, Thomas Marshall
Sherrill, Anita B.
Sherrill, S. Edward
Short, Edwin P.
Skyllas, Drossos A.
Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert
Stiles, H. A.
Stirk, Isaac
Stirk, Sarah C.
Swarr, Donald
Urban, Cassius Emlen
Watt, Laura Louise Geiger
Watt, Peter T.
Weber, May H.
Wisegarver, Harry P.
Witmer, Albert F.
Other Creators
Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)
Subjects
Advertising
Architectural drawings
Blueprints
Building leases
Calendars
Catalogs
Deeds
Department stores
Historical markers
Insurance policies
Letters
Menus
Newsletters
Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.)
Scrapbooks
Stores, Retail
Search Terms
A and S Realty and Investment Corporation
A. B. Rote & Co.
Advertising
Agreements
Air conditioning
American Blower Corporation
Appel & Weber
Architectural plans
Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America
Awards
Blueprints
Bon-Ton
Bon-Ton Beauty Salon
Booklets
C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.
Calendars
Catalogs
Central Automatic Sprinkler Company
Certificates
Columbia
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company
Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia
Correspondence
Deeds
Department stores
DUSCO Property Management, Inc.
East Hempfield Twp.
Employee handbooks
Employees
Ephemera
Escalators
Finding aids
Fire sprinklers
Floorplans
Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers
Gift certificates
Ground-rent
Hager and Bro., Inc.
Hager Realty Corporation
Heating and ventilation systems
Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County
Historical markers
Insurance policies
Job descriptions
Kroll Electric Company, Inc.
Lancaster
Lancaster Parking Authority
Lancaster Trust Company
Leases
Letters
Manuscript groups
Menus
Mortgages
Newsletters
Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.
Park City Mall
Penn Square
Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company
Permits
Poetry
PPL
Price lists
Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company
Reynolds and Reynolds Company
Scrapbooks
Stores, Retail
Total Energy Leasing Corporation
Trion, Inc.
Watt and Shand
Workers' Compensation Act
York Corporation
Extent
4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0237
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-237
Classification
MG0237
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.
The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.
Documents
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Poverty in the Garden Spot : Prepared for the Community Action Program Committee of Lancaster County, Pa. by Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pa. under the direction of Martha Eppley and John M. Yancey. Graphics by Marcia Heimbach

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17577
Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.). Community Action Program Committee.
Date of Publication
January 1966.
Call Number
330 C734
Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.). Community Action Program Committee.
Place of Publication
Elizabethtown, Pa
Date of Publication
January 1966.
Physical Description
2 v.
Subjects
Poverty - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Additional Author
Eppley, Martha A.
Additional Corporate Author
Elizabethtown College.
Community Action Program Committee, Lancaster, Pa.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
330 C734
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Reports and cases taken in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh years of the late King Charles : as they were argued by most of the King's sergeants at the Common-Pleas barre

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Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Date of Publication
1657.
Call Number
Book 740 1657
Responsibility
collected and reported, by that eminent lawyer, Sir Thomas Hetley ; now Englished, with an exact table of the principal matter therein contained, and likewise of the cases, both alphabetical.
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by F.L. for Matthew Walbancke and Thomas Firby,
Date of Publication
1657.
Physical Description
177 pages ; 30 cm
Notes
Signatures: A², a², aa², B², C-Z⁴, Aa³ (last verso blank).
Irregularities in paging; p. 21-22 duplicated and p. 153-154 omitted in numbering.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 740 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Hetley, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 740 1657
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Historical problems with the Pennsylvania Germans / by Philip S. Klein

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Author
Klein, Philip S.
Date of Publication
1969.
Call Number
390 K64
Author
Klein, Philip S.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary,
Date of Publication
1969.
Physical Description
35 p. : 23 cm.
Series
Community historians annual,
Community historians annual ; no. 8.
Notes
Includes biographical sketch of the author.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Additional Corporate Author
Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
390 K64
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The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; a history

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Author
Nichols, Roy F.
Date of Publication
1967.
Call Number
974.80074 P412h
Responsibility
by Roy F. Nichols.
Author
Nichols, Roy F.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Pennsylvaina Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1967.
Physical Description
56 p. 23 cm.
Notes
"Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1913-1945": p. 46-48. "Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1945-1966": p. 48-55.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80074 P412h
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Encounter at Hanover: prelude to Gettysburg; story of the invasion of Pennsylvania culminating in the Battles of Hanover and Gettysburg, June and July, 1863; with a bicentennial view of the town founded by Colonel Richard McAllister in 1763

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Corporate Author
Hanover Chamber of Commerce. Historical Publication Committee.
Date of Publication
1963 [c1962]
Call Number
973.734 E56
Corporate Author
Hanover Chamber of Commerce. Historical Publication Committee.
Place of Publication
[Hanover]
Date of Publication
1963 [c1962]
Physical Description
274 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliography.
Subjects
Hanover, Pa., Battle of, 1863.
Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.734 E56
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The Old land and the new: the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's

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Date of Publication
1965
Call Number
917.3 B598
Responsibility
edited and translated by Robert H. Billigmeier & Fred Altschuler Picard. Sketches by Hans Erni.
Place of Publication
Minneapolis
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Date of Publication
1965
Physical Description
281 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
Note on translation.--Introduction, by R.H. Billigmeier.--Account of a journey to North America and through the most significant parts thereof, by J. Schweizer.--Day book on a journey to North America in the year 1823, by J.J. Rutlinger.
Summary
"In the 1820's, when the flow of immigration was still small, two Swiss immigrant families wrote accounts of what seemed to them to be the most decisive experiences of their lives. These particular accounts relate to a period in the history of American immigration that is less well known than the more spectacular colonial and post- Civil War movements. They are particularly vivid and insightful personal documents affording valuable perspectives of the integration of the 'Old Immigration' of ante-bellum days." [from the introduction]
Subjects
Swiss in the United States.
United States - Description and travel - 1783-1848.
United States - Emigration and immigration - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Schweizer, Johannes,
Rutlinger, Johann Jakob,
Billigmeier, Robert Henry,
Picard, Fred Altschuler,
Erni, Hans,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.3 B598
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An epitome of all the common & statute laws of this nation, now in force. Wherein more then fifteen hundred of the hardest words or terms of the law are explained; and all the most useful and profitable heads or titles of the law by way of common place, largely, plainly, and methodically handled. With an alphabetical table. By William Sheppard, Esq; Published by His Highness special command

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Author
Sheppard, William,
Date of Publication
1656.
Call Number
Book 94 1656
Author
Sheppard, William,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, J. Wright, H. Twyford, G. Bedell, Tho. Brewster, Ed. Dod, and J. Place,
Date of Publication
1656.
Physical Description
[22], 1131, [1] p. ; (fol.)
Notes
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at at top of title page preceded by five others struck out and another on the back of the front fly leaf.
Book number 94 as assigned by Yeates.
Book plate of Beniamin Price on back of front cover.
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996),
ESTC (RLIN),
Subjects
Law - England - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.
Law.
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)34191000148566
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 94 1656
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