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Harriet Lane, First Lady of the White House

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1133

Author: Shelley, Mary Virginia.

Date of Publication: c1980.

Call Number: 920.7 L265s 1980

Responsibility: Mary Virginia Shelley & Sandra Harrison Munro ; with ill. by Regina Weatherlow.

ISBN: 0915010291 :

Author: Shelley, Mary Virginia.

Place of Publication: Lititz, PA

Publisher: Sutter House,

Date of Publication: c1980.

Physical Description: 48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Summary: Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.

Subjects: Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903. - Juvenile literature.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868. - Family - Juvenile literature.; Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868. - Family.; Presidents - United States; Presidents

Additional Author: Munro, Sandra Harrison,; Weatherlow, Regina.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 920.7 L265s 1980

James Buchanan and his family at Wheatland

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3409

Author: Cahalan, Sally Smith.

Date of Publication: c1988.

Call Number: 728.37 C132j

Alternate Title: James Buchanan's Wheatland

Responsibility: by Sally Smith Cahalan ; [photography by John P. Herr].

Author: Cahalan, Sally Smith.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: James Buchanan Foundation,

Date of Publication: c1988.

Physical Description: 100 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Notes: Cover title: James Buchanan's Wheatland.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Family.; Buchanan family.; Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Presidents - United States; Lancaster (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 C132j

Early American probate inventories

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo227

Date of Publication: 1989

Call Number: 658.89 E12

Responsibility: editor, Peter Benes

Place of Publication: Boston, MA

Publisher: Boston University

Date of Publication: 1989

Physical Description: 184 p. ill. 23 cm.

Series: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, v. 12

Subjects: Probate law and practice - United States; Inventories of decedents' estates; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Congresses.

Additional Author: Benes, Peter.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 658.89 E12

Our hidden heritage : Pennsylvania women in history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo927

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: c1983.

Call Number: 920.7 O93

Responsibility: edited by Janice H. McElroy ; assistant editors, Mary Ann Stangil and Margaret D. Druse.

ISBN: 0961147601 (pbk.)

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: Pennsylvania Division, American Association of University Women,

Date of Publication: c1983.

Physical Description: xvii, 440 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 405.

Subjects: Ferree, Mary, - d. 1716.; Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784.; Penn, Hannah Callowhill, - 1671-1726.; Henry, Ann Wood, - 1732-1798.; Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.; Horting, Ruth Grigg.; Letort, Ann.; Sachs, Mary.; Gibbons, Hannah Wierman.; Martin, Mary Reimensnyder.; Singmaster, Elsie.; Nevin, Blanche, - 1841-1925.; Women in the professions - Pennsylvania; Women in politics - Pennsylvania; Women - Pennsylvania

Additional Author: McElroy, Janice H.; Stangil, Mary Ann.; Druse, Margaret D.

Additional Corporate Author: American Association of University Women. Pennsylvania Division.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 920.7 O93

STA, an illustrated history of St. Albans School / edited by Smith Hempstone

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16520

Date of Publication: c1981]

Call Number: 371.02 S133

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: Glastonbury Press,

Date of Publication: c1981]

Physical Description: 190 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903; St. Albans School - History.

Additional Author: Hempstone, Smith,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 371.02 S133

An index to the will books and intestate records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1729-1850 : with an historical sketch and classified bibliography

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13784

Author: Fulton, Eleanore Jane,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 346.054 F974; 346.3054 F974

Alternate Title: Will index, Lancaster County, PA 1729-1850.

Responsibility: prepared by Eleanore Jane Fulton and Barbara Kendig Mylin.

Author: Fulton, Eleanore Jane,

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: ix, 136 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Reprint of the 1936 ed.; Spine title: Will books & intestate records, Lancaster Co., Pa.; Bibliography: p. 111-136.

Subjects: Probate records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Indexes.; Wills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Bibliography.

Additional Author: Mylin, Barbara Kendig.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference; Lancaster History Archive - Government Record

Call Number: 346.054 F974; 346.3054 F974

The Federal farmhouse: a reappraisal : site report, Landis Valley Museum

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18605

Author: Messimer, Susan Sharpless.

Date of Publication: 1986.

Call Number: 728.67 M585 pt. 1

Responsibility: Susan Sharpless Messimer.

Author: Messimer, Susan Sharpless.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1986.

Physical Description: Unpaged : maps ; 29 cm.

Notes: Bound with: The Settler's Farmstead: a compendium of information relating to properties in Manheim Township containing log dwellings / Susan Sharpless Messimer; summer internship report / Susan Sharpless Messimer.

Subjects: Farlow family.; Landis family.; Huhn family.; Coldren family.; Hambright family.; Smith family.; Reist family.; Brubaker family.; Cain family.; Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley.; Taxation - Lists.; Farmhouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Manheim Township.; Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Inventories of decedents' estates.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.67 M585 pt. 1

This land is your land, this land is my land : a brief introduction to historic Pennsylvania land records

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo332

Author: Rineer, A. Hunter

Date of Publication: 1985

, and there is a separate series of land records in the State Archives in Harrisburg en- compassing these grants. There are two of these early English documents in the Millersville University manuscript collection. One is signed by William Penn; the other is an English deed transferring rights from one

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Responsibility: by A. Hunter Rineer, Jr.

Author: Rineer, A. Hunter

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1985

Physical Description: 99-105 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 89, no. 3

Subjects: Land tenure.; Land settlement - Pennsylvania.; Deeds - Pennsylvania.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 89, number 3 (1985), p. 99-105Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.89