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Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-05-02-10

Date Range: May 23, 1912

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Last execution at Lancaster County Prison.

Date Range: May 23, 1912

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Romezzo, Antonio

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Executions; Hangings; Lancaster County Prison; Prisons; Jails

Place: Lancaster

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 8 x 10 inches

Object ID: 2-05-02-10

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-05-02-11

Date Range: May 23, 1912

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Last hanging at Lancaster County Prison - Antonio Romezzo, hanged for murder.

Date Range: May 23, 1912

Creator: Ernst, Frederick

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Rommezo, Antonio

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Hangings; Executions; Lancaster County Prison; Jails; Prisons

Place: Lancaster

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 8 x 10 inches

Object ID: 2-05-02-11

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Archive

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Collection: Broadsides Collection

Title: Broadsides Collection

Object ID: MG0357

Date Range: 1775-1958

717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Search Terms: Advertisements Announcements Arithmetic Boys Work Fund Broadsides Camons Island Cheap Job Printer, Lancaster Inquirer Steam Book and Job Printing Court of Quarter Sessions Cromwell & Bomberger Finding aids Flyers Frantz’s Mill Ku Klux Klan (1915

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Collection: Broadsides Collection

Title: Broadsides Collection

Description: This collection contains broadsides for lectures, stores, businesses, and organizations.

Date Range: 1775-1958

Year Range From: 1775

Year Range To: 1958

Date of Accumulation: 1775-1958

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 09

People: Bailey, Francis; Becker, John; Bomberger, M.; Bowman, Michael; Brinton, F.; Bryson, J. H.; Chryst, Drue Young; Chryst, James; Conyngham, Redmond; Cromwell, J.; Deshong, P. M.; Eply, John; Eshleman, Elam Witmer; Fahnestock, William B.; Funk, Amos H.; Gable, Jacob; Haines, Samuel B.; Harbaugh, Henry; Hershey, Benjamin; Jefferies, Thomas; Kennedy, J. P. M.; Landis, Benjamin; Landis, David; Landis, Jesse; Landis, John; Lefever, John; Lehman, John S.; Lindsay, John J.; List, Friedrich; Mathiot, John; Maxwell, Hugh; McCall, H. W.; Mercer, J. Q.; Messersmith, Jacob; Metzler, Christian E.; Michael, J.; Roosevelt, Theodore; Scott, Joseph; Shreiner, Martin; Steele, John F.; Stevens, Enos; Witmer, A. K.; Witmer, Henry; Wylie, S. A.

Subjects: Broadsides; Political posters; Posters

Search Terms: Advertisements; Announcements; Arithmetic; Boys Work Fund; Broadsides; Camons Island; Cheap Job Printer, Lancaster Inquirer; Court of Quarter Sessions; Cromwell & Bomberger; Finding aids; Flyers; Frantz's Mill; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Lancaster Adler; Lancaster County Prison; Lancaster Soil Conservation District; Lancaster Unemployed Council; Lititz Turnpike Company; Manor Turnpike Company; Manuscript groups; Mayors; Mount Vista Gold and Silver Mining Company; New York and Pennsylvania Oil and Coal Mining Company; Newspapers; Notices; Paradise Lyceum; Pennsylvania General Assembly, House of Representatives; Petitions; Philadelphia Mourning Store, Jones & Fisher; Poetry; Political posters; Posters; Programs; Railroads; Reports; Review Print; Russel & Myers; S. B. Cox and Company; Sheriffs; Slackwater Turnpike; Steam Book and Job Printing; Stockholders; Stocks; Tolls; Union and Tribune Office; Youth Appreciation Week

Extent: 2 boxes, 23 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English, German, and Pennsylvania German

Object ID: MG0357

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents 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.

Other Numbers: MG-357

Classification: MG0357

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 3 January 2022.

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Archive

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Collection: McCaa Collection

Title: McCaa Collection

Object ID: MG0281

Date Range: 1825-1922

1 document

Collection: McCaa Collection

Title: McCaa Collection

Description: The McCaa Collection contains the papers of and collected by the family of James McCaa in northeastern Lancaster County. Among the items are account and ledger books, a physician's visiting book, legal papers, deeds, certificates for commissions, receipts, letters, and estate papers.

Date Range: 1825-1922

Year Range From: 1825

Year Range To: 1922

Date of Accumulation: 1825-1922

Creator: McCaa family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Bechard, Philip; Beichey, Abraham; Binney, Horace; Brinton, Edward Penrose; Brooks, E. G.; Brown, Bill; Brumbaugh, Martin G.; Burlingame, Daniel; Cadwalader, John; Cadwalader, Thomas; Compton, George W.; Curtin, Andrew Gregg; Dehaven, Philip; Eberly, A. J.; Eberman, Jacob; Fonts, Martin; Frantz, Joseph; Good, J. J.; Groff, Israel M.; Gundacker, John; Hahl, John N.; Hall, N. Franklin; Hamilton, Andrew; Handwork, George; Hertzler, John; Hohn, Leona J.; Hollinger, Moses; House, N. E.; Jacobs, Harrison B.; Jacobs, William B.; Jenkins, Robert; Johnson, Allen; Johnston, Libbie; Kauffman, S. S.; Kenney, William; Kieffer, Sarah Ann; Kinport, Martin; Kinsers, Saby; Konigmacher, Edwin; Kreider, Isabella; Kurtz, Catharine; Kurtz, Christian; Leaman, George; Lengel, Paul; Levy, William; Groff, Lizzie H.; McCaa, D. Galen; McCaa, David Jenkins; McCaa, James; McCaa, William J.; McGill, I.; McGill, John; Mintzer, Rebecca; Mintzer, William; Nevin, John W.; Packer, William F.; Patts, Clement R.; Robeson, Andrew; Robeson, James J.; Robinson, H. W.; Rohrer, George R.; Royer, George S.; Shurk , Francis R.; Slaymaker, Henry Young; Slaymaker, Stephen Cochran; Smith, Lessie; Snader, A. W.; Sparr, William; Spotts, Jacob; Stephenson, Anna J.; Stoutzenberger, David; Styer, David; Tener, John K.; Trout, Paul; Welch, George; Welch, Ruth Ann; Welsh, George; Welsh, George, Sr.; Wilson, Joseph N.; Winger, Frank; Witman, Amos; Wood, William; Wright, Benjamin

Subjects: Bonds; Business records; Deeds; Invoices; Letters; Mortgages; Probate records; Promissory notes; Real property; Real property surveys--Pennsylvania; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Wills

Search Terms: Bonds; Business records; Churchtown, Caernarvon Twp.; Correspondence; Deeds; Finding aids; Herr and Bowman; Invoices; Land drafts; Legal papers; Letters; Manuscript groups; Margaretta Furnace; Mortgages; New Garden Academy; Probate records; Promissory notes; Real estate; Receipts; Releases; Stauffer and Russell; Wills; Windsor Forge

Extent: 2 boxes, 13 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0281

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Notes: Preferred Citation: McCaa Collection (MG0281), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-281

Other Number: MG-281

Classification: MG0281

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: The volumes in Folder 11-13 were transferred from MG-266 Daybook and Ledger Collection, Series 3 on 5 March 2009.; Added to database 5 October 2017.

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A plan for institutional services for Lancaster county, Pennsylvania : a report to the board of county commissioners of Lancaster county

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Corporate Author: Lancaster County (Pa.) Citizens' Advisory Committee.

Date of Publication: 1961.

Call Number: 352.96 L245ca

Responsibility: by the Citizens' Advisory Committee.

Corporate Author: Lancaster County (Pa.) Citizens' Advisory Committee.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: 1961.

Physical Description: 36 leaves ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Planning.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Planning.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Prisons and reformatories.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Prisons and reformatories.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.96 L245ca

Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-19-01-10

Date Range: circa 1960

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Various County officials lined up to shake hands with a man and woman. Ben Weaver, Commissioner, Brenda Swingler, Clerk of Quarter Sessions, Paul Paes, Register of Wills are the only identifiable officials.

Date Range: circa 1960

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Weaver, Ben; Swingler, Brenda; Paes, Paul

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Register of Wills (Lancaster County); Commissioners; Clerk of Quarter Sessions; Quarter Sessions; Wills

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 8 x 10 inches

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2-19-01-10

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Collection: Farmers' Southern Market House Company Records

Title: Petition, charter, contract

Object ID: MG0534_F002

Date Range: 1887-1935

1 document

Collection: Farmers' Southern Market House Company Records

Title: Petition, charter, contract

Description: Loose papers from the Farmers' Southern Market House Company minute book.; Insert 1 Petition and issue of letters patent for incorporation of Farmers' Southern Market House Company. 1887.; Insert 2 Charter for Farmers' Southern Market House Company. 1887.; Insert 3 Legal document from Farmers' Southern Market House Company presenting the City of Lancaster with the option to purchase the market house. 1926.; Insert 4 Contract between Farmers' Southern Market House Company and the City of Lancaster for the city to lease the market house. 1926.

Date Range: 1887-1935

Creation Date: 1887-1935

Year Range From: 1887

Year Range To: 1935

Creator: Farmers' Southern Market House Company (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 11

Subjects: Business records; Charters; Contracts; Farmers' markets; Petitions

Search Terms: Business records; Charters; Contracts; Farmers' markets; Farmers' Southern Market House; Farmers' Southern Market House Company; Minutes; Petitions

Extent: 4 items

Object Name: Documents

Language: English

Object ID: MG0534_F002

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Farmers' Southern Market House Company Records (MG0534), Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@LancasterHistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. There is no fee for publication.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-534

Other Number: MG-534, Folder 2

Classification: MG0534

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: These items was transferred from MG0266, Daybook and Ledger Collection, Series 5 Municipal Records on 18 March 2009. Added to database 12 March 2022.