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German immigrants in America as presented in travel accounts

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Author: Farrior, Stephanie

Call Number: 905.748 PDF v.26

Responsibility: by Stephanie Farrior.

Author: Farrior, Stephanie

Physical Description: 42-48 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Folklife, v.26, #2, Fall 1976-Summer 1977.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania - Description and travel - 17th century.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel - 18th century.; United States - Description and travel - 17th century.; United States - Description and travel - 18th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PDF v.26

Damn Dutch : Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg

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Author: Valuska, David L.,

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2004.

Call Number: 973.7349 V215

Responsibility: David L. Valuska and Christian B. Keller ; foreword by Don Yoder.

ISBN: 0811700747 (pbk.)

Author: Valuska, David L.,

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2004.

Physical Description: xix, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-231) and index.

Contents: Two German immigrations and ethnic identity on the eve of the Civil War / Christian B. Keller -- German-Americans and the war up to Gettysburg / Martin Oefele -- The Pennsylvania Dutch as first defenders / David L. Valuska -- The Pennsylvania Dutch and "the hard hand of war" / Christian B. Keller -- The campaign and battle of Gettysburg / Scott Hartwig -- "Fight with what is left" / David L. Valuska -- Pennsylvania's German-Americans, a popular myth, and the importance of perception / Christian B. Keller -- The Pennsylvania Dutch fight for "old Dutch Pennsylvania" / David L. Valuska -- After Gettysburg / Christian B. Keller and David L. Valuska.

Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - German Americans.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - German Americans.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories.

Additional Author: Keller, Christian B.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7349 V215

Pennsylvania German fraktur and printed broadsides : a guide to the collections in the Library of Congress

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Corporate Author: Library of Congress.

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 740 P415L

Responsibility: compiled by Paul Conner [sic] & Jill Roberts for the American Folklife Center ; introduction by Don Yoder.

ISBN: 0844406007

Corporate Author: Library of Congress.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Library of Congresss : For sale by the American Folklife Center,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Series: Publications of the American Folklife Center ;

Notes: Includes indexes.; Bibliography: p. 46-47.

Subjects: Library of Congress - Catalogs.; Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch; Broadsides - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Additional Author: Connor, Paul.; Roberts, Jill.

Additional Corporate Author: American Folklife Center.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 740 P415L

The domestic life and characteristics of the Pennsylvania-German pioneer : a narrative and critical history ; prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German Society

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Author: Schantz, F. J. F.

Date of Publication: 1900.

Call Number: 390 S299

Responsibility: by F.J.F. Schantz.

Author: Schantz, F. J. F.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [New Era Printing Co.],

Date of Publication: 1900.

Physical Description: 95 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Also found in Pennsylvania German Society, v.10.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania-German Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 390 S299

The Conestoga Wagon : a Pennsylvania German product

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Author: Frey, Howard C.,

Date of Publication: 1947

fittings that were essential to a wagoner's outfit. It was not an uncommon thing for the old blacksmiths of the road who �were mostly Pennsylvania German, to work all night at shoeing horses and repairing wagons. The blacksmith worked while the teamsters slept. The ring of the anvil at twilight served as a

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Responsibility: by H. C. Frey.

Author: Frey, Howard C.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1947

Physical Description: [61]-[92] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 3

Subjects: Blacksmithing.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Carriages and carts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Ironwork.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 3 (1947), p. 61-92Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51

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Discovering American folklife : essays on folk culture and the Pennsylvania Dutch

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Author: Yoder, Don.

Edition: 1st Stackpole Books ed.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 306.40973 Y54

Alternate Title: American folklife

Responsibility: by Don Yoder ; with a foreword by Henry Glassie.

ISBN: 0811727432 (pbk.)

Author: Yoder, Don.

Edition: 1st Stackpole Books ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: xiii, 314 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1990.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-302] and index.

Summary: The essays cover folk religion, folk medicine, sectarian costume, traditional cookery, and the folklife of the Pennsylvania Dutch, specifically Harvest Home, witch tales, Fraktur, and sauerkraut for New Year.

Subjects: Material culture - United States.; Folklore - United States.; Pennsylvania Dutch; United States - Social life and customs.; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 306.40973 Y54

To the latest posterity : Pennsylvania-German family registers in the Fraktur tradition

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Author: Earnest, Corinne P.

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 740 E12t

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Responsibility: Corinne and Russell Earnest.

ISBN: 0271023686 (alk. paper)

Author: Earnest, Corinne P.

Place of Publication: University Park

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: xxi, 153 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 37. Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 4

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Pennsylvania Dutch

Additional Author: Earnest, Russell D.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 740 E12t

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A farm in Germantown: Charles Eberle's diary 1828-1836

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Author: Eberle, Charles,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Call Number: 929 E16f

Responsibility: transcribed and edited by Jan Lundy and Judith Callard.

Author: Eberle, Charles,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, PA

Publisher: Published by The Germantown Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Physical Description: 314 p. : ill. , 2011.

Notes: Includes index.; Charles Louis Eberle was born in Dalheim,Germany, in 1766. He took up the family trade of making cutlery and surgical instruments. He emigrated to America in 1794 and continued in his trade. He first lived in Philadelphia and later moved to New York state where he took up farming. He moved again to Germantown,PA, to help his son who was farming and operating a store. A daughter lived in Lancaster County,PA.

Subjects: Eberle family.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Germantown, Pa., - History - Personal narratives.; Diaries.

Additional Author: Lundy, Jan; Callard, Judith

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 E16f

Genealogical data relating to the German settlers of Pennsylvania and adjacent territory : from advertisements in German newspapers published in Philadelphia and Germantown, 1743-1800

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Author: Hocker, Edward W.,

Date of Publication: 1980.

Call Number: 929.3 H685

Responsibility: by Edward W. Hocker ; indexed by Thomas L. Hollowak.

ISBN: 0806308788

Author: Hocker, Edward W.,

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1980.

Physical Description: 242 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Separate index for Lancaster County connections classed as Ref. 929.3 H685d.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 H685

Bibliography on the colonial Germans of North America : especially the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants

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Author: Meynen, Emil,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 974.8002 M612

Responsibility: compiled and edited by Emil Meynen.

Author: Meynen, Emil,

Uniform Title: Bibliographie des Deutschtums der kolonialzeitlichen Einwanderung in Nordamerika

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: xxi, 636 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: English and German.; Reprint. Originally published: Bibliographie des Deutschtums der kolonialzeitlichen Einwanderung in Nordamerika. Leipzig : O. Harassowitz, 1937.; Includes indexes.

Subjects: German Americans; Pennsylvania Dutch; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Bibliography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8002 M612

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