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Amish folk tales and other stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16798

Author: Moore, C. Eugene,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Call Number: 301.452 M821

Responsibility: C. Eugene Moore.

ISBN: 9780764338090; 0764338099

Author: Moore, C. Eugene,

Place of Publication: Atglen, Pa

Publisher: Schiffer Pub.,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Physical Description: 128 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents: Amos trades up -- Eilenshpiggel and his shenanigans -- John the blacksmith visits the devil -- Tales tall and taller -- Graven images & the legends that grow around them -- Pennsylvania German humor -- A true ghost story.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch - Folklore.; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Folklore.; Folklore - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Amish - Folklore.; Folklore - Lancaster County (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 301.452 M821

The heart of the Taufschein : Fraktur and the pivotal role of Berks County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Earnest, Corinne P.

Date of Publication: 2012.

Call Number: 745 E12

Alternate Title: Fraktur and the pivotal role of Berks County, Pennsylvania

Responsibility: Corinne Earnest and Russell Earnest.

ISBN: 9780911122633; 091112263X

Author: Earnest, Corinne P.

Place of Publication: Kutztown, Pa

Publisher: Published by the Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 2012.

Physical Description: ix, 302 p. : col. ill., facsims., maps ; 29 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; ser. 2, v. 46

Notes: Illustrated lining papers.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 285) and indexes.

Contents: Berks County: the center of it all -- Daniel Schumacher: a Fraktur artist of some note -- Henrich Otto, 1784 -- Friederich Krebs, August 4, 1790 -- Johann Valentin Schuller -- The greatest development of Fraktur writing, 1800-1835 -- Johann Ritter: a century of influence -- Conclusion: The last flickering -- Appendix 1. Fraktur artist who routinely made Taussscheine for Berks County families -- Appendix 2. Scriveners who routinely infilled Taussscheine for Berks County families -- Appendix 3. Berks Couny printers of Taussscheine in order by active dates -- Appendix 4. Translations.

Subjects: Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Illumination of books and manuscripts - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Folk art - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Berks County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Earnest, Russell D.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania-German Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745 E12

Brecknock : early history and biographical annals of Brecknock Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Goodling, Evans C.

Date of Publication: c2014.

Call Number: 974.816 G652b

Alternate Title: Early history and biographical annals of Brecknock Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Responsibility: by Evans C. Goodling, Jr.

Author: Goodling, Evans C.

Place of Publication: Wyomissing, PA

Publisher: Evans C. Goodling, Jr.,

Date of Publication: c2014.

Physical Description: 2 v. : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Summary: In Part 1, Goodling writes a concise history with illustrations from the township's earliest days to the end of the 19th century. It lists churches and schools, post offices, trades and businesses and the military. Part II is a genealogical and biographical record of all families living in the township and nearby areas at the time of the 1860 U.S. Census. Supplement Part 1 describes the churches of the township and appendices. Supplement Part 2 contiues the appendices.

Subjects: Berks County (Pa.) - Biography.; Berks County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Biography.; Genealogy.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 G652b

A new nation of goods : the material culture of early America

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Author: Jaffee, David.

Date of Publication: 2010.

Call Number: 974 J23

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Responsibility: David Jaffee.

ISBN: 9780812242577 (hardcover : acidfree paper); 0812242572 (hardcover : acid-free paper); 9780812222005 (pbk.); 0812222008 (pbk.)

Author: Jaffee, David.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication: 2010.

Physical Description: xv, 400 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Series: Early American studies

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-377) and index.

Contents: Painters and patrons -- The village enlightenment -- Cosmopolitan communities -- Itinerants and inventors -- A tale of two chairmaking towns -- Provincial portraits -- Daguerreotypes : the industrial image.

Summary: In the middle of the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans embraced a new culture of domestic consumption, one that centered on chairs and clocks as well as family portraits and books. How did that new world of goods, represented by Victorian parlors filled with overstuffed furniture and daguerreotype portraits, come into being? This work highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States, chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing, to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture. As a whole, the book proposes an innovative analysis of early nineteenth century industrialization and the development of a middle class consumer culture. It relies on many of the objects beloved by decorative arts scholars and collectors to evoke the vitality of village craft production and culture in the decades after the War of Independence. It grounds its broad narrative of cultural change in case studies of artisans, consumers, and specific artifacts. Each chapter opens with an "object lesson" and weaves an object-based analysis together with the richness of individual lives. The path that such craftspeople and consumers took was not inevitable; on the contrary, as the author, a historian demonstrates, it was strewn with alternative outcomes, such as decentralized production with specialized makers. The book offers a collective biography of the post-Revolutionary generation, gathering together the case studies of producers and consumers who embraced these changes, those who opposed them, or, most significantly, those who fashioned the myriad small changes that coalesced into a new Victorian cultural order that none of them had envisioned or entirely appreciated.

Subjects: Material culture - Connecticut River Valley; Artisans - Connecticut River Valley; Villages - Connecticut River Valley; Social change - Connecticut River Valley; Community life - Connecticut River Valley; Industrialization - Connecticut River Valley; Middle class - Connecticut River Valley; Consumption (Economics) - Connecticut River Valley; Connecticut River Valley - Social life and customs - 19th century.; Connecticut River Valley - Social conditions - 19th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974 J23

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A history of Salem Lutheran Church with people and places of Kissel Hill, Warwick Township, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, 1823-2018

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Author: Patches, Joan Habecker

Date of Publication: Â©2018.

Call Number: 284.1 P294

Responsibility: by Joan Habecker Patches.

Author: Patches, Joan Habecker

Place of Publication: Brownstown, ,:Pa

Publisher: Steffy Printing, Inc.,

Date of Publication: Â©2018.

Physical Description: 138 pages: photographs ; 28 cm.

Notes: Contains bibliography.

Contents: Contains various documents pertaining to the founding and administration of the church ; names on the Honor Roll, lists of pastors, and errata sheet.

Subjects: Salem Lutheran Church (Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania); Salem Church (Warwick, Lancaster County, Pa.); Salem Reformed Church (Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Warwkick (Lancaster County: Township); Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County: Township); German Americans - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County: Township) - Genealogy.; Lutherans - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County: Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 284.1 P294

Scrapbook

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7a49ab2d-b548-4a6f-bb71-092927140260

Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: James Buchanan Memorial, 1902-1915

Object ID: MG0434_B022

Date Range: 1902-1015

. Floods -- Susquehanna River. Floods -- Pennsylvania. Trolley cars. Scrapbooks. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Lancaster County (Pa.) -- History, local. Lancaster (Pa.) Administrative/Biographical History: James Buchanan James Buchanan was born in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania on 23 April 1791. He graduated

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Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: James Buchanan Memorial, 1902-1915

Description: James Buchanan Memorial, 1902-1915. Although James Buchanan is the subject; his Freemasonry is the focus of this scrapbook. The book contains information on the Masonic Home in Elizabethtown and Wheatland in Lancaster. The people mentioned in the scrapbook are H. T. Albert, William Uhler Hensel, and Jacob Hay Brown.

Admin/Biographical History: James Buchanan was born on April 23, 1791 to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Speer. He was the second child born out of ten children, and he would go on to outlive all but one of his siblings. Most popularly remembered as Pennsylvania's only President and as a lifelong bachelor, Buchanan committed a lifetime to politics. In 1821, he left his law practice and embarked on his political career after having been voted into the U.S. House of Representatives. He would remain in the House for five consecutive terms before serving as the U.S. Minister to Russia, a Senator in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Secretary of State, the U.S. Minister to Great Britain, and finally, the 15th President of the United States. He died in his bedchamber at Wheatland at 8:30 AM on June 1, 1868. He was 77 years old.

Date Range: 1902-1015

Creation Date: 1902-1915

Year Range From: 1902

Year Range To: 1915

Creator: Unknown

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 22

People: Buchanan, James; Hensel, William Uhler; Albert, H. T.; Brown, Jacob Hay

Subjects: Masonic Homes (Elizabethtown, Pa.); Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Freemasons; Floods--Susquehanna River; Floods--Pennsylvania; Trolley cars; Scrapbooks; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Lancaster County (Pa.)--History, local; Lancaster (Pa.)

Search Terms: James Buchanan; James Buchanan Presidential Library; Wheatland; Historic houses; Freemasons; Scrapbooks; Newspaper clippings; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Masonic Homes; Floods; Masonic Villages

Extent: 1 volume, 87 scans

Object Name: Scrapbook

Language: English

Object ID: MG0434_B022

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries, https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers (JBFP); Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm in the LancasterHistory Research Library; LancasterHistory Library collection; Photograph collection; Curatorial collection; Wheatland Mansion

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Numbers: MG-0434, Box 022

Other Number: MG-0434, Box 022

Classification: MG0434

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Digitization of the James Buchanan Collection was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.; This scrapbook was cataloged as part of a project funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, ME60112, 2007-2008.

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The hanging of Susanna Cox : the true story of Pennsylvania's most notorious infanticide & the legend that's kept it alive

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Author: Suter, Patricia.

Date of Publication: c2010.

Call Number: 364.152 S965

Responsibility: Patricia Earnest Suter and Russell and Corinne Earnest ; foreword by Don Yoder.

ISBN: 9780811705608 (hardcover); 0811705609 (hardcover)

Author: Suter, Patricia.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: c2010.

Physical Description: xii, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Prologue: the Kutztown Folk Festival -- Reading and the Oley Valley -- Fingers of guilt -- Middling stiff -- When law and humanity had but faint connection -- Twelve honest men -- A distraction from grim tidings -- As innocent as a child -- The last melancholy resource -- Ten o'clock to two o'clock and fifty minutes -- Slinking off anonymously -- A last hope -- Seduced by the devil -- Confession -- I poor wretch -- A final jolt -- Peace be to her -- The printers of Exeter Township -- The sad, sad song of Susanna Cox -- Advice from the dead to the living -- Her exit--infamy -- Epilogue: back to the festival.

Summary: The unfortunate Susanna Cox gained notoriety for killing her illegitimate infant son. The fatal episode led to her hanging in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1809, the last public execution of a woman in the commonwealth. But was Susanna really the culprit? The legend of her fate, repeated in Pennsylvania German broadsides by the generations that followed, suggests she herself was a victim. Now, in this first full-length investigation into the tragedy, new evidence reveals some startling facts about how indifference, an undeveloped court system, and the inexact science of nineteenth-century forensics combined to determine Susanna's tragic fate. A full look at how Susanna's "sad song" became romanticized through broadside ballads follows, complete with illustrations.

Subjects: Cox, Susanna, - d. 1809.; Filicide - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Unmarried mothers - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Women murderers - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Berks County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Earnest, Russell D.; Earnest, Corinne P.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 364.152 S965

Hannes Eby death and burial record : life and death in Old Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1806-1845

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17397

Author: Eby, Johannes,

Date of Publication: 2012.

Call Number: 929 E16w

Responsibility: translated by Carolyn C. Wenger ; annotated by Denise Witwer Lahr.

ISBN: 1884732089; 9781884732089

Author: Eby, Johannes,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 2012.

Physical Description: 272 p. : ill., facsims. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Series: Mennonite sources and documents ; no. 7

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index.

Subjects: Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Wenger, Carolyn Charles,; Lahr, Denise Witwer,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 E16w

Annals of the Oley Valley in Berks County, Pa. : Over two hundred years of local history of an American Canaan

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21219

Author: Croll, P. C.

Date of Publication: 2010.

Call Number: 974.816 C879

Responsibility: by Rev. P. C. Croll.

Author: Croll, P. C.

Place of Publication: Morgantown, Pa

Publisher: Masthof Press,

Date of Publication: 2010.

Physical Description: 148 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes an index.

Summary: "Pastor Croll was an accomplished historian and obviously made use of the best available sources for his text...he discovered, in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,...the first history of Oley, the lengthy manuscript entitled 'Fragment of the past history of Oley', by Dr. Peter G. Bertolet...This was based largely on interviews with Oley Valley residents, many of whom were born in the 18th century....After several competent historical chapters on the settlement and early religious patterns and conflicts in the Valley, Pastor Croll concentrates on some of the major families of Oley." [forward]

Subjects: Leinbach family.; Griesemer family.; DeBenneville family.; Herbein family.; Hoch family.; Udree family.; Hunter family.; Lesher family.; Kauffman family.; Yoder family.; Guldin family.; Keim family.; Levan family.; DeTurck family.; Bertolet family.; Lincoln family.; Fisher family.; Boone family.; Baumann family.; Berks County (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 974.816 C879

Shenk family history : 300 year story

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16481

Author: Shenk, John S.

Date of Publication: c2010.

Call Number: 929 S548

Responsibility: by John S. Shenk, II.

Author: Shenk, John S.

Place of Publication: Morgantown, Pa

Publisher: Masthof Press,

Date of Publication: c2010.

Physical Description: 108 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), coat of arms, maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Sequel to: The path of faith, a 300 year heritage, 2002.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 108) and index.

Contents: Present-day Shenk heritage listings -- Early history of the Shenk family and name -- The "Shenk" name in early European history before 1500: Religious reform beginnings in Europe, 1450-1550 ; Early Shenk Swiss ancestors -- The Shenks in America: Basis of the research ; The Shenk descendants arrive in American ; The immigrants settle in Pennsylvania ; Life in the new world -- An organized look at Michael Shenk's descendants in America: Christian Shenk's descendants ; Hans Shenk's descendants ; Barbara Shenk's descendants ; Michael Shenk's descendants -- The first four generations in America: location of the Shenk ancestors -- A summary of the Shenk families at the end of the fourth generation -- Display of Shenk homes built or lived in after the first four generations.

Summary: "This book covers the first 4 generations of the Shenk family as it moved out from the Pequea settlement in 1717. It includes pictures of over 20 Shenk historical houses built by their descendants along with present day Shenk families and their stories"--Cover, p. [1].

Subjects: Schenk family.; Schenk family - Homes and haunts.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.; Eggiwil (Switzerland) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 S548

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Amish folk tales and other stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16798

The heart of the Taufschein : Fraktur and the pivotal role of Berks County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16922

Brecknock : early history and biographical annals of Brecknock Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19880

A new nation of goods : the material culture of early America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17400

Websites

A history of Salem Lutheran Church with people and places of Kissel Hill, Warwick Township, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, 1823-2018

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22343

Scrapbook

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7a49ab2d-b548-4a6f-bb71-092927140260

Documents

The hanging of Susanna Cox : the true story of Pennsylvania's most notorious infanticide & the legend that's kept it alive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18407

Hannes Eby death and burial record : life and death in Old Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1806-1845

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17397

Annals of the Oley Valley in Berks County, Pa. : Over two hundred years of local history of an American Canaan

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21219

Shenk family history : 300 year story

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16481