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Centennial history of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1846-1946

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8724

Author: Burgess, George H.

Date of Publication: 1949.

Call Number: 385 B955

Responsibility: by George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy ; with a foreword by Martin W. Clement.

Author: Burgess, George H.

Place of Publication: Philadephia

Publisher: Pennsylvania Railroad Co,

Date of Publication: 1949.

Physical Description: xxvi, 835 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., maps (1 folded), ports. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad - History.; Railroads - United States

Additional Author: Kennedy, Miles C.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 385 B955

Geologic notes on the Pequea Silver Mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : A brief history of the Pequea Silver Mine Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3932

Author: Foose, Richard Martin,

Date of Publication: 1947.

Call Number: 550 F686

Responsibility: Richard M. Foose.

Author: Foose, Richard Martin,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa. : Franklin and Marshall College

Date of Publication: 1947.

Physical Description: [13 p] ; 25 cm.

Notes: From the proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science : Vol. XXL, 1947.; Includes index.

Summary: Refers to several mines in a half mile square area in Lancaster County marked by Pequea Creek in the south, Silver Mine Run in the east , and an unnamed tributary to Pequea Creek to the west.

Subjects: Geology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mines and mineral resources - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Silver mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Price, John W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 550 F686

Simon Cameron's adventure in iron, 1837-1846; new biographical material including an account of the formation and dissolution of a partnership of Simon Cameron, S.F. Headley, Samuel Humes, and Thomas McNair for the manufacture and sale of iron (principally to what is now the Pennsylvania Railroad) and its political connotations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1052

Author: McNair, James Birtley,

Date of Publication: [1949]

Call Number: 923.2 C182m

Author: McNair, James Birtley,

Place of Publication: Los Angeles, Calif

Date of Publication: [1949]

Physical Description: xi, 160 p. plates, port. 23 cm.

Notes: "A limited numbered edition of 500 copies."; Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [111]-156)

Subjects: Cameron, Simon, - 1799-1889.; Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 C182m

My Pennsylvania : a brief history of the Commonwealth's sixty-seven counties

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3444

Date of Publication: 1946.

Call Number: 974.8009 P415 Oversize

Responsibility: prepared and produced by the state Department of Commerce ... [et al.].

Place of Publication: [Harrisburg?]

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: 1946.

Physical Description: 165 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Notes: Colored pictorial maps on end-papers.; "The governors and chief executives of Pennsylvania": p. [143]-157.; Bibliography: p. 165.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.; Pennsylvania - History, Local.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Commerce.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8009 P415 Oversize

The Pennsylvania Dutch and their cookery : their history, art, accomplishments, also a broad collection of their food recipes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16611

Author: Frederick, J. George

Date of Publication: 1946, c1935

Call Number: 641.5 F852 1946

Responsibility: by J. George Frederick.

Author: Frederick, J. George

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Business Bourse,

Date of Publication: 1946, c1935

Physical Description: 275 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Includes index to recipes.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-85).

Contents: I. The Old-World background of the Pennsylvania Dutch -- II. Regional cookery and the Pennsylvania Dutch.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Art, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Cookery, American - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 641.5 F852 1946

Meet the Amish; a pictorial study of the Amish people

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3278

Author: Rice, Charles Scott,

Date of Publication: [1947]

Call Number: 289.71 R495

Responsibility: by Charles S. Rice & John B. Shenk.

Author: Rice, Charles Scott,

Place of Publication: New Brunswick

Publisher: Rutgers Univ. Press

Date of Publication: [1947]

Physical Description: 21, [96] p. illus. 28 cm.

Subjects: Mennonites - Pennsylvania.

Additional Author: Shenk, John Baker,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.71 R495

A history of the Historical society of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3064

Author: Carson, Hampton L.

Date of Publication: 1940.

Call Number: 974.80069 P415h

Responsibility: by Hampton L. Carson.

Author: Carson, Hampton L.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Published by the Society under the special centennial publication fund,

Date of Publication: 1940.

Physical Description: 2 v. fronts., plates, ports., facsims. 25 cm.

Notes: Bibliographical foot-notes.

Subjects: Historical Society of Pennsylvania - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80069 P415h

A history of Friends in Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1238

Author: Whitely, Paul L.

Date of Publication: 1947

New Castle, Penn immediately went to Upland (Chester), where even prior to 1663, Friends, in search for a congenial religious atmosphere, had settled among the Swedes. There had been Friends who migrated to America prior to the time of Quaker settlements in Pennsylvania, many of whom did not fare as

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Responsibility: by Paul L. Whitely.

Author: Whitely, Paul L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1947

Physical Description: [1]-33 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 1

Subjects: Fox, George, - 1624-1691.; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Underground railroad - Pennsylvania.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 1 (1947), p. 1-33Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51

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The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8227

Author: Mercer, Henry Chapman,

Edition: Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.

Date of Publication: 1941.

Call Number: 749 D754 1914; 749 M554

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Author: Mercer, Henry Chapman,

Edition: Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.

Place of Publication: Doylestown, Pa

Publisher: Bucks County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1941.

Physical Description: [6] 216 p. : plates, port. ;

Notes: Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870); Bibliography: p. 206-208.

Contents: Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves

Summary: Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.

Subjects: Stoves.; Stove-plates.; Christian art and symbolism.; Germans - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 749 D754 1914; 749 M554

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The history of the Lancaster conference of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states, together with the histories of its congregations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13064

Corporate Author: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Conference. Lancaster.

Date of Publication: 1942.

Call Number: 284.1 L973

Corporate Author: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Conference. Lancaster.

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: Pub. by the Conference,

Date of Publication: 1942.

Physical Description: xi p., 1 Î²., 397 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 24 cm.

Notes: Includes history of congregations by parishes.

Subjects: Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania.; Church buildings - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 284.1 L973

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