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Harry B. Baughey presents the Acappella Male Chorus of East Petersburg, Pennsylvania, in a song cycle of God's love : "music refreshes the soul"

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18198
Corporate Author
Acappella Male Chorus.
Date of Publication
1941]
Call Number
782.8 A168
Alternate Title
Acappella Male Chorus of East Petersburg, Pennsylvania
Eighth annual songfest booklet
Responsibility
Herbert R. Howells, gospel song leader.
Corporate Author
Acappella Male Chorus.
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1941]
Physical Description
[2], 34 p. : ill., music, ports. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Program for concert held September 7, 1941, at Landisville Camp Grove, to benefit Christ's Home (for children), Paradise, Pa. and Water Street Rescue Mission, Lancaster, Pa.
"While the printing of these booklets was in progress the State Health Authorities requested that all public gatherings be suspended due to the spread of infantile paralysis."
Subjects
Acappella Male Chorus.
Men's choral societies - Pennsylvania - East Petersburg.
Concert programs - Pennsylvania - East Petersburg.
Additional Author
Baughey, Harry B.
Howells, Herbert R.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
782.8 A168
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Hydroelectric power development of the Susquehanna River

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14720
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Water & Power Company .
Date of Publication
1949.
Call Number
621.2 P387h
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Water & Power Company .
Place of Publication
Holtwood, Pa
Publisher
The Company ,
Date of Publication
1949.
Physical Description
47 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Subjects
Water resources development - Holtwood.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
621.2 P387h
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History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4508
Author
Jones, U. J.
Date of Publication
c1940]
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
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Responsibility
By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...
Author
Jones, U. J.
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
The Telegraph Press,
Date of Publication
c1940]
Physical Description
440 p. incl. illus., plates, front. 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining-papers.
First edition published at Philadelphia, 1856.
Appendix, prepared by William H. Egle (including a biographical sketch of U. J. Jones and The Pattersons of Juniata): p. [351]-421.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Egle, William Henry,
Hoenstine, Floyd G.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
Websites
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The Lords Baltimore; contemporary portraits of the founder and the five proprietaries of Maryland, now the possession of the people of Maryland through the initiative and generosity of Dr. Hugh Hampton Young, who presented five of these paintings

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7402
Corporate Author
Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Date of Publication
[1942]
Call Number
975.2 B197
Corporate Author
Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
The Enoch Pratt free library
Date of Publication
[1942]
Physical Description
1 p. l., 13, [1] p. illus. (map) pl., ports., facsim. 22 cm.
Notes
"Text by James W. Foster and Beta K. Manakee."
Subjects
Calvert family.
Maryland - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Additional Author
Foster, James W.,
Manakee, Beta Ennis Kaessmann.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
975.2 B197
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The long crooked river (the Susquehanna)

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Author
Myers, Richmond E.
Date of Publication
[1949]
Call Number
974.80091 M995
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Author
Myers, Richmond E.
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Christopher Pub. House
Date of Publication
[1949]
Physical Description
380 p. maps. 20 cm.
Notes
"Suggested readings": p. 370-375.
Contents
Chapters: The river in retrospect -- Geologist's river -- Indian's river -- Trader's river -- Missionary's River -- Soldier's river -- Refugee's river -- Boatman's river -- Lumberman's river -- Ironmaster's river -- Anthracite's river -- Farmer's river -- Rebel's River,almost -- Politician's river -- Culture's river -- New York's river part 1 -- New york's river part 2 -- Maryland's river.
Subjects
Susquehanna River.
Susquehanna River Valley - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80091 M995
Websites
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The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2483
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
533.6 B639
Responsibility
by Jean Pierre Blanchard.
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
Notes
"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59.
Subjects
Balloon ascensions.
Additional Author
Frey, Carroll,
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
533.6 B639
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Family records : mostly of three distinct groups and descendants of Joseph, David and Henry Bauman, who settled as pioneers in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, up to the year 1825 : each representing one of the three tribes of Christian, Peter and Jacob, respectively, who are children of the old progenitor Wendel Bauman : also an extensive history of family lineages of the early ancestors

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18595
Author
Bauman, Angus Spaeth,
Date of Publication
1940]
Call Number
929 B348
Author
Bauman, Angus Spaeth,
Place of Publication
[Wallenstein, Ont
Publisher
A. S. Bauman,
Date of Publication
1940]
Physical Description
201 p.
Notes
Cover title: Bauman family history.
Subjects
Bowman family.
Ontario - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 B348
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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 β., 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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Secret history of the American revolution, an account of the conspiracies of Benedict Arnold and numerous others, drawn from the Secret service papers of the British headquarters in North America, now for the first time examined and made public

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5621
Author
Van Doren, Carl,
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
973.381 V246
Responsibility
by Carl Van Doren.
Author
Van Doren, Carl,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
The Viking press,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
3 p. l., [v]-xiv p., 2 l., [3]-534 p. illus. (map) ports., facsims. 24 cm.
Notes
Based largely on the Clinton papers in the William L. Clements library at the University of Michigan. Other sources cited are the Washington papers and the Papers of the Continental Congress at the Library of Congress. cf. Pref.
"This first edition is limited to five hundred ninety numbered copies signed by the author." This copy not numbered.
"Appendix ... Arnold-André correspondence [and] Clinton's narrative": p. [437]-495.
"General bibliography": p. [496]-499. "Chapter references": p. [500]-512.
Subjects
Arnold, Benedict, - 1741-1801.
Treason - United States.
Secret service - Great Britain.
United States. - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Additional Author
Clinton, Henry,
André, John,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.381 V246
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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
Websites
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