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Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans; a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15086
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Revised Edition.
Date of Publication
1939.
Call Number
437.9748 A927 Rev
Responsibility
by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Revised Edition.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Privately printed : The Aurand press,
Date of Publication
1939.
Physical Description
32 pages 22 cm
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Pennsylvania German dialect - Glossaries, vacabularies, etc.
English language - Pennsylvania - Glossaries, vacabularies, etc.
English language - Pennsylvania - Humor.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutch - Humor.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 A927 Rev
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Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans : a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15323
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
6th printing.
Date of Publication
c1939.
Call Number
437.9748 A927 6th
Responsibility
by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
6th printing.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Privately Printed : the Aurand Press,
Date of Publication
c1939.
Physical Description
32 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Title says 6th Edition.
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect
Pennsylvania German dialect - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language - Pennsylvania - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language - Pennsylvania - Humor.
Pennsylvania Dutch - Humor.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 A927 6th
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The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4506
Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Date of Publication
1929.
Call Number
974.8011 S618w
Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
The Telegraph Press,
Date of Publication
1929.
Physical Description
793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.
Notes
Tail-pieces.
"Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]
"Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.
"Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.
"List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.
Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America
Fortification - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania - Historic houses, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 S618w
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A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3062
Author
Archambault, Anna Margaretta,
Date of Publication
1924.
Call Number
974.80074 P415
Author
Archambault, Anna Margaretta,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
The John C. Winston Co.,
Date of Publication
1924.
Physical Description
509 p. illus., maps, plates, ports. 23 cm.
Notes
LCHS copy limited ed. no. 691.
Subjects
Art - Pennsylvania.
Architecture - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Guidebooks.
Pennsylvania - Historic houses, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80074 P415
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An historical and geographical account of the province and country of Pensilvania in America : the richness of the soil, the sweetness of the situation ... the first planters, the Dutch, Sweeds, and English with the number of its inhabitants : as also a touch upon George Keith's new religion, in his second change since he left the Quakers : with a map

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3799
Author
Thomas, Gabriel.
Edition
Enl. and repr.
Date of Publication
1938.
Call Number
974.801 T456
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Gabriel Thomas ; edited, with copious notes, &c. by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.
Author
Thomas, Gabriel.
Edition
Enl. and repr.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Aurand Press,
Date of Publication
1938.
Physical Description
32 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Notes
Originally published: London : A. Baldwin, 1698. Reprinted at the Aurand Press, 1935.
Cover title: History of Pensilvania, published in London in 1698.
"Privately printed for the editor and his friends".
Filmed with: Good order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey / by Thomas Budd. Cleveland : Burrows Co., 1902.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.801 T456
Websites
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Pennsylvania German and Huguenot antiques; a list of articles giving Pennsylvania "Dutch" and English names and uses as employed by ancestors of many living folk

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6928
Author
Stephen, Walker Lewis.
Edition
2d ed.,
Date of Publication
c1925.
Call Number
427.9 S829
Responsibility
Compiled as a reference for antiquarians and collectors of elaborate and crude antiques for Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman Pennsylvania Historical commission by Walker Lewis Stephen, PH. G.
Author
Stephen, Walker Lewis.
Edition
2d ed.,
Place of Publication
Reading, Pa
Publisher
Reading eagle press,
Date of Publication
c1925.
Physical Description
32 p. illus. 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania folk-lore society. Publications, v. 1, no. 1
Notes
"Origin of the Pennsylvania Germans and his language, by Walker Lewis Stephen": p. 30-32.
"Compiled as a Reference for Antquarians and Collectors of Elaborate and Crude Antiques."
LCHS has photocopy of original.
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Shoemaker, Henry Wharton,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
427.9 S829
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The Indian chiefs of Pennsylvania, or, A story of the part played by the American Indian in the history of Pennsylvania : based primarily on the Pennsylvania archives and colonial records, and built around the outstanding chiefs

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4199
Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Date of Publication
c1927.
Call Number
974.8011 S618c
Responsibility
by C. Hale Sipe ; with an introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo.
Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Place of Publication
Butler, Pa
Publisher
Ziegler Print. Co., Inc.,
Date of Publication
c1927.
Physical Description
569 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes information on the Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians, Delaware Indians, Conoy Indians, Shawnee Indians and Shikellamy (Indian chief).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 S618c
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Marking the historic sites of Early Pennsylvania Fourth report of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3060
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical Commission.
Date of Publication
1926
Call Number
974.80074 H673
Responsibility
By Pennsylvania Historical Commission
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical Commission.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical Commission
Date of Publication
1926
Physical Description
88p b ill. 17 cm.
Subjects
Historical markers
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania.
Historic monuments - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Societies, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80074 H673
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Stories of Pennsylvania, 1616-1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2158
Author
Singmaster, Elsie
Date of Publication
c1937-1940.
Call Number
813.52 S428
823.52 S428
Responsibility
by Elsie Singmaster ; illustrations by Alden Turner.
Author
Singmaster, Elsie
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Book Service,
Date of Publication
c1937-1940.
Physical Description
4 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Illustrated lining papers.
v.2 includes juvenile stories of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Cresap, Conrad Weiser, Daniel Boone, Henry William Stiegel, Martyr's Mirror and John Fitch.
v. 2 with orginal paper cover and signataure of author.
Contents
v. 1. 1616-1781 -- v. 2. 1723-1797 -- v. 3. 1787-1830 -- v. 4. 1835-1860.
Subjects
Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - History - Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania - History - Juvenile fiction
Juvenile works.
Additional Author
Turner, Alden.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.52 S428
823.52 S428
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White servitude in Pennsylvania: Indentured and redemption labor in colony and commonwealth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3416
Author
Herrick, Cheesman Abiah,
Date of Publication
1926.
Call Number
331.62 G566
Responsibility
by Cheesman A. Herrick.
Author
Herrick, Cheesman Abiah,
Place of Publication
Philadephia
Publisher
J.J. McVey,
Date of Publication
1926.
Physical Description
330 p.
Notes
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Women household employees - Pennsylvania.
Indentured servants - Pennsylvania.
Redemptioners - Pennsylvania.
Domestics - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Emigration and immigration.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
331.62 G566
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