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Two centuries of Reading, Pa., 1748-1948; a history of the county seat of Berks County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4731

Author: Albright, Raymond Wolf,

Edition: [Official bicentennial ed.]

Date of Publication: 1948.

Call Number: 974.816 R287a

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Author: Albright, Raymond Wolf,

Edition: [Official bicentennial ed.]

Place of Publication: Reading

Publisher: Historical Society of Berks County,

Date of Publication: 1948.

Physical Description: xi, 307 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. [299]-301.

Subjects: Reading (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 R287a

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Southeastern Pennsylvania, a history of the counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia and Schuylkill

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3801

Author: Nolan, J. Bennett

Date of Publication: [1943]

Call Number: 974.800912 N791

Responsibility: J. Bennett Nolan, supervising editor ...

Author: Nolan, J. Bennett

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, New York

Publisher: Lewis historical publishing company, inc.

Date of Publication: [1943]

Physical Description: 3 v. fronts., ill. (incl. maps) plates, ports., facsims. (part col. 1 double) col. coats of arms, col. geneal. tables. 27 1/2 cm.

Notes: Vols. 1 and 2 paged continuously.; Vol. 3 consists of biographies.; LCHS has vols. 1 and 3 only.; Includes bibliographies.

Subjects: Berks County (Pa.) - History.; Bucks County (Pa.) - History.; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Delaware County (Pa.) - History.; Montgomery County (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia County (Pa.) - History.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.800912 N791

Annals of the Conestoga Valley in Lancaster, Berks, and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania / compiled and published by C.Z. Mast and Robert E. Simpson

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4291

Date of Publication: 1942.

Call Number: 974.815 CAER M423

Place of Publication: Elverson, Pa. ; Churchtown, Pa

Publisher: The Authors,

Date of Publication: 1942.

Physical Description: xviii, 689 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Notes: Separate index volume compiled by J. Lemar and Lois Ann Mast in 1981.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Berks County (Pa.) - History.; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Conestoga Valley (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Mast, C. Z.; Simpson, Robert Emmett,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books; Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 CAER M423

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

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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

Bicentennial addresses delivered at the two hundredth anniversary of Leacock Presbyterian Church, Paradise, Penna

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14131

Date of Publication: 1940.

Call Number: 285.1 K21

Responsibility: edited by Jay Warren Kaufman.

Place of Publication: [Paradise, Pa.]

Publisher: Leacock Presbyterian Church,

Date of Publication: 1940.

Physical Description: vii, 147 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Notes: Cover title: the Leacock United Presbyterian Church, a history 1740-1940.; Copy two cover title: The Leacock United Presbyterian Church, a history 1740-1976 and includes pages 73-147, a history of the church 1940-1976.; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Leacock Presbyterian Church (Paradise, Pa.).; Pennsylvania - Church history.

Additional Author: Kaufman, Jay Warren,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.1 K21

Two-hundredth anniversary of Lancaster's incorporation as a borough

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo724

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1942

an impressive expression of a people's belief in a government organized on the basis of the Common Law. We celebrate tonight the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the granting of a Charter to the borough of Lancaster. What is a Charter? It is an instru- ment for permitting and encouraging the free

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1942

Physical Description: [83]-[97] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 46, no. 2 & 3

Subjects: Lancaster Corporation Book.; Holidays.; Charters.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Social life and customs.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Politics and government.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 46, number 2/3 (1942), p. 83-97Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.46

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Reports of that learned and judicious clerk, J. Gouldsborough, Esq., sometimes one of the protonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, or his collection of choice cases and matters agitated in all the courts at Westminster in the latter yeares of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : with learned arguments at the barr and on the bench, and the grave resolutions and judgements thereupon of the chief justices Anderson and Popham, and the rest of the judges of those times : never before published, and now printed by his original copy, with short notes in the margent of the chief matters therein contained, with the yeare, terme, and number roll of many of the cases : and two exact tables, viz. a briefer, of the names of the severall cases, with the nature of the actions on which they are founded : and a larger, of all the remarkable things contained in the whole book

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21432

Author: Goldesborough, John,

Date of Publication: anno Dom. 1653.

Call Number: Book 493 1653

Responsibility: by W.S. of the Inner Temple, Esq.

Author: Goldesborough, John,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by W.W. for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop ...,

Date of Publication: anno Dom. 1653.

Physical Description: [20], 192, [16] p. ; 22 cm (4to)

Notes: The printer is identified as W. Wilson. Cf. Wing.; Signatures: Aâ´ (a)â´ BÂ² (B)-(C]â´ Dâ´ (E)-(2D)â´ (A1 blank).; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 493 as assigned by Yeates.; Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,; English short title catalogue,; Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.; Courts - England - Early works to 1800.; Courts.; Law reports, digests, etc.; England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: W. S.,; Randolph, Peyton,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 493 1653

The story of Indian Steps : Addresses delivered on the occasion of the dedication of a tablet to John Edward Vandersloot

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19621

Date of Publication: [1941]

Call Number: 917.4841 S887

Place of Publication: [Place of publication not identified]

Publisher: [publisher not identified],

Date of Publication: [1941]

Physical Description: [5] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Contents: Rides to fame on a hobby, an address by A.E. McCollough.- A tribute to the man who built Indian Steps, an address by William Kurtz.

Summary: "The story of Indian Steps Cabin begins over ten thousand years ago.The area gets its name from the 'steps' carved in the nearby Susquehanna River's rocks by early people of the region who used the footholds while gathering food along the river. The arrows, spear heads, stone axes and other relics embedded in the building were the belongings of the first residents of York County." [from Indiansteps.org]

Subjects: Vandersloot, John Edward.; Indian Steps, Pa.

Additional Author: Kurtz, William.; McCollough, A. E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.4841 S887

Inventory of the county archives of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5264

Date of Publication: 1941.

Call Number: 974.816 P415

Responsibility: prepared by the Pennsylania Historical Survey, Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration .

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Publisher: Board of County Commissioners,

Date of Publication: 1941.

Physical Description: 409 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Archives - Pennsylvania - Berks County; Berks Count (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Berks County (Pa.) - Politics and government - Sources.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylania Historical Survey.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 P415

The pioneers of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania : who's who in the early records with an account of the growth of the county before 1790

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9367

Author: Stroup, John Martin,

Date of Publication: 1942.

Call Number: 974.846 S919p

Responsibility: by John Martin Stroup and Raymond Martin Bell.

Author: Stroup, John Martin,

Place of Publication: Lewistown, Pa

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1942.

Physical Description: 41 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "Largely supplementary to The genesis of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania."

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

Additional Author: Bell, Raymond Martin,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.846 S919p

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