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
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.
Genealogical queries & reports of research : commemorating 300 years of German immigration to the United States of America : a 1982-1983 project of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Palatines to America
Analysis of West Lampeter Township School District, six years of financial operations 1939-40 through 1944-45 and the budget for 1945-46 together with an analysis of pupil transportation costs: a report prepared for the board of school directors of West Lampeter Township
The Francis Redfearn family : a study of the family of Francis Redfearn (1777-1858), his wife, Ruth Milner (1779-1857), and their three sons and three daughters
Includes text of: Laws relating to the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road Company (Chambersburg, Pa. : M. Kieffer, 1860).
Bibliography: p. 63-64.
Contents
Contents: 1. A brief look at the development of turnpikes -- 2. The origination of the Chambersburg-Bedford Turnpike Company -- 3. Growth and demise of the company -- 4. End of an era -- 5. Bridges -- 6. Tollgates and tollhouses -- 7. Incidents along the pike -- Stockholders, managers and toolkeepers -- Sources -- Laws of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road Company
Germantown and the Germans : an exhibition of books, manuscripts, prints, and photographs from the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, October 1983 to January 1984
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
The first century of German language printing in the United States of America : a bibliography based on the studies of Oswald Seidensticker and Wilbur H. Oda
