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Loan exhibition of portraits of the signers and deputies to the convention of 1787 and signers of the Declaration of Independence : including their families and associates ... the Corcoran Gallery of Art, city of Washington, November 27, 1937, to February 1, 1938

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Corporate Author: United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.

Date of Publication: 1937?]

Call Number: 920.073 U58

Responsibility: assembled by the United States Sesquicentennial Commission.

Corporate Author: United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.

Place of Publication: [Washington, D.C

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1937?]

Physical Description: 173 p. : ports. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: United States. - Constitutional Convention - (1787) - Centennial celebrations, etc.; United States. - Signers - Portraits - Exhibitions.; United States.; Portraits, American; Statesmen - United States

Additional Corporate Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 920.073 U58

True and authentic register of persons still living, by God's grace ] : who in the year 1709, under the wonderful providences of the Lord, journeyed from Germany to America or new world and there seek their piece of bread at various places

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Author: Simmendinger, Ulrich,

Date of Publication: 1934.

Call Number: 929.3 S592

Responsibility: by Ulrich Simmendinger; translated from the German by Herman F. Vesper.

Author: Simmendinger, Ulrich,

Place of Publication: St. Johnsville, N.Y

Publisher: Reprinted by the Enterprise and News,

Date of Publication: 1934.

Physical Description: x, 20 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes facsimile of original t.p.: Warhaffte und glaubwurdige verzeichnÃ¼ss/jeniger/durch die gnade Gottes/annoch im leben sich befindenden personen. Welche sich anno 1709. unter des Herren wunderbarer fÃ¼hrung aus Deutschland in Americam oder neue welt begeben/und allda an verschiedenen orten ihr stÃ¼cklein brods suchen ... Von Ulrich Simmendinger ... Daselbst gedruckt/bey Joh. G. FÃ¼sing.

Subjects: Palatines - New York (State).; Names, Personal - New York (State).; New York (State) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Vesper, Herman Frederick,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 S592

Descendants of George Philip Duddra or Dodderer, spelling their names Duttera, Dutterer or Dodrer, Dudderar, Dotterer, Dutrow, etc., natives of Pennsylvania (south central, York and Adams co's), and Maryland (adjacent co's, Carroll and Frederick) / compiled by Wm. B. Duttera

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Author: Duttera, William Babylon,

Date of Publication: [1930?]

Call Number: 929 D844

Author: Duttera, William Babylon,

Place of Publication: Dushore, Pa

Publisher: Duttera,

Date of Publication: [1930?]

Physical Description: 138 leaves : port. ; 17 cm.

Notes: Photocopy.; Text of original (1929) edition, with supplement dated 1 July 1930.

Subjects: Dotterer family.; Duddra family.; Dodderer family.; Duttera family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 D844

A perspective view of our state educational system : with a discussion of its successes and failures, as revealed in the people's management and execution of their public, as well as their private, affairs

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Author: Eshleman, H. Frank

Date of Publication: 1931?]

Call Number: 370 E75

Alternate Title: Also a glmpse of the budensome cost of government, taxation, debt, etc.

Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman.

Author: Eshleman, H. Frank

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1931?]

Physical Description: 8 p. ; 18 cm.

Notes: Caption-title.; (Reprint from the Intelligencer Journal of May 26, 27, and 28, 1931)

Subjects: Education - Pennsylvania.; Public Schools - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 370 E75

Morton Allan directory of European passenger steamship arrivals for the years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the years 1904 to 1926 at the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore

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Date of Publication: 2001, 1931.

Call Number: 929.3 M889

Alternate Title: Directory of European passenger steamship arrivals

ISBN: 0806308303

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 2001, 1931.

Physical Description: 268 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Published in 1928 under title: Directory relating to record of arrival of passenger steamships at the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore, 1904 to 1926.; Reprint. Originally published: New York : Immigration Information Bureau, 1931.

Subjects: Steamboat lines.

Additional Corporate Author: Immigration Information Bureau, inc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 M889

Flags of America; the story of the flags which have entered into the history of America and the making of "Old Glory," together with an authentic manual covering the display of the flag and rendering to it proper respect

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Author: Waldron, William H.

Date of Publication: [c1935]

Call Number: 929.9 W167

Responsibility: By Colonel W.H. Waldron ...

Author: Waldron, William H.

Place of Publication: Huntington, W. Va

Publisher: Standard printing & Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: [c1935]

Physical Description: 40 p. illus. (part col.) 27 cm.

Subjects: Flags.; Flags - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.9 W167

The Library of the late Hon. Charles I. Landis : Lancaster, Pa., President Judge of Lancaster County ; Valuable Americana to be sold Thursday afternoon, October 11th, 1934

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Corporate Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)

Date of Publication: [1934]

Call Number: 017.7 L257

Corporate Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Stan. V. Henkels,

Date of Publication: [1934]

Physical Description: 2 v. ; 25 cm.

Series: Catalogue / Stan. V. Henkels ; no. 1488

Notes: Cover title.; Titles and dates of sale vary: pt. 1, Valuable Americana to be sold October 11, 1934; pt. 2, Miscellaneous literature, fine literary nuggets to be sold October 18th, 1934.

Subjects: Landis, Charles I. - Library; Private libraries - Pennsylvania - Catalogs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 017.7 L257

Dedication, program & history, Lancaster-York intercounty bridge, in memory of the sons and daughters of Lancaster and York counties, Pennsylvania, who served in the wars of their country. Armistice day, 1930

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Date of Publication: c1930.

Call Number: 624.2 C726

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Printed by Conestoga publishing co.]

Date of Publication: c1930.

Physical Description: 46, [2] p. : illus. ; 29 cm.

Subjects: Lancaster-York intercounty bridge, Pennsylvania.

Additional Corporate Author: Conestoga publishing co., Lancaster, Pa.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 624.2 C726

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

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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

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

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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

Program changing the name of the Lemon Street School : to be known henceforth as the C. Elvin Haupt School, Wednesday afternoon, September 20, 1939

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Date of Publication: 1939.

Call Number: 370 H374

Place of Publication: [S. l

Publisher: s.n.]

Date of Publication: 1939.

Physical Description: [8 p.] : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Education - Pennyslvania - Lancaster.; Schools - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lemon Street School (Lancaster, Pa.); C. Elvin Haupt School (Lancaster, Pa.)

Additional Author: Haupt, C. Elvin.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 H374

Proceedings of the eighteenth annual encampment of the Department of Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States : and the 13th annual encampment of theLadies Auxiliary to the Department of Pennyslvania Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Hotel Abraham Lincoln, Reading Pennsylvania , Thursday, Friday, Saturday June 24, 25, 26, 1937

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Date of Publication: [1937].

Call Number: 974.816 P963

Responsibility: edited by C. A. Gnau, Department Adjutant.

Place of Publication: [Harrisburg, Pa.]

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ;

Date of Publication: [1937].

Physical Description: 466 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Department of Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars; Ladies Auxiliary to the Department of Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars; Veterans - Pennsylania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 P963

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

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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

Surgeon of the seas; the adventurous life of Surgeon General Jonathan M. Foltz in the days of wooden ships

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Author: Foltz, Charles Steinman,

Date of Publication: 1931.

Call Number: 923.5 F671f

Responsibility: Told from his notes of the moment by Charles S. Foltz.

Author: Foltz, Charles Steinman,

Place of Publication: Indianapolis

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill,

Date of Publication: 1931.

Physical Description: 351 p. illus. 23 cm.

Contents: Chapters: A LONG CRUISE AND A BATTLE -- FROM OUR COUNTRY IN ITS BOYHOOD TO OLD LANDS IN DISTRESS -- WAR ON THE PLATA -- OUR WAR WITH MEXICO -- PRESIDENT POLK -- INTIMATE NOTES ON PRESIDENT BUCHANNAN -- THE CIVIL WAR AS A NAVAL SURGEON SAW IT -- OUR NAVAL DEMONSTRATIONS ABROAD -- SURGEON GENERAL.

Notes: Jonathan Messersmith Foltz (April 25, 1810 - April 12, 1877)was born in Lancaster, Pa. He was a military surgeon of the United States Navy, who served in the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of commodore and serving as Surgeon General of the United States Navy in 1871-72.

Subjects: Foltz, Jonathan Messersmith, - 1810-1877.; United States - History, Naval.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 F671f

Evolution of the bicycle and its history in Lancaster County

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Author: Landis, David Bachman,

Date of Publication: 1931.

vehicles of every sort, and these in some form or other continue to be used at the present time ; while we may include trains, trolleys, automobiles and air- planes as continuing adjuncts for greater speed. Outstanding figures for going ahead have been the great mili- tary characters on horseback, typified

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Responsibility: by D.B. Landis.

Author: Landis, David Bachman,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1931.

Physical Description: [277]-287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 35, no. 12

Subjects: Bicycles - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 35, number 11 (1931), p. 277-287Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.35

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The Donegal Presbyterian Church : founded prior to 1721, church services held as early as 1714, East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : the Donegal people, their history, and other historical documents

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Date of Publication: 1935.

Call Number: 285.1 D681s

Responsibility: compiled by order of the Session, C. Benjamin Segelken.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Evangelical Press,

Date of Publication: 1935.

Physical Description: 100 p., [6] leaves of plates ; ill., geneal. tables ; 23 cm.

Contents: The Donegal people, their spirit and life and the historical movement of which they are a part / C.B. Segelken -- History of the Donegal Presbyterian Church to 1902 / J.L. Zeigler -- History of the Donegal Presbyterian Church 1902-1935 / C.B. Segelken -- The Penn patent deed -- The Charter of the Donegal Church -- The deed of trust for the cemetery -- List of pastors and supplies -- List of ruling elders -- The Glory of the oak (a poem) /D.L. Glatfelter.

Subjects: Segelken, Benjamin C.; Donegal Presbyterian Church - History.; East Donegal (Pa. : Township) - Church history.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.1 D681s

History of the Cunningham family, descendants of John Cunningham and his wife, Elizabeth, who emigrated to America from the Scotch settlement in the North of Ireland about the year 1748

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Author: Cunningham, John,

Date of Publication: 1930.

Call Number: 929 C973c

Responsibility: Compiled, 1907, by John Cunningham--4, Francis Cunningham--4 [and] Robert Cunningham--6. Revised and brought to date, 1930, by Frances Cunningham Harper--5, Francis Alexander Cunningham--5 [and] Fern Hubbird Bain--7.

Author: Cunningham, John,

Place of Publication: Williamsport, Pa

Publisher: Press of Cunningham & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1930.

Physical Description: 46 p. illus. (incl. coat of arms) 21 cm.

Notes: Blank pages for additions (39-46)

Subjects: Cunningham family.

Additional Author: Cunningham, Francis,; Cunningham, Robert,; Harper, Frances Fulton Cunningham,; Cunningham, Frances Alexander,; Bain, Fern Hubbird,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 C973c

Comly family in America, descendants of Henry and Joan Comly, who came to America in 1682 from Bedminster, Somersetshire, England. With short account of the ancestors of Charles and Debby Ann (Newbold) Comly. Compiled by George Norwood Comly

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Author: Comly, George Norwood,

Date of Publication: 1939.

Call Number: 929 C733c

Author: Comly, George Norwood,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Priv. published under supervision of J.B. Lippincott company,

Date of Publication: 1939.

Physical Description: xiv p. 1 l., 1148 p. illus., plates, maps (1 fold.) facsims. (part fold.) fold, geneal. tables. 25 cm.

Notes: Additions inserted at p. 233.; Includes also the Budd, Evans and Hanson families.; "References" at end of some of the chapters.

Subjects: Comly family (Henry Comly, d. 1684); Budd family.; Evans family.; Hansen family.; Newbold family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 C733c

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

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Author: Thomas, Gabriel.

Edition: Enl. and repr.

Date of Publication: 1938.

Call Number: 974.801 T456

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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

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The Hessian prisoners in the American War of Independence and their life in captivity

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Author: Volm, M. H.

Date of Publication: 1937

Call Number: 973.342 V926

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Responsibility: by M.H. Volm.

Author: Volm, M. H.

Place of Publication: [Charlottesville? Va

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1937

Physical Description: 27 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Title from cover.; Bibliography: p. 26-27.

Summary: This essay provides contextual information concerning how the English actually hired the soldiers and why the German princes, and not other nations who were asked, were willing to sell their men to English. It also discusses how the English and German public reacted to the hiring of German soldiers.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.342 V926

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Loan exhibition of portraits of the signers and deputies to the convention of 1787 and signers of the Declaration of Independence : including their families and associates ... the Corcoran Gallery of Art, city of Washington, November 27, 1937, to February 1, 1938

True and authentic register of persons still living, by God's grace ] : who in the year 1709, under the wonderful providences of the Lord, journeyed from Germany to America or new world and there seek their piece of bread at various places

Descendants of George Philip Duddra or Dodderer, spelling their names Duttera, Dutterer or Dodrer, Dudderar, Dotterer, Dutrow, etc., natives of Pennsylvania (south central, York and Adams co's), and Maryland (adjacent co's, Carroll and Frederick) / compiled by Wm. B. Duttera

A perspective view of our state educational system : with a discussion of its successes and failures, as revealed in the people's management and execution of their public, as well as their private, affairs

Morton Allan directory of European passenger steamship arrivals for the years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the years 1904 to 1926 at the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore

Flags of America; the story of the flags which have entered into the history of America and the making of "Old Glory," together with an authentic manual covering the display of the flag and rendering to it proper respect

The Library of the late Hon. Charles I. Landis : Lancaster, Pa., President Judge of Lancaster County ; Valuable Americana to be sold Thursday afternoon, October 11th, 1934

Dedication, program & history, Lancaster-York intercounty bridge, in memory of the sons and daughters of Lancaster and York counties, Pennsylvania, who served in the wars of their country. Armistice day, 1930

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

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

Program changing the name of the Lemon Street School : to be known henceforth as the C. Elvin Haupt School, Wednesday afternoon, September 20, 1939

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

Surgeon of the seas; the adventurous life of Surgeon General Jonathan M. Foltz in the days of wooden ships

Evolution of the bicycle and its history in Lancaster County

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The Donegal Presbyterian Church : founded prior to 1721, church services held as early as 1714, East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : the Donegal people, their history, and other historical documents

History of the Cunningham family, descendants of John Cunningham and his wife, Elizabeth, who emigrated to America from the Scotch settlement in the North of Ireland about the year 1748

Comly family in America, descendants of Henry and Joan Comly, who came to America in 1682 from Bedminster, Somersetshire, England. With short account of the ancestors of Charles and Debby Ann (Newbold) Comly. Compiled by George Norwood Comly

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The Hessian prisoners in the American War of Independence and their life in captivity

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