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Comb making in America, an account of the origin and development of the industry for which Leominster has become famous, to which are added pictures of many of the early comb makers and views of the old time comb shops

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17221
Author
Walton, Perry,
Date of Publication
c1925]
Call Number
688.5 W241
Responsibility
compiled and privately printed for Bernard W. Doyle, president of the Viscoloid company, inc., in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the comb industry in Leominster, Massachusetts.
Author
Walton, Perry,
Place of Publication
[Boston
Date of Publication
c1925]
Physical Description
xiv, 158 p. incl. front., illus., ports. pl. 27 cm.
Notes
"Compiled, written and printed under direction of Perry Walton."
Contents
Antiquity of combs -- Establishment of the comb industry in America -- Growth of the comb industry in West Newbury -- The Noyes family : their relation to the comb industry -- Improvements in the manufacture of combs -- The Hills family and the comb industry in Leominster -- Comb-making in Clinton, Massachusetts, and other industrial centers -- Horn, tortoise shell, ivory and their substitutes -- The town of Leominster.
Subjects
Combs.
Additional Author
Doyle, Bernard W.
Additional Corporate Author
Viscoloid company, Leominster, Mass.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
688.5 W241
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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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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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Historical notes from the records of Augusta County, Virginia, Part I

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Author
Kemper, Charles E.
Date of Publication
1921
the most prosperous section of Virginia. The following notes from the records above named show in part the migration of Pennsylvania families from Lancaster, Chester and adjoining counties to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and chiefly to the present counties of Augusta. Their names and places of
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Responsibility
by Charles E. Kemper.
Author
Kemper, Charles E.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1921
Physical Description
89-92 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 6
Subjects
Emigration and immigration.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 6 (1921), p. 89-92Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25
Documents

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Historical notes from the records of Augusta County, Virginia, Part II (Concluded)

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Author
Kemper, Charles E.
Date of Publication
1921
." Ephraim Love, who came to Virginia from Lan- caster County, Pa., and William Hopkins, were the legatees and made the executors of the will. Both lived in the western portion of present Rock- ingham County, Va. It cannot be determined from the records which one of the names was, Wappeler or Wasseler, but
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Responsibility
by Charles E. Kemper.
Author
Kemper, Charles E.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1921
Physical Description
147-155 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 10
Subjects
Emigration and immigration.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 10 (1921), p. 147-155Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25
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A brief description of Indian life and Indian trade of the Susquehannock Indians. The tribe which inhabited what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A compilation of pen pictures by the earliest Europeans with whom they came in contact. Also giving a study of the exact location and period of occupation of their villages and fort stes based on the articles found in Indian graves here

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4254
Author
Landis, David H.,
Date of Publication
c1929]
Call Number
974.8011 L257b
Responsibility
By D. H. Landis ...
Author
Landis, David H.,
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Date of Publication
c1929]
Physical Description
1 p. β., [7]-48 p. front. (port.) illus. 23 cm.
Notes
Owing to an imperfect impression, p. 48 is numbered 4 in this copy.
"Only 150 copies will be printed and type destroyed."
"Reprinted from the Lancaster new era and also Intelligencer journal, June 22, l929."
Subjects
Susquehanna Indians.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 L257b
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Report on the committee appointed to participate in the exercises incident to the restoration of City Hall, Lancaster, Pa., to its original colonial design and dignity

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3361
Author
Garvin, Milton Thomas.
Date of Publication
1925
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.29
Responsibility
address of Mr. M. T. Garvin. Address of Richard Reilly, Esq.
Author
Garvin, Milton Thomas.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1925
Physical Description
3-7 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 1
Subjects
City Hall (Lancaster, Pa.)
Architecture, Colonial - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 1865-
Additional Author
Reilly, R. M.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.29
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The Engle history and family records of Dauphin and Lancaster counties. The numerous lineal descendants of Ulrich Engel. Short sketches of Engle families not related. A sketch of the arrival and record of the origin of the brethren in Christ church of which a large number of these descendants are menbers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1204
Author
Engle, Morris M.,
Date of Publication
[1927]
Call Number
929 E585e
Alternate Title
History of the Engle Family in America 1754-1927.
Responsibility
Compiled, arranged, indexed and published by Morris M. Engle ...
Author
Engle, Morris M.,
Place of Publication
Mt. Joy, Pa
Publisher
The Bulletin press
Date of Publication
[1927]
Physical Description
161 p. illus. (incl. ports., maps) 24 cm.
Subjects
Engle family (Ulrich Engel, fl. 1753)
Groff family.
Kauffman family.
Miller family.
Stauffer family.
Brubaker family.
Hershey family.
Musser family.
Oberholtzer family.
Stoner family.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 E585e
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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: A⁴ (a)⁴ B² (B)-(C]⁴ D⁴ (E)-(2D)⁴ (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
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The reports of Sr. George Croke Knight; late, one of the justices of the Court of Kings-Bench; and formerly, one of the justices of the Court of Common-Bench, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said Courts, the time that he was judge in either of them: collected and written in French by himself; revised and published in English by Sir Harebotle Grimston Baronet

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Author
Croke, George,
Date of Publication
1657.
Call Number
Book 118 1657
Alternate Title
Mentissa
Author
Croke, George,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
printed by R. Hodgkinsonne, and are to be sold by William Leak at the Crown in Fleetstreet, betwixt the two Temple gates, by Thomas Firby neer Grays-Inne Gate in Holborn, and at Lincolns-Inne Gate,
Date of Publication
1657.
Physical Description
[24], 669, [3] p. : ill. ; 2o.
Notes
With a final leaf entitled: Mentissa.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title above the struck signature of the preveious owner; previous owner's signature also strong from second flyleaf.
Book number 118 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten marginal ntoes and references of Thomas Leach, 1972.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
Binding: calf over boards, blind fillets, mid/late 17th century. Rebacked and spine title added, mid 19th century.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Grimston, Harbottle,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 118 1657
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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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Historic roadsides in New Jersey; a condensed description of the principal colonial and revolutionary landmarks in New Jersey, arranged for the convenience of students and motorists. The society of colonial wars in the state of New Jersey

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15310
Corporate Author
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.). New Jersey.
Date of Publication
[1928]
Call Number
974.9 N531
Corporate Author
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.). New Jersey.
Place of Publication
Plainfield, N.J
Publisher
W. L. Glenney
Date of Publication
[1928]
Physical Description
1 p. l., 115 p. front., illus., fold. map. 23 cm.
Notes
Map mounted on lining-paper.
Bibliography: p. 111.
Subjects
Historic buildings - New Jersey.
New Jersey - Description and travel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.9 N531
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A brief historical review of the achievements of German nationals in the early days of American colonization. The period from 1564 to 1682 inclusive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15504
Author
Lohr, Otto,
Date of Publication
1923.
Call Number
974.8002 L833
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Responsibility
by Otto Lohr.
Author
Lohr, Otto,
Place of Publication
Hoboken [N.J.]
Date of Publication
1923.
Physical Description
7, [1] p. 21 cm.
Series
Historical bulletin ; no. 1
Subjects
Germans - United States.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8002 L833
Websites
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The pleader : containing perfect presidents and formes of declarations, pleadings, issues, judgments, and proceedings, in all kinds of actions, reall, personall, and mixt ; very necessary to be known, and of excellent use. Together with the termes and rolls wherein they were entred ; and also diverse points of great learning, and various notes and cases to illustrate the same. As they were drawn, entred, and taken in the times of those famous prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow, Robert Moyle, John Gulston, Thomas Cory, Esqrs

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20883
Author
Herne, John,
Date of Publication
1657.
Call Number
Book 75 1657
Responsibility
collected and published for the use and benefit of the students and practicers of law, by John Herne ; with exact alphabeticall tables of all the principall matters therein contained.
Author
Herne, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Twyford, Thomas Dring, and Timothy Twyford, and are to be sold at their shops ...,
Date of Publication
1657.
Physical Description
[20], 841 [i.e. 772] pages
Notes
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 75 as assigned by Yeates.
Hand-written note on back of front flyleaf and on various pages throughout the book.
Wing H1574
Subjects
Pleading - England.
Law - England.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 75 1657
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A history of the Indian villages and place names in Pennsylvania, with numerous historical notes and references

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4877
Author
Donehoo, George Patterson,
Date of Publication
[c1928]
Call Number
974.8011 D681
Responsibility
by Dr. George P. Donehoo. With an introduction by the Hon. Warren K. Moorehead.
Author
Donehoo, George Patterson,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
The Telegraph press
Date of Publication
[c1928]
Physical Description
xiv, 290 p. 24 cm.
Notes
Blank pages for "Notes" interspersed.
Bibliography: p. 288-290.
Subjects
Names, Geographical - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 D681
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The life of Conrad Weiser as it relates to his services as official interpreter between New York and Pennsylvania, and as envoy between Philadelphia and the Onondaga councils

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3512
Author
Beauchamp, William Martin,
Date of Publication
1925.
Call Number
923.2 W427b
Responsibility
compiled and edited by Rev. Wm. M. Beauchamp.
Author
Beauchamp, William Martin,
Place of Publication
Syracuse, N.Y
Publisher
Onondaga Historical Association,
Date of Publication
1925.
Physical Description
122 p. illus. 24cm.
Subjects
Weiser, Conrad, - 1696-1760.
Onondaga Indians.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Additional Corporate Author
Onondaga Historical Association.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 W427b
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The commentaries upon original writs : where most of the cases in Bracton, book of entries, the year or term-books, from King Edward the Second to these times, with the plaints, counts, pleadings issues, demurrers in matters of law, the debates, opinions, rules of court, and resolutions of the judges therein, are reduced to the originall writs under severall heads or sections for the better understanding of the case and poynts of law : collected, abridged, and taken out of the books themselves

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20887
Author
Hughes, William,
Date of Publication
1655.
Call Number
Book 78 1655
Responsibility
by William Hughes of Grays Inne ...
Author
Hughes, William,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Henry Twyford, and John Place ...,
Date of Publication
1655.
Physical Description
[16], 272, [8] p. ; 23 cm. (4to)
Notes
"The first part." No more published.
Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-2N⁴.
Leaf a4 is blank. According to ESTC, there is a variant with errata on leaf a4 recto.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 78 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten not about signature of Yeates on title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Contents
Right patent -- Writs of right patent in London -- Dower -- Writ of droit close, monstraverunt, false judgment, &c.
Subjects
Writs - Great Britain.
Writs.
Great Britain.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 78 1655
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Judgements as they were upon solemne arguments given in the Upper-Bench and Common-Pleas, upon the most difficult points in all manner of actions : together with the terms and number-rolls, in which the same are entred : as also other speciall judiciall proceedings in order thereunto, taken out of the records of the same Court, very usefull for all clerks, attorneys, and others

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21143
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1655.
Call Number
Book 443 1655
Responsibility
vvith an exact alphabeticall table, wherein may be found the principall matters therein contained.
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Roycroft, and are to be sold at most stationers shops in London,
Date of Publication
1655.
Physical Description
[4], 235, 240-336, 339-344, [22] p. ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A² B-Z⁸ 2A⁶.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of second title page.
Book number 443 as assigned by Yeates.
Library copy lacks title and flyleaf pages.
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.
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 443 1655
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The Practice of the High Court of Chancery unfolded : with the nature of the several offices belonging to that court, and the reports of many cases wherein relief hath been there had, and where denied, never heretofore published

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21027
Date of Publication
1652.
Call Number
Book 234 1652
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Miller for Abel Roper ...,
Date of Publication
1652.
Physical Description
[12], 188 [i.e. 176, 12] p. (prelim. p. [9-12] advertisements) ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signatures: A⁶ B-G⁸ H² I-N⁸ O⁴.
Includes index.
"Choyce cases in Chancery": pages 113-188.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 234 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes inside and on back of last page..
BLC,
NUC pre-1956,
Wing (2nd ed.)
Subjects
England and Wales. - Court of Chancery.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 234 1652
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Early land marks and names of old Pittsburgh; an address delivered before the Pittsburgh chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, at Carnegie Institute, November 30, 1923

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14020
Author
Miller, Annie Clark.
Date of Publication
1924, reprinted 1956.
Call Number
974.4886 M647
Author
Miller, Annie Clark.
Place of Publication
[Pittsburgh]
Publisher
Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution,
Date of Publication
1924, reprinted 1956.
Physical Description
60 p. illus. 21 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Early land marks and old names ...
Subjects
Monuments - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh.
Names, Geographical - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.4886 M647
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