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Medal

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Collection
Military Collection
Title
World War I Homecoming Medal for Returning Soldiers
Object ID
2003.010
Date Range
1919-1925
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Collection
Military Collection
Title
World War I Homecoming Medal for Returning Soldiers
Description
World War I medal or award. Bronze stylized inner seal of Lancaster. Given to soldiers returning from WWI in 1919. See Journal article, vol. 97, #2.
JFA Company (J. F. Appel)
(Same as 2023.001.118)
Date Range
1919-1925
Year Range From
1919
Year Range To
1925
Made By
JFA Company
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 04
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Search Terms
World War I
Medals
Object Name
Medal
Oither Names
Military Medal
Material
Cloth, Metal
Length (in)
2.5
Width (in)
1.5
Condition
Fair, Good
Condition Date
2023-10-09
Condition Notes
Medal is in good condition, but white cotton ribbon fibers have separated
Object ID
2003.010
Place of Origin
Lancaster
Accession Number
2003.010
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Medal

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Collection
Military Collection
Object ID
2014.999.20
Date Range
1919-1925
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Collection
Military Collection
Description
World War I medal consists a cast bronze pentagonal medallion suspended from a silk ribbon of green and white, pinned to an oblong buff colored card printed with "WELCOME HOME / BOYS!" at the top and "LANCASTER, PA. / MADE BY J.F.A.Co." at the bottom.
Medallion hangs from ribbon via two brass rings. Raised detail on face is "WELCOME HOME" written in a banner at top. At center is the Lancaster seal flanked by the date "1919". Banner at bottom reads "LANCASTER PA." Ribbon has a safety pin stitched to upper back side, and is mounted by pin onto printed card.
Inscribed in ink on card to right of medallion is "$6.50". Struck on reverse of medallion is "JFACo."
Date Range
1919-1925
Year Range From
1919
Year Range To
1925
Made By
J. F. Appel Company
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
North Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 04
Storage Drawer
Drawer 04
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Object Name
Medal
Material
Bronze
Length (in)
3
Width (in)
1.5
Dimension Details
Dimensions of medal. Card is L: 4.5" x 2".
Condition
Poor
Condition Date
2014-10-14
Condition Notes
Bronze is very dark with tarnish and soil. Ribbon is in poor condition with losses of green threads at left and broken and separating threads at right side. Card is worn and darkened with bottom right corner missing.
Object ID
2014.999.20
Place of Origin
Lancaster
Credit
Collection of LancasterHistory.org
Accession Number
2014.999
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Inventory of Martin Chartier's estate

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3362
Date of Publication
1925
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.29
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Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1925
Physical Description
130-133 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 10
Subjects
Chartier, Martin, - d. 1718.
French Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Inventories of decedents' estates - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.29
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Les plees des coron, diuisees in plusors titles & cm̳on lieux. Per queux home pluis redement & plenairement trouera quelque chose que il quira, touchant les dits plees, composees per le tresreuerend judge monsieur Guilliaulme Staundforde chiualer, dernierment corrigee auecques vn table parfaicte des choses notables contenus en ycelle, nouelment reueu & corrigee. Anno Domini 1583

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Author
Staunford, William,
Date of Publication
[1583]
Call Number
Book 943 1583
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Author
Staunford, William,
Place of Publication
[Londini]
Publisher
in aedibus Richardi Tottellj
Date of Publication
[1583]
Physical Description
12 preliminary leaves, 196 (i.e. 198) leaves 20 cm
Notes
Colophon: [printer's mark] Imprinted at London in Fleetestrete within Temple Barre, at the sign of the Hand and starre, by Rychard Tottel. An, 1583.
Signatures: A², [printer's mark]³⁻[⁸], [two printer's marks]⁴, A-Z⁸, & ⁸, [printer's mark]⁶
Irregularities in foliation: leaves 11 and 72 omitted, leaves 12 and 71 repeated in numbering; leaves 79 and 198 incorrectly numbered 67 and 196, respectively.
Title within ornamental border.
At foot of t.p.: [paragraph mark] Cum priuilegio.
"Cest Table ne fuit collect nefait par mounsieur Stanforde, mes per vu auter [William Rastell]": verso of 12th prelim. leaf.
Pleas of the crown.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law library.
Yeates's signature under that of struck former owner.
Book number 943 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Pleas of the crown - Early works to 1800.
Criminal law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Criminal law.
Pleas of the crown.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full leather (Binging)
Stamped title on spine (Binding)
Additional Author
Rastell, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 943 1583
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Autobiography of William Michael : Part I

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Author
Michael, William.
Date of Publication
1921
at a great de- preciation, and ou the ending of the estate, a reductiou of more thau half was ascertained, out of which the children were to be supported. I was put as an apprentice to the hatting business, when I was not quite twelve years old. On the day of the expiration of my apprenticeship. I
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Responsibility
By George Erisman.
Author
Michael, William.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1921
Physical Description
62-64 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 4
Subjects
Michael, William, - 1768-
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - To 1775.
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Erisman, George F. K.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 4 (1921), p. 62-64Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25
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Favorite hotels and lodgings in Lancaster in 1799 : (Lodgings of assemblyman)

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1924
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Responsibility
by Henry Frank Eshleman.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1924
Physical Description
6-7 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 1
Subjects
Legislators - Pennsylvania.
Hotels - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 1 (1924), p. 6-7Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28
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