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The Indians of Berks County, Pa., being a summary of all the tangible records of the aborigines of Berks County, and containing cuts and descriptions of the varieties of relics found within the county

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Author: Brunner, D. B.

Date of Publication: 1881.

Call Number: 974.816 B894

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Responsibility: Written for the Society of Natural Sciences, Reading, Pa., by D.B. Brunner ...

Author: Brunner, D. B.

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Publisher: The Spirit of Berks Book and Job Printing Office,

Date of Publication: 1881.

Physical Description: 177 p. incl. illus., 34 pl. 23 cm.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Berks County (Pa.) - History.; Berks County (Pa.) - Antiquities.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 B894

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A history of Bethany Charge of the Reformed Church : in Lancaster County, Pa

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Author: Tobias, D. C.

Date of Publication: 1881.

Call Number: 285.8 B562

Responsibility: by D.C. Tobias.

Author: Tobias, D. C.

Place of Publication: Lititz, Pa

Publisher: Record Print. Office,

Date of Publication: 1881.

Physical Description: 43 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Reformed Church in the United States - Pennsylvania.; Reformed Church in the United States. - Bethany Charge (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.8 B562

A brief history of the city of Lancaster; Containing an introduction to the settlement of the county; reminiscences of the past and present of the city; the poor house and hospital; the court house; the county jail; the water works; the railroad; the Franklin and Marshall College; the manufactories; the gas works and agricultural park; with many of the old "land marks," &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16919

Author: Kilburn, Francis,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Call Number: 974.815 L244p 1870

Author: Kilburn, Francis,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pearsol and Geist, printers,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Physical Description: 40 [2] p. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Includes local business cards and advertisements.; Not in Wilkinson.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Commerce.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.815 L244p 1870

Lancaster County Papers

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Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Physical Description: 2 vol. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: A series of pamphlets bound together.

Contents: Vol 1: Father Ferdinand Farmer, an apostolic missionary in three states by John F. Quirk--A discourse, delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 by P.J. Timlow--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Christ Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa.--Report of the commissioners appointed to examine the affairs of the Lancaster Savings Institution.; Vol.2: Resources and industries of the City of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.--Historical sketch of St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895 by Anthony F. Dorley--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Historical sketch of Zion's Reformed Church [Millersville] by D.H. Landis.

Subjects: Timlow, P.J.; St. Anthony's Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Christ Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster Savings Institution - Report.; Leacock Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.) - History.; Sacred Heart Academy (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; St. Anthony's Parochial School (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.); Reformed Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Roman Catholic Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Lutheran Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Millersville (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

Journal of Capt. Jonathan Heart on the march with his company from Connecticut to Fort Pitt, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from the seventh of September, to the twelfth of October, 1785, inclusive : to which is added the Dickinson-Harmar correspondence of 1784-5 ; the whole illustrated with notes and preceded by a biographical sketch of Captain Heart by Consul Willshire Butterfield

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Author: Heart, Jonathan,

Date of Publication: 1885.

Call Number: 923.5 H436b

Author: Heart, Jonathan,

Place of Publication: Albany

Publisher: J. Munsell's Sons,

Date of Publication: 1885.

Physical Description: xv, 94 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: "Edition of 150 copies."; Includes Dickinson-Harmar correspondence of 1784-5.

Subjects: Heart, Jonathan, - 1748-1791.; United States. - Army. - Infantry, 1st.; Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.; Ohio River Valley - History.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel.; Pittsburgh (Pa.) - History.; United States - History - Confederation, 1783-1789.

Additional Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire,; Dickinson, John,; Harmar, Josiah,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 H436b

Barnes' directory of Lancaster County : embracing a full list of all the adult males and heads of families with their occupation, residence, and P.O. address, and a classified business directory : also, an appendix, containing a descriptive list of the courts, banking houses, public buildings, churches, educational and benevolent institutions, secret and other societies, &c., &c., 1875-76

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Date of Publication: 1875.

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1875-76 reprint

Alternate Title: Directory of Lancaster County

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Jno. H. Barnes,

Date of Publication: 1875.

Physical Description: 508 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Advertisements throughout text.; Includes index.; Reprint.

Subjects: Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Directories - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Directories.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Commerce - Directories.

Additional Corporate Author: Jno. H. Barnes (Firm)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1875-76 reprint

A Brief history of the city of Lancaster : containing an introduction to the settlement of the county, reminiscences of the past and present of the city, the poor house and hospital, the court house, the county jail, the water works, the railroad, the Franklin and Marshall College, the manufactories, the gas works and agricultural park, with many of the old land marks, &c. ; also, the business cards of the principal merchants and manufacturers

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Date of Publication: 1870.

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Published by Francis Kilburn ; Pearsol & Geist, printers,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Physical Description: 40 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Bound with The Bible in Iron (1914) and Old Home Week Manheim, Pa. (1912) -- this copy is missing as of 4/11/2024. Please access using the electronic copy.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Kilburn, Francis.

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

. Signed 30 March 1940. Recorded in Deed Book N, Number 34, page 365, 30 March 1940. Folder 15 Empty. Says it should have 5 items from the years 1940, 1960, and 1967. No description of items available. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Description: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.; Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.

Admin/Biographical History: On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series.; Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory; Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners

Date Range: 1880-2003

Year Range From: 1880

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1880-2003

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ammon, Cora Mae Fox; Ammon, John M.; Appel, Eva Rengier; Appel, Percy L.; Baker, Miriam Rengier; Bell, Louise Price; Berger, R. R.; Blatchley, Charles A.; Breyers, C. J.; Buchanan, James; Drukenbrod, Lee Roy; Fehl, J. Herbert; Frantz, I. E.; Fritz, C. C.; Goodhart, E. C.; Groff, Alpheaus S.; Groff, Ella L.; Hermansader, T. F.; Hirsh, Bertha; Hirsh, Gabriel; Hostetter, D. B.; Lively, Henry; Long, Jacob M.; Loss, Natalie M.; Loss, Nathan; Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.; Marshall, Elizabeth Weber; Marshall, George A.; Marshall, George W.; Marshall, Maria L. Good; May, Jennie H.; Miller, E. N.; Myers, Harry; Myers, Maria; Myers, Patricia Marshall; Myrtetus, George B.; Noonan, Ella O.; Noonan, Raymond Smith; Prangley, James; Reed, George R.; Reichley, Jacob Christian; Reifsnyder, Arden P.; Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John S.; Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen; Rohrer, George Redsecker; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker; Roth, George R.; Rupert, L. H.; Schaller, Kimberly; Shand, James; Shand, Thomas Marshall; Sherrill, Anita B.; Sherrill, S. Edward; Short, Edwin P.; Skyllas, Drossos A.; Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert; Stiles, H. A.; Stirk, Isaac; Stirk, Sarah C.; Swarr, Donald; Urban, Cassius Emlen; Watt, Laura Louise Geiger; Watt, Peter T.; Weber, May H.; Wisegarver, Harry P.; Witmer, Albert F.

Other Creators: Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)

Subjects: Advertising; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Building leases; Calendars; Catalogs; Deeds; Department stores; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Letters; Menus; Newsletters; Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail

Search Terms: A and S Realty and Investment Corporation; A. B. Rote & Co.; Advertising; Agreements; Air conditioning; American Blower Corporation; Appel & Weber; Architectural plans; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; Awards; Blueprints; Bon-Ton; Bon-Ton Beauty Salon; Booklets; C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.; Calendars; Catalogs; Central Automatic Sprinkler Company; Certificates; Columbia; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia; Correspondence; Deeds; Department stores; DUSCO Property Management, Inc.; East Hempfield Twp.; Employee handbooks; Employees; Ephemera; Escalators; Finding aids; Fire sprinklers; Floorplans; Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers; Gift certificates; Ground-rent; Hager and Bro., Inc.; Hager Realty Corporation; Heating and ventilation systems; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Job descriptions; Kroll Electric Company, Inc.; Lancaster; Lancaster Parking Authority; Lancaster Trust Company; Leases; Letters; Manuscript groups; Menus; Mortgages; Newsletters; Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.; Park City Mall; Penn Square; Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Permits; Poetry; PPL; Price lists; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company; Reynolds and Reynolds Company; Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail; Total Energy Leasing Corporation; Trion, Inc.; Watt and Shand; Workers' Compensation Act; York Corporation

Extent: 4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0237

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-237

Classification: MG0237

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.; The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.

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Collection: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Title: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Object ID: MG0153

Date Range: 1862-1987

the shops at Place Marie, 52 North Queen St. Depiction of building. (2 copies) �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org 2. Postcard from the Lancaster Country Store promoting their mid-summer sale. Store in Brownstown, Pa. Mill and bridge

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Collection: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Title: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Description: The Advertising and Promotional Collection contains materials for a wide variety of businesses and organizations in Lancaster County, including manufacturers, department and clothing stores, entertainment venues, grocery stores, restaurants, service providers, and social clubs. Of special interest is the use of both English and German in a brochure from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., as well as in the soap-making directions from the Pennsylvania Salt Co. There are also a 1921 program from Lancaster's Colonial Theatre and boxing programs that list Lancaster native, Leo Houck.

Date Range: 1862-1987

Year Range From: 1862

Year Range To: 1987

Date of Accumulation: 1862-1987

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bogle, George; Bortzfield, Jere; Butler, Smedley D.; Correll, Clint; Eberly, Jay M.; Evans, Melvern R,; Frueauff, W. Herman T.; Hawbaker, Gary; Houck, Leo; Huss, Arlene Rider; Jackson, J. T.; Jenner, Edward; Kelly, P. B.; Kepler, Aaron Conrad; Lynch, Charles O.; Manning, Peggy Sheets; Martin, John W.; Miller, Charles F.; Musser, Andrew J.; Miller, J. R.; Rohrer, Willis; Ross, Betsy; Schuneman, Ray; Skiles, John D.; Slaymaker, R. M.; Smith, Lynn A.; Smith, Marjorie A.; Stauffer, Sarah Ann; Stumpf, Ed; Suydam, Henry; Tobias, Richard J.; Yecker, Paul C.; Rowe, Ceylon; Landes, Lizzie; Stehman, Henry L.

Subjects: Advertising; Ephemera; Advertising fliers; Fliers (Ephemera)

Search Terms: A&P; A. F. Huber Food Store; Advertisements; Advertising; Advertising fliers; Announcements; Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Aunt Betty's Playhouse; Big Boy Restaurants; Boston Insurance Company; Brochures; Brownstown, West Earl Twp.; Business; Christmas carols; Clarion Steam Printing House; Clipper Magazine; Colonial Theatre; Columbia; Columbia Flour Mills; Columbia Herald Job Printing Office; Columbian Printing Company; Cope Brothers; Dr. Raub's Egg White Soap; Drawings; E. H. Gochnauer and Sons; East Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Ed Stumpf's Service Stations; Engle and Hambright; Ephemera; Express Steam Printers; Finding aids; Finks Baked Products; Flyers; Gardner and Craver; Gates Dental Company, Inc.; Glitsch' Imperial Russian Mustard; Grandview Heights; Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company; Harrison Brothers and Company; Heinitsh Furniture Company; Hershey and Groff; Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. (Maryland); Invitations; John D. Skiles, Dry Goods and Clothing; John Herr's Mill; Kelly Cadillac; Kunkel and Brother; L. B. Herr & Son; Lakeland Stabling Company; Lancaster; Lancaster Advertiser's Club; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Chemical Company; Lancaster Country Store; Lancaster County Heritage Magazine; Lancaster Dispensing Company; Lancaster Outdoor Advertising Company; Lime Spring Farm; Lorillard Tobacco Company; Lynch Drop Center Fifth Wheel and Gear Connections; Manuscript groups; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Mill Bridge Village & Camp Resort; Mills; Moderne Manor; Musselman and Slaymaker; New Holland, Earl Twp.; Pacquin's Dentist's and Physician's hand cream; Peach Bottom Slate Mining Company; Pennsylvania Salt Company; Pequea Lime; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Place Marie; Restaurants; Restore 'N More; Rohrerstown, East Hempfield Twp.; Russo Answer-Phone Service; Sayres, Scheid & Sweeton; Steinman Hardware; Stockyard Inn; Stores; Sunday News; Trivers Clothes; Trout and Shank; F. W. Woolworth Co.; H. L. Stehman and Co.; Heitshu's Drug Store

Extent: 1 box, 13 folders, .2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0153

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Business and Industry Collection (MG0107); Invoice and Receipt Collection (MG0253); Billheads from the Commissioners' Orders for Payment Collection (MG0182); Business Letterhead Collection (MG0254)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Advertising and Promotional Collection (MG0153), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-153

Other Number: MG-153

Classification: MG0153

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was originally cataloged in 1998 and the finding aid is updated as items are added. Added to database 25 August 2021.

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History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union, and Snyder : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8536

Date of Publication: 1886.

Call Number: 974.84 H673 v. 1; 974.84 H673 v. 2

Responsibility: edited by F. Ellis and A.N. Hungerford.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Everts, Peck & Richards,

Date of Publication: 1886.

Physical Description: 2 v., [27] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents: v. 1. General history -- Mifflin County -- Juniata County. v. 2. Perry County -- Union County -- Snyder County.

Subjects: Susquehanna Valley (Pa.) - History.; Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - History.; Mifflin County (Pa.) - History.; Mifflin County (Pa.) - Biography.; Juniata County (Pa.) - History.; Juniata County (Pa.) - Biography.; Perry County (Pa.) - History.; Perry County (Pa.) - Biography.; Union County (Pa.) - History.; Union County (Pa.) - Biography.; Snyder County (Pa.) - History.; Snyder County (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Ellis, Franklin,; Hungerford, Austin N.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.84 H673 v. 1; 974.84 H673 v. 2

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The Indians of Berks County, Pa., being a summary of all the tangible records of the aborigines of Berks County, and containing cuts and descriptions of the varieties of relics found within the county

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5484

Websites

A history of Bethany Charge of the Reformed Church : in Lancaster County, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3261

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16919

Lancaster County Papers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15602

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3954

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18004

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16047

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Archive

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Archive

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History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union, and Snyder : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8536