1771-1921 Outline history and program : a souvenir of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Penryn, Pa., September 18 to 23, 1921
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 41, number 2 & 3 (1937), p. 25-92Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 40, number 5 (1936), p. 79-92Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 37, number 4 (1933), p. 65-97Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.37,40,41
The George Steinman Papers, Series 1 contains an album, compiled by George Steinman, with many photographs of buildings, tombstones, monuments and scenes of Lancaster city and county. Ephemera and newspaper articles are among the photographs. Represented in the album are Postlethwaite's Tavern, hotels and taverns, fire houses, the Conestoga massacre, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, Stehli Silk Mill, and schools. The four boxes contain orginal correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera or and pertaining to the same subject matter as the album.
The George Steinman Papers, Series 2 is a collection of original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera primarily compiled by George Steinman. The contents of Series 2 represent Lancaster city and county events, prominent citizens, buildings, monuments, churches, cemeteries, schools, and businesses. Most of what Steinman collected relates to 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania, highlighting Lancaster and Philadelphia. One of the key events highlighted is the Revolutionary war; with documents and images related to Philadelphia, George Washington, the Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Riot and to various buildings in early Lancaster; including but not limited to the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite's Tavern. Also included in the collection is currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1764, and Confederate States currency and bonds.
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"Mr. Geo. Steinman who started this collection of pictures. This book was presented to the Lanc. Co. Historical Society after his death by Mr. Geo. S. Franklin."
John M. Gibson is recorded as the donor, 1968, in LancasterHistory's accession records.
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Other Numbers
MG-184
Classification
MG0184
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Series 1 processed and finding aid prepared PK and MSH, 2008. Series 2 finding aid prepared by JE, 2018. Added to database 20 July 2021.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
By-laws of Lamberton Lodge, No. 476 free and accepted Masons of Lancaster, PA : together with extracts from the Ahiman Rezon, decisions, a short sketch of Masonry in Lancaster County, and a list of officers, past Masters, and members
A memorial of the 175th Anniversary of the Founding of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania: with an addendum at the time of the one hundredred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the corner-stone laying by Aden B. MacIntosh
A history of fifty years of banking in Christiana, Pennsylvania : commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Christiana National Bank, October 21, 1953
By C. Nevin Heller. Published in connection with the celebration of the two-hundreth anniversary of the dedication, on June 20th, 1736, of the Old Log church.--
A history of the Little Britain Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1804 to 1954 : an address at the Sesqui centennial celebration, August 28, 1954
By-laws of Lodge No. 43, free and accepted masons, of Lancaster, Pa. : together with extracts of the warrant of the lodge, a short sketch of masonry in Lancaster County, and a list of officers, past-officers and members of Lodge No. 43 ; approved by Grand Lodge, June 6, 1956
