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Williams' Lancaster city and county directory for 1896 : including a classified general and business directory of Lancaster city and the boroughs of Adamstown, Akron, Christiana, Columbia, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Lititz, Manheim, Marietta, Mount Joy, New Holland, Quarryville and Washington; and a general and business directory of the townships of Lancaster County ... Also an appendix, containing a list of county, city and borough officers, churches, societies, etc

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16994

Date of Publication: 1896

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1896 reprint

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: J.E. Williams : On sale at John Baer's Sons,

Date of Publication: 1896

Physical Description: xxiv, 33-727 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Reprint of original

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

Additional Author: Williams, J. E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1896 reprint

Travels in the years 1791 and 1792 in Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont; journals of John Lincklaen, agent of the Holland land company

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4300

Author: Lincklaen, John,

Date of Publication: 1897.

Call Number: 974.80091 L736

Responsibility: with a biographical sketch and notes.

Author: Lincklaen, John,

Place of Publication: New York, London

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons,

Date of Publication: 1897.

Physical Description: 1 p. Ã¸., xi, 162, 4 p. ports., fold. maps, facsim. 22 cm.

Notes: 500 copies printed.; Edited by Helen L. Fairchild.; "List of principal authorities consulted": p. ix-xi.

Subjects: Holland Purchase.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel.; New York (State) - Description and travel.; Vermont - Description and travel.

Additional Author: Fairchild, Helen L.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80091 L736

Celebrate Ephrata 2016 : a tour of historic places

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20534

Date of Publication: [2016]

Call Number: 728.37 C392

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: [Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County] ,

Date of Publication: [2016]

Physical Description: 38 p. : ill. 28 cm.

Subjects: Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Architecture - Pennsylvania - Ephrata; Ephrata (Pa.) - Tours.; Ephrata (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 728.37 C392

Historic Manheim : A book of postcards 2012

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Corporate Author: Manheim (Pa.) Historical Society.

Date of Publication: 2012.

Call Number: 974.815 MANB H673

Corporate Author: Manheim (Pa.) Historical Society.

Place of Publication: Manheim, Pa. : The Society

Date of Publication: 2012.

Physical Description: unpaged : ill. ; 10 x 20 cm.

Notes: Spiral binding.; Designed for removal of each postcard for mailing.

Subjects: Manheim borough, (Lancaster Co.) Pa. - History.; Manheim borough, (Lancaster Co.) Pa. - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 MANB H673

Ed Nolt's New Holland baler : "everything just went right"

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Author: Shirk, Allan W.

Date of Publication: 2015.

Call Number: 669.1 S558

Alternate Title: New Holland baler; Everything just went right

Responsibility: by Allan W. Shirk.

ISBN: 9781601264640; 160126464X

Author: Shirk, Allan W.

Place of Publication: Morgantown, PA

Publisher: Masthof Press,

Date of Publication: 2015.

Physical Description: x,131 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes index.

Contents: Chapters: The formative years --Working on the Nolt special --Moving beyond Farmersville --The New Holland bonanza --"It changed everything" --The later years --1964 interview --Other stories.

Summary: "Subtitled "Everything Just Went Right," this book shows how Ed Nolt's early life shaped him and that the resources and relationships he formed allowed him to develop the baler, in spite of the struggles he endured. Ed Nolt's distinctive skills, personal habits, and fertile mind made him a remarkable inventor admired by engineers and entrepreneurs who recognized that his traditional Mennonite background and values were not impediments but were real resources for his success. His inventions helped to cement New Holland's reputation in the farm equipment industry." [from the publisher]

Subjects: Nolt, Edwin B., - 1910-1992.; Agricultural machinery industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Farm equipment - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; New Holland (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 669.1 S558

How the New Holland school house was built

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1898

house was built / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Schools--Pennsylvania--New Holland--History. New Holland (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1897-98 Description: [181]-212 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1898

Physical Description: [181]-212 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 7

Subjects: Schools - Pennsylvania - New Holland; New Holland (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 2, number 7 (1898), p. 181-212Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.2