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A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family. Who were surprised by the Indians and taken from their farm, on Mahoning creek, in Penn township. Northampton county, not far from where Fort Allen was built, on the frontier of Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1780

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Author: Walton, William,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Call Number: 974.822 N218

Author: Walton, William,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Priv. print.,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Physical Description: 1 p.l., 38 p. 24 cm.

Notes: 150 copies printed.

Subjects: Gilbert, Benjamin, - 1711-1780.; Indians of North America

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.822 N218

Indian tribes of Lancaster County

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1897

. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Names, Geographical--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Names, Indian--North America. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [85]-88 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal

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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: 1897

Physical Description: [85]-88 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 3

Subjects: Names, Geographical - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Names, Indian - North America.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 3 (1897), p. 85-88Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1

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Picture-writing of the American Indians

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Author: Mallery, Garrick,

Date of Publication: 1972, c1893.

Call Number: 970.1 M253

Responsibility: by Garrick Mallery.

ISBN: 0486228428 :; 9780486228426

Author: Mallery, Garrick,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Dover Publications,

Date of Publication: 1972, c1893.

Physical Description: x, 460 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Reprint of the 1893 ed.; Library has photocopy of section dealing with Pennsylvania only.(unpaged); Foreward by J. W. Powell.

Summary: Of the early reports of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, one of the most significant is Col. Garrick Mallery's report on the picture-writing of the American Indians. Except for a special section on petroglyphs (rock-writing), most of the examples are roughly contemporary with the writing of the report and were gathered by ethnologists, explorers, and expeditions to reservations. As such, the emphasis is on the meaning of the pictures, and the differences between the styles of picture-writing of the various tribes. This book was written in 1893. For anthropologists, sociologists, historians, or artists, Col. Mallery's account is still the basic study of North American Indian picture-writing, Its wealth of pictorial material is not to be found anywhere else. And since most of the material was collected by contemporaries while picturing was still an important method of communication, the ethnologists were often assisted by the Indians themselves in decoding the pictographs and discovering the wealth of information that was conveyed by them.