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Farming, always farming : a photographic essay of rural Pennsylvania German land and life

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Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Responsibility: made by H. Winslow Fegley ; [introduction, Scott T. Swank ; captions, Alan G. Keiser, Frederick S. Weiser].

Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Place of Publication: Birdsboro, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ;

Notes: "Photographs from the collection of the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania."; Bibliography: p. 30.

Subjects: Fegley, H. Winslow - 1871-1944 - Photography collections.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Berks County; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Pennsylvania - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Swank, Scott T.; Keyser, Alan G.; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Additional Corporate Author: Schwenkfelder Library.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Scrapbook

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Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Amish Culture

Object ID: MG0434_Box021

Date Range: 1988/04 - 1995/07

Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Amish Culture

Description: This scrapbook discusses many aspects about the Lancaster County Amish community. Several well-known Amish customs are mentioned throughout the newspaper clippings such as Rumspringa, barn raising, marriage season, and education. Other articles contain information about funeral customs, past-time activities, agriculture and other occupations. An article of special interest surrounds two Amish men arrested for religious beliefs.

Date Range: 1988/04 - 1995/07

Creation Date: April 1988 - July 1995

Year Range From: 1988

Year Range To: 1995

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 22

Subjects: Agriculture--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Amish; Amish farmers; Amish women; Amish--Customs and practices; Amish--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States; Amish--Marriage customs and rites; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--Education; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--20th century; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--Economic conditions; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--Social life and customs; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--Public Opinion; Barns; Carriages; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Funeral rites and ceremonies; Horticulture; Lancaster (Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.)--History, local; Rumspringa; Scrapbooks

Search Terms: Amish; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Newspaper clippings; Scrapbooks; Women

Extent: 1 volume

Object Name: Scrapbook

Language: English

Object ID: MG0434_Box021

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Ferster, H. V. the Education of Amish Children. Buffalo, New York: Typescript, 1980.; Amish Traditions. Call Number: 289.71 Y54; The Amish of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Call Number: 289.71 S819; Amish Beliefs, Customs and Discipline. Call Number: 289.71 L643

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

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions. Please request this item by contacting Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to your visit.

Copyright: This item 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.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-434

Other Number: MG-434, Box 21

Classification: MG0434

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Cataloged by CRB, October 2007. Added to database, 24 September 2023.; Previously housed in the Scrapbook Collection, Book 158.; This project was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, ME60112, 2007-2008.

Growing up Amish

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Author: Ammon, Richard.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 813.53 A523a

Responsibility: Richard Ammon ; illustrated with photographs, maps, and drawings.

ISBN: 068931387X; 9780689313875

Author: Ammon, Richard.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Atheneum,

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: ix, 102 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 97-98.

Contents: Anna's day begins -- School -- Jacob Ammann -- Back to school -- Pennsylvania Dutch -- The rest of the school day -- Home -- Amish foods -- Evening -- Church -- Sundays when they don't have church -- Spring -- School picnic -- Summer -- Autumn -- Winter.

Summary: Focuses on the homes, work, and schooling of a Pennsylvania Dutch community to depict the Amish way of life.

Subjects: Amish - Juvenile literature.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Juvenile literature.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Social life and customs - Juvenile literature

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 813.53 A523a

Autobiography of William Michael : Part I

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Author: Michael, William.

Date of Publication: 1921

a soldier's life and return to his family. He had been but a short time at home when he was attacked with the nervous fever which in a few days deprived him of his life. The property he left to sustain his family was altogether in cash, which he had put on interest. Payments were made to my mother

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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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Foodways in the northeast

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Date of Publication: c1984.

Call Number: 394.12 F686

Responsibility: editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes.

Place of Publication: [Boston, Mass.]

Publisher: Boston University,

Date of Publication: c1984.

Physical Description: 144 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Annual proceedings / The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; 1982

Notes: Bibliography: p. 130-139.

Subjects: Food habits - New England; Food habits - New York (State); New England - Social life and customs - To 1775 - Congresses.; New England - Antiquities - Congresses.; New York (State) - Social life and customs - To 1775 - Congresses.; New York (State) - Antiquities - Congresses.

Additional Author: Benes, Peter.; Benes, Jane Montague.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 394.12 F686

Farming and folk society : threshing among the Pennsylvania Germans

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Author: Borie, Beauveau,

Date of Publication: c1986.

Call Number: 631.56 B734

Responsibility: by Beauveau Borie IV ; foreword by Don Yoder edited by Gregory Sharrow.

ISBN: 0835716775 (alk. paper)

Author: Borie, Beauveau,

Place of Publication: Ann Arbor, Mich

Publisher: UMI Research Press,

Date of Publication: c1986.

Physical Description: xvi, 139 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: American material culture and folklife

Notes: Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1974.; Includes index.; Bibliography: p. [111]-136.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Threshing - Pennsylvania.; Farm life - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Sharrow, Gregory.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 631.56 B734

Cazenove journal, 1794 : a record of the journey of Theophile Cazenove through New Jersey and Pennsylvania

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Author: Cazenove, Theophile,

Date of Publication: 1922.

Call Number: 917.3 C386

Responsibility: (translated from the French) edited by Rayner Wickersham Kelsey.

Author: Cazenove, Theophile,

Place of Publication: Haverford, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania History Press,

Date of Publication: 1922.

Physical Description: iivx (i.e. xvii), 103 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Series: Haverford college studies ;

Notes: Includes index.

Summary: Theophile Cazenove (1740 to 1811) was a Dutch financier and an agent of the Holland Land Company. He spent several years in America making investments. The journal offers his observations about industry, farming, commerce and life in the new American nation. The itinerary listed in this book shows extensive travel in Lancaster and surrounding counties. Several taverns are listed in the itinerary: Wilson's, McIntyre's, Ealer's, Trexler's, Schaeffer's, McCracken's, Thompson's, Russell's, McCleland's, Fornistak's, and Miller's.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.; New Jersey - Description and travel - Personal narratives.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Kelsey, Rayner Wickersham,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.3 C386

The Pennsylvania Dutch : craftsmen and farmers

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Author: Costabel, Eva Deutsch.

Date of Publication: 1986.

Call Number: 813.53 C837

Responsibility: written and illustrated by Eva Deutsch Costabel.

ISBN: 0689312814 :; 9780689312816

Author: Costabel, Eva Deutsch.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Atheneum,

Date of Publication: 1986.

Physical Description: 48 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.

Summary: Describes the crafts of Pennsylvania Dutch living in a rural atmosphere. Includes making quilts, pottery, and tin and tole ware. "Eva Costabel introduces the reader to the life of a typical Pennsylvania Dutch farming family of the colony and to the many crafts produced by the German settlers htere, including quilting, pottery-making, tombstone-carving, woodworking, calligraphy, glass-blowing, and gunsmithing, among others. Her full-color drawings, reflecting the style of the Pennsylvania Dutch, illustrate their many contributions to American life, art, and crafts." [dust jacket]

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch - Juvenile literature.; Handicraft - Pennsylvania - Juvenile literature.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Handicraft - Pennsylvania.; Folk art, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Juvenile literature.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 813.53 C837

The Story of Lititz, Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: c.1920.

Call Number: 974.815 LITB S887

Place of Publication: Lititz, Pa

Publisher: Ideal Cocoa & Chocolate Co.,

Date of Publication: c.1920.

Physical Description: 20 p. : ill. ; 13 cm.

Subjects: Community life - Pennsylvania - Lititz; Lititz (Pa.) - History.; Lititz (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LITB S887

One Year Lancaster in 1870-1880: A compilation from newspapers with accompanying notes

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Date of Publication: c.1980.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO H465

Responsibility: compiled with comments by George L. Heiges.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: c.1980.

Physical Description: v. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Extractions from the various newspapers of Lancaster, Pa., done a hundred years after the events took place to satisfy the curiousity of the compiler.; Includes index.; Library lacks 1874 and 1875.

Subjects: Newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Intelligencer Journal (Newspaper); Examiner and Express (Newspaper); New Era (Newspaper); American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 1870-1880.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs. - 1870-1880.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 1870--1880.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO H465

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