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A review of the political conflict in America, from the commencement of the anti-slavery agitation to the close of southern reconstruction; comprising also a resume of the career of Thaddeus Stevens: being a survey of the struggle of parties which destroyed the republic and virtually monarchized its government

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1136
Author
Harris, Alexander,
Date of Publication
1876.
Call Number
923.2 S846ha
  1 website  
Responsibility
By Alexander Harris.
Author
Harris, Alexander,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
T.H. Pollock,
Date of Publication
1876.
Physical Description
vii, [9]-517 p. 24 cm.
Notes
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868.
United States - History - 1849-1877.
United States - Politics and government - 1849-1877.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 S846ha
Websites
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Martial deeds of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4903
Author
Bates, Samuel P.
Edition
Author's ed.
Date of Publication
1875.
Call Number
974.8033 B329m
Responsibility
By Samuel P. Bates ...
Author
Bates, Samuel P.
Edition
Author's ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
T.H. Davis & Co.,
Date of Publication
1875.
Physical Description
1116 p. incl. front. pl., port., maps (1 fold.) 26 cm.
Notes
A history of Pennsylvania during the Civil War.
Contents
pt. I. General history.--pt. II. Biography.--pt. III. Civil and miscellaneous.
Subjects
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863.
Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Pennsylvania - Biography.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
974.8033 B329m
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U.S. Grant and the colored people. : His wise, just, practical, and effective friendship thoroughly vindicated by incontestable facts in his record from 1862 to 1872. : Words of truth and soberness! He who runs may read and understand!! Be not deceived, only truth can endure!!!

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12871
Author
Douglass, Frederick,
Date of Publication
1872
Call Number
973.82 D737
  1 website  
Author
Douglass, Frederick,
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
Published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee,
Date of Publication
1872
Physical Description
8 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Letter addressed "To the colored people of the United States." Signed: Frederick Douglass. Washington, July 17, 1872.
Caption title.
Published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee. Cf. List of documents published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee. Speech of the Postmaster General, at Jackson, Mich. ... Washington, D.C., 1872, p. [8].
Text printed in two columns.
Summary
A brief address in the midst of the 1872 election campaign designed to document Ulysses S. Grant's support for African American liberation and civil rights. Douglass hoped thereby to rally the black vote for Grant.
Subjects
Grant, Ulysses S. - 1822-1885.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-)
African Americans
Freedmen
Campaign literature - United States - Specimens.
Additional Corporate Author
Union Republican Congressional Committee.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.82 D737
Websites
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The American statesman: a political history, exhibiting the origin, nature and practical operation of constitutional government in the United States; the rise and progress of parties, the legislation relating to all matters of national importance, with views of distinguished statesmen on questions of foreign and domestic policy

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo683
Author
Young, Andrew W.
Edition
Rev. and enl.
Date of Publication
[1877]
Call Number
973 Y68
Responsibility
By Andrew W. Young ...
Author
Young, Andrew W.
Edition
Rev. and enl.
Place of Publication
New York [etc.]
Publisher
H.S. Goodspeed & Company
Date of Publication
[1877]
Physical Description
xxxv, [21]-1594, 70 p. 10 port. (incl. front.) 24 cm.
Subjects
United States - Politics and government.
United States - History.
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1865.
United States - History - 1783-1865.
United States - Constitutional history.
Additional Author
Ferris, George T.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973 Y68
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Heroes of three wars: Comprising a series of biographical sketches of the most distinguised soldiers of the War of the Revolution, the War with Mexico, and the War for the Union, who have contributed their valor to establish and perpetuate the Republic of the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo922
Author
Glazier, Willard W.,
Date of Publication
1878.
Call Number
920.1 G553
  1 website  
Author
Glazier, Willard W.,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Hubbard Bros.
Date of Publication
1878.
Physical Description
450 p. illus.
Subjects
United States. - Army - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
920.1 G553
Websites
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Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21608
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1777.
Call Number
Book 587 1777
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Articles of Confederation
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
Printed by Francis Bailey,
Date of Publication
1777.
Physical Description
26 pages ; 30 cm
Notes
Title within ornamental border; symbolic woodcut (Christ on the Emmaus Road?) at head of first p. of text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeaates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwrittne Index precedes text.
Evans
Subjects
United States. - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history - United States - Sources - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783 - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Paper bindings (Binding)
Stabbing (Binding)
Chainlines (Paper)
Catchwords (Printing)
Printers' devices (Publishing)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Autographs (Provenance)
Early works.
Sources.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1777
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Biographical sketches of our candidates : James Black

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14123
Author
McFarland, George Foster,
Date of Publication
ca 1872.
Call Number
923.4 B636mc
Responsibility
by Geo. F. McFarland.
Author
McFarland, George Foster,
Place of Publication
[s.l
Publisher
s.n.]
Date of Publication
ca 1872.
Physical Description
16 p. : parts i.j. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes short biographies of Rev. John Russell, Hon. Simeon B. Chase, Joseph Henderson, Barry Spangler. Also includes an address by Geo. F. McFarland to the voters of Pennsylvania, and the Prohibition Campaign song.
At head of title: Prohibition Party of Pennsylvania.
Campaign Paper no. 2.
Subjects
Prohibition Party of Pennsylvania - Campaign literature.
Prohibitionists - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.4 B636mc
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Memoirs of Miss Henrietta B. Miller : Late teacher of Fairview School, who died at Waynesboro, Penna. Dec. 23, 1874

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2016
Author
Miller, Henrietta B.
Date of Publication
1877
Responsibility
[Henrietta B. Miller]
Author
Miller, Henrietta B.
Place of Publication
Waynesboro
Publisher
[the author] ,
Date of Publication
1877
Physical Description
160 p. 14 cm.
Notes
Gilded edging. Publisher's binding of navy cloth, stamped with vegetal motifs in the edges on front and back. Back cover, center, stamped with a banner that reads "the lord is my shepherd / I shall not want".
Transferred from Objects collection 2023. Former accession number: 1976.019.12
Subjects
Education - United States
Women - United States
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Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11825
Author
Devens, R. M.
Date of Publication
1879.
Call Number
973 D489
  2 websites  
Author
Devens, R. M.
Place of Publication
Springfield, Mass
Publisher
C. A. Nichols,
Date of Publication
1879.
Physical Description
1004 p. illus., ports.
Subjects
United States - History.
United States - History - 1783-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973 D489
Websites
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The underground railroad. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers, of the road

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2041
Author
Still, William,
Edition
Rev. ed.
Date of Publication
[c1871]
Call Number
973.7115 S857
Responsibility
By William Still . . . Illustrated with 70 fine engravings by Bensell, Schell and others, and portraits from photographs from life . . .
Author
Still, William,
Edition
Rev. ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa., Cincinnati, O. [etc.]
Publisher
People's Publishing Company
Date of Publication
[c1871]
Physical Description
780, [5] p. incl. front., illus. plates, ports. 25 cm.
Notes
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Underground railroad.
Fugitive slaves - United States.
Slavery - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 S857
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The Pennsylvania gazette. : Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22183
Date of Publication
1770.
Call Number
Newspaper 23 1772
Newspaper 24 1773
Newspaper 25 1776-1777
Newspaper 26 1784-1785
Newspaper 27 1786-1787
Newspaper 28 1788-1790
Newspaper 29 1995-1798
Alternate Title
Supplement to the Pennsylvania gazette
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by David Hall, and William Sellers, at the New Printing-Office, near the Market.],
Date of Publication
1770.
Physical Description
[6] p. : orn. ; 41 cm.
Notes
LHO has in seven volumes, Jan 2, 1772, no. 2245 - Dec 30, 1772, no. 2297; Jan 6, 1773, no. 2298 - Dec 29, 1773, no. 2349; Jan 3, 1776, no. 2457 -Sep 16, 1777, no., 2533; Jan 7 1784, no 2901 - Dec 28, no. 2900; Jan 4, 1786m bi, 2901 - Dedc 26m 1687, no. 3004; Jan 2, 1788, no 3005 - Dec 20, 1790, no 3161; and Jan 7, 1795, no. 3364 - Dec 27, no. 3559.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signatuare at top of some front flyleaf and some individual issues.
Newspapers numbers 23,-29 as asssigned by LHO.
Newspaper 29 spine label misnamed Phila Gazette Weekly.
Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - To 1775 - Periodicals.
United States.
Periodicals.
Periodicals - 18th century.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Typed label affixed to spine (Binding)
Additional Author
Hall, David,
Sellers, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Newspaper 23 1772
Newspaper 24 1773
Newspaper 25 1776-1777
Newspaper 26 1784-1785
Newspaper 27 1786-1787
Newspaper 28 1788-1790
Newspaper 29 1995-1798
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Addresses at the semi-centiennial celebration of the founding of the theological seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States : held at Lancaster, Pa., November 5th 1875

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17901
Author
Weiser, C. Z.
Date of Publication
1876.
Call Number
285.8 T391a
Responsibility
[by C. Z. Weiser].
Author
Weiser, C. Z.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Reformed Church Publication Board,
Date of Publication
1876.
Physical Description
85 p.
Notes
Attributed to C. Z. Weiser.
Subjects
Theology.
Education (Higher) - United States
Reformed Church - United States.
Additional Corporate Author
Reformed Church
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
285.8 T391a
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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
  1 website  
Responsibility
by the author of Common sense.
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Styner and Cist, in Second-street, six doors above Arch-street. Where also may be had no. I. and II.,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Physical Description
[25]-56 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes
Signed: Common sense; dated: Philadelphia, April 19, 1777.
On the verso of the t.p. is a proclamatin by General Washington concerning deserters, dated April 6, 1777; also a general order, dated April 8, 1777.
Summary
One of Thomas Paine's 16 "American Crisis " patriotic essays written during the American Revolution between 1776 and 1783.
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution - Contemporary opinion.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
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M. Valentin Wudrians Creuz-Schule : In sich haltend Eine schöne christliche Unterweisung von dem lieben Creuz ; vor alle Creuz-Brüder und Schwestern ... Und nachdeme viele im Creuz und Leyden geübte fromme Christen auch noch ein Gespräch mit Jesu und der Seelen zu haben, inniglich verlangt; Als ist ein solches zu Ende jeden Capitels mit eingedruckt worden

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19222
Author
Wudrian, Valentin.
Date of Publication
1755
Call Number
242 S897 1755
Alternate Title
Creuz-Schule
Author
Wudrian, Valentin.
Place of Publication
Stuttgart
Publisher
Erhard,
Date of Publication
1755
Physical Description
[8] Bl., 656 S.
Notes
Note laid in book: "Hans Ludwig Boish had this printed in Philadelphia (condition not great but desirable bk.)" World Catalog has no Philadelphia imprint with this pagination.
Full vellum tooled on both covers; partial clasps.
Subjects
Devotional literature, German.
Suffering - Early works to 1800.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
242 S897 1755
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A history of the origin of the appellation Keystone State as applied to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : together with extracts from many authorities relative to the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress, July 4th, 1776 ; to which is appended the New Constitution of Pennsylvania with an alphabetical contents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4121
Author
Morton, John S.,
Date of Publication
1874.
Call Number
974.8029 P415
Author
Morton, John S.,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger,
Date of Publication
1874.
Physical Description
190 p. ; 19 cm.
Subjects
Morton, John, - 1724-1777.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8029 P415
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In answer to the letter of General W.T. Sherman. Speech of Hon. John A. Logan, of Illinois

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11243
Author
Logan, John Alexander,
Date of Publication
1870.
Call Number
973.891 B628
Responsibility
delivered in the House of Representatives, March 29, 1870.
Author
Logan, John Alexander,
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, Reporters and Printers of the debates of Congress,
Date of Publication
1870.
Physical Description
14 p. 23 cm.
Subjects
United States. - Army.
Additional Author
Sherman, William T.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.891 B628
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Deficiency appropriation bill

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11246
Author
Rainey, Joseph Hayne,
Date of Publication
1872]
Call Number
973.891 B628
Responsibility
Speech of Hon. Joseph H. Rainey, of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, March 5, 1872.
Author
Rainey, Joseph Hayne,
Place of Publication
[Washington
Date of Publication
1872]
Physical Description
8 p. 24 cm.
Notes
Caption title.
Subjects
African Americans - South Carolina.
Reconstruction.
United States - Appropriations and expenditures, 1872.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.891 B628
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Oration by Mr. John W. Forney : at the 101st celebration of American Independence, July 4, 1877, in the International Exhibition Building, Fairmount Park, by invitation of the Board of Managers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11976
Author
Forney, John W.
Date of Publication
1877.
Call Number
814 F727i
Author
Forney, John W.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Vallette, Haslam,
Date of Publication
1877.
Physical Description
23 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Fourth of July orations.
United States - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
814 F727i
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The Tariff and Pennsylvania : speech of Hon. Washington Townsend, of Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of Representatives, January 27, 1872

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14686
Author
Townsend, Washington
Date of Publication
1872.
Call Number
973.891 B628
Author
Townsend, Washington
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey ,
Date of Publication
1872.
Physical Description
13 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Tariff - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.891 B628
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A register of members of the Moravian church : and of persons attached to said church in this country and abroad, between 1727 and 1754

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15083
Author
Reincke, Abraham,
Date of Publication
1873.
Call Number
284.6 R364
Responsibility
transcribed from a ms. in the handwriting of the Rev. Abraham Reincke, to be found in the archives of the Moravian church Bethleham, Pa.
Author
Reincke, Abraham,
Place of Publication
Nazareth, Pa
Publisher
[Moravian Historical Society],
Date of Publication
1873.
Physical Description
p. 285-426 ; 23 cm.
Series
Moravian Historical Society. Transactions ; pt. 7.
Subjects
Moravians.
Moravians in the United States.
Moravians in Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Reichel, William Cornelius,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Church Record
Call Number
284.6 R364
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