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Fraktur

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Collection: Fraktur Collection

Object ID: 2004.743

Date Range: c. 1902

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Collection: Fraktur Collection

Description: Color-printed Marriage Certificate on heavy tan paper. Inside border on brown field is an overarching banner with "Jesus Christus along with 3 bible verses. Surround a white field with text are 5 color scenes in circles and ovals along with flowers. Text block has a small angel with putti flanked by "Traus" and "Schein" (Marriage Certificate). Infilled in cursive with black ink. Bridal couple are Joseph W. Houk and Marie A. Schleeger, both of Columbia, married 30 June 1902 in St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in Columbia. Witnesses were Martin Schwarz, Louis Schleeger, Frederick Schleeger and August Witte. It is signed at the bottom "Harrisburg den 5ten Februar 1902 / Eduard H. Paar, / Ev. Luth. Pastor." Below the outside border is "No. 104" at left and "Verlag von Ernst Kaufmann, 330 Pearl Street, New York." at right. Reverse side has "White & gilt / 85" written in pencil.; Printed in New York City by Ernst Kaufmann. Infilled in Columbia or Harrisburg, likely by pastor Eduard H. Paar.

Date Range: c. 1902

Year Range From: 1890

Year Range To: 1902

Made By: Kaufmann, Ernst

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Cabinet: Cabinet 2

Storage Shelf: Shelf 5

Storage Container: Box 0537

People: Houk, Joseph W.; Schleeger, Marie A.; Schleeger, Louis; Schleeger, Frederick; Schwarz, Martin; Witte, August; Paar, Edward H.

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents); Marriage records

Search Terms: Fraktur; Marriage certificates; Marriage records

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Marriage Certificate

Material: Paper, Ink

Height (cm): 40.64

Height (ft): 1.3333333333

Height (in): 16

Width (cm): 30.48

Width (ft): 1

Width (in): 12

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2017-10-17

Condition Notes: Dark smudges at top center. Brown liquid stains along bottom and upper right corner. Along left edge are two minor creases and one small tear. Reverse shows acid burn from backing board while framed as well as brown soil around all edges. Liquid stains evident particularly in bottom corners. Dark smudges along top.

Object ID: 2004.743

Notes: Appraised by Rev. Fred Weiser, 2 Sept 1988. This certificate designated #43.

Accession Number: 2004.743

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Principia legis & aequitatis : being an alphabetical collection of maxims, principles or rules, definitions and memorable sayings in law and equity

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Author: Branch, Thomas.

Date of Publication: MDCCLIII. [1753]

Call Number: Book 222 1753

Alternate Title: Principia legis et aequitatis

Author: Branch, Thomas.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by Henry Lintot, law-printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, for J. Worrall, at the Dove in Bell-Yard, near Lincoln's Inn.,

Date of Publication: MDCCLIII. [1753]

Physical Description: [2], v, [1], 124 pages ; 18 cm (12mo)

Notes: Preface signed: T.B. [i.e. Thomas Branch].; Preliminaries in English, maxims in Latin and English.; Signatures: Aâ´ B-Lâ¶ MÂ².; Bookseller's advertisements on p. [2] at beginning.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 222 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC (RLIN),

Subjects: Legal maxims - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Legal maxims - Early works to 1800.; Legal maxims.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Booksellers' advertisements - Great Britain - 18th century.; Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Lintot, Henry,; Worrall, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 222 1753

Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Responsibility: Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;

Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Physical Description: 4 reels ; 35 mm.

Notes: Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.; Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.; Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.

Additional Author: Britton, William W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

The grounds and rudiments of law and equity, alphabetically digested: containing a collection of rules or maxims, with the doctrine upon them, illustrated by various cases extracted from the books and records, to evince that these principles have been the foundation upon which the judges and sages of the law have built their solemn resolutions and determinations

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Edition: 2d ed.

Date of Publication: 1751.

Call Number: Book 695 1751

Responsibility: The whole designed to reduce the knowledge of the laws of England to a more regular science, and to form them into a proper digest for the service of the nobility, clergy, gentlemen in the commission of the peace, and private gentlemen, as well as the professors and students of the law. With three tables. First, of the rudiments and grounds. Second, of the new cases. Third, of principal matters.

Edition: 2d ed.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: T. Osborne,

Date of Publication: 1751.

Physical Description: 16 preliminary leaves, 372, [16] pages 32 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book 695 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law - Great Britain.; Equity - Great Britain.; Legal maxims - Great Britain.; Equity.; Law.; Legal maxims.; Great Britain.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 695 1751

Two Buchanan letters

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1905

. I believe he has already been introduced to you; but lest you may have forgotten him, I give him this testimonial. "With sentiments of affectionate respect "I remain sincerely your friend "JAMES BUCHANAN. "General Andrew Jackson." �The Caldwell family of Lancaster came to Pennsylvania during the

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [37]-42 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 2

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Correspondence.; Caldwell, James A.; Barton, George W., - 1807-1851.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 2 (1905), p. 37-42Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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St. James' Church records

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Author: Robinson, Mary N.

Date of Publication: 1901

ST, JAMES' CHURCH RECORDS, Those who care to delve amid the records of the past find much therein to interest them. Whatever be the motive which prompts research, be it for personal advantage or otherwise, the turning over of these old annals brings with it its own full and suffi- cient reward. Old

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Responsibility: by Mrs. M. N. Robinson.

Author: Robinson, Mary N.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1901

Physical Description: [78]-88 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 3/4

Subjects: St. James Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.); Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Church buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Contained In: Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.5

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A Buchanan myth

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1906

county, Ky., in 1813, "changed the whole course of Ameri- can history." Briefly stated, the nar- rative goes,in that year the late James Buchanan, afterwards President, lo- cated at Elizabethtown,Hardin county, Ky., to practice law, his choice being directed by the fact that his father owned a tract of

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Responsibility: by Hon. W. U. Hensel.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1906

Physical Description: [169]-172 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 5

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 10, number 5 (1906), p. 169-172Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.10