Search Results - Research Collections

The charter, laws, catalogue of books, list of philosophical instruments, &c. of the Juliana Library-Company, in Lancaster : To which are prefixed, some reflections on the advantages of knowledge; the origin of books and libraries, shewing how they have been encouraged and patronized by the wise and virtuous of every age. : With a short account of its institution, friends and benefactors. ... Published by order of the directors

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18464

Corporate Author: Juliana-Library-Company in Lancaster.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Call Number: 025.31 P544 1766

Corporate Author: Juliana-Library-Company in Lancaster.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by D. Hall, and W. Sellers.,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Physical Description: [4], xi, 12-56 p. ; 21 cm. (4to)

Notes: Evans; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,; Winans, R.B. Book cats.,; The earliest library in Lancaster, known as the "Juliana Library," was established in 1759, under the name of "The Lancaster Library Company." It was the third subscription library established in Pennsylvania. In 1763 it was chartered, and, out of compliment to Lady Juliana Penn, daughter of the Earl of Pomfret, and wife of Thomas Penn, one of the proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania, it was called the Juliana Library. The library at one time had about 800 books on its shelves and was fairly prosperous. Its most flourishing period was from 1760 to 1775.; On back of cover: "#532 Hinkels Sale Mar 31 1920 --$61.00. Purchased by Chas. I. Landis July 14 1920 from Nevin F. McGirr fpr $25."; Marbled wrappers.

Subjects: Juliana Library Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Proprietary libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Subscription libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Libraries.; Library catalogues - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 025.31 P544 1766

Directory of St. Paul's United Church of Christ : Duke and Orange Streets, Lancaster, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18875

Date of Publication: 1973.

Call Number: 285.8 S149L 1973

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: Publisher not identified,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Physical Description: 53 p. ; 15 cm.

Notes: In memory of Daniel H. & Gladys Hess Lackey.

Subjects: St. Paul's United Church of Christ (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.8 S149L 1973

The North Museum : and the natural history tradition of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1743

Date of Publication: 1986

Call Number: 069 K56

Responsibility: W. Fred Kinsey, III ed. ...

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Printed and published by Science Press,

Date of Publication: 1986

Physical Description: 2 p.l., 167, [1] p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Science Press Keepsake ;

Notes: Edition limited to 1,200 copies, of which this is number 820.

Subjects: North Museum (Lancaster, Pa.); Botany - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Geology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Paleontology - Pennsylvania.; Natural history - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Kinsey, W. Fred,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 069 K56

The doctrine of the new birth, : exemplified in the life and religious experience of Onesimus, from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth year of his age, or from the year 1779 to 1793, inclusive. : Also, the visions which he saw concerning the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, in the days when George Washington was the president of the United States of North America, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1792. The visions with several of the special events of his life shall be illustrated with twenty plates, and the whole designed as a defence of the truth of the Gospel, and proof of the immortality of the human soul. Written in twenty letters, and dedicated to Elder Joseph Maylin. Onesimus

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19440

Author: Hewson, John,

Date of Publication: 1839.

Call Number: 248 P544 1839

Author: Hewson, John,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by William F. Rackliff. Corner of George and Swanwick streets.,

Date of Publication: 1839.

Physical Description: 164 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Copyright 1839 by John Hewson.; Error in paging: p. 84 misnumbered 48.; Missing title page through page 2.; Yellow fever in Philadelphia page 156.; Checklist Amer. imprints

Subjects: Immortality.; Yellow fever - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Visions.; Authority; Yellow fever.; Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Half-cloth bindings (Binding) - 1839.; Letters.; Allegories.

Additional Author: Maylim, Joseph.; Rackliff, William F.,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 248 P544 1839

East Petersburg cemeteries : East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery [and] Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20853

Author: Nolt, Herny M.

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 289.7 E13

Responsibility: recorded by Harry M. Nolt.

Author: Nolt, Herny M.

Place of Publication: Photocopy of manuscript and tyepscript

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: unpaged ; map ; 28 cm.

Notes: No index.; East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery, #1a, p. 153 of Rineer's Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.; Trinity United Church of Christ, #3, p. 154 of Rineer's Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.; Listed by rows.

Subjects: East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery (East Petersburg, Pa.) - Cemeteries.; Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery (East Petersburg, Pa) - Cemeteries.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; East Petersburg (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 289.7 E13

Abstract of persons born outside of Pa. or the U.S. from the 1850 census : for Bart Twp., Brecknock Twp., Caernarvon Twp., Colerain Twp., Drumore Twp., East Cocalico Twp., Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster Twp., Little Britain Twp., Manor Twp., Martic Twp., and West Cocalico Twp

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15588

Author: Renkin, G. Louise

Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R413

Responsibility: by G. Louise Rankin.

Author: Renkin, G. Louise

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: Various pagings ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Census districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; United States - Census, 7th, 1850.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R413

Cotton mills of Lancaster City, Pennsylvania : a collection of historical information about cotton from the Colonial Days (1770) of Lancaster City, through the 1800's when cotton mills were established, to the demise of the largest mill in the city in 1949, together with data on cotton production and the cotton market through 1976

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18840

Date of Publication: 1977

Call Number: 621 C948

Responsibility: compiled by W.T. Crook, Jr.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1977

Physical Description: 122 L : ill., Photographs; 29 cm.

Notes: Compiled for the Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Conestoga Steam Mill (Lancaster, Pa.); Farnum Mills (Lancaster, Pa.); Cotton manufacturing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Manufacturers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 621 C948

100 years of camera scenes: views of eastern Lancaster county in our nation's second century. A bicentennial project of the eastern Lancaster county chapter of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee, inc

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3538

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee. Eastern Lancaster County Chapter. Historic Research Committee.

Date of Publication: 1978]

Call Number: 974.815 LACO E13

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee. Eastern Lancaster County Chapter. Historic Research Committee.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.?

Publisher: George Roland ;

Date of Publication: 1978]

Physical Description: X, 192 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.; Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.; East Earl (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.; West Earl (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.; Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.; New Holland (Pa.) - Pictorial works.; Terre Hill (Pa.) - Pictorial works.; Brecknock (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO E13

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ebadea02-7f2c-4998-b1d2-392759509150

Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

.MG0123 Folder 30 Prints. Two images of the railroad station at North Queen Street, Lancaster. Circa 1840s and circa 1900. Transferred from Document Collection Box 26, Folder 3, Items 1A and 1B, 8 November 2023 (2 items, 4 pages to scan) �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125

1 document

Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. 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-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

Documents

Finding Aid

Read PDF Download PDF

An act to incorporate the city of Lancaster with the several subsequent acts relating thereto; and the ordinances for the regulation of the said city, passed by the Select and Common Councils

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17638

Corporate Author: Lancaster (Pa.).

Date of Publication: 1834.

Call Number: 090 L224mh 1834

Responsibility: Arr. and published by Councils.

Corporate Author: Lancaster (Pa.).

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Printed by Hugh Maxwell,

Date of Publication: 1834.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) 20 cm.

Notes: Library copy missing title page.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.). - H. Maxwell - (1834); Ordinances, Municipal - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Politics and government.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L224mh 1834

Revise Search

Data Source

Collection

Subject

Name

Place

Decade

Material

Archival Hierarchy

Online Media