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Mount Joy Bicentennial Committee presents a pictorial tour of the Mount Joy area in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of Mount Joy Pennsylvania, 1851-1976

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15291

Corporate Author: Mount Joy Bicentennial Commission.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB P611s

Corporate Author: Mount Joy Bicentennial Commission.

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: Mount Joy Bicentennial Commission,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: 41 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Pictorial souvenir book : Mount Joy 1851-1976.

Subjects: Mount Joy (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB P611s

Introductory lecture delivered at the opening of the Lancaster Convservatory of the Arts and Sciences and City Lyceum on the evening of July 3d, 1837

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Author: Cruse, Christian Frederick,

Date of Publication: 1837.

Call Number: 121 C957

Responsibility: by the Rev. C. Fr. Cruse.

Author: Cruse, Christian Frederick,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Printed by C. M'Cleery,

Date of Publication: 1837.

Physical Description: 28 p. ; 19 cm.

Notes: Includes Constitution of the Lancaster Conservatory of Arts and Sciences and City Lyceum.

Subjects: Lancaster Conservatory of Arts and Sciences and City Lyceum (Lancaster, Pa.); Knowledge, Theory of.; Learning and scholarship.; Learned institutions and societies - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 121 C957

The Three Earls : an historical sketch, and proceedings of the centennial jubilee, held at New Holland, Pa., July 4, 1876

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1143

Date of Publication: 1876.

Call Number: 974.815 EARL D569

Place of Publication: New Holland, [Pa.]

Publisher: Ranck & Sandoe,

Date of Publication: 1876.

Physical Description: 115 p. ; 18 cm.

Notes: The 1986 reprint includes a new index.; "Historical sketch prepared by Frank R. Diffenderffer": p. [15]-76.; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Fourth of July orations.; Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; West Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; East Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township)) - History.; New Holland (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Diffenderffer, Frank R.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books; Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 EARL D569

Copy Info: 1876; 1986 [reprint]

Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

and connected with the Reading Transit Co. for Reading. 31 December 1933. 18. Cars #41 (left) and #139 (right) passing at Engleside turnout south of Lancaster on the S. Queen St. line, on the last day of operation on this line. #139 made the last trip that night. 12 August 1933. 19. Car #213 near

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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.

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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

Pictorial potpourri Mount Joy Bicentennial birthday celebration 1976

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16763

Date of Publication: 1976

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB P611

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.] ;

Date of Publication: 1976

Physical Description: [80] p. : ill. ; 22 x 14 cm.

Subjects: Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.; Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB P611

The history and topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties; containing a brief history of the first settlers, notices of the leading events, incidents and interesting facts, both general and local, in the history of these counties, general & statistical descriptions of all the principal boroughs, towns, villages, &c. with an appendix, embellished with several engravingsj compiled from numerous authentic sources by I. Daniel Rupp

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16890

Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Date of Publication: 1846.; 1975]

Call Number: 974.84 R946

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Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa. [Carlisle, Pa

Publisher: Gilbert Hills, Cumberland Historical Society

Date of Publication: 1846.; 1975]

Physical Description: xii, 723 p.; illus; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes index by John Cecil Fralish, Jr.; p. 609-723.; Another edition, pub. the same year, includes the history of Somerset, Cambria and Indiana counties.