Reproduced copies of seals of citizens of Lancaster County, Casts were taken from documents of the Lancaster County Courthouse - deeds, justice of the peace, notary public, personal. Includes Penn's Grant seal.
Lancaster Fair Ribbon:"Fancy Work/ Department/ First/ Premium/ (seal of state of PA)/ Lancaster/ County/ Agr'l Fair/ Ass'n/ Lancaster, PA./ 1914." Grommet top center with blue cord through it. Bottom edge is fringed.
Lancaster Fair Red Ribbon: "Fancy Work/ Department/ Second/ Premium/ (Seal of State of PA)/ Lancaster/ County/ Agr'l Fair/ Ass'n/ Lancaster, PA./ 1914." Grommet top center with red cord through it. Bottom edge is fringed.
White silk political campaign ribbon, "Henry Clay / The people's choice" at top and bottom of oval black and white portrait of Henry Clay. Oval is wreathed with corn stalks on left and spray of oak leaves and acorns on the right.
Underneath a mounted horseman on a country road : "The Pride of America."
Handled trophy cup is a silver plated metal elongated cup form on a pedestal base. Two flaring handles at sides. Engraved inscription on cup side is "Fancy Work Dept. / Own Make / LANCASTER FAIR / 1915." Under pedestal base is a small raised oval with maker's name: "THE MERWIN-WILSON CO / NEW MILFORD CONN".
Reported to have been awarded to a female member of the Slaymaker family.
Foldable eyeglasses with D-shaped blue-tinted lenses and similar side panel lenses. Worn by Amos Ellmaker (1787-1851) and are seen in portrait.
Provenance
Amos Ellmaker (1787-1851) wore these glasses, including during his sitting for accomplished Lancaster portrait painter Jacob Eichholtz. Amso graduated from Princeton before embarking on a long and successful career as both an officer in the army and a lawyer; rising to positions such as State Representative and Attorney General of the Commonwealth. Amos almost became a state senator as well, but lost to the future president, James Buchanan.
Stevens High School Pennant. Maroon and gray felt pennant. Maroon "SHS 1919" machine-sitiched onto gray background along the length of the pennant. 4 gray tie strips attached to top and bottom on vertical edge. Top strips tied in bow.
Corn knife used by one of the Black resistors in the Christiana Riot on September 11, 1851. Wrought iron long curved blade of 19.5" is fitted into oak or ash turned handle rounded terminal end. Tang of blade extends through length of handle and protrudes at terminal where it is clinched.
The Christiana Resistance resulted from the efforts of a Maryland slave holder to claim fugitives hiding in the home of Willam Parker, a free black man living in Chritiana, PA. This corn knife was used by one of the black resistors during this confict. The bloody confrontation, occurring in September of 1851, resulted in the death of Edward Gorsuch, the slaveholder, and the escape of William Parker and the fugitive slaves to freedom in Canada.