topic:"Pennsylvania" found 1140 records - Research Collections

Into the American woods : negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

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Author: Merrell, James Hart,

Date of Publication: 2000, c1999.

Call Number: 974.802 M568

Alternate Title: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

Responsibility: James H. Merrell.

ISBN: 0393046761

Author: Merrell, James Hart,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Norton,

Date of Publication: 2000, c1999.

Physical Description: 463 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Notes: "1st pub. as a Norton paperback 2000"--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-438) and index.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.; Pioneers - Pennsylvania; Negotiation - Pennsylvania; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania; Intercultural communication - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 M568

Drumore Quakers' Precious Habitation : A 200-year History of Drumore Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery

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Author: Miller, D. Douglas.

Date of Publication: 2016.

Call Number: 289.6 M647

Responsibility: by D. Douglas Miller..

ISBN: 9781514473665; 1514473666

Author: Miller, D. Douglas.

Publisher: Xlibris Corp

Date of Publication: 2016.

Physical Description: 260p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Smedley, R. C.; Wright, Willilam.; Gibbons, Hanna.; Gibbons, Daniel.; Whitson, Thomas.; Coates, Lindley.; Rakestraw, William.; Sadsbury Friends Meeting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; Hood, Caleb.; Bushong, Henry.; Russell, John Neal.; Wood Day.; Brown, Jeremiah.; Haines, Timoghy.; Brown, William.; Lewis, Elijah.; Scarlett, Joseph.; Jackson, James.; Hanway, Castner.; Smith, Joseph.; Lamborn, George S.; Columbia Friends Meeting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; Lampeter Friends Meeting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; Lancaster Friends Meeting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - History.; Bart Friends Meeting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; Lancaster Friends Meeting #2 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - History..; Penn Hill (Little Britain) Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; Eastland Friends Meeting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; Drumore Friends Meeting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; East Britain Friends Meeting (Ashville Meetinghouse) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; Ballance Friends Meeting (Orthodox/Wilburite) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - History.; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Quakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Slavery and the church; Antislavery movements; Underground railroad.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.6 M647

Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Transportation Collection, 1819-1977 Object ID: MG0123 2 boxes 32 folders 1 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization); PV7 Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 4 Scope and Content

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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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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

Deaths reported by Der Libanon Demokrat : a German language newspaper published at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 1832-1864

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Author: Heilman, Robert A.

Date of Publication: Â©1990, 2009.

Call Number: 974.819 H466d

Responsibility: translated and transcribed by Robert A. Heilman.

ISBN: 155613410X; 9781556134104

Author: Heilman, Robert A.

Place of Publication: Bowie, Md

Publisher: Heritage Books,

Date of Publication: Â©1990, 2009.

Physical Description: 130 pages ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Abstracts.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Genealogy.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; American newspapers.; German Americans.; Registers of births, etc.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon, Lebanon - Obituaries.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon, Lebanon - Newspapers.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon - Obituaries.; Abstracts.; Genealogy.

Additional Title: Libanon Demokrat.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 H466d

On the edge of freedom : the fugitive slave issue in south central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870

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Author: Smith, David G.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2013.

Call Number: 326 S645

Responsibility: David G. Smith.

ISBN: 9780823240326 (cloth : alk. paper); 0823240320 (cloth : alk. paper)

Author: Smith, David G.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Fordham University Press,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Physical Description: xiv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series: The North's Civil War

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction: The Fugitive Slave Issue on the Edge of Freedom -- South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- Thaddeus Stevens' Dilemma, Colonization, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835-39 -- Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial : The 1840s in South Central Pennsylvania -- Controversy and Christiana : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1850-51 -- Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship : The decline of the Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1852-57 -- Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858-61 -- Contrabands, "White Victories," and the Ultimate Slave Hunt : Recasting the Fugitive Slave Issue in Civil War South Central Pennsylvania -- After the Shooting : South Central Pennsylvania after the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Postwar Ramifications of the Fugitive Slave Issue "On the Edge of Freedom" -- Appendix A: Selected Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1818-28 -- Appendix B: 1828 South Central Pennsylvania Petition Opposing Slavery in the District of Columbia -- Appendix C: 1847 Gettysburg African American Petition -- Appendix D: 1846 Adams County Petition -- Appendix E: 1861 Franklin County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix F: 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix G: [Second] 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix H: 1861 Doylestown, Bucks County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix I: 1861 Newtown, Bucks County Pro-Personal Liberty Law Petition.

Subjects: Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania; Abolitionists - Pennsylvania; Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.; Borderlands - Pennsylvania; Abolitionists.; African Americans.; Antislavery movements.; Borderlands.; Fugitive slaves.; Fugitive slaves; Race relations.; Underground Railroad.; Pennsylvania - Race relations - History - 19th century.; Pennsylvania.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 S645

Pennsylvania Dutch country ghosts, legends and lore

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Author: Adams, Charles J. (Charles Jesse),

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1994.

Call Number: 133.1 A211

Responsibility: by Charles J. Adams, III.

ISBN: 1880683032

Author: Adams, Charles J. (Charles Jesse),

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Publisher: Exeter House Books,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: "True tales of haunted houses, hexes and the unexplained in Pennsylvania's most storied region"--Cover.

Subjects: Ghosts - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Ghosts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Ghosts - Pennsylvania - York County.; Ghosts - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Ghosts - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Ghost stories, American - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Ghosts - Pennsylvania - Lehigh County.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Folklore.; Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 133.1 A211

A research guide to the Tulpehocken Region, Lancaster (now Berks and Lebanon) counties, PA

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14137

Author: Burgert, Annette K.

Date of Publication: 1994.

Call Number: 974.816 B955

Responsibility: by Annette K. Burgert.

Author: Burgert, Annette K.

Place of Publication: Myerstown, PA

Publisher: AKB publications,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: 23, [10] p. : ill.,maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 21-22.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Berks County - Genealogy.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Berks County - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Genealogy.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Tulpehocken Region - Genealogy.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Tulpehocken Region - Genealogy.; Berks County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Tulpehocken Region (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 B955

Warrantee township map index, West Lebanon, Cleona, North Cornwall and Lebanon City, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5729

Author: Wolfson, James B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: c1990.

Call Number: 974.819 W861wL

Responsibility: by James B. Wolfson.

Author: Wolfson, James B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Fresno, Ca

Publisher: J.B.Wolfson,

Date of Publication: c1990.

Physical Description: 3 leaves : 1 folded map ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Includes index.

Subjects: Land grants - Pennsylvania - West Lebanon (Township); Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cleona; Land grants - Pennsylvania - North Cornwall (Township); Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon; Real property - Pennsylvania - West Lebanon (Township); Real property - Pennsylvania - Cleona; Real property - Pennsylvania - North Cornwall (Township); Real property - Pennsylvania - Lebanon; West Lebanon (Pa. : Township) - Genealogy - Maps.; Cleona (Pa.) - Genealogy - Maps.; North Cornwall (Pa. : Township) - Genealogy - Maps.; Lebanon (Pa.) - Genealogy - Maps.; Warrant maps

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 W861wL

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Into the American woods : negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13456

Drumore Quakers' Precious Habitation : A 200-year History of Drumore Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20492

Archive

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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13303

Deaths reported by Der Libanon Demokrat : a German language newspaper published at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 1832-1864

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19398

On the edge of freedom : the fugitive slave issue in south central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19541

Pennsylvania Dutch country ghosts, legends and lore

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13574

A research guide to the Tulpehocken Region, Lancaster (now Berks and Lebanon) counties, PA

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14137

Warrantee township map index, West Lebanon, Cleona, North Cornwall and Lebanon City, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5729

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