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Historic Lancaster : a description of the mural painting in the new building of the Farmers Trust Company of Lancaster

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Author: Klein, H. M. J.

Date of Publication: [1929]

Call Number: 974.815 LACO K64hi

Responsibility: by H.M.J. Klein.

Author: Klein, H. M. J.

Place of Publication: [Place of publication not identified]

Publisher: [publisher not identified],

Date of Publication: [1929]

Physical Description: 1 sheet, folded ; 16 cm

Subjects: Hewlett, J. Monroe.; Farmers Trust Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO K64hi

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

Content Note: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Series 1 includes employee handbooks, a job description, a beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Description: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.; Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.

Admin/Biographical History: On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series.; Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory; Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners

Date Range: 1880-2003

Year Range From: 1880

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1880-2003

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ammon, Cora Mae Fox; Ammon, John M.; Appel, Eva Rengier; Appel, Percy L.; Baker, Miriam Rengier; Bell, Louise Price; Berger, R. R.; Blatchley, Charles A.; Breyers, C. J.; Buchanan, James; Drukenbrod, Lee Roy; Fehl, J. Herbert; Frantz, I. E.; Fritz, C. C.; Goodhart, E. C.; Groff, Alpheaus S.; Groff, Ella L.; Hermansader, T. F.; Hirsh, Bertha; Hirsh, Gabriel; Hostetter, D. B.; Lively, Henry; Long, Jacob M.; Loss, Natalie M.; Loss, Nathan; Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.; Marshall, Elizabeth Weber; Marshall, George A.; Marshall, George W.; Marshall, Maria L. Good; May, Jennie H.; Miller, E. N.; Myers, Harry; Myers, Maria; Myers, Patricia Marshall; Myrtetus, George B.; Noonan, Ella O.; Noonan, Raymond Smith; Prangley, James; Reed, George R.; Reichley, Jacob Christian; Reifsnyder, Arden P.; Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John S.; Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen; Rohrer, George Redsecker; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker; Roth, George R.; Rupert, L. H.; Schaller, Kimberly; Shand, James; Shand, Thomas Marshall; Sherrill, Anita B.; Sherrill, S. Edward; Short, Edwin P.; Skyllas, Drossos A.; Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert; Stiles, H. A.; Stirk, Isaac; Stirk, Sarah C.; Swarr, Donald; Urban, Cassius Emlen; Watt, Laura Louise Geiger; Watt, Peter T.; Weber, May H.; Wisegarver, Harry P.; Witmer, Albert F.

Other Creators: Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)

Subjects: Advertising; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Building leases; Calendars; Catalogs; Deeds; Department stores; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Letters; Menus; Newsletters; Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail

Search Terms: A and S Realty and Investment Corporation; A. B. Rote & Co.; Advertising; Agreements; Air conditioning; American Blower Corporation; Appel & Weber; Architectural plans; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; Awards; Blueprints; Bon-Ton; Bon-Ton Beauty Salon; Booklets; C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.; Calendars; Catalogs; Central Automatic Sprinkler Company; Certificates; Columbia; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia; Correspondence; Deeds; Department stores; DUSCO Property Management, Inc.; East Hempfield Twp.; Employee handbooks; Employees; Ephemera; Escalators; Finding aids; Fire sprinklers; Floorplans; Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers; Gift certificates; Ground-rent; Hager and Bro., Inc.; Hager Realty Corporation; Heating and ventilation systems; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Job descriptions; Kroll Electric Company, Inc.; Lancaster; Lancaster Parking Authority; Lancaster Trust Company; Leases; Letters; Manuscript groups; Menus; Mortgages; Newsletters; Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.; Park City Mall; Penn Square; Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Permits; Poetry; PPL; Price lists; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company; Reynolds and Reynolds Company; Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail; Total Energy Leasing Corporation; Trion, Inc.; Watt and Shand; Workers' Compensation Act; York Corporation

Extent: 4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0237

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-237

Classification: MG0237

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.; The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.

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Report of the committee to place and unveil a marker designating and commemorating the Indian town of Conestoga, in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Penna

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Date of Publication: 1924

weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1924

Physical Description: 129-149 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 9

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718.; Indian Town (Conestoga, Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Conestoga Indians.; Paxton Boys.; Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.; Conestoga (Pa. : Township) - History.

Additional Author: Magee, Daniel F.; Landis, David H.,; Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 9 (1924), p. 129-152Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28

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Report on the committee appointed to participate in the exercises incident to the restoration of City Hall, Lancaster, Pa., to its original colonial design and dignity

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Author: Garvin, Milton Thomas.

Date of Publication: 1925

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.29

Responsibility: address of Mr. M. T. Garvin. Address of Richard Reilly, Esq.

Author: Garvin, Milton Thomas.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1925

Physical Description: 3-7 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 1

Subjects: City Hall (Lancaster, Pa.); Architecture, Colonial - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 1865-

Additional Author: Reilly, R. M.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.29

Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 1, 1905

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Corporate Author: A. Hoen and Company.

Date of Publication: [1923?]

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 517 Oversize

Corporate Author: A. Hoen and Company.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: H. Hoen & Co. Lith.,

Date of Publication: [1923?]

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 99 x 105 cm.

Notes: "April 1, 1923."; Includes table of township road mileages and distance table.

Subjects: Post office buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Highway Dept.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 517 Oversize

Penn Dairies, Inc. to the Lancaster Trust Company, Trustee, covering the issues of $1,000,000

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15878

Corporate Author: Penn Dairies, Inc.

Date of Publication: 1929.

Call Number: 332.63244 P412

Responsibility: by Penn Dairies, Inc.

Corporate Author: Penn Dairies, Inc.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Date of Publication: 1929.

Physical Description: 111 p. ; 26 cm.

Notes: Title from cover.

Subjects: The Lancaster Trust Company (Lancaster, Pa.) - Finance.; Mortgages - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Dairying - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Additional Corporate Author: The Lancaster Trust Company (Lancaster Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 332.63244 P412

The early architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : being an account of the origin and development of architectural forms in Lancaster County during the eighteenth century

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Author: Kocher, Alfred L.

Date of Publication: 1920

The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life

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Responsibility: by Alfred L. Kocher, A.I.A.

Author: Kocher, Alfred L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1920

Physical Description: 91-106 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 24, no. 5

Subjects: Architecture.; Greek revival (Architecture); Architecture, Domestic - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Architecture, Colonial - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 24, number 5 (1920), p. 91-106Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.24

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The Aby family of Peoria County, Illinois : the Eaby family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : progeny of Theodorus Eby (1663-1732), the Swiss Mennonite pioneer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Author: Aby, Franklin Stanton,

Date of Publication: 1924.

Call Number: 929 E16ac

Alternate Title: Eby family bulletin

Responsibility: by Malvina (Stanton) Aby (1826-1904) and her son Franklin Stanton Aby.

Author: Aby, Franklin Stanton,

Place of Publication: Chicago, Ill

Date of Publication: 1924.

Physical Description: 101 p. : maps, facs. ; 28 cm.

Series: Eby family bulletin

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Eby, Theodorus, - 1663-1732 - Family.; Eby, Benjamin, - 1801-1867 - Family.; Barnes, Timothy, - 1780-1873 - Family.; Cole, Gideon, - 1751-1826 - Family.; Stanton, Clark, - 1776-1850 - Family.; Eby family.; Barnes family.; Cole family.; Stanton family.; Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Peoria County (Ill.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Aby, Malvina Stanton,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 E16ac

Historic and industrial Lancaster Stevens House

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15800

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 728.5 H673 1923

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Commercial Printing House.

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: 16 p. ; 15 cm.

Notes: "Erected by the business and professional men of Lancaster Cioty and names in honor of its most distinguished citizen, Thaddeus Stevens."

Subjects: Stevens House (Lancaster Pa.); Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Hotels - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.5 H673 1923

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Historic Lancaster : a description of the mural painting in the new building of the Farmers Trust Company of Lancaster

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19882

Archive

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Archive

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Report of the committee to place and unveil a marker designating and commemorating the Indian town of Conestoga, in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Penna

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3645

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Report on the committee appointed to participate in the exercises incident to the restoration of City Hall, Lancaster, Pa., to its original colonial design and dignity

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3361

Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 1, 1905

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14598

Penn Dairies, Inc. to the Lancaster Trust Company, Trustee, covering the issues of $1,000,000

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15878

The early architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : being an account of the origin and development of architectural forms in Lancaster County during the eighteenth century

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3003

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The Aby family of Peoria County, Illinois : the Eaby family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : progeny of Theodorus Eby (1663-1732), the Swiss Mennonite pioneer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18789

Historic and industrial Lancaster Stevens House

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