Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes and manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements
Life of Jefferson Davis, with a seceret history of the Southern Confederacy, gathered "behind the scenes in Richmond." Containing curous and extraordinary information of the principal southern characters in the late war, in connection with President Davis, and in relation to the various intrigues of his administration
The author was a pro-slavery and pro-secession journalist and writer. A detailed article about him can be found at Encyclopedia.com : https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/energy-government-and-defense-magazines/edward-pollard
Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands
The complete analysis of the Holy Bible : or, how to comprehend Holy Writ from its own interpretation, containing the whole of the Old and New Testaments, collected and systematically arranged in thirty books, together with an introduction setting forth the character of the work, and the immense facility this method affords the reader for understanding the word of God. Also, three different tables of contents prefixed, a general index of subjects and a scripture index subjoined, so elaborated and arranged in alphabetical order as to direct at once to any subject required
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments ; together with the Apocrypha, concordance, and Psalms, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised; the text conformable to the original edition of the year of our Lord 1610, and the American Bible Society's original standard edition of 1816
576, 1-116, 579-768, 1-42, 1- 22: illustrations ; 30 cm.
Notes
New Testament has separate title-page.
The Psalms of David in Metre.
Genealogy of Samuel O. Frantz and Emma L. Weaver family on two pages following Apocrypha.
The Frantz Bible.
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Loose items removed to MG-399; Frantz family bible; includes clilpping of the 3rd annual Overholser reunion to which a letter to Sara Ann Stauffer from J. Spencer Overholser is attached recounting the first two reunions, the first being held on an island in the Conestoga River near Terre Hill and the second and third reunions being held at the homestead of Samuel O. Frantz near Rohrerstown.
Elaborate morocco binding with gold tooling on front and back covers, spine, and edges; gilded edges; Samuel O. Frantz in gold in center of front cover.
Directory of Lancaster County: : embracing a full list of all the adult males and heads of families, with their occupation, residence, and P.O. address, and a classified business directory. Also, an appendix, containing a descriptive list of the courts, banking houses, public buildings, churches, educasional [sic] and benevolent institutions, secret and other societies, &c., &c. 1869-70
Iron, railroad, canal and coal map of Pennsylvania, &c. : showing the relative position of the various anthracite and bituminous coal fields, the railroads, canals and navigable waters by which they are connected forming their respective avenues to market, also the furnaces, rolling mills, bloomeries and forges of Pennsylvania and adjoining states
Shows coal and oil regions from Lake Ontario through much of West Virginia; most of New York State is shown, though without geological detail. Also shows locations of steel works, foundries, etc.
Lant's directory of Lancaster City : containing a list of the names and residence of every family; and also the business directory, or classification of the various business men, with am appendix of much useful information 1866-67
