Edited by William Henry Egle. 1st-2d ser., v. 1-2, 1894-95; 3d ser., v. 1-3, 1895-96, 4th ser., v. 1-2, 1893-95; annual volume 1896-1900.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Harrisburg Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1894-1901.
Physical Description
12 v. 26-28 cm.
Notes
Title varies slightly.
First-third series: Reprint of articles which appeared originally in the Harrisburg Daily telegraph, 1878-1883, some of them having been issued also in pamphlet form.
No more published.
"This compilation is not a complete index. It was arranged originally by members of the State library staff ... Additional headings prepared by other libraries have since been included."
"This was the cold-blooded massacre Of Enoch Brown, a worthy Christian school-master, and eleven scholars, at a little log school-house in Antrim township, in 1764 three miles north Of where Greencastle now stands." (amazon.com)
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In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 10
An article containing letters by Rev. J.C.A. Helfenstein, a clergyman of the German Reformed denomination, protesting the gay party life during the Revolution. Sent to The Lancaster Assembly, a publication subscribed to by prominent Lancastrians.
Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel J. Randall, a representative from Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, first session
The Taufers: or, The German Baptist brethren. The origin, history, religious beliefs and achievements of one of the prominent religious denominations in the United States
Documentary history of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Proceedings of the annual conventions from 1748 to 1821. Compiled and translated from records in the archives and from the written protocols
Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law, no. 14
Contents
Chapters: CHAPTER I. THE SCOPE OF THIS STUDY / CHAPTER II / THE PROBLEM / CHAPTER III. THE NEGRO IN PHILADELPHIA, 1638-1820 / CHAPTER IV. THE NEGRO IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1896 / CHAPTER V. THE SIZE, AGE AND SEX OF THE NEGRO POPULATION / CHAPTER VI. CONJUGAL CONDITION / CHAPTER VII. SOURCES OF THE NEGRO POPULATION / CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION AND ILLITERACY / CHAPTER IX. THE OCCUPATIONS OF NEGROES / CHAPTER X. THE HEALTH OF NEGROES / CHAPTER XI. THE NEGRO FAMILY / CHAPTER XII. THE ORGANIZED LIFE OF NEGROES.CHAPTER / XIII. THE NEGRO CRIMINAL.CHAPTER / XIV. PAUPERISM AND ALCOHOLISM.CHAPTER / XV. THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE NEGRO.CHAPTER / XVI. THE CONTACT OF THE RACESCHAPTER / XVII. NEGRO SUFFRAGE.CHAPTER / XVIII. A FINAL WORD.
Supplement 1 entitled Catalogue of Mechanics' Library Society of Lancaster City, with Supplement containing list of books purchased from 1884 to 1889 inclusive (1890); Supplement 2 entitled Supplement to catalogue of Mechanics' Library Society of Lancaster City,containing list of books purchased from 1889 to 1889 inclusive (1890).
"The design of this work is to present , as far as possible, full and strictly accurate descriptions of the titles , with collations, of every book , pamphlet and broadside printed in the Province and state of Pennsylvania , during the first hundred years of the operations of the press within their limits." [from the preface]
An illustrated history of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania civil, political and military, from its earliest settlement to the present time, including historical descriptions of each county in the state
A Christmas reminder : being the names of about eight thousand persons, a small portion of the number confined on board the British prison ships during the war of the Revolution