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A History of Ream's Cemetery also known locally as Reddig's cemetery , Reamstown, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5612
Date of Publication
1957
Call Number
363.75 L629
Place of Publication
Reamstown, Pa
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1957
Physical Description
16 p. : maps ; 29 cm.
Notes
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 115 #8.
Subjects
Cemeteries - Pennsyvania - East Cocalico Township
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - East Cocalico Township
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
363.75 L629
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Brief outline on the care of the poor, the sick, and insane of Lancaster County, Pa

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Author
Showalter, Henry A.
Date of Publication
1951
showed: In House of Employment, Men 60, Women 28, Children 29; In the Hospital, Men 47, Women 63, Children 14, Total 241. Asylum for the Insane On a site east of Old No. 1 there was erected early in the 1830's a brick building. Specifications of this building have not been discovered. The basement
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Responsibility
by Henry A. Showalter.
Author
Showalter, Henry A.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1951
Physical Description
[97]-[124] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 55, no. 4
Subjects
Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Public welfare - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Mentally ill - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social conditions.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 55, number 4 (1951), p. 97-124Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.55
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The Montgomery County story

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5865
Author
Alderfer, E. Gordon
Date of Publication
1951.
Call Number
974.812 A361
Responsibility
by E. Gordon Alderfer.
Author
Alderfer, E. Gordon
Place of Publication
Norristown, Pa
Publisher
Commissioners of Montgomery County,
Date of Publication
1951.
Physical Description
xv, 301 p. : ill., maps. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"With recognition to Edward W. Hocker whose historical data [History of Montgomery County] prepared for the County Commissioners supplied most of the local factual background."
Bibliography : p. 277-284.
Subjects
Montgomery County (Pa.) - History.
Montgomery County (Pa.) - Commissioners.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.812 A361
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Pennsylvania Board of Canal Commissioners' records, with allied records of canal companies chartered by the Commonwealth; descriptive index, prepared by Hubertis M. Cummings, research associate

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2757
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Bureau of Land Records.
Date of Publication
1959.
Call Number
386 P384
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Bureau of Land Records.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Date of Publication
1959.
Physical Description
iv, 235 p. 28 cm.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. - Board of Canal Commissioners.
Canals - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Canal (Pa.)
Additional Author
Cummings, Hubertis Maurice,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
386 P384
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Food for the invalid; the convalescent; the dyspeptic; and the gouty

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17071
Author
Fothergill, John Milner,
Date of Publication
1880.
Call Number
640 R787 no. 12
Responsibility
By J. Milner Fothergill ... and Horatio C. Wood.
Author
Fothergill, John Milner,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Macmillan and Co.,
Date of Publication
1880.
Physical Description
5 p.l., 157 p. 20 cm.
Notes
From the Sarah Tyson Rorer's collection of books on cooking and homemaking.
Subjects
Cookery for the sick.
Additional Corporate Author
Wood, Horatio C.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
640 R787 no. 12
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William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library. An exhibition of holograph letters and autograph documents, selected from source materials in the Blumhaven Collection

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14322
Author
Blum, Herman,
Date of Publication
1950]
Call Number
923.2 P412b
Author
Blum, Herman,
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Blumhaven Library and Gallery,
Date of Publication
1950]
Physical Description
48 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Contains also material on Thomas Holme, surveyor for Penn in Pennsylvania.
Bibliography: p. 48.
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718.
Holme, Thomas, - d. 1695.
Additional Corporate Author
Blumhaven Library and Gallery.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 P412b
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English historical documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2872
Date of Publication
1955-
Call Number
973.2 D733
Responsibility
General editor: David C. Douglas.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford Univerity Press,
Date of Publication
1955-
Physical Description
v. : maps (part fold.) diagrs., geneal. tables., 25 cm.
Notes
Each volume has special t.p.
LCHS has v.9 - American colonial documents to 1776.
First published 1955, reprinted 1968.
Includes bibliographies.
African American resources at Lancaster ounty Historical Society
Contents
v.l. c.500-1042.--v. 2. 1042-1189, edited by D.C. Douglas and G.W. Greenaway.--v. 3. 1189-1327.-v. 4. 1327--1485.--v. 5. 1485-1558.--v. 6. 1558-1603.--v. 7. 1603-1660.--v. 8. 1660-1714, edited by A. Browning.--v. 9.American colonial documents to 1776, edited by M. Jensen.--v. 10. 1714-1783, edited by D.B. Horn and M. Ransome.--v. 11. 1783-1832.--v. 12.pt.1. 1833-1874, edited by G.M. Young and W.D. Handcock; pt.2. 1874-1914.
The charter of Pennsylvania (4 March 1681).--William Penn: Some account of the province of Pennsilvania (1681).--William Penn: Preface to the first Frame of Government (1642).--The Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (28 October 1701).--Pennsylvania Flour Inspection Law (20 March 1725).--Pennsylvania law regulating conditions on immigrant ships (27 January1750).--Protest of German Quakers against slavery (18 April 1688).--Benjamin Franklin: proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania (1749).--Henry Melchior Muhlenberg: account of the Paxton Boys (1-7 February 1764).--Matthew Smith and James Gibson: remonstrance of the Pennsylvania frontiersmen (13 February 1764).--Philadelphia opposition to the tea act.--Pennsylvania assembly instructions against independence (9 November 1775).
Subjects
Great Britain - History - Sources.
Additional Author
Douglas, David Charles,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.2 D733
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Two hundred years in Cumberland County; a collection of documents and pictures illustrating two centuries of life in Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
Hamilton Library and Historical Association of Cumberland County (Carlisle, Pa.)
Date of Publication
1951.
Call Number
974.843 T969
Responsibility
Editorial committee: D. W. Thompson, chairman [and others]
Corporate Author
Hamilton Library and Historical Association of Cumberland County (Carlisle, Pa.)
Place of Publication
Carlisle
Date of Publication
1951.
Physical Description
388 p. illus., group ports., maps, facsims. 24 cm.
Notes
"Compiled...in celebration of the bicentennial of the county, formed in 1750, and of Carlisle the county seat, founded in 1751."
Subjects
Cumberland County (Pa.) - History - Sources.
Carlisle (Pa.) - History - Sources.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.843 T969
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