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Gottlieb Mittelberger's journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750 and return to Germany in the year 1754 : containing not only a description of the country according to its present condition, but also a detailed account of the sad and unfortunate circumstances of most of the Germans that have emigrated, or are emigrating to that country

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Author
Mittelberger, Gottlieb.
Date of Publication
1898.
Call Number
974.802812 M685
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Responsibility
translated from the German by Carl Theo. Eben.
Author
Mittelberger, Gottlieb.
Uniform Title
Gottlieb Mittelbergers Reise nach Pennsylvanien im Jahr 1750.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
J.J. McVey,
Date of Publication
1898.
Physical Description
129 p. : facsim. ; 21 cm.
Notes
With facsimile t.p. of original German ed.: Stuttgard : Gedrukt ben Gottlieb Friderich Jenisch, 1756.
Summary
Gottlieb Mittelberger (1714-1758) was a German author, schoolmaster, organist, and Lutheran pastor. He was best known for his work Journey to Pennsylvania (1756). Mittelberger's travelogue provides a firsthand historic account of the misery and exploitation of German immigrants during the US colonial period. In his work, he tries to convince his fellow Germans not to immigrate to the American colonies, as the forfeiture of freedom, cost of money, lack of health, and loss of life are too exorbitant to risk and sacrifice.
Subjects
Mittelberger, Gottlieb - Journeys - Pennsylvania.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel.
Pennsylvania - Emigration and immigration.
Additional Author
Eben, Carl Theodor,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802812 M685
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t47p98598&view=1up&seq=7
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Pleasant places on the Reading Railroad : a directory of summer resorts, summer boarding houses, summer hotels

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Date of Publication
1895 -.
Call Number
917.48 P544
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Responsibility
compiled and published by the General Passenger Department, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
The Dept.,
Date of Publication
1895 -.
Physical Description
v. : ill. ; 23 cm. or smaller.
Notes
Library has: 1897, 1902, 1906.
Contents
CONTENTS: THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SCHUYLKILL, Norristown Branch and Main Line PICKERING AND FRENCH CREEK VALLEYS, Pickering Valley Branch ON PERKIOMEN'S SHADY BANKS, Perkiomen Railroad ALONG THE MANATAWNY, Colebrookdale Branch 'TWIXT SOUTH MOUNTAIN AND THE BLUE RIDGE, Lebanon Valley Branch THE CONESTOGA REGION, Reading & Columbia Division HISTORIC VALE OF CUMBERLAND, Gettysburg and Shippensburg Lines. ON THE CREST OF THE ALLEGHENIES AMID COLONIAL SCENES, Germantown and Chestnut Hill Branch PENNSYLVANIA'S GARDEN LANDS, Bethlehem Branch NEAR THE NESHAMINY, Northeast Penna, Railroad OUT IN BUCKS COUNTY, Doylestown Branch THE PICTURESQUE DELAWARE VALLEY, New York Branch FOXCHASE AND THEREABOUTS, Philada., Newtown and N. Y. Railroad IN THE PINES AND BY THE SEA, Atlantic City Railroad and Branches ALONG THE LOWER COAST, Cape May Division PICNIC GROUNDS, One Day Outing Resorts
Subjects
Summer resorts - New Jersey - Directories.
Summer resorts - Pennsylvania - Directories.
New Jersey - Description and travel.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel.
Additional Corporate Author
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.48 P544
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Life of Whittier's heroine, Barbara Fritchie : including a brief but comprehensive sketch of historic "Old Frederick"

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Author
Nixdorff, Henry M.
Edition
2d ed.
Date of Publication
1897.
Call Number
920.7 F912n 1897
920.7 F912n 1906
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Responsibility
by Henry M. Nixdorff.
Author
Nixdorff, Henry M.
Edition
2d ed.
Place of Publication
Frederick, Md
Publisher
Great Southern Ptg. & Mfg. Co.,
Date of Publication
1897.
Physical Description
88 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 17 cm.
Notes
Barbara Fritchie was born Barbara Hauer in Lancaster, PA, and lived in Frederick, Maryland .She became well known after a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier was written about her.
Subjects
Fritchie, Barbara, - 1766-1862.
Frederick (Md.) - Description and travel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
920.7 F912n 1897
920.7 F912n 1906
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435059029983;view=1up;seq=7
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The survival of the medieval art of illuminative writing among Pennsylvania Germans

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Author
Mercer, Henry C.,
Date of Publication
1897]
Call Number
096 M534
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Responsibility
Henry C. Mercer.
Author
Mercer, Henry C.,
Place of Publication
[Doylestown, Pa
Publisher
Bucks County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1897]
Physical Description
[423]-432 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Illumination of books and manuscripts.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Additional Corporate Author
Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
096 M534
Websites
https://archive.org/details/jstor-983391/page/n1/mode/2up
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Historical sketch of St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895 : together with a history of Sacred Heart Academy and St. Anthony's Parochial School, in commemoration of the silver jubilee year, 1895

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Author
Dorley, Anthony F.
Date of Publication
1895.
Call Number
282 A628
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Responsibility
by Anthony F. Dorley.
Author
Dorley, Anthony F.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster Lithographing Co.,
Date of Publication
1895.
Physical Description
75 p., leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
St. Anthony's Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.
Sacred Heart Academy (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.
St. Anthony's Parochial School (Lancaster, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
282 A628
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081815239&view=1up&seq=13
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The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time

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Author
Landis, David M.
Date of Publication
1921.
, Thos. Penn: I received thine through Jos. Minshall, with the agreeable account of thy intention of a visit this way, last week, a season of the year well chosen for such a journey, when the affairs of the farmers afford some leisure, and their minds were full of hopes, to see one of their proprietors
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Responsibility
by David M. Landis.
Author
Landis, David M.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1921.
Physical Description
5-16 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 1
Subjects
Land settlement - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Taylor papers.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 1 (1921), p. 5-16Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25
Websites
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The life of (John) Conrad Weiser, the German pioneer, patriot, and patron of two races

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Author
Weiser, C. Z.
Date of Publication
1899.
Call Number
923.2 W427we
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By C. Z. Weiser.
Author
Weiser, C. Z.
Place of Publication
Reading, Pa
Publisher
D. Miller,
Date of Publication
1899.
Contents
Contents : INTRODUCTION - THE INDIGENES --- CONRAD WEISER'S REMOTE ANCESTRY AND NATIVE PLACE --- CONRAD WEISER'S PARENTS-HIS FATHER AND MOTHER --- THE EXODUS OF CONRAD WEISER'S FATHER --- CONRAD'S FATHER CHIEF OF THE COLONY AT LIVINGSTONE MANOR --- CONRAD'S FATHER CHIEF OF THE COLONY AT SCHOHARIE --- CONRAD WEISER"S FATHER THE DEFENDER OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF HIS COUNTRYMEN AT SCHOHARIE--- CONRAD'S FATHER LEADS A COLONY TO TULPEHOCKEN , PENNSYLVANIA , HIS RETURN AND WANDERING, HIS VISIT TO TULPEHOCKEN , HIS DEATH --- JOHN CONRAD WEISER JUNIOR, HIS NAME, BIRTHPLACE, BAPTISM -- CONRAD'S ARRIVAL IN AMERICA - HIS STAY WITH THE MAQUA INDIANS --- CONRAD WEISER AND HIS STEPMOTHER --- CONRAD WEISER'S BROTHERS AND SISTERS, HIS OCCUPATION, HIS MARRIAGE, HIS DEPARTURE FOR PENNSYLVANIA --- CONRAD WEISER'S ADVENT IN PENNSYLVANIA , THE BEGINNING OF HIS OFFICIAL HISTORY --- CONRAD WEISER PROVINCIAL INTERPRETER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 1732 to1743 --- TEN MORE YEARS OF INDIAN INTERCOURSE , MISSIONS AND DUTIES1744 to 1754 --- THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, CONRAD WEISER SUPERINTENDENT OF THE INDIAN BUREAU, COLONEL, HIS DEATH ANNOUNCED 1754 to 1760 --- CONRAD WEISER'S FAILING HEALTH, HIS DEATH, HIS BURIAL PLACE --- CONRAD WEISER AS A RELIGIOUS FIGURE --- CONRAD WEISER's WILL , HIS POSSESSIONS , HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS,HIS POSTERITYALSO, WEISER's LETTERS AND JOURNALS
Subjects
Weiser, Conrad, - 1691-1760.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 W427we
Websites
https://archive.org/details/lifeofjohnconrad00weiser/page/n3
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Commemorative biographical encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania : containing sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early Scotch-Irish and German settlers

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Date of Publication
1896.
Call Number
974.818 C734
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Place of Publication
Chambersburg, Pa
Publisher
J.M. Runk & Co.,
Date of Publication
1896.
Physical Description
xix, 1196 p. : ports. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"In the compilation of the biographies we were ably assisted by William H. Egle ... Rev. A.S. Dudley ... Harry I. Huber ... and Miss R.H. Schively"--Prefatory note.
Subjects
Dauphin County (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Author
Egle, William Henry,
Dudley, A. S.
Huber, Harry I.
Schively, R. H.
Additional Corporate Author
J.M. Runk & Company.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.818 C734
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89061689295;view=1up;seq=7
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History of Fort Freeland / by Hon. Frederic A. Godcharles. Record of the Society, 1920-1922

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Author
Godcharles, Frederic A.
Date of Publication
1922.
Call Number
974.851 G577
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Alternate Title
Fort Freeland.
Record of the Society, 1920-1922.
Author
Godcharles, Frederic A.
Place of Publication
Williamsport, Pa
Publisher
Lycoming Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1922.
Physical Description
36 p. : front., ill. 24 cm.
Series
Lycoming Historical Society. Proceedings and Papers ;
Notes
"Fort Freeland, on north side Warrior Run about six miles north of Milton, Northumberland County." c.f. p. 7.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Penn. - Northumberland County.
Northumberland County (Pa.) - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Northumberland County (Pa.) - History - Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
Fort Freeland (Pa.).
Additional Corporate Author
Lycoming Historical Society (Lycoming County, Pa.).
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.851 G577
Websites
https://archive.org/details/historyoffortfre00godc/page/n7
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A constitutional league of peace in the stone age of America; the League of the Iroquois and its constitution

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Author
Hewitt, J. N. B.
Date of Publication
1920.
Call Number
970.1 S664c
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Responsibility
by J. N. B. Hewitt.
Author
Hewitt, J. N. B.
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Govt. Print. Off.,
Date of Publication
1920.
Physical Description
527-545 p. 24 cm.
Notes
From: Smithsonian Institution. Annual report. 1918.
"The author,John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 - October 14, 1937) , was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York. His parents were Harriet and David; his mother was of Tuscarora, French, Oneida, and Scottish descent, his father of English and Scottish, but raised in a Tuscarora family. His parents raised him speaking the English language, but when he left the reservation to attend schools in Wilson and Lockport, he learned to speak the Tuscarora language from other students who spoke the language." [from Wikipedia]
Summary
Discussion of the formation of the Iroquois League by five separate native American tribes ( Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ) in 16th century America.
Subjects
Iroquois Indians.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
970.1 S664c
Websites
https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/pdf/b29828727
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