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Pennsylvania German riddles and nursery rhymes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8434
Author
Stoudt, John Baer,
Date of Publication
1907?
Call Number
430 S889
Author
Stoudt, John Baer,
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Ma
Publisher
The Folklore Society of America,
Date of Publication
1907?
Physical Description
113 - 121 pp. , 24 cm.
Notes
In:Journal of American Folk-lore, v. 19, no. 73 1907?
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Pennsylvania German literature.
German American wit and humor - Pennsylvania.
German Americans - Pennsylvania - Humor.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
430 S889
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Boonastiel: being the fun and filosophy in the Pennsylvania "Dutch" letters ("Brief fum Hawsa Barrick") of the late Thomas Hess Harter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9542
Author
Harter, Thomas Hess,
Edition
New and enl. ed.
Date of Publication
1942.
Call Number
437.9748 H328, 1942
Responsibility
With an introduction and a biographical sketch by A. Monroe Aurand, jr.
Author
Harter, Thomas Hess,
Edition
New and enl. ed.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Priv. print., the Aurand press,
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
4 p. β., 255 p. illus. 18 cm.
Notes
Articles published in the Middleburgh (Pa.) Post under the heading "Brief fum Hawsa" and signed "Gottlieb Boonastiel," a character created by the author. cf. Introd. and Pref.
Subjects
German-American literature - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Additional Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 H328, 1942
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Pennsylvania German and Huguenot antiques; a list of articles giving Pennsylvania "Dutch" and English names and uses as employed by ancestors of many living folk

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6928
Author
Stephen, Walker Lewis.
Edition
2d ed.,
Date of Publication
c1925.
Call Number
427.9 S829
Responsibility
Compiled as a reference for antiquarians and collectors of elaborate and crude antiques for Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman Pennsylvania Historical commission by Walker Lewis Stephen, PH. G.
Author
Stephen, Walker Lewis.
Edition
2d ed.,
Place of Publication
Reading, Pa
Publisher
Reading eagle press,
Date of Publication
c1925.
Physical Description
32 p. illus. 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania folk-lore society. Publications, v. 1, no. 1
Notes
"Origin of the Pennsylvania Germans and his language, by Walker Lewis Stephen": p. 30-32.
"Compiled as a Reference for Antquarians and Collectors of Elaborate and Crude Antiques."
LCHS has photocopy of original.
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Shoemaker, Henry Wharton,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
427.9 S829
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Pennsylvania German Folklore Society : [yearbook]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17735
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society.
Date of Publication
1936-1966.
Call Number
905.748 PGFS
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society.
Place of Publication
[Allentown]
Publisher
The Society,
Date of Publication
1936-1966.
Physical Description
28 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Publication Frequency
Irregular
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1-v. 28.
Notes
Description based on: Vol. 7 (1942).
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch - Periodicals.
Folklore - Pennsylvania - Periodicals.
Germans - Pennsylvania - Folklore - Periodicals.
Pennsylvania German dialect - Periodicals.
German American literature - Pennsylvania - Periodicals.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 PGFS
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Wit and humor of the Pennsylvania Germans : a collection of anecdotes, stories, and witticisms : some old, some new : choicest parlor and after-dinner stories

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19393
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Illustrated ed.
Date of Publication
c1946.
Call Number
437.9748 A927w
Responsibility
by A. Monroe Aurand.
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Illustrated ed.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Privately printed, the Aurand Press,
Date of Publication
c1946.
Physical Description
32 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
At head of title: Penna. "Dutch" joke book.
Subjects
German American wit and humor - Pennsylvania.
German Americans - Pennsylvania - Humor.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 A927w
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Pennsylvania-German letters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6418
Author
Light, Joseph Horst,
Date of Publication
[c1928-
Call Number
437.9748 L723
Responsibility
penned by Joseph H. Light under the nom de plume Der alt schuhlmeshter.
Author
Light, Joseph Horst,
Place of Publication
Lebanon, Pa
Publisher
F. G. Light
Date of Publication
[c1928-
Physical Description
v. 22 cm.
Notes
Title vignette.
Preface signed: Frank G. Light.
"Reprinted from the files of the Lebanon semi-weekly news of the late nineties."
Subjects
German-American literature - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Additional Author
Light, Frank George,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 L723
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Pennsylvania German literature; changing trends from 1683 to 1942

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5673
Author
Robacker, Earl Francis.
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
974.809 R628
Responsibility
By Earl F. Robacker.
Author
Robacker, Earl Francis.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania press,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
x,217 p. 23 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 189-202.
Subjects
German-American literature - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.809 R628
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National publications containing short stories "Pennsylvania Dutch Series" by Mary Brecht Pulver : and her biography, including a collection of her verse and a listing of her stories

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19513
Date of Publication
1915-1925.
Call Number
810.54 P983 Oversize
Date of Publication
1915-1925.
Physical Description
1 vol. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Notes
Other materials concerning Mary B. Pulver are found in Archives: MG 284 - Mary Brecht Pulver Papers.
Contents
Portrait, biography, poems, and list of stories in magazine form --- "Minnie Good of Manheim" in The Saturday Evening Post, July 24, 1915, p. 16-17, 36-37 -- "His day of days" in The Saturday Evening Post, October 9, 1915, p. 26-30 -- "The Vampire" in The Saturday Evening Post, November 18, 1916, p. 16-17, 54, 56, 58 -- "Cass the Red-Cheeked, what became of the Gypsy's prophecy about her" in The Ladies' Home Journal, June 1916, p. 23, 73-75.
Subjects
Pulver, Mary Brecht, - 1882-1926.
Pennsylvania Dutch - Fiction.
American fiction
American poetry
Authors - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
810.54 P983 Oversize
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A dictionary of the non-English words of the Pennsylvania-German dialect, with an appendix

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12946
Author
Lambert, Marcus Bachman,
Date of Publication
c1924]
Call Number
433 L222
Responsibility
by Marcus Bachman Lambert ...
Author
Lambert, Marcus Bachman,
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster Press,
Date of Publication
c1924]
Physical Description
xxxi, 193 p. 25 cm.
Notes
"Copyrighted 1924 by the Pennsylvania-German Society."
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect - Dictionaries.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania-German Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
433 L222
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The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3596
Author
Sachse, Julius Friedrich,
Date of Publication
1899-1900.
Call Number
974.802814 S121
  2 websites  
Responsibility
by Julius Friedrich Sachse.
Author
Sachse, Julius Friedrich,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for the author,
Date of Publication
1899-1900.
Physical Description
2 v. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Notes
LCHS has no. 326.
Click on Table of Contents for more information.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
v. 1. 1708-1742 -- I. Ephrata of the present day -- II. Beyond the Cocalico -- III. Advent of the Palatines -- IV. German pilgrims -- V. The Weaver's apprentice -- VI. The Labadists on the Bohemia Manor -- VII. The hut in the forest -- VIII. The German Baptist Brethren -- IX. The New Dunkers on the Conestoga -- X. The Cradle of German literature -- XI. Alexander Mack -- XII. Koch-Halekung, the serpent's den -- XIII. A retrospect -- XIV. A eventful year -- XV. The awakening of the Tulpehoken -- XVI. Kedar -- XVII. Jacob's Kampff und Ritter-platz -- XVIII. The monastery on the Wissahickon -- XIX. Unitas Fratrum -- XX. The habits of the orders -- XXI. Roster of the celibates -- XXII. The Weyrauchs Hugel -- XXIII. The Zionitic Brotherhood -- XXIV. The Amwell Dunkers -- XXV. The house of prayer -- XXVI. Peniel -- XXVII. A celestial visit -- XXVIII. The Skippack Brethren -- XXIX. The Pennsylvania Synods -- XXX. The order of the mustard seed -- XXXI. Hebron -- XXXII. Saron -- XXXIII. Bethania.
v.2. 1742-1800 -- I. Christopher Sauer and his German Bible -- II. Magister Johannes Hildebrand -- III. The great comet of 1743 -- IV. The pilgrimage to New England -- V. Industrial feature of the community -- VI. The music of the Cloister -- VII. The mystic of the Cocalico -- VIII. The rule of the Sisterhood -- IX. The Eckerlins -- X. The Ephrata Press -- XI. The Nantmel revival -- XII. The Gimsheim revival -- XIII. Conrad Weiser -- XIV. Educational departments -- XV. The visit of Israel Acrelius -- XVI. The Valleys of Virginia -- XVII. Snow Hill -- XVIII. Exoricism of fire -- XIX. Friedsam Gottrecht -- XX. Prior Jaebez -- XXI. Issues of the Kloster Press -- The Ephrata register (burial record)
Subjects
Ephrata Cloister.
Church of the Brethren.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
German Americans - Pennsylvania.
Printing - Pennsylvania
Ephrata (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802814 S121
Websites
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The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19094
Date of Publication
[1900-
Call Number
905.748 PGA
Alternate Title
Pennsylvania German
Place of Publication
Lebanon, Pa
Publisher
Rev. P.C. Croll,
Date of Publication
[1900-
Physical Description
12 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publication Frequency
Monthly, Sept. 1906-
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1900)-v. 12 (Dec. 1911).
Notes
Title from cover.
Subjects
Genealogy - Pennsylvania - Periodicals.
Pennsylvania Dutch - Periodicals.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 PGA
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The Pennsylvania Dutch and their cookery : their history, art, accomplishments, also a broad collection of their food recipes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16611
Author
Frederick, J. George
Date of Publication
1946, c1935
Call Number
641.5 F852 1946
Responsibility
by J. George Frederick.
Author
Frederick, J. George
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Business Bourse,
Date of Publication
1946, c1935
Physical Description
275 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes index to recipes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-85).
Contents
I. The Old-World background of the Pennsylvania Dutch -- II. Regional cookery and the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Art, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Cookery, American - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
641.5 F852 1946
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The domestic life and characteristics of the Pennsylvania-German pioneer : a narrative and critical history ; prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2476
Author
Schantz, F. J. F.
Date of Publication
1900.
Call Number
390 S299
Responsibility
by F.J.F. Schantz.
Author
Schantz, F. J. F.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
[New Era Printing Co.],
Date of Publication
1900.
Physical Description
95 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Also found in Pennsylvania German Society, v.10.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania-German Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
390 S299
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The Pennsylvania German names of birds

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3224
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebner,
Date of Publication
1924]
Call Number
437.9748 B393
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebner,
Place of Publication
[Boston
Publisher
The Auk,
Date of Publication
1924]
Physical Description
288-295 p. 25 cm.
Series
The Auk, vol. 41, no. 2, April, 1924
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect - Pennsylvania.
Birds - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 B393
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The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8227
Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
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Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Place of Publication
Doylestown, Pa
Publisher
Bucks County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
[6] 216 p. : plates, port. ;
Notes
Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870)
Bibliography: p. 206-208.
Contents
Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves
Summary
Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.
Subjects
Stoves.
Stove-plates.
Christian art and symbolism.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
Websites
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English loan words in Pennsylvania German

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13575
Author
Buffington, Albert F.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
437.9748 B929
Responsibility
by Albert F. Buffington.
Author
Buffington, Albert F.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
p. 66-85 ; 23 cm.
Notes
Reprinted from studies in honor of John Albrecht Walz.
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 B929
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The Indian chiefs of Pennsylvania, or, A story of the part played by the American Indian in the history of Pennsylvania : based primarily on the Pennsylvania archives and colonial records, and built around the outstanding chiefs

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4199
Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Date of Publication
c1927.
Call Number
974.8011 S618c
Responsibility
by C. Hale Sipe ; with an introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo.
Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Place of Publication
Butler, Pa
Publisher
Ziegler Print. Co., Inc.,
Date of Publication
c1927.
Physical Description
569 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes information on the Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians, Delaware Indians, Conoy Indians, Shawnee Indians and Shikellamy (Indian chief).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 S618c
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Proceedings of the right worshipful Grand lodge of the most ancient and honorable fraternity of Free and accepted masons of Pennsylvania, and masonic jurisdiction thereunto belonging, at its celebration of the bi-centenary of the birth of Right Worshipful past grand master brother Benjamin Franklin, held in the Masonic temple, in the city of Philadelphia on Wednesday, March the seventh A. D. 1906--A. L. 5906. Together with an account of the memorial service at his tomb, on Thursday, April the nineteenth A. D. 1906--A. L. 5906

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5796
Corporate Author
Freemasons. Pennsylvania. Grand Lodge.
Date of Publication
1906.
Call Number
974.811 F855a
Corporate Author
Freemasons. Pennsylvania. Grand Lodge.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Grand lodge of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
1906.
Physical Description
viii, 9-352 p. illus. 25 cm.
Notes
Added title-page: Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, F & A. M., Memorial volume, Franklin bi-centenary celebration.
Catalogue of the loan exhibition of Frankliniana: p. 321-341.
"An edition of two thousand copies has been printed of which this is no. 1246."
Subjects
Franklin, Benjamin, - 1706-1790.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.811 F855a
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I heard of a river: A story of the Germans in Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20913
Author
Singmaster, Elsie,
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
813.54 S428i
Responsibility
by Eslie Singmaster ; illustrated by Henry C. Pitz.
Author
Singmaster, Elsie,
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
J.C. Winston Co.,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
x, 209 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Series
Land of the free series
Summary
This is a story of Hannes, a German-Lutheran boy who joined a band of Swiss Mennonites fleeing from Europe's desperate terror and poverty of the 17th century. It is a story of the perils of Hannes' journey and the improvement of his rifle, brought from his fatherland.
Subjects
Families - Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life - Juvenile fiction.
German Americans - Juvenile fiction.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania.
Juvenile works.
History.
Additional Author
Pitz, Henry C.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.54 S428i
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Outlines of the literary history of colonial Pennsylvania

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Author
Jackson, M. Katherine,
Date of Publication
1906.
Call Number
974.8028 J13
Responsibility
by Katherine Jackson ...
Author
Jackson, M. Katherine,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New Era Printing Company,
Date of Publication
1906.
Physical Description
vii, 177 p., 1 ø. 25 cm.
Notes
Vita.
Bibliography: p. 164-172.
Contents
Period of colonization.--Attempts in polite learning.--Benjamin Franklin.--Pre-revolutionary poets.--Prosemen of the revolution.--Later verse and prose writers.
Subjects
American literature - Pennsylvania.
American literature
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8028 J13
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