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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

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https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101079879183

Simon Cameron's adventure in iron, 1837-1846; new biographical material including an account of the formation and dissolution of a partnership of Simon Cameron, S.F. Headley, Samuel Humes, and Thomas McNair for the manufacture and sale of iron (principally to what is now the Pennsylvania Railroad) and its political connotations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1052

Author: McNair, James Birtley,

Date of Publication: [1949]

Call Number: 923.2 C182m

Author: McNair, James Birtley,

Place of Publication: Los Angeles, Calif

Date of Publication: [1949]

Physical Description: xi, 160 p. plates, port. 23 cm.

Notes: "A limited numbered edition of 500 copies."; Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [111]-156)

Subjects: Cameron, Simon, - 1799-1889.; Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 C182m

The Conestoga Wagon : a Pennsylvania German product

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1393

Author: Frey, Howard C.,

Date of Publication: 1947

Mann Der unser Staat regieren kann. Ritner was elected. Workers in Iron "The Pennsylvania German migrating from the Rhenish Palatinate in large numbers between 1685 and 1710 had no lack of master artisans of the anvil. They brought with them many centuries of experience in iron working and found here

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Responsibility: by H. C. Frey.

Author: Frey, Howard C.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1947

Physical Description: [61]-[92] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 3

Subjects: Blacksmithing.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Carriages and carts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Ironwork.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 3 (1947), p. 61-92Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51