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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14878
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Date of Publication
1918.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1918.
Physical Description
pp. 1-28 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.42.
This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turmpike Road.
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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14879
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Call Number
905.748 HSP, vols. 42 & 43
  6 websites  
Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Physical Description
pp. 84-90 , 182-190 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
This article was serialized across several issues. This record provides links to each installment. Most of the links are from the publisher's official online repository, although two parts were only available on the HathiTrust online depository.
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volumes 42 (p. 1-28, 127-140, 235-258, & 358-360) & 43 (p. 84-90 and 182-190).
Summary
The author writes about the " Kings Highway ", the first road from Philadelphia to the Lancaster area, and he then recounts the building of the Philadelphia to Lancaster Turnpike. The third part of his article describes the various taverns and points of interest along the Lancaster County portion of the Turnpike.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Roads - Pennsylvania.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Phladelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP, vols. 42 & 43
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Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution : at "Indian Rock", Williamson Park, near "Rockford", the home of General Edward Hand, M.D., Friday P.M., September 20, cmmxii

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19384
Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
923.5 H236c
  1 website  
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
s.l.]
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
8 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Notes
Order of exercises and songs laid in.
Summary
Program from the ceremony to commemorate Lancaster County's involvement in the American Revolution. The order of events in the ceremony is included. Also includes a chronology of Lancaster County's participation in events related to the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, citing General Edward Hand's activities. A genealogy of the Hand family is included in the program.
Subjects
Hand, Edward , - 1744-1802.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 H236c
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The Attitude of James Buchanan : a citizen of Lancaster county ; towards the institution of Slavery in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16219
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1911.
Call Number
923.173 B918ha
  1 website  
Responsibility
by W.U. Hensel.
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New Era Printing Co.,
Date of Publication
1911.
Physical Description
20 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Slavery - United States.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.).
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918ha
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The story of Lancaster: old and new; being a narrative history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, form 1730 to the centennial year 1918

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3213
Author
Riddle, William,
Date of Publication
1917.
Call Number
974.815 LACI R543s
  1 website  
Responsibility
by William Riddle ... with 22 illustrations.
Author
Riddle, William,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
The author,
Date of Publication
1917.
Physical Description
xv, 292 p. : front., plates, ports. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACI R543s
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Programme souvenir: bi-centennial commemoration of the first settlement in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1710 : at the Mennonite "Brick" Meeting House ... Thursday, September 8th, 1910

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16506
Date of Publication
[1910]
Call Number
974.815 LACO L224
  1 website  
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
L.B. Herr, Print.,
Date of Publication
[1910]
Physical Description
[16] p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Notes
Imprint from p. [4] of cover.
Cover title: Programme of exercises commemorating the bi-centennial of the first settlement in Lancaster County.
"Under the auspices of the Lancaster County Historical Society."--P. [14].
Bound with Commemoration of the nativity of Robert Fulton (1915); Commemoration of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851 (1911); Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution (1912); and Founder's Memorial Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Gap, Lancaster, Pa. (1912).
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
974.815 LACO L224
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Short sketches of the president judges of Lancaster County whose portraits have been placed in the county court house, by Hon. Charles I. Landis

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16009
Author
Landis, Charles I.
Date of Publication
1913.
Call Number
343.334 L257
  1 website  
Author
Landis, Charles I.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New era Print. Co.,
Date of Publication
1913.
Physical Description
20 p. 24 cm.
Notes
Rebound in one-quarter brown leather and linen with marbled end papers.
Rebound with original letters from the judges, signatures cut from other documents affixed under photrographs of the judges, inerspersed photograms and engravings taken from other texts.
With: History of the District Court of the city and county of Lancaster / Charles I Landis. Lancaster, Pa. : The New Era Printing Company, 1914.
Subjects
Judges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
343.334 L257
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The book of memories, being the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the completion of Old St. Peter's Lutheran Church and the one hundred and fifty-third anniversary of the organization of the congregation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5132
Corporate Author
St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Middletown, Pa.)
Date of Publication
1917]
Call Number
974.818 M627
  1 website  
Corporate Author
St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Middletown, Pa.)
Place of Publication
[Middletown, Pa
Date of Publication
1917]
Physical Description
153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Middletown, Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.818 M627
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The life and times of Col. John Siegfried, by Rev. John Baer Stoudt. Prepared at the request of the Col. John Siegfried memorial committee and issued in connection with the unveiling of the monument on the old Mennonite cemetery on West Twenty-first street, Memorial day, May 30, 1914, in Northampton,PA

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7193
Author
Stoudt, John Baer,
Date of Publication
1914.
Call Number
974.822 S889
  1 website  
Author
Stoudt, John Baer,
Place of Publication
Northampton, Pa
Publisher
The Cement news print.,
Date of Publication
1914.
Physical Description
62, [3] p. : illus., plates, ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Colonel Siegfried had commanded a militia in South Central Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
Subjects
Siegfried, John, - 1745-1793.
Northampton County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.822 S889
Websites
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Loan exhibition of historical and contemporary portraits illustrating the evolution of portraiture in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9738
Corporate Author
Iris club, Lancaster, Pa.
Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
708 L245e
  1 website  
Responsibility
under the auspices of the Iris club and the Lancaster county historical society ... Lancaster, Pa., November 23 to December 13, 1912.
Corporate Author
Iris club, Lancaster, Pa.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
New era printing co.,
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
viii, 142 p. front. port., pl., facsim.
Notes
Click on Table of Contents for list of artists in exhibition.
Contents
Artists included in exhibit: Arthur Armstrong--Helen Baker--Balling--Barruti--Florence Grubb Beall--Cecilia Beaux--A. Raphael Beck--Carol H. Beck--J. Augustus J. Beck--David Bendann--Martha M. Bowman--Hugh H. Breckenridge--Professor Brinati--Broadbent--John Henry Brown--Lytton Briggs Buehler--R.H. Burfoot--Charles F. Burger--William Clark--Adam Danner--J.A. Danner--A.L. Dalbey--Jacob Deichler--Herman Deigendesch--Charles Henry Demuth--John Demuth--Jefferson T. Dysart--Thomas Eakins--Joseph Oriel Eaton--Jacob Eichholtz--Aaron Eshleman--Hannah Evans--Walter Evarts--Thomas Flatman--Henry Floyd--Josephine Foltz--J. Colin Forbes--Freeland--Orlando Freeman--Robert Fulton--Daniel Garnder--W. Wallace Gilchrist--W.A. Greaves--Eliot Gregory--Peter Grosh--D.J. Gru--W.C. Hager--Katherine Hayes--Laetitia N. Herr--Esther Holbrook--Emma Hollnger--Hooper--Ferdinand Huck--M. Jacquemard--Lalla Kieffer--G.B. Kostenbaden--J.R. Lambdin--Emanuel Leutze--John Jay Libhart--Adam Lightner--Robert Locher--Alice Malone--McMasters--Lloyd Mifflin--J. Houston Mifflin--William H. Miller--Mary Musselman--Blanche Nevin--Charles Nichols--Bass Otis--James Peale--Rembrandt Peale--Caroline Peart--Luigi Persico--Lazar Raditz--henry Reigart--Lous Reingruber--Albert Rosenthal--John Singer Sargent--T. Henry Smith--F. Spang--Gilbert Stuart--William Steele--Thomas Sully--Helen Thurlow--Bernhard Uhle--Frederick Vezin--Lewis Voigt--Leon Von Ossko--Waln--Jacob Warfel--Helen Wellens--Adolph Wertmuller--Benjamin West--Whiteside--Isaac Williams--J. Wilson--Matthew Wilson--W. A. Wisong.
Subjects
Portraits.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography - Portraits.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
708 L245e
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