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The Quakers : a brief account of their influence on Pennsylvania

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Author
Comfort, William Wistar,
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
974.802811 C732f
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by William Wistar Comfort.
Author
Comfort, William Wistar,
Place of Publication
Gettysburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical Assn.,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
iii, 65 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania history studies,
Notes
Cover title.
"A select bibliography": p. 64-65.
Subjects
Society of Friends - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802811 C732f
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The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo

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Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Date of Publication
1929.
Call Number
974.8011 S618w
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Sipe, C. Hale
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
The Telegraph Press,
Date of Publication
1929.
Physical Description
793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.
Notes
Tail-pieces.
"Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]
"Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.
"Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.
"List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.
Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America
Fortification - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania - Historic houses, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 S618w
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The Independence square neighborhood; historical notes on Independence and Washington squares, lower Chestnut street, and the insurance district along Walnut street, in Philadelphia, together with some account of the buildings, events, and personages of State house row

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Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date of Publication
1926.
Call Number
974.811 F893
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illustrated with photographs, sketches, and old prints.
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
The Penn mutual life insurance company,
Date of Publication
1926.
Physical Description
2 p. l., 3-155 p. front., illus. (incl. maps, facsims.) 23 1/2 cm.
Notes
"This story of the Independence square neighborhood was written by Carroll Frey."
Subjects
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Streets - Independence Square.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Historic houses, etc.
Additional Author
Frey, Carroll,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.811 F893
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The Amish of Lancaster County : a brief, but truthful account of the actual life and customs of the most unique class of people in the United States

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Author
Steinfeldt, Berenice.
Date of Publication
c1940.
Call Number
289.71 S819
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by Berenice Steinfeldt.
Author
Steinfeldt, Berenice.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Conestoga Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
c1940.
Physical Description
32, [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes
"Published in Lancaster County, Pa. by Arthur G. Steinfeldt.
c. 1 copyright 1940 "9th printing"; c. 2 copyright 1937 "2nd printing".
Subjects
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
289.71 S819
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History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c

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Author
Jones, U. J.
Date of Publication
c1940]
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
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By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...
Author
Jones, U. J.
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
The Telegraph Press,
Date of Publication
c1940]
Physical Description
440 p. incl. illus., plates, front. 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining-papers.
First edition published at Philadelphia, 1856.
Appendix, prepared by William H. Egle (including a biographical sketch of U. J. Jones and The Pattersons of Juniata): p. [351]-421.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Egle, William Henry,
Hoenstine, Floyd G.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
Websites
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41392/41392-h/41392-h.htm
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The early architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : being an account of the origin and development of architectural forms in Lancaster County during the eighteenth century

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Author
Kocher, Alfred L.
Date of Publication
1920
The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life
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by Alfred L. Kocher, A.I.A.
Author
Kocher, Alfred L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1920
Physical Description
91-106 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 24, no. 5
Subjects
Architecture.
Greek revival (Architecture)
Architecture, Domestic - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Architecture, Colonial - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 24, number 5 (1920), p. 91-106Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.24
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The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America

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Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
533.6 B639
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by Jean Pierre Blanchard.
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
Notes
"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59.
Subjects
Balloon ascensions.
Additional Author
Frey, Carroll,
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
533.6 B639
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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

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Author
McNair, James Birtley,
Date of Publication
[1949]
Call Number
923.2 C182m
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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
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Contributions from Lancaster County for the distressed poor of Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic of 1797

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1928
existence, Philadelphia was ravaged by the yellow fever scourge. The worst of these epidemics occured in 1793. It is estimated that at least 5,000 people succumbed to the disease in the summer and autumn of that year. During its prevalence, about 17,000 inhabitants left the city. While the disease raged, it
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by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1928
Physical Description
137-139 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 32, no. 9 & 10
Subjects
Yellow fever - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Epidemics - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 32, number 9/10 (1928), p. 137-139Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.32
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A history of Friends in Lancaster County

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Author
Whitely, Paul L.
Date of Publication
1947
Truth," sometimes in derision called "Quakers," and now officially known as The Religious Society of Friends, was a part of a larger mystical movement that belongs to the seventeenth century. Its founder, George Fox, born in Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, England, in the year 1624, was the son of
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by Paul L. Whitely.
Author
Whitely, Paul L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1947
Physical Description
[1]-33 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 1
Subjects
Fox, George, - 1624-1691.
Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Underground railroad - Pennsylvania.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 1 (1947), p. 1-33Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51
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