Center fro Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University, Millersville, Pa.
Date of Publication
2009-
Physical Description
v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Library has: v. 1- Selected pieces of poems and prose; v. 2-Plays and skits; v. 3-Weekly dialect columns, part 1:1970-1973; v. 4-Weekly dialect columns, part 2:1974-1977; v. 5-Weekly dialect columns, part 2[3]: 1978-1981; v. 6-Weekly dialect columns, part 4: 1982-1985; v 7-Weekly dialect columns, part 5: 1986-1988.
Co-editors: C. Richard Beam and Jennifer L. Trout.
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
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.
Library has v. 1: A -- v. 2: B -- v. 3: C, D, E -- v. 4: F, G -- v. 5: H, I, J -- v. 6 : K, L -- v. 7: M, N -- v. 8: O, P, R. - v. 9: S. - v, 10: T,U, V. - v. 11: W, Y, Z -- v.12: Supplement.
"A selection of short stories by Elsie Singmaster that focus on the Pennsylvania-German experience. Includes commentary framing them in historical, cultural, and literary contexts"--Provided by publisher.
Penn State University Press for the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania German Society,
Date of Publication
2005.
Physical Description
xviii, 367 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 39. Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 6
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Song and ballad broadsides -- The broadside and customs of the year -- Political and military broadsides -- Medical broadsides -- Sale bills, advertisements, and bookplates -- Dialect broadsides and community events -- Religious broadsides -- House-blessings and heaven-letters -- The broadside and the rites of passage -- Prints : the picture world of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Summary
"Fifteenth-century Germany was the birthplace of movable type and of one of its powerful consequences, the broadside. These mass-produced printed sheets allowed both the Renaissance and the Reformation to spread with previously unimaginable speed, and when German immigrants made their way to North America, the cultural significance of the broadside followed.The author defines a broadside as any piece of paper printed on one side that is intended to be given away or sold. Where some experts have narrowed the definition of the broadside to focus primarily on song and ballad broadsides, Professor Yoder’s definition encompasses a much wider range of material. In this more comprehensive approach to the medium, not only “street literature†but also such documents as elegies, spiritual testaments, and certificates of birth, baptism, confirmation, and marriage are all considered legitimate broadsides that tie the individual to the culture of the community. After tracing the migration of the broadside from Germany to America, the author dedicates each of ten chapters to a specific broadside subject." [publisher's comments]
The history of northeastern Pennsylvania : the last 100 years : proceedings of the twelfth annual Conference on the History of Northeastern Pennsylvania
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
Series
Colonial people
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Quasheba's family -- Slavery in the colonies -- Slave families -- Marriage and children -- Helping one another -- The lives of slave children -- The education of slaves -- Field hands -- House servants -- Tradespeople -- Culture from Africa -- The cost of freedom.
Summary
Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.
This book studies the writings of Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-276) and index.
Summary
"They wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality , they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley .... Susan Sabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience - a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era." [from the dust cover]
3 v. fronts. (2 col.; v.1: port.) illus., plates, facsims. (part double) 25 cm.
Notes
Colophon of vol. III: This work originated with Paul Leicester Ford, was edited by Mrs. Roswell Skeel junior, and printed by Richmond Mayo-Smith, all of one family.
Two hundred copies of vol. I and three hundred copies of vols. II-III have been printed by the Plimpton press of Norwood, Mass. LCHS copy is no. 154.
Most of the letters are addressed to Mathew Carey.
"Books ... periodicals ... newspapers consulted": vol. I, p. 345-385.
Mason Locke Weems, American clergyman, itinerant book agent, and fabricator of the story of George Washington’s chopping down the cherry tree. This fiction was inserted into the fifth edition (1806) of Weems’s book The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington (1800). Weems was ordained in the Anglican church in 1784 and served as a pastor in Maryland until 1792. From 1794 he hawked books throughout the country as an agent for the publisher Mathew Carey. Weems also wrote a biography (1809) of General Francis Marion that, like that of Washington, was more noted for its apocryphal anecdotes and readability than its accuracy.[from Britanica.com]
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-218) and index.
Contents
Theater, nation, and state in early America -- Cato and company : a genealogy of performance -- Free-born poeples : the politics of professional theater in early America -- A school for patriots : colonial college theater -- Bellicose letters : propaganda plays of the Revolution -- Epilogue : Post-revolutionary patriotism and the American theater.
Summary
Performing Patriotism examines the role of theatrical performance and printed drama in the development of early American political culture. Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, Jason Shaffer illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused. The result is a wide-ranging survey of eighteenth-century American theater history and print culture. [from the publisher]
