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Our present past : an update of Lancaster's heritage

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Date of Publication: c1985.

Call Number: 720.9 L244 1985

Responsibility: prepared by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: The Trust,

Date of Publication: c1985.

Physical Description: 559 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: What follows is the culmination of the Lancaster City and County architectural surveys completed by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County (HPT) from 1978 to 1985. This publication attempts to locate and identify those architecturally and/or historically significant sites and structures in Lancaster City and County that contribute to the character of our community. Further, this publicaion serves to update the 1972 study, "Lancaster's Heritage", prepared by the Lancaster County Planning Commission, and to promote the preservation and restoration of our architectural resources.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-559) and index.

Subjects: Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Historic preservation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History, Local.

Additional Corporate Author: Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County (Pa.)

Additional Title: Lancaster's heritage.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 720.9 L244 1985

Lancaster's heritage: An historical preservation study for Lancaster County

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Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1972.

Call Number: 720.9 L244

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Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1972.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., folded map ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes detailed inventory of sites and structures.; This report presents the case for the preservation of the architectural and environmental aspects of this heritage in a balanced, planned relationship with continued contemporary development. Information is offered concerning the County's resources, the dangers to historic areas, and the possibilities for action. While individual County landmarks do deserve additional attention, the primary emphasis within this report is on the overall character of Lancaster's environmental heritage and the need for its preservation. The natural beauty of our rural areas and the pervasive historic character of many of our older communities are among Lancaster County's basic assets.; This study was updated in 1985 by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County. The update's title is "Our present past: An update of Lancaster's Heritage" and can be found in our collection. The author of the update is "Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County".; Bibliography: p. 9-1]-9-2.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 720.9 L244

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Lancaster County : vignettes of people and places

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Date of Publication: 1975.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO S416

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Science Press,

Date of Publication: 1975.

Physical Description: xi, 96 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 x 27 cm.

Series: Science Press keepsake;

Notes: Christmas keepsake of Science Press, 1975.; Click on Table of Contens for more information.

Contents: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania--Declaration of Independence--Lancaster's Liberty Bell--Pennsylvania's Militia Meets in Lancaster--George Ross Signs the Declaration--Edward Hand...The Doctor becomes a General--Witness Tree at Donegal--A Monastic Community in Ephrata--Moravians at Lititz--Iron Industry of Lancaster County--Baron Stiegel of Manheim--Grist Mills of Lancaster County--Franklin College.

Subjects: Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Science Press.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO S416

Archive

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

Content Note: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Series 1 includes employee handbooks, a job description, a beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Description: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.; Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.

Admin/Biographical History: On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series.; Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory; Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners

Date Range: 1880-2003

Year Range From: 1880

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1880-2003

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ammon, Cora Mae Fox; Ammon, John M.; Appel, Eva Rengier; Appel, Percy L.; Baker, Miriam Rengier; Bell, Louise Price; Berger, R. R.; Blatchley, Charles A.; Breyers, C. J.; Buchanan, James; Drukenbrod, Lee Roy; Fehl, J. Herbert; Frantz, I. E.; Fritz, C. C.; Goodhart, E. C.; Groff, Alpheaus S.; Groff, Ella L.; Hermansader, T. F.; Hirsh, Bertha; Hirsh, Gabriel; Hostetter, D. B.; Lively, Henry; Long, Jacob M.; Loss, Natalie M.; Loss, Nathan; Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.; Marshall, Elizabeth Weber; Marshall, George A.; Marshall, George W.; Marshall, Maria L. Good; May, Jennie H.; Miller, E. N.; Myers, Harry; Myers, Maria; Myers, Patricia Marshall; Myrtetus, George B.; Noonan, Ella O.; Noonan, Raymond Smith; Prangley, James; Reed, George R.; Reichley, Jacob Christian; Reifsnyder, Arden P.; Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John S.; Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen; Rohrer, George Redsecker; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker; Roth, George R.; Rupert, L. H.; Schaller, Kimberly; Shand, James; Shand, Thomas Marshall; Sherrill, Anita B.; Sherrill, S. Edward; Short, Edwin P.; Skyllas, Drossos A.; Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert; Stiles, H. A.; Stirk, Isaac; Stirk, Sarah C.; Swarr, Donald; Urban, Cassius Emlen; Watt, Laura Louise Geiger; Watt, Peter T.; Weber, May H.; Wisegarver, Harry P.; Witmer, Albert F.

Other Creators: Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)

Subjects: Advertising; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Building leases; Calendars; Catalogs; Deeds; Department stores; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Letters; Menus; Newsletters; Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail

Search Terms: A and S Realty and Investment Corporation; A. B. Rote & Co.; Advertising; Agreements; Air conditioning; American Blower Corporation; Appel & Weber; Architectural plans; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; Awards; Blueprints; Bon-Ton; Bon-Ton Beauty Salon; Booklets; C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.; Calendars; Catalogs; Central Automatic Sprinkler Company; Certificates; Columbia; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia; Correspondence; Deeds; Department stores; DUSCO Property Management, Inc.; East Hempfield Twp.; Employee handbooks; Employees; Ephemera; Escalators; Finding aids; Fire sprinklers; Floorplans; Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers; Gift certificates; Ground-rent; Hager and Bro., Inc.; Hager Realty Corporation; Heating and ventilation systems; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Job descriptions; Kroll Electric Company, Inc.; Lancaster; Lancaster Parking Authority; Lancaster Trust Company; Leases; Letters; Manuscript groups; Menus; Mortgages; Newsletters; Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.; Park City Mall; Penn Square; Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Permits; Poetry; PPL; Price lists; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company; Reynolds and Reynolds Company; Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail; Total Energy Leasing Corporation; Trion, Inc.; Watt and Shand; Workers' Compensation Act; York Corporation

Extent: 4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0237

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-237

Classification: MG0237

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.; The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.

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Index of authors whose papers or addresses have appeared in volumes I to XXXV, inclusive, of the Proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society

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Author: Haldy, Gertrude Hensel.

Date of Publication: 1932.

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.36

Responsibility: prepared by Gertrude Hensel Haldy and William Frederic Worner.

Author: Haldy, Gertrude Hensel.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1932.

Physical Description: [1]-38 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 36, no. 1

Subjects: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - Periodicals - Indexes.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Periodicals.

Additional Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.36

Water powered grist mills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1825 From the King's Continental, State and County tax and assessment lists at the Lancaster County Historical Society, 1971

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo81

Author: Lord, Arthur C.

Date of Publication: 1971.

Call Number: 725.4 L866

Responsibility: by Arthur C. Lord.

Author: Lord, Arthur C.

Place of Publication: S.l

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1971.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) ; 28 cm.

Notes: Typescript.

Subjects: Flour mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 725.4 L866

Seventeenth century survivors : pre-1700 buildings in the five county Philadelphia area

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2799

Author: Feaver, Jane.

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 720 F288

Responsibility: by Jane Feaver ; introduction by Edwin Wolf 2nd.

Author: Feaver, Jane.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Colonial Society of Philadelphia [i.e. Pennsylvania],

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: 51 p. : ill., maps ; 22 x 28 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographies.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region.; Architecture, Colonial - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region.; Montgomery County (Pa.) - History.; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Bucks County (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia County (Pa.) - History.; Delaware County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Colonial Society of Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 720 F288

The Hans Herr House Restoration Committee announces Phase II of the project to restore the oldest surviving house of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17402

Date of Publication: 1975?

Call Number: 728.37 H564

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Restoration Committee,

Date of Publication: 1975?

Physical Description: 12 p. : ill. ; 16 x 23.

Notes: Cover title: The Hans Herr House phase II.; 1880 photograph of the House on the cover.; Dated Lentel above door on the cover.

Subjects: Hans Herr House (Lancaster County, Pa.); Hans Herr House (Lancaster City, Pa.); Historic buildings - Lancaster (City), Pa.

Additional Corporate Author: Hans Herr House Restoration Committee (Lancaster City, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 H564

Map of greater Lancaster : including maps of Lancaster City & County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12833

Corporate Author: R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. Cartographic Services.

Date of Publication: c1988.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 138

Responsibility: all maps prepared by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Cartographic Services.

Corporate Author: R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. Cartographic Services.

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry,

Date of Publication: c1988.

Physical Description: 6 maps on 1 sheet : both sides, col. ; 56 x 49 cm. or smaller, sheet 56 x 88 cm.

Notes: Panel title.; "Copyright Bizcorp 1988."; Includes notes, indexes, directories, statistical table, location map inset, and col. ill.

Contents: Greater Lancaster -- Lancaster -- [Central business district] -- [Lancaster County showing points of interest, school districts, and historic districts] -- [Regional location map] -- Lancaster County municipal information.

Subjects: Central business districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps.; Historic districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; School districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.; Lancaster Metropolitan Area (Pa.) - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps, Tourist.

Additional Corporate Author: Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Pa.); Bizcorp (Firm)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 138

Fort Necessity and historic shrines of the Redstone country : Washington bi-centennial issue, 1732-1932

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7247

Corporate Author: Sons of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania Society. Fort Necessity Chapter, Uniontown.

Date of Publication: 1932.

Call Number: 974.844 F736

Corporate Author: Sons of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania Society. Fort Necessity Chapter, Uniontown.

Place of Publication: Uniontown, Pa

Publisher: Fort Necessity Chapter, Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution,

Date of Publication: 1932.

Physical Description: 144 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Subjects: Washington, George, - 1732-1799.; Necessity, Fort, Battle of, 1754.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania.; Fayette County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.844 F736

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