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"Both ornamental and useful" : the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9866
Date of Publication
1990.
Call Number
362.5 B749
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Responsibility
Prepared by Monique Bourque, Nancy K. Zeigler, Bernard L.Herman, Rebecca J. Sides.
Place of Publication
Newark, Del
Publisher
Center for Architecture and Engineering, University of Delaware,
Date of Publication
1990.
Physical Description
v. 93 p. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Photocopy.
Contents
The Architectural Context of the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital: Setting and Current Appearance Construction Changes in the Structure Early Almshouses and Hospitals of the Lower Delaware Valley / The Social and Cultural Context of the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital: English Antecedents and Early Pennsylvania Poor Relief General Functions of the Almshouse The Almshouse and the Community Occupants of the Almshouse Conclusions / Recommendations for Future Use.
Subjects
Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.)
Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Additional Author
Bourque, Monique.
Zeigler, Nancy K.
Herman, Bernard L.
Sides, Rebecca J.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
362.5 B749
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A snapshot evaluation of stream environmental quality in the Little Conestoga Creek Basin, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania a cooperative project between the residents of Lancaster County, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and the U.S. Geological Survey

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20646
Author
Loper, Connie A.
Date of Publication
September 1998.
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A Mennonite woman's life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22337
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Date of Publication
c1993.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Ruth Hershey (1895-1990), photographer ; Phyllis Pellman Good, author ; photographs selected and printed by Edwin P. Huddle, a grandson of Ruth Hershey.
ISBN
1561480967 :
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Place of Publication
Intercourse, PA
Publisher
Good Books,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
91 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Hershey, Ruth, - 1895-1990.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Hershey, Ruth,
Huddle, Edwin P.
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A Mennonite woman's life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22338
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Date of Publication
c1993.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Ruth Hershey (1895-1990), photographer ; Phyllis Pellman Good, author ; photographs selected and printed by Edwin P. Huddle, a grandson of Ruth Hershey.
ISBN
1561480967 :
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Place of Publication
Intercourse, PA
Publisher
Good Books,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
91 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Hershey, Ruth, - 1895-1990.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Hershey, Ruth,
Huddle, Edwin P.
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A Mennonite woman's life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22339
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Call Number
289.7 G66 1993
  1 website  
Responsibility
Ruth Hershey (1895-1990), photographer ; Phyllis Pellman Good, author ; photographs selected and printed by Edwin P. Huddle, a grandson of Ruth Hershey.
ISBN
1561480967 :
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Place of Publication
Intercourse, PA
Publisher
Good Books,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
91 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Hershey, Ruth, - 1895-1990.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Hershey, Ruth,
Huddle, Edwin P.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
289.7 G66 1993
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Bamford zinc mine, Lancaster County, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20644
Author
Mosier, McHenry
Date of Publication
1948.
  1 website  
Responsibility
McHenry Mosier
Author
Mosier, McHenry
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
US Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines
Date of Publication
1948.
Subjects
Mine examination - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Zinc mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Electronic Resources
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Pennsylvania genealogies chiefly Scotch-Irish and German

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1441
Author
Egle, William Henry,
Date of Publication
1994
Call Number
929.2 E31p
  1 website  
Responsibility
by William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A.
Author
Egle, William Henry,
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Genealogical Publ. Co.
Date of Publication
1994
Physical Description
viii, 798 p.
Notes
Reprint of the second edition, 1896
"William Henry Egle was a physician, author and historian who served as the State Librarian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1889. His body of work documented Pennsylvania's history from its founding through the late 19th century - excerpts of which continued to be reprinted in newspapers following his death in 1901 and are still cited as references by present-day historians and professional genealogists." [from Wikipedia]
Subjects
Scots-Irish.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.2 E31p
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Two centuries of Reading, Pa., 1748-1948; a history of the county seat of Berks County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4731
Author
Albright, Raymond Wolf,
Edition
[Official bicentennial ed.]
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
974.816 R287a
  1 website  
Author
Albright, Raymond Wolf,
Edition
[Official bicentennial ed.]
Place of Publication
Reading
Publisher
Historical Society of Berks County,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
xi, 307 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. [299]-301.
Subjects
Reading (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.816 R287a
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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
  1 website  
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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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4508
Author
Jones, U. J.
Date of Publication
c1940]
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
  1 website  
Responsibility
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
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