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The diary of Harriet Amelia Arndt for 1865

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Author
Arndt, Harriet Amelia.
Date of Publication
1946
agents for advertisements and subscrip- tions in New York and Boston, and so carried many big city ads. — Godey's Lady's Book, The Sunday School Times, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Peterson's Magazines of the times, and the American Agriculturist; pens, bells, pianos, Catawba Brandy, Bryan's Life Pills
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by Harriet Amelia Arndt.
Author
Arndt, Harriet Amelia.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1946
Physical Description
[73]-76 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 50, no. 3
Summary
Harriet Amelia Arndt was a resident of Manheim.
Subjects
Arndt, Harriet Amelia, - 1834- - Diaries.
Women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Manheim (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Personal narratives.
Manheim (Pa.) - History - Personal narratives.
Diaries.
Additional Author
Kendig, John D.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 50, number 3 (1946), p. 73-76Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.50
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Home missions in the mother synod. Golden jubilee volume of the Board of home missions of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states

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Corporate Author
Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Board of home missions.
Date of Publication
[c1946]
Call Number
284.1 H765
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Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Board of home missions.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia?]
Publisher
The Board of home missions of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states and the United Lutheran publication house
Date of Publication
[c1946]
Physical Description
5 p. β., 136 p. incl. fronts. (ports.) 21 cm.
Notes
Lancaster information on pages 8-10, 54-59.
Bibliography: p. 127.
Subjects
Lutheran Church
Missions - Pennsylvania.
Missions - New Jersey.
Church buildings - Pennsylvania.
Church buildings - New Jersey.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
284.1 H765
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Amusements in Lancaster 1750-1940

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Author
Reichmann, Felix,
Date of Publication
1941
transformation had taken place, a kind of rebirth which shaped the European immigrant to an American citizen according to the requirements of the new surroundings. The Puritans in New England, the Dutch in New York, the Quakers and plain sects in Pennsylvania, etc., did not realize that they were already
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by Felix Reichmann.
Author
Reichmann, Felix,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1941
Physical Description
[25]-56 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 45, no. 2
Subjects
Theater - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Amusements - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 45, number 2 (1941), p. 25-56Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.45
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Traditionally Pennsylvania Dutch

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Author
Smith, Edward Costello.
Date of Publication
1947
Call Number
813.53 S646
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by Edward C. Smith and Virginia van Horn Thompson.
Author
Smith, Edward Costello.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Hastings House
Date of Publication
1947
Physical Description
81 p. illus. 26 cm.
Summary
"This collection of thirty-four full-page drawings expresses with great sincerity the vitality and spirit of the Pennsylvania Dutch people. Each drawing gives the reader a fascinating insight into a custom or tradition that has been handed down for generations and each is accompanied by a pleasantly descriptive text as well as by a series of vignettes which present further details concerning farm implements, household furnishings, clothes, food, handicrafts, and amusements." [dust jacket]
Subjects
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Smith, Virginia Van Horn Thompson,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.53 S646
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The plenty of Pennsylvania : samples of seven cultures persisting from colonial days

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Author
Weygandt, Cornelius,
Date of Publication
1942.
Call Number
917.48 W547
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by Cornelius Weygandt.
Author
Weygandt, Cornelius,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
H.C. Kinsey & Co.,
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
x, 319 p., [30] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Description and travel.
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.48 W547
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Pennsylvania 1947: a survey

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Author
Stevens, Sylvester Kirby,
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
974.80045 P412
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S. K. Stevens and Norman B. Wilkinson.
Author
Stevens, Sylvester Kirby,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
xi, 73 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Surveys.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80045 P412
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The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania : Records and activities, charter, by-laws, officers, members, minutes, Indian Campgrounds, Hall of Fame, Pennsbury, 1940

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Date of Publication
1940.
Call Number
369.12 W442
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compiled and edited by Henry Paul Busch.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Patterson & White Co. ,
Date of Publication
1940.
Physical Description
viii, 205 p. : ill.p; 20 cm.
Subjects
Busch, Henry Paul
Welcome Society of Pennsylvania.
Pennsbury Manor (Morrisville, Pa.)
Societies - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
369.12 W442
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History of the Moravian congregation of Lititz, Pennsylvania

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Author
Huebener, Mary Augusta,
Date of Publication
1949.
Call Number
284.6 H874
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by Mary Augusta Huebener.
Author
Huebener, Mary Augusta,
Place of Publication
Bethlehem, Pa
Publisher
Times Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1949.
Physical Description
p. 199-310, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"This volume is published in connection with the celebration of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Moravian Congregation at Lititz, Pennsylvania [...] The following pages have appeared in the Transaction of the Moravian Historical Society (Volume XIV, Parts 3 and 4)". -- Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Bicentennial history of the Lititz Moravian congregation / by Mary Augusta Huebener -- The Beck Family School / by Herbert Huebener Beck -- Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls, 1748-1948 / by W.N. Schwarze.
Subjects
Moravian Church - Pennsylvania - History.
Beck Family School for Boys.
Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls.
Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Lititz (Pa.) - Church history.
Additional Author
Huebener, Mary Augusta,
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Schwarze, William Nathaniel,
Additional Corporate Author
Moravian Historical Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
284.6 H874
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Travels in New France

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Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
971.018 P416
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by J. C. B. Prepared by Pennsylvania Historical Survey (Frontier Forts and Trails Survey) Division of Community Service Projects, Work Projects Administration. Edited by Sylvester K. Stevens, Donald H. Kent and Emma Edith Woods.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, The Pennsylvania Historical Commission,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
xiv, 167 p. front., illus., plates (incl. map) 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining papers.
"The present translation is based on Casgrain's edition."--p. vi.
Summary
"A French soldier set down his memories of life and adventure in western Pennsylvania and other parts of North America during the thrilling events of the French and Indian War, and called the book 'Voyage au Canada dans le nord de l' Amerique Septentrionale, fait depuis l'an 1751 A 1761'...The author is known only by his initials, J.C.B...These reminiscences of life and events in the wilderness, in the towns of New France, and as a prisoner in New York City, give vivid pictures of the experiences of an ordinary man in an age which was full of significance for the future of America. [from the foreword]
Subjects
Indians of North America.
Canada - History - 1663-1713 (New France).
Canada - Description and travel.
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Stevens, Sylvester Kirby,
Kent, Donald H.,
Woods, Emma Edith,
Casgrain, H. R.
J.-C. B.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical Survey.
Frontier Forts and Trails Survey.
Pennsylvania Historical Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
971.018 P416
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011030973;view=1up;seq=7
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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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