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
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.
From the proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science : Vol. XXL, 1947.
Includes index.
Summary
Refers to several mines in a half mile square area in Lancaster County marked by Pequea Creek in the south, Silver Mine Run in the east , and an unnamed tributary to Pequea Creek to the west.
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
This is a story of Hannes, a German-Lutheran boy who joined a band of Swiss Mennonites fleeing from Europe's desperate terror and poverty of the 17th century. It is a story of the perils of Hannes' journey and the improvement of his rifle, brought from his fatherland.
A partial bibliography of the archaeology of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Prepared by Pennsylvania historical survey (Frontier forts and trails survey) Federal works agency, Work projects administration
Program for concert held September 7, 1941, at Landisville Camp Grove, to benefit Christ's Home (for children), Paradise, Pa. and Water Street Rescue Mission, Lancaster, Pa.
"While the printing of these booklets was in progress the State Health Authorities requested that all public gatherings be suspended due to the spread of infantile paralysis."
compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Pennsylvania ; co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the University of Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1940.
Physical Description
xxxii, 660 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
