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Pennsylvania petroleum, 1750-1872 : a documentary history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2597
Author
Giddens, Paul Henry,
Date of Publication
1947.
Call Number
665 G453
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Responsibility
compiled and edited by Paul H. Giddens.
Author
Giddens, Paul Henry,
Place of Publication
Titusville
Publisher
Drake Well Memorial Park, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1947.
Physical Description
xv, 420 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Petroleum industry and trade - Pennsylvania.
Petroleum
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
665 G453
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1052
Author
McNair, James Birtley,
Date of Publication
[1949]
Call Number
923.2 C182m
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Author
McNair, James Birtley,
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, Calif
Date of Publication
[1949]
Physical Description
xi, 160 p. plates, port. 23 cm.
Notes
"A limited numbered edition of 500 copies."
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [111]-156)
Subjects
Cameron, Simon, - 1799-1889.
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 C182m
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The golden flood, an informal history of America's first oil field

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Author
Asbury, Herbert,
Date of Publication
1942.
Call Number
665 A799
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by Herbert Asbury.
Author
Asbury, Herbert,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
A.A. Knopf,
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
6 p. β., 3-324, xv, [1] p. front., illus., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) 23 cm.
Notes
"First edition."
"Selected bibliography": p. 323-324.
Subjects
Petroleum industry and trade - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
665 A799
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Cannon Hill and the Hessian ditch with personal reminiscences of the Furnace Hills

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Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Date of Publication
1940
. George Staler, now 76, who has lived his life against the northern base of Cannon Hill and who furnished many of the local names for this record, is the son of a charcoal burner. George's father was one of the last of the many who had worked at this important side line of the iron industry in the Furnace
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Responsibility
by Herbert H. Beck.
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1940
Physical Description
[21]-39 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 44, no. 2
Subjects
Furnace Hills (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Hessian Ditch (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 44, number 2 (1940), p. 21-39Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.44
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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
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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
Websites
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41392/41392-h/41392-h.htm
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4141
Corporate Author
Frontier Forts and Trails Survey.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
974.8011 P415p
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Edited by Claude E. Schaeffer and Leo J. Roland.
Corporate Author
Frontier Forts and Trails Survey.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania Historical commission,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
3 p. ø., 45 p. 27 cm.
Notes
Reproduced from type-written copy.
"Addenda" mounted on p. [3] of cover.
Subjects
Archaeology - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Antiquities - Bibliography.
Additional Author
Schaeffer, Claude E.,
Roland, Leo J.,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical Survey.
Pennsylvania Historical Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 P415p
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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
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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
Websites
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101079879183
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Guide to the published archives of Pennsylvania covering the 138 volumes of Colonial records and Pennsylvania archives, series I-IX

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13633
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Date of Publication
1949.
Call Number
974.8003 P412
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by Henry Howard Eddy, with an alphabetized finding list and two special indexes compiled by Martha L. Simonetti.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Date of Publication
1949.
Physical Description
v, 101 p. 23 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 101.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Sources - Bibliography.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775 - Sources - Bibliography.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Sources - Bibliography.
Additional Author
Eddy, Henry Howard,
Simonetti, Martha L.,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Provincial Council.
Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council.
Additional Title
Pennsylvania archives
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8003 P412
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Oil and gas developments in the North Strabane area, Washington County, Pennsylvania

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Author
Fettke, Charles R.
Date of Publication
1946.
Call Number
974.882 F421
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by Chas. R. Fettke and Robert C. Stephenson. With a chapter on Core analysis determinations of diamond core from J. L. Kenamond no. 1 well, by E. M. Tignor.
Author
Fettke, Charles R.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Dept. of Internal Affairs, Topographic and Geologic Survey,
Date of Publication
1946.
Physical Description
vi, 62 p. illus., 2 fold. plates. 23 cm.
Series
[Pennsylvania. Topographic and Geologic Survey] Bulletin M 28
Notes
At head of title: Pennsylvania Geological Survey, fourth series.
"Selected bibliography": p. 44.
Subjects
Petroleum - Pennsylvania - Washington County.
Natural gas - Pennsylvania - Washington County.
Additional Author
Stephenson, Robert C.
Tignor, Edgar Milton,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.882 F421
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Wit and humor of the Pennsylvania Germans : a collection of anecdotes, stories, and witticisms : some old, some new : choicest parlor and after-dinner stories

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19393
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Illustrated ed.
Date of Publication
c1946.
Call Number
437.9748 A927w
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Responsibility
by A. Monroe Aurand.
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Illustrated ed.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Privately printed, the Aurand Press,
Date of Publication
c1946.
Physical Description
32 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
At head of title: Penna. "Dutch" joke book.
Subjects
German American wit and humor - Pennsylvania.
German Americans - Pennsylvania - Humor.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 A927w
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