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The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2483
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
533.6 B639
Responsibility
by Jean Pierre Blanchard.
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
Notes
"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59.
Subjects
Balloon ascensions.
Additional Author
Frey, Carroll,
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
533.6 B639
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Stock in trade : being an "inventory of the store in Litiz (Pennsylvania), taken from the 4th to 8th May, 1773," and some pertinent remarks regarding service to the American public

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15935
Date of Publication
[ca. 1940]
Call Number
974.815 LITB S864
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Home Insurance Co.,
Date of Publication
[ca. 1940]
Physical Description
[20] p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Facsimile reproduction of the 1773 inventory.
Subjects
General stores - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Inventories - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LITB S864
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The marking of the Martin Meylin rifle shop by the Lancaster County Historical Society : October 16, 1949

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2687
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1949
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.53
Responsibility
by Jack Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1949
Physical Description
[145]-150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 53, no. 5
Subjects
Mylin, Martin, - 1670-1749.
Kentucky rifle.
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.53
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A bibliography of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania : from its erection in 1773 to 1949

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7232
Author
Mohr, Marie Helen,
Date of Publication
1949.
Call Number
974.889 M697
Responsibility
by Sister Marie Helene Mohr.
Author
Mohr, Marie Helen,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Archives Pub. Co. of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
1949.
Physical Description
73 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
"[Issued] under the auspices of the Westmoreland County Historical Society."
"Sources consulted": p. 11-12.
Subjects
Westmoreland County (Pa.) - Bibliography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.889 M697
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The Pennsylvania Dutch and their cookery : their history, art, accomplishments, also a broad collection of their food recipes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16611
Author
Frederick, J. George
Date of Publication
1946, c1935
Call Number
641.5 F852 1946
Responsibility
by J. George Frederick.
Author
Frederick, J. George
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Business Bourse,
Date of Publication
1946, c1935
Physical Description
275 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes index to recipes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-85).
Contents
I. The Old-World background of the Pennsylvania Dutch -- II. Regional cookery and the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Art, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Cookery, American - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
641.5 F852 1946
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Lineage of the Benjamin Eshleman's of Conestoga Township Lancaster County Pennsylvania : presented to the Lancaster Historical Society as a memorial to their mother Antaline Elizabeth Eshleman Ramsay

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18660
Author
Fix, Kathryn Ramsay
Date of Publication
[1949?]
Call Number
929 E75d
Responsibility
[by] Kathryn Ramsey Fix [and] Irene Ramsay Donovan.
Author
Fix, Kathryn Ramsay
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
[1949?]
Physical Description
unpages : photos. ; 29 cm.
Subjects
Eshleman family
Ramsey family
Harnish family
Additional Author
Donovan, Irene Ramsay
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 E75d
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Family records : mostly of three distinct groups and descendants of Joseph, David and Henry Bauman, who settled as pioneers in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, up to the year 1825 : each representing one of the three tribes of Christian, Peter and Jacob, respectively, who are children of the old progenitor Wendel Bauman : also an extensive history of family lineages of the early ancestors

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18595
Author
Bauman, Angus Spaeth,
Date of Publication
1940]
Call Number
929 B348
Author
Bauman, Angus Spaeth,
Place of Publication
[Wallenstein, Ont
Publisher
A. S. Bauman,
Date of Publication
1940]
Physical Description
201 p.
Notes
Cover title: Bauman family history.
Subjects
Bowman family.
Ontario - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 B348
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Historical account of the Goethean literary society of Franklin and Marshall college together with a register of members, 1835-1940

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10312
Corporate Author
Franklin and Marshall College. Goethean Literary Society.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
371.848 Y68
Responsibility
by Henry James Young ...
Corporate Author
Franklin and Marshall College. Goethean Literary Society.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Franklin and Marshall College,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
125 p. plates, facsims. 20 cm.
Series
Franklin and Marshall College studies, no. 3
Notes
Prepared at the request of the Goethean Centennial Committee. cf. Pref.
"A bibliography of the Goethean Literary Society": p. 59-66. "Principal sources": p. 66-67.
Additional Author
Young, Henry James.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
371.848 Y68
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The Bell family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; the ancestors and descendants of John Henderson Bell

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19663
Author
Bell, Raymond Martin,
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
929 B435
Responsibility
by Raymond Martin Bell.
Author
Bell, Raymond Martin,
Place of Publication
Washington, Pa. [Ann Arbor, Mich.]
Publisher
[Edwards Bros., Lithoprinters]
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
vi, 77 pages illustrations (maps, coats of arms) 28 cm
Notes
"Sources" at the end of most of the chapters.
Subjects
Bell family.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 B435
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Some of the descendants of John Michael Dübendorf, 1695-1778; more especially those directly descended through his grandson David Diffenderffer, 1752-1846, by his great-great grandson Frank Ried Diffenderffer, 1833-1921

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5068
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Date of Publication
1940.
Call Number
929 D569o
Responsibility
as revised and continued through David Rittenhouse Diffenderffer, 1822-1900; by his grandson William Henry Owen, III ... with addendum Dunham and Owen families, Lebanon, Mo.
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Place of Publication
[Lockridge, Ia
Publisher
Printing by Prouty]
Date of Publication
1940.
Physical Description
xvii, 86 p. front., illus., plates, ports., facsims., coat of arms, fold. geneal. tab. 23 cm.
Notes
Pages 49-68 blank.
Genealogical table mounted on page [3] of cover.
"Privately printed and limited to 100 copies of which this is copy number 59."
Subjects
Diffenderffer family (John Michael Dübendorf, 1695-1778)
Additional Author
Owen, William Henry,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 D569o
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