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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Watt & Shand Collection, 1880-2003 Object ID: MG0237 4 boxes 59 folders, 1 scrapbook 2 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 6 Scope and

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Description: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.; Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.

Admin/Biographical History: On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series.; Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory; Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners

Date Range: 1880-2003

Year Range From: 1880

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1880-2003

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ammon, Cora Mae Fox; Ammon, John M.; Appel, Eva Rengier; Appel, Percy L.; Baker, Miriam Rengier; Bell, Louise Price; Berger, R. R.; Blatchley, Charles A.; Breyers, C. J.; Buchanan, James; Drukenbrod, Lee Roy; Fehl, J. Herbert; Frantz, I. E.; Fritz, C. C.; Goodhart, E. C.; Groff, Alpheaus S.; Groff, Ella L.; Hermansader, T. F.; Hirsh, Bertha; Hirsh, Gabriel; Hostetter, D. B.; Lively, Henry; Long, Jacob M.; Loss, Natalie M.; Loss, Nathan; Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.; Marshall, Elizabeth Weber; Marshall, George A.; Marshall, George W.; Marshall, Maria L. Good; May, Jennie H.; Miller, E. N.; Myers, Harry; Myers, Maria; Myers, Patricia Marshall; Myrtetus, George B.; Noonan, Ella O.; Noonan, Raymond Smith; Prangley, James; Reed, George R.; Reichley, Jacob Christian; Reifsnyder, Arden P.; Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John S.; Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen; Rohrer, George Redsecker; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker; Roth, George R.; Rupert, L. H.; Schaller, Kimberly; Shand, James; Shand, Thomas Marshall; Sherrill, Anita B.; Sherrill, S. Edward; Short, Edwin P.; Skyllas, Drossos A.; Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert; Stiles, H. A.; Stirk, Isaac; Stirk, Sarah C.; Swarr, Donald; Urban, Cassius Emlen; Watt, Laura Louise Geiger; Watt, Peter T.; Weber, May H.; Wisegarver, Harry P.; Witmer, Albert F.

Other Creators: Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)

Subjects: Advertising; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Building leases; Calendars; Catalogs; Deeds; Department stores; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Letters; Menus; Newsletters; Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail

Search Terms: A and S Realty and Investment Corporation; A. B. Rote & Co.; Advertising; Agreements; Air conditioning; American Blower Corporation; Appel & Weber; Architectural plans; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; Awards; Blueprints; Bon-Ton; Bon-Ton Beauty Salon; Booklets; C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.; Calendars; Catalogs; Central Automatic Sprinkler Company; Certificates; Columbia; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia; Correspondence; Deeds; Department stores; DUSCO Property Management, Inc.; East Hempfield Twp.; Employee handbooks; Employees; Ephemera; Escalators; Finding aids; Fire sprinklers; Floorplans; Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers; Gift certificates; Ground-rent; Hager and Bro., Inc.; Hager Realty Corporation; Heating and ventilation systems; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Job descriptions; Kroll Electric Company, Inc.; Lancaster; Lancaster Parking Authority; Lancaster Trust Company; Leases; Letters; Manuscript groups; Menus; Mortgages; Newsletters; Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.; Park City Mall; Penn Square; Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Permits; Poetry; PPL; Price lists; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company; Reynolds and Reynolds Company; Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail; Total Energy Leasing Corporation; Trion, Inc.; Watt and Shand; Workers' Compensation Act; York Corporation

Extent: 4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0237

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-237

Classification: MG0237

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.; The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.

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Lancaster County historic transportation cultural resource study

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1307

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1995

Call Number: 380.5 L245

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Lancaster County Planning Commission

Date of Publication: 1995

Physical Description: various pagings + 1 envelope of 7 maps 30 cm.

Notes: Includes Native American trade routes, road networks, water transportation networks and railroad networks

Contents: Native American trade routes and associated sites -- Road networks -- Water transportation networks -- Railroad networks.

Subjects: Transportation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Susquehanna Indians.; Canals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 380.5 L245

Housing tomorrow's citizens; a report on the past growth and future projections of housing in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14130

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1963.

Call Number: 352.75 L245h

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1963.

Physical Description: xiii, 80 p. : maps, tables ; 28 cm.

Notes: "This is the third in a series of basic planning studies prepared by the Lancaster County Planning Commision.".

Subjects: Community development - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Housing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Planning.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.75 L245h

Physical features and natural resources, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14697

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1960.

Call Number: 352.94232 L245

Alternate Title: Report on the physical features and natural resources of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Responsibility: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1960.

Physical Description: 36 p. : il., col. maps ; 22 x 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; "This is the first in a series of basic planning studies to be undertaken by the Lancaster County Planning Commission."

Subjects: Natural resources - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Regional planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Geography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.94232 L245

1960 population and housing characteristics by census tracts and civil divisions

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14154

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: August, 1962.

Call Number: 352.75 L245p

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: August, 1962.

Physical Description: ii, 38 p. : maps, tables ; 28 cm.

Series: Lancaster County Planning Commission Information report, no. 7

Subjects: Housing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Population.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.75 L245p

Economy : a report on the historical development, present characteristics, and future projections for the economy of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14465

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1964.

Call Number: 352.94 L245e

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1964.

Physical Description: 152 p. ; 29 cm.

Notes: "This is the fourth in a series of basic planning studies to be prepared by the Lancaster County Planning Commission."

Subjects: Economic conditions - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Economic conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.94 L245e

The past, present, and future population of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14476

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1962.

Call Number: 352.75 L245pp

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1962.

Physical Description: 107 p. : maps, charts, tables ; 28 cm.

Notes: "This is the second in a series of basic planning studies to be prepared by the Lancaster County Planning Commission."

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Population.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Planning.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.75 L245pp

Lancaster County, Penna. : garden spot of America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15746

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1960.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 521Oversize

Responsibility: prepared by the Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: Lancaster County Planning Commission,

Date of Publication: 1960.

Physical Description: 1 map ; 90 x 105 cm.

Notes: Smaller map call number MAP 900 111; Shows covered bridges.; Indexed for points of interest.

Subjects: Covered bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 521Oversize

Lancaster County regional open space plan, August 1992

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16998

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1992.

Call Number: 352.96 L245o

Responsibility: prepared by Lancaster County Board of Commissioners, Lancaster County Planning Commission and Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee.

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: RETTEW Associates,

Date of Publication: 1992.

Physical Description: xiv, 71, 11 p. : ill. 8 fold maps, 2 copies of the plan in pocket ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Open spaces - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Planning.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.96 L245o

Lancaster County heritage : heritage tourism plan

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17496

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1998.

Call Number: 338.4 H548

Alternate Title: Heritage tourism plan

Responsibility: prepared by Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1998.

Physical Description: ca. 90 p. in various pagings : ill., map ; 22 x 28 cm.

Notes: "January 1998."; In spiral binder.

Subjects: Tourism and city planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 338.4 H548

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