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The Fraktur-writings or illuminated manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12627
Author
Shelley, Donald A.
Date of Publication
1961]
Call Number
905.748 PGFS v.23
Author
Shelley, Donald A.
Place of Publication
[Allentown
Publisher
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society,
Date of Publication
1961]
Physical Description
viii, 375 p. illus., facsims. (part col.) 25 cm.
Subjects
Germans in Pennsylvania.
Illumination of books and manuscripts - Pennsylvania.
Decorative arts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 PGFS v.23
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The language and culture of the Pennsylvania Germans : a Festschrift for Earl C. Haag

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19160
Date of Publication
2010.
Call Number
325.243 K26
Responsibility
ed. by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Place of Publication
Topeka, KS
Publisher
Soc. for German-American Studies,
Date of Publication
2010.
Physical Description
237 S. : Ill., Notenbeisp.
Series
Yearbook of German-American studies : Supplemental issues ; 3
Notes
Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.
From the editor -- A Fraktur tribute to Professor Earl C. Haag / Peter V. Fritsch -- A tribute to a friend and fellow scholar / C. Richard Beam -- Ernest Waldo Bechtel (1923-88): the leading Pennsylvania poet of his generation / C. Richard Beam -- The first college course in Pennsylvania German / William W. Donner -- Reverend Howard J. Frey's Pennsylvania German service at Swamps Community Chapel in Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, 29 September 1984 / K.A. "Butch" Reigart -- A letter defining Old Order Mennonite worship in the nineteenth century / Amos B. Hoover -- New directions in a traditional Pennsylvania German healing practice: a twenty-first century powwower / David W. Kriebel -- Language and otherness: popular fiction and the Amish / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner -- An Amish mortuary ritual at the intersection of cultural anthropology and lexicography / Joshua R. Brown -- "Mir schwetze noch die Mudderschprooch!": zur Geschichte und Zukunft des Pennsylvaniadeutschen in den USA / Michael Werner -- Pennsylvania German in Lyndon, Kansas: variation, change, decline / Michael R. DeHaven -- Solving the preacher's dilemma: communication strategies in Old Order Amish sermons / Jörg Meindl -- The comprehensive Pennsylvania German dictionary brings back memories / Jennifer L. Trout -- Kucheheiser: cake and mead shop traditions / Alan G. Keyser -- Der Schtruwwelpitter: Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, dutchified by Earl C. Haag / Walter Sauer -- An 1857 version of the Schnitzelbank-Song from Basel, Switzerland / William D. Keel -- Revisiting Aunt Hannah: African-American folk humor in nineteenth-century Lancaster County / Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Wortfindungsprobleme im Sprachgebrauch von Minderheitensprechern / Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi -- Frühes deutsches Stadtbuch, Landgeschichte, Mundarten: Geistig-religiöse Strömungen in Europa vor der Entdeckung Amerikas / Helmut Protze -- Contributors.
On front of front flyleaf: "Compliments of C. Richard Beam, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
German Americans.
German language / Dialects.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Pennsylvania Dutch / Folklore.
German language
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvaniadeutsch.
Pennsylvaniadeutsche.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Additional Author
Haag, Earl C.
Keel, William D.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
325.243 K26
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Architecture and landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720-1920

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17140
Date of Publication
c2011.
Call Number
720.9748 A673
Responsibility
edited by Sally McMurry and Nancy Van Dolsen.
ISBN
9780812242782 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812242785 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication
c2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p.[229]-237) and index.
Contents
Introduction: architecture and landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720-1920 / Sally McMurry and Nancy Van Dolsen -- Landscapes / Gabrielle Lanier -- Rural houses / Sally McMurry -- Domestic outbuildings / Philip E. Pendleton -- Barns and agricultural outbuildings / Sally McMurry and J. Ritchie Garrison -- Town house: from borough to city, Lancaster's changing streetscape / Bernard L. Herman, Thomas Ryan, and David Schuyler -- Commerce and culture: Pennsylvania German commercial vernacular architecture / Diane Wenger and J. Ritchie Garrison -- Religious landscapes / Jerry Clouse.
Subjects
Vernacular architecture - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Cultural landscapes - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Additional Author
McMurry, Sally Ann,
Van Dolsen, Nancy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
720.9748 A673
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The Pennsylvania Germans, 1891-1965, frequently known as the "Pennsylvania Dutch"; seventy-fifth anniversary volume of the Pennsylvania German Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18224
Author
Rosenberger, Homer Tope,
Date of Publication
1966.
Call Number
905.748 PG Vol. 63
Author
Rosenberger, Homer Tope,
Place of Publication
[Lancaster]
Publisher
Pennsylvania German Society,
Date of Publication
1966.
Physical Description
619 p. illus., facsims, maps, ports. 24 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania German Society. [Publications]
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania-German Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 PG Vol. 63
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A picture of the Pennsylvania Germans

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3415
Author
Gilbert, Russell Wieder,
Edition
3rd ed.
Date of Publication
1962.
Call Number
325.243 G465 1962
Responsibility
by Russell Wieder Gilbert...
Author
Gilbert, Russell Wieder,
Edition
3rd ed.
Place of Publication
Gettysburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical Association,
Date of Publication
1962.
Physical Description
v, 83 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania history studies ;
Notes
"Selected bibliography": p. 56-65.
Subjects
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
325.243 G465 1962
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Die Deutschen in Marylands Kolonialzeit (The Germans of colonial Maryland) Address at the 74th annual dinner of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland (German and English versions)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8563
Author
Stein, Charles Francis,
Date of Publication
1965?]
Call Number
975.2 S819
Alternate Title
Germans of colonial Maryland
Author
Stein, Charles Francis,
Place of Publication
[Baltimore
Date of Publication
1965?]
Physical Description
12 p.
Subjects
Germans - Maryland.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
975.2 S819
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The English Pennsylvania Dutch dictionary : a glossary of English words and expressions with their Pennsylvania Dutch equivalents : together with an illustrated compilation of many unique and fascinating facets of the wonderful Pennsylvania Dutch people and their historical background, including their culture and customs, arts and crafts, folklore and folkways

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16214
Author
Snader, Howard,
Date of Publication
c1965.
Call Number
437 S669
Responsibility
by Howard Snader [and Ann Hark].
Author
Snader, Howard,
Place of Publication
Reading, Pa
Publisher
Culinary Arts Press,
Date of Publication
c1965.
Physical Description
96, [4] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Parts of this book were originally published as a Glossary of Pennsylvania Dutch words, c1949, and by House & garden magazine, June 1941"--P. [4].
Subjects
English language - Dictionaries
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Additional Author
Hark, Ann.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437 S669
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The heart of the Taufschein : Fraktur and the pivotal role of Berks County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16922
Author
Earnest, Corinne P.
Date of Publication
2012.
Call Number
745 E12
Alternate Title
Fraktur and the pivotal role of Berks County, Pennsylvania
Responsibility
Corinne Earnest and Russell Earnest.
ISBN
9780911122633
091112263X
Author
Earnest, Corinne P.
Place of Publication
Kutztown, Pa
Publisher
Published by the Pennsylvania German Society,
Date of Publication
2012.
Physical Description
ix, 302 p. : col. ill., facsims., maps ; 29 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; ser. 2, v. 46
Notes
Illustrated lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285) and indexes.
Contents
Berks County: the center of it all -- Daniel Schumacher: a Fraktur artist of some note -- Henrich Otto, 1784 -- Friederich Krebs, August 4, 1790 -- Johann Valentin Schuller -- The greatest development of Fraktur writing, 1800-1835 -- Johann Ritter: a century of influence -- Conclusion: The last flickering -- Appendix 1. Fraktur artist who routinely made Taussscheine for Berks County families -- Appendix 2. Scriveners who routinely infilled Taussscheine for Berks County families -- Appendix 3. Berks Couny printers of Taussscheine in order by active dates -- Appendix 4. Translations.
Subjects
Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Illumination of books and manuscripts - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Folk art - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Berks County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Earnest, Russell D.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania-German Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
745 E12
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Pennsylvania German Fraktur and color drawings, exhibited at Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, May 19-June 30, 1969

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8999
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley.
Date of Publication
1969]
Call Number
740 P415
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Date of Publication
1969]
Physical Description
[72] p. illus., facsims. (both part col.) 28 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction, by D. Yoder.--Fraktur types; an interpretation, by V. S. Gunnion and C. J. Hopf.
Subjects
Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Illumination of books and manuscripts - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Folk art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
740 P415
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Amish folk tales and other stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16798
Author
Moore, C. Eugene,
Date of Publication
2011.
Call Number
301.452 M821
Responsibility
C. Eugene Moore.
ISBN
9780764338090
0764338099
Author
Moore, C. Eugene,
Place of Publication
Atglen, Pa
Publisher
Schiffer Pub.,
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
128 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Amos trades up -- Eilenshpiggel and his shenanigans -- John the blacksmith visits the devil -- Tales tall and taller -- Graven images & the legends that grow around them -- Pennsylvania German humor -- A true ghost story.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch - Folklore.
Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Folklore.
Folklore - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Amish - Folklore.
Folklore - Lancaster County (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
301.452 M821
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Arts of the Pennsylvania Dutch

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19207
Author
Robacker, Earl F.
Date of Publication
[1965].
Call Number
745 R628
Author
Robacker, Earl F.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Castle Books,
Date of Publication
[1965].
Physical Description
240 p. ill.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
Art, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Folk art - Pennsylvania.
Folk art.
Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
745 R628
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Historical problems with the Pennsylvania Germans / by Philip S. Klein

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17171
Author
Klein, Philip S.
Date of Publication
1969.
Call Number
390 K64
Author
Klein, Philip S.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary,
Date of Publication
1969.
Physical Description
35 p. : 23 cm.
Series
Community historians annual,
Community historians annual ; no. 8.
Notes
Includes biographical sketch of the author.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Additional Corporate Author
Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
390 K64
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Trains of the Pennsylvania Dutch country: Pennsylvania, Reading, Western Maryland, Strasburg, Stewartstown, Maryland & Pennsylvania, Wanamaker Kempton & Southern, and others

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15828
Author
Denney, John D.
Date of Publication
1966.
Call Number
385 D417
Responsibility
By John D. Denney, Jr.
Author
Denney, John D.
Place of Publication
[Columbia? Pa.]
Date of Publication
1966.
Physical Description
60 p. illus., maps. 28 cm.
Subjects
Railroads - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Railroads - Maryland, Western
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
385 D417
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Pennsylvania German Folklore Society : [yearbook]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17735
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society.
Date of Publication
1936-1966.
Call Number
905.748 PGFS
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society.
Place of Publication
[Allentown]
Publisher
The Society,
Date of Publication
1936-1966.
Physical Description
28 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Publication Frequency
Irregular
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1-v. 28.
Notes
Description based on: Vol. 7 (1942).
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch - Periodicals.
Folklore - Pennsylvania - Periodicals.
Germans - Pennsylvania - Folklore - Periodicals.
Pennsylvania German dialect - Periodicals.
German American literature - Pennsylvania - Periodicals.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 PGFS
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The flowering of the Maryland palatinate; an intimate and objective history of the Province of Maryland to the overthrow of proprietary rule in 1654, with accounts of Lord Baltimore's settlement at Avalon

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9064
Author
Newman, Harry Wright,
Date of Publication
1961.
Call Number
975.201 N551
Author
Newman, Harry Wright,
Place of Publication
Washington
Date of Publication
1961.
Physical Description
xviii, 359 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Maryland - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Maryland - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
975.201 N551
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Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18554
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania-German Society.
Date of Publication
1936-1966.
Call Number
905.748 PG
Alternate Title
Proceedings
Annual report
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania-German Society.
Place of Publication
Allentown, Pa. [etc.]
Publisher
[s.n.],
Date of Publication
1936-1966.
Physical Description
28 v. : ill. ; 24-25 cm.
Dates of Publication
v.1-63, 1891-1966.
Notes
Frequently referred to as its Yearbook--Cf. Foreword, v. 10-28.
Subjects
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania-German Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 PG
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This land is your land : Notes on the Pennsylvania Dutch of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15614
Date of Publication
1968.
Call Number
289.71 T448
Place of Publication
Millersville (Pa.)
Publisher
Students in Graphic Arts ,
Date of Publication
1968.
Physical Description
57, [2] p. : ill. wood-block prints ; 20 cm.
Summary
"A look at some of thecultural and historical aspects of Lancaster County reveal many that are tytpcial only of that area, and to the people that live there. This booklet is a small collection of some of these characteristics. The following assortment of short, illustrated articles was researched, printed, and assembled by the Industrial Arts students in Graphic Arts 115 under the direction of Dr. Earl M. Weber during the spring sememster 1968, Millersville State College, Millersville Pa." [introduction]
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Hand-printed books.
Wood-engraving - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Additional Corporate Author
Millersville State College (Pa.) ; Graphic arts students.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
289.71 T448
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The folk art of Pennsylvania Dutchland

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8576
Author
Smith, Elmer Lewis.
Date of Publication
[1966]
Call Number
646 R628a
Responsibility
Photos. by Mel Horst. Text by Elmer L. Smith.
Author
Smith, Elmer Lewis.
Place of Publication
Witmer, Pa
Publisher
Applied Arts
Date of Publication
[1966]
Physical Description
41 p. illus. 28 cm.
Subjects
Folk art - Pennsylvania.
Art, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Additional Author
Horst, Melvin.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
646 R628a
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Die Pennsylvaanisch Deitsche = The Pennsylvania Germans

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17862
Author
Haag, Earl C.
Date of Publication
c2010.
Call Number
430 H111
Alternate Title
Pennsylvania Germans
Responsibility
Earl C. Haag.
ISBN
9780911122114
0911122117
Author
Haag, Earl C.
Place of Publication
Kutztown, Penn
Publisher
Pennsylvania German Society,
Date of Publication
c2010.
Physical Description
xxii, 328 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; 44
Notes
"Der alt Professer."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320) and index.
Summary
"This volume contains 312 'Es Neinuhr Schtick' columns gleaned from The call, Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, and The press and herald, Tremont, Pennsylvania"--P. xv.
Subjects
German Americans - Pennsylvania
American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County
Pennsylvania German dialect - Texts.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania-German Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
430 H111
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Parish Registers of the Lutheran Congregation in Rohrerstown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : Baptisms - Marriages - Burials (Now in the possession of Holy Spirit Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the sucessor congregation)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1551
Date of Publication
1961
Call Number
284.1 R737
Responsibility
copied by Pastor Frederick S. Weiser, 1961.
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
1961
Physical Description
31 pgs. : 29 cm.
Notes
Baptisms 1825 - 1942; marriages 1891 - 1942; deaths 1828 - 1939. Includex index.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 135, #3. East Hempfield Township. Indexed.
Subjects
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Rohrerstown, Pa.)
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Rohrerstown
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Rohrerstown
Location
Lancaster History Library - Church Record
Call Number
284.1 R737
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