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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/a7de47c6-ca39-4dbb-99b9-543405554933
Collection
Oral History Collection
Title
Oral history interview with elder Yetta Sachs
Object ID
OH0064
Date Range
1975
yell uh, (can I give names), Mrs. Straub, Mrs. Atley, Mrs. Frame, Mrs. Frichey, Mrs. Slaymaker these are, and I could go on with many, many more names in the city of Lancaster but these people dressed to go to the Fulton Opera, you never saw, you saw beautiful hairdo’s, you saw beautiful combs in their
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Title
Oral history interview with elder Yetta Sachs
Description
Oral history interview with elder Yetta Sachs in 1975. Interview contains experts about Lancaster County's dramatic change in fashion since the 1920s.
Date Range
1975
Creation Date
1975
Creator
Sachs, Yetta, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Sachs, Yetta
Interviewer
Wohlsen, Mrs. James
Narrator
Sachs, Yetta
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Clothing and dress
Fashion
Lancaster County (Pa.)
Oral history
Search Terms
Clothing and dress
Fashion
Oral histories
Women
Women's fashion
Place of Interview
LancasterHistory
Quantity
1
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Cassette Tape
Length of Interview
00:11:19
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0064
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Other Numbers
#4A
Classification
OH0064
Description Level
Item
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/1f29d9c3-811e-4121-88a8-918119594080
Collection
Oral History Collection
Title
Oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters, World War II veteran
Object ID
OH0001
Date Range
2004/07/09
people and we went from Oklahoma City to Woodward, Oklahoma and from Woodward, Oklahoma to Tyler, Texas. We supported troops on maneuvers. And then on to Louisiana from Tyler, Texas. After that we went to the port. Was on the Martinia, which was a luxury ship that the British had converted into a troop
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Title
Oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters, World War II veteran
Description
Veteran's oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters.
Admin/Biographical History
Lt. Col. Peters served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 642 Bomb Sq., 409th Bomb Group (L) during World War II. He began his military career in 1939 as a communications and camouflage officer. He retired from the Air Force in 1965 as Lieutenant Colonel. Military service 08/03/1939 - 12/25/1965.
DOB 11/14/1920; DOD 04/24/2014. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128641364/emanuel-paul-peters
Date Range
2004/07/09
Creation Date
9 July 2004
Date of Interview
2004-07-09
Creator
Peters, Emanuel Paul, 1920-2014, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Friedman, William Frederick
Peters, Emanuel "Max" Paul
Peters, Margaret Jane Groff
Interviewer
Newton, Beverly
Narrator
Peters, Emanuel (Max) Paul
Other Creators
Newton, Beverly, collector
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
United States. Air Force
United States. Army. Air Corps
Veterans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County
World War, 1939-1945
Search Terms
Oral histories
United States Air Force
United States Army Air Corps
Veterans
World War II
WWII
Place of Interview
LancasterHistory
Quantity
1
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Cassette Tape
Length of Interview
00:33:43
Language
English
Object ID
OH0001
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Mark Subject
22:16:00 Worked with William F. Friedman
22:34:00 Studied Enigma, and Purple Machine
23:00:00 Worked with integrating sigint and electronic warfare
24:39:00 Head of electronic warfare division
24:47:00 Wins Legion of Merit
25:20:00 Goes to California to work.
26:00:00 Engineers would go to Stanford to share information.
28:00:00 Returns with wife to Lancaster.
29:12:00 Didn't realize importance of new science.
31:41:00 Describes van belonging to local amateur club.
00:33:67 Ironville named after iron mines in area
00:55:20 built radios
01:05:43 Joined Boy Scouts
01:45:58 Listened to Berlin, Germany on his homemade radio
02:14:02 Used old parts to make his radios
02:31:57 Max put his radio on his bicycle
03:20:20 Joined military in 1939
04:43:40 Going through jungle in Panama
04:53:29 Recalls going down river in canoes with alligators close by
05:19:25 Went to OCS
05:34:96 Sent to Florida - Tampa International Airport
06:07:15 Radar Officer on SCR 270
06:32:21 Transferred to Oklahoma
07:20:68 Crosses ocean on ship named Martinia
08:14:00 Was part of convoy. Martinia leaves convoy.
09:36:90 In England. First mission can't find France (weather).
09:46:70 Returning aircraft low on fuel. "Mayday" heard often.
10:01:49 Pilots could see water towers in States. Can't do same in Europe.
10:48:80 Learned to trust equipment. Found France on 2nd mission.
11:12:00 Could tell weather by amount of signal received at base.
11:28:00 "Spoofing" stations on base.
12:10:00 D-Day.
12:20:00 Practiced deception often before D-Day.
12:50:00 Painted black and white stripes on aircraft.
13:13:00 General Patton was decoy for D-Day.
15:00:00 "G-equipment"
15:55:00 Used smoke to designate target
16:23:00 "No-ball" target
16:33:00 "no-ball" target signified German V-1 rocket plane
17:22:00 Wind shifted. Bombs dropped on friendly troops. Gen McNair victim.
17:38:00 Started infantry and aircorp exchanges.
17:44:00 River crossing
18:14:00 "Cat eyes".
19:36:00 Strafed by Me 109.
20:28:00 Returns to states. Goes to F & M.
21:59:00 Gets job at Arlington Hall, Virginia
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
OH0001
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Database record revised by HST, 20 July 2022.
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/244047eb-0a5d-4090-bb4b-532326554875
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0165
Date Range
2006/10/17
your wife uh…in, in lead up to a Fulton Project, and pinning down the history of our community. So I’m glad to know, or to find out a little bit about the beginning of the story before you two came together. But you have some wonderful documents here that um…are completely relevant to the stories of
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
African American Veterans Oral History interview with Sydney Bridgett Sr. Bridgett discusses how the African American-American Legion Post 780 was established in Lancaster County.
Date Range
2006/10/17
Date of Interview
2006-10-17
Creator
Bridgett, Sydney Sr., 1925-2016, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Bridgett, Sydney, Sr.
LeFever Carole
Shugar Miles
Interviewer
LeFever, Carol
Narrator
Bridgett, Sidney
Subjects
African American veterans
African Americans
Oral history
Veterans
Search Terms
African American American Legion Post 780
African American Veterans
African American Veterans Oral History
Oral histories
Persons of color
Veterans
Place of Interview
Home of Sidney Bridgett
Object Name
Recording, Video
Length of Interview
1:00:36
Object ID
OH0165
Notes
Mark Subject
0:05:08 First annual military ball held at Crispus Attucks Comunity Center
0:05:38 Orginal program from where the charter was presented
0:07:31 Contains three chapter verses of the Negro Naitonal Anthem and call to order
Classification
OH0165
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/5dcdf0b8-249d-41a9-87c9-201135280325
Collection
James Buchanan Collection
Title
Three magazine and bulletin excerpts about James Buchanan and Wheatland
Object ID
MG0096 F058 In03
Date Range
1937-1970
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Collection
James Buchanan Collection
Title
Three magazine and bulletin excerpts about James Buchanan and Wheatland
Description
Three magazine and bulletin excerpts about James Buchanan and Wheatland:
Cover of the Lancaster Motorist Magazine with a picture of Wheatland and a caption under it that says, “Wheatland – the President James Buchanan Shrine in Lancaster”. Lancaster.
An article from the Internal Affairs Monthly Bulletin, vol. 29, no. 6 titled, “Homes of Presidents in Pennsylvania,” about James Buchanan’s Wheatland and the home of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife.
A bulletin from the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. It contains several images of the restored Wheatland, has captions explaining each image and an article on Wheatland. Lancaster. February 1937, June 1961, November 1970.
Date Range
1937-1970
Year Range From
1937
Year Range To
1970
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 03
Storage Container
Box 0002
People
Buchanan, James
Eisenhower, Dwight David "Ike"
Eisenhower, Mary Geneva Doud "Mamie"
Subjects
Eisenhower National Historic Site (Pa.)
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.)
Historic house museums
Search Terms
Articles
Buchanan Collections
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Historic house museums
Internal Affairs Monthly Bulletin
James Buchanan
James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland
James Buchanan Presidential Library
Lancaster Motorist
Wheatland
Extent
3 items, 11 pages to scan, 27 x 20 cm
Object Name
Article
Language
English
Parent Object ID
MG0096
Object ID
MG0096 F058 In03
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Associated Material
James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,
http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers
James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/
James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
Related Item Notes
James Buchanan Collection (MG0096) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3760
James Buchanan Family Papers
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
Photograph Collection
Curatorial Collection
Wheatland Collection
Wheatland Mansion
Notes
May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.
Other Number
MG-0096, Folder 058, Insert 03
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Digitization of the James Buchanan Collection was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/f2807863-4cdc-4df0-b217-325843396158
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0025
Date Range
2006/03/17
overhauls. But anyhow that’s [wrong] event. So I get in touch with a couple of people in there on occasion. But I see in the last few years a couple few more have passed away. And I certainly don’t know up to… I: Yeah. I think that the rate right now, I think they said that a couple years ago they were
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Oral History Collection
Description
Oral history interview with World War II veteran and Baseball enthusiast, Joe Myers
Date Range
2006/03/17
Date of Interview
2006-03-17
Creator
Myers, Joe, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Eckhart, Howard
Myers, Joe
Interviewer
Rauhauser, Barry
Narrator
Myers, Joe
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Oral histories
Place of Interview
LCHS
Quantity
1
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Cassette Tape
Length of Interview
00:50:02
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0025
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/af8836b0-266d-4bdf-90f1-499153112971
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0031
Date Range
2004/07/30
about three months, about a month and a half until it was finished, and the L a n c a s t e r H i s t o r y �captain, Bill Hazard, and I were the first two people assigned to it. Then we went to sea for about two weeks, on our shakedown, then went down the east coast of the United States. The submarine
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
World War II veteran and F&M College alumni, Dr. Howard Eckhart
Date Range
2004/07/30
Date of Interview
2004-07-12
Creator
Eckhart, Howard, 1925-2014, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Eckhart, Howard
Interviewer
Newton, Beverly
Narrator
Eckhart, Howard, 1925-2014
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Oral histories
Place of Interview
LCHS
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Videotape
Length of Interview
00:31:24
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0031
Notes
Contact ID Mark Subject
31 00:00:11 Intro of Jesse and Howard Eckhart
31 00:00:22 Jesse was civilian flight instructor (WW II)
31 00:00:33 Jesse's father started first airport in Lancaster
31 00:00:54 First airports were grass fields
31 00:01:07 Jesse's father taught her to fly.
31 00:01:13 Jesse soloed on 16th birthday in 1940
31 00:01:25 She soloed and instructed in single engine aircraft
31 00:01:36 Older sister Helen invited to join WAFS
31 00:01:50 Helen was not interested
31 00:01:51 Jesse invited to be flight instructor at WAF school
31 00:02:09 Jesse stayed home and became a flight instructor
31 00:02:18 Jesse quit college (Penn State) after war started
31 00:02:35 Jesse worked for father in Navy instruction program
31 00:03:02 Training for pilots not unique to Lancaster.
31 00:03:12 Aircraft used: examples N3N, Stearman
31 00:03:23 Training equivalent to private pilots license
31 00:03:34 Restriction on travel. Trainees could not do cross country flights
31 00:03:58 Navy training had five students in a class (all male).
31 00:04:15 Each class lasted five months.
31 00:04:39 Howard joined navy at age 17
31 00:04:46 Had been at F & M the year before.
31 00:04:53 Volunteered for the draft board. Enlistments closed.
31 00:05:06 Went to boot camp in New York state.
31 00:05:24 Went to Treasure Island California
31 00:05:39 Volunteered for submarine duty
31 00:05:43 Went to New London, Connecticut for submarine school.
31 00:06:00 Captain Bill Hazard and Howard were first two people assigned to SS324
31 00:06:06 Went to sea for two week shakedown cruise.
31 00:06:11 Went along eastern coast of U.S. Sub ahead of them was sunk by by Air Force B-25.
31 00:06:22 Proceeded then at night on the surface.
31 00:06:30 Went through Panama Canal to Hawaii then to Subic Bay Phillipines
31 00:06:49 Christmas Day 1944 sub sank first Japanese ship
31 00:06:55 Navy had broken Japanese radio code
31 00:08:40 Had rooms in town. All expenses paid for three weeks.
31 00:08:52 Has pictures of his navy days.
31 00:09:22 Sank ships in bay at capital of Java.
31 00:07:01 Intercepted and sank Japanese troop transport
31 00:07:27 Destroyers depth charged Howard's sub for ten hours.
31 00:07:38 Captain Hazard put a CO2 bottle in a torpedo tube and launched it.
31 00:07:46 Japs followed trail of CO2 bottle and Hazard backed away losing Jap ships
31 00:07:54 Lombk Straits.
31 00:08:27 Had liberty in Australia
31 00:08:34 Received their back pay, and had food not available on sub
31 00:09:37 Smokey Roberts (from Lancaster) took Howard to sinking of SS324 in the 1980s.
31 00:10:07 Howard went to Baltimore. Had to show demolition crew where to place charges.
31 00:10:22 Maryland Department of Fish and Game wanted sub to create reef.
31 00:10:50 Twenty six former crew went on party boat to watch sinking nine miles off coast of Maryland (Ocean City).
31 00:10:58 Howard has a tape of sinking.
31 00:11:12 Crew of sub cried when it sank
31 00:11:27 Howard was a oral surgeon for 38 years
31 00:11:39 Howard and Jesse's son has his practice now.
31 00:11:56 Jesse's father supported her in her flying
31 00:12:12 Jesse and her sisters all had to learn to fly before learning to drive a car.
31 00:12:29 Jesse's dad taught her how to hunt and do other things.
31 00:12:55 Jesse went hunting for deer and small game.
31 00:13:08 Howard and Jesse have three sons.
31 00:13:29 Jesse did fly cross country (ferrying airplanes).
31 00:14:17 Jesse flew whenever there was a free plane at the airport.
31 00:14:32 Flew out to Kansas by herself.
31 00:14:40 Had to come back on train.
31 00:15:00 Sister Helen was also a flight instructor.
31 00:15:25 Youngest sister Carolyn did learn to fly.
31 00:15:50 Stayed in contact. Got mail and pay when sub was in port.
31 00:16:04 Home port was Perth, Australia.
31 00:16:26 Sea captain had brought rabbits to Australia years before.
31 00:16:29 Rabbits had no natural enemies in Australia.
31 00:16:39 Rabbit population so bad that farmers had to bury fences in ground to keep them from crops.
31 00:16:46 Farmers asked sailors to come and shoot rabbits to cut population
31 00:16:50 Sailors used .30 caliber semi-automatic rifle
31 00:16:56 Howard shot sixty rabbits in one day.
31 00:17:00 Did not eat rabbits. Just left them lay.
31 00:17:34 Left service and came back to F & M. Had G.I. Bill
31 00:18:13 Howard was in the reserves.
31 00:18:24 Howard would go to Philadephia Navy Yard once a month.
31 00:18:45 Received orders to go to New London, CT - active duty.
31 00:18:52 Howard applied for a commission. He had been a Chief Petty Officer.
31 00:18:58 Commission approved.
31 00:19:16 Went into Dental Corp
31 00:19:33 Belong to the VFW in Millersville.
31 00:19:41 Did belong to Ephrata American Legion.
31 00:19:48 Has contact with Submarine Veterans of WWII
31 00:20:15 Howard has tapes of days in navy
31 00:20:26 Photographs available to make copies.
31 00:20:41 Jesse also has photos of airport, planes, people.
31 00:20:51 Jesse talks about their sons.
31 00:20:59 Her sons can fly. Taught by Jesse's dad.
31 00:21:06 Michael, oral surgeon in Lancaster, Howie is in insurance, David is in investments around Pottstown.
31 00:21:23 All her sons have their private pilots license. Howard also has a ATP (air transport pilot) license.
31 00:21:38 Howard had flown for Eastern until they went broke.
31 00:21:46 Howard and Jesse have three main ratings.
31 00:21:59 They have had a progression of planes.
31 00:22:19 Did not have a plane for some time. Could not afford $15 hangar fee.
31 00:22:24 Flew brother in laws Tri-Pacer.
31 00:22:38 Had a four seat Comanche.
31 00:23:04 Got a six seat Aztec.
31 00:23:13 Aztec is fully instrumented, with GPS.
31 00:23:34 "Jesse flew with her father in ""tail-draggers""."
31 00:24:16 Jesse reluctantly got rid of Luscombe.
31 00:24:24 Luscombe only had room for a couple of hankerchiefs in baggage compartment.
31 00:24:33 Observation towers during WWII
31 00:25:31 "Closed area of east coast ""Violet Defense area""."
31 00:26:17 Closed area came in about 100 miles from coast.
31 00:26:32 Towers were manned by trained observers. Observers attended a class in aircraft identification.
31 00:26:59 Jesse did see these observers at the airport. They had their own uniforms
31 00:27:24 Jesse's english teacher was one of the observers.
31 00:27:31 He was later principal of McCaskey High School.
31 00:28:04 About ten to twelve instructors at airport.
31 00:28:14 About 25 at Carlisle.
31 00:28:24 Training program ended about three months before end of war.
31 00:28:53 Instructor input into trainees log book affected where they were assigned.
31 00:29:19 What is NMI? No Middle Initial
31 00:29:49 Howard was fortunate to get into subs. Only a few taken. Paid well. Close knit group.
31 00:30:16 Four cooks on sub. Howard got shift that coinsided with baker finishing.
31 00:30:56 Modern subs like plush Pullman car
31 00:31:09 closing.
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0058
Date Range
2005/09/28
N: Well Mrs. Wagner I know you have an interesting story to tell us, so would like to tell us what your subject is about? And then just go right ahead and tell us about that special day W: Well, it’s the story of the liberty bell, the last time it went out of Philadelphia, was on a flat car and it
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Last Time the Liberty Bell was in Lancaster
Operation Remember
Date Range
2005/09/28
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Wagner, Edna
Narrator
Wagner, Edna
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Oral histories
Liberty Bell
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Cassette Tape
Length of Interview
00:07:21
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0058
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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#1A
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ff411605-1e66-4cb0-a35f-942016615055
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0059
Date Range
2006/03/24
people moving from one house to another in the City of Lancaster. Leases began and ended on April one. That was it. Incidentally, to show its agricultural contact, my mother was from Salem NJ. She says there was sort of a day on the 23rd of March in Salem NJ because crops are at least ten days to two
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Oral history interview former attornery Harris Arnold
Date Range
2006/03/24
Date of Interview
2006-03-24
Creator
Arnold, Harris, 1933-2014, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Arnold, Harris C.
Interviewer
Roy, Tom
Narrator
Arnold, Harris C.
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Oral histories
Place of Interview
LancasterHistory
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Cassette Tape
Length of Interview
00:19:18
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0059
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Other Numbers
#1B
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0060
Date Range
2006/03/23
this is very rough, of about 1850 to the mid 1930’s. About a seventy to eighty year span which was the day in Lancaster County where deeds changed hands, leases ran out, and began anew, and the city and the courthouse and the lawyer’s offices were rushed and busy, and a lot of people came in by trolley
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Oral interview with Lester Herr
Date Range
2006/03/23
Date of Interview
2006-03-23
Creator
Herr, Lester, 1921-2005, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Herr, Lester
Interviewer
Roy, Tom
Narrator
Herr, Lester
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Oral histories
Place of Interview
LancasterHistory
Quantity
1
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Cassette Tape
Length of Interview
00:10:31
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0060
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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#2A
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0061
Date Range
2006/05/27
in agriculture. I think it has always been of interest the romance of the threshing. Now we read even to go back in biblical times when the flail and the few men were used to thresh the grain out on the ground and that was done for thousands of years, even here in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Our
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Oral history interview about grain operations and farming with Wilmer Eshelman
Date Range
2006/05/27
Date of Interview
2006-05-27
Creator
Eshelman, Wilmer, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Eshleman, Wilmer J.
Interviewer
Frey, Mike
Narrator
Eshleman, Wilmer J.
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Farming
Oral histories
Place of Interview
LancasterHistory
Quantity
1
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Cassette Tape
Length of Interview
00:30:26
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0061
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Other Numbers
#2B
Description Level
Item
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