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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

Department Store (Lancaster, Pa.) System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series. Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners Conditions for Access: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be

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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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Collection: Historical Markers Album

Object ID: A-39-01-98

Date Range: 1986

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Historical Markers Album

Description: Bronze tablet on the south wall of the Willson Memorial Building, home of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 230 North President Avenue. The tablet honors Mrs. Louise Tanger, an active member of the Society as well as a recognized naturalist. It was she who founded the arboretum on the grounds. Erected in 1981.

Provenance: Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.

Date Range: 1986

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Arboretums; Historical markers; Lancaster County Historical Society; LancasterHistory; Monuments; Tablets; Tanger Arboretum; Willson Memorial Building

Place: Lancaster Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3 x 5 inches

Object ID: A-39-01-98

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Object ID: AC-01-07-01

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Description: Production of "Here's Love" at the Fulton Opera House.

Year Range From: 1982

Year Range To: 1983

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Theatrical performances; Fulton Opera House

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3 x 5 inches

Object ID: AC-01-07-01

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Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Object ID: AC-01-07-02

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Description: Production of "Here's Love" at the Fulton Opera House starring Kathy Long and Erin Bradley.

Year Range From: 1982

Year Range To: 1983

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Long, Kathy; Bradley, Erin

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Theatrical performances; Fulton Opera House

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3 x 5 inches

Object ID: AC-01-07-02

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Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Object ID: AC-01-07-03

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Description: Production of "Here's Love" at the Fulton Opera House starring Kathy Long, Erin Bradley, Luke Sickle, Ned Zielasko.

Year Range From: 1982

Year Range To: 1983

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Long, Kathy; Bradley, Erin; Sickle, Luke; Zielasko, Ned

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Theatrical performances; Fulton Opera House

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3 x 5 inches

Object ID: AC-01-07-03

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/dd6a21f1-b7d5-4c11-b185-157536214700

Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Object ID: AC-01-07-04

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Description: Production of "Here's Love" at the Fulton Opera House starring Jamie Munro, Jeremy Weiss, Shannon Blust and Erin Bradley.

Year Range From: 1982

Year Range To: 1983

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Munro, Jamie; Weiss, Jeremy; Blust, Shannon; Bradley, Erin

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Theatrical performances; Fulton Opera House

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3 x 5 inches

Object ID: AC-01-07-04

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Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Object ID: AC-01-07-05

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Actors Company Photograph Collection

Description: Production of "Here's Love" at the Fulton Opera House starring Peter Keller, Michael Hall, Karen Parrett, Anne Kirk, Martin Armstrong and Tina Dunwoody.