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Poor school children record Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1810-1836

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1606

Date of Publication: 1992

Call Number: 974.813 P823

Responsibility: compiled by Lucy Simler and Chester County Archives.

Place of Publication: West Chester, Pa

Publisher: Chester County Historical Society

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: iii, 239 p. 29 cm.

Subjects: Poor - Chester County.; Taxation - Chester County.; School children; Chester County - Poor.

Additional Author: Simler, Lucy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 P823

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/28a8c389-4e24-4157-8061-272548030010

Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Object ID: MG0277

Date Range: 1798-1993

between the Directors of the Poor and House of Employment and Matthias Slough. Ninety acres south of the turnpike road leading from the borough of Lancaster to Abraham Witmer’s bridge. 27 November 1798. Transferred from a drawer of assorted county documents, 2005. RG 08-12. Folder 32 Blueprints for

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Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Description: The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection is comprised of accounts, registers, minutes, and other records kept by this county department. There are birth and death records, lists of inmates, supply and payroll books, and auditors' reports, and a scrapbook of Conestoga View.

Date Range: 1798-1993

Year Range From: 1798

Year Range To: 1993

Date of Accumulation: 1798-1993

Creator: Lancaster County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Ash, Phineas; Bachman, J. M.; Bachman, John; Bair, Ivan; Baney, William; Bard, R. W.; Bare, Adam; Bausman, John; Bubach, Gerhart; Carpenter, Sam; Centini, Jane E.; Clark, Thomas; Coleman, Thomas; Colwell, James; Dale, Samuel; Dorwart, Jonas; Dunlap, Stephan; Eaby, George W.; Esler, P. O.; Gibbons, William; Good, William; Graybill, N. W.; Graybill, H.; Gryder, Christian; Haines, Timothy; Halbach, W. A.; Harnish, Jacob; Harnish, Samuel; Heck, Lewis; Herr, Christian; Hershey, W. E. H.; Hildebrant, W.; Hollinger, George; Humes, Samuel; Jackson, James J.; Kean, Thomas M.; Kready, David C.; Lane, P. C.; Lenegan, Archibald M.; Light, John; Livingston, J. B.; Long, Jacob; Metzger, John W.; Meyers, Samuel M.; Murray, William; Musser, George; Nauman, J. W.; Nicholson, John; Overholzer, H. D.; Patterson, D. W.; Reed, John K.; Schwartz, Conrad; Slaymaker, Henry; Snyder, Simon; Stone, Abraham; Strine, Jacob S.; Summy, A.; Sweigart, E.; Weaver, B. F.; Webb, Will; Wein, John; Wentz, Thomas; Witmer, Abraham; Witters, Jacob W.; Young, Mathias; Zantzinger, Paul

Other Creators: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Subjects: Almshouses; Almshouses--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Auditors' reports; Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.); Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Scrapbooks

Search Terms: Almshouses; Auditors' reports; Conestoga View; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Scrapbooks

Extent: 3 boxes, 33 books and folders, 3.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0277

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection (MG0277), Folder or Book #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Classification: MG0277

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Most of the items in this collection are part of the Lancaster County Government Records, RG 08-12. They were transferred into MG-277 in 1999 during the planning of the Almshouse and Hospital exhibition. Other items are on loan from the Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation or were collected by LancasterHistory.; Added to database 21 July 2017.

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Virtue, industry, and independence : almshouses and labor in the Philadelphia region, 1791-1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11218

Author: Bourque, Monique C.-E.

Date of Publication: 1995.

Call Number: 362.5 B749v

Responsibility: by Monique C.-E. Bourque.

Author: Bourque, Monique C.-E.

Date of Publication: 1995.

Physical Description: xv, 372 leaves : ill., map, plan ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Almshouses - Pennsylvania.; Almshouses - New Jersey.; Almshouses - Delaware.; Poor - Pennsylvania.; Poor - New Jersey.; Poor - Delaware.; Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.); Poor - Pennsylvania; Poor - New Jersey; Poor - Delaware

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 362.5 B749v

We sing to thee : a history of Millersville University

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13667

Author: Downey, Dennis B.,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 370 M652d

Responsibility: Dennis B. Downey.

ISBN: 0975934007

Author: Downey, Dennis B.,

Place of Publication: Millersville, Pa

Publisher: Millersville University of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: xiii, 261 p. : ill. (some col.), map, ports., music ; 21 x 26 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Includes words and music for Millersville's alma mater song, "We sing to thee."

Subjects: Lancaster County Normal Institute - History.; Lancaster County Normal School (Millersville, Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania State Normal School of the Second District - History.; State Teachers College (Millersville, Pa.) - History.; Millersville State College (Pa.) - History.; Millersville University of Pennsylvania - History.; Universities and colleges - Pennsylvania - Millersville; Teachers colleges - Pennsylvania - Millersville; Teachers - Pennsylvania - Millersville

Additional Corporate Author: Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 M652d

Recording, Video

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/b4d5126e-6e98-48cf-84e8-943766199193

Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: African-American Veterans Oral History Project interview with Hazel Jackson

Object ID: OH0163

Date Range: 2007/03/15

students, was a lovely building, um, with many rooms and many teachers. I-I would say there was probably a teacher for each of the grades. Uh, I-I don’t recall specifically—maybe they doubled up some of the classes, you know maybe one teacher might have taught a second and third grade or something like

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