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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7697d6ea-ff7d-4c6c-9b6d-912074124906
Collection
General Collection
Title
Three unidentified men in costume on the steps of the courthouse
Object ID
1-01-07-77
Date Range
1992
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Title
Three unidentified men in costume on the steps of the courthouse
Description
Three unidentified men in costume on the steps of the courthouse during Lancaster city's 250th Celebration.
Date Range
1992
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Subject
African Americans
Search Terms
Celebrations
Costumes
Courthouses
Lancaster County Courthouse
Persons of color
Uniforms
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Object ID
1-01-07-77
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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/e95cf22b-2675-44cd-af41-896107814490
Collection
General Collection
Title
Girls and boys in costume on the steps of the courthouse
Object ID
1-01-07-87
Date Range
1992
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Title
Girls and boys in costume on the steps of the courthouse
Description
Girls and boys in costume on the steps of the courthouse during Lancaster city's 250th Celebration.
Date Range
1992
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Subject
African Americans
Search Terms
Boys
Celebrations
Costumes
Courthouses
Girls
Lancaster County Courthouse
Persons of color
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Object ID
1-01-07-87
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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2cf4ace2-049b-4ccc-ba33-369703281570
Collection
Lancaster Recreation Commission Photograph Collection
Title
Black man and boy
Object ID
LR-03-05-06
Date Range
July 1994
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
Lancaster Recreation Commission Photograph Collection
Title
Black man and boy
Description
Unidentified man and boy
Date Range
July 1994
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Subject
African Americans
Search Terms
Boys
Children
Persons of color
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Object ID
LR-03-05-06
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Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9566
Date of Publication
c1993.
Call Number
326 W825
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Responsibility
C. Peter Ripley, editor ; co-editors, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone.
ISBN
0807820725 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807844047 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
xxiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Chapter 37 is titled: William Whipper's letters.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.
Contents
The rise of black abolitionism : the colonization controversy; the growth of black abolitionism; the rise of immediatism; moral reform; prejudice; two abolitionisms -- African Americans and the antislavery movement : blacks as advocates; slave narratives; black women abolitionists; antislavery and the black community; problems in the movement -- Black independence : a new direction; the African American press; in the common defense; antislavery politics; black antislavery tactics; by all just and necessary means -- Black abolitionists and the national crisis : the slave power; the fugitive slave law; black emigration; black nationality; blacks and John Brown -- Civil war : debating the war; the emancipation proclamation; blacks and Lincoln; the black military experience; the movement goes south; reconstruction.
Subjects
Antislavery movements - United States
Abolitionists - United States
African Americans
African American abolitionists
Slavery - Abolition
United States
Additional Author
Ripley, C. Peter,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 W825
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Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8832
Date of Publication
c1998.
Call Number
326 R386
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Responsibility
edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller.
ISBN
1565844254 (set) :
Place of Publication
New York : Washington, D.C
Publisher
The New Press ; in association with The Library of Congress,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
lii, 355 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. + 2 sound cassettes.
Notes
"Published by the New Press, in conjunction with the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution, to accompany the book Remembering slavery, edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller" -- Cassettes.
"This book is published in conjunction with two sixty-minute audio tapes of live recordings and dramatic readings."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-348) and index.
Contents
Slavery as memory and history -- The faces of power: slaves and owners -- Work and slave life -- Family life in slavery -- Slave culture -- Slaves no more: Civil War and the coming of freedom -- Appendixes.
Subjects
Slavery - United States
African Americans
United States - History - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Berlin, Ira,
Favreau, Marc.
Miller, Steven F.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 R386
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In hope of liberty : culture, community, and protest among northern free Blacks, 1700-1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10406
Author
Horton, James Oliver.
Date of Publication
1997.
Call Number
973.0496 H823
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Responsibility
James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton.
ISBN
019504732X (acidfree paper)
Author
Horton, James Oliver.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1997.
Physical Description
xii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-323) and index.
Contents
Slavery and slave trading in the colonial north -- Culture, race, and class in the colonial north -- Revolution and the abolition of northern slavery -- A life in freedom : the evolution of family and household -- Coping with urban life : poverty, work, and regional differences -- Sustaining and serving the community : building institutions for social and spiritual welfare -- Culture, politics, and the issue of African-American identity -- Ambivalent identity : colonization and the question of emigration -- The growth of the antebellum antislavery movement -- The widening struggle, growing militancy, and the hope of liberty for all.
Subjects
African Americans
Free African Americans
Additional Author
Horton, Lois E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.0496 H823
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Race and revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9849
Author
Nash, Gary B.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1990.
Call Number
973.0496 N249
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Responsibility
Gary B. Nash.
ISBN
0945612117 (alk. paper)
Author
Nash, Gary B.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Madison
Publisher
Madison House,
Date of Publication
1990.
Physical Description
xi, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
The Merrill Jensen lectures in constitutional studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.
Summary
"The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Reversing the conventional view that blames slavery on the South's social and economic structures, Nash stresses the role of the northern states in the failure to abolish slavery. It was northern racism and hypocrisy as much as southern intransigence that buttressed "the peculiar institution." Nash also shows how economic and cultural factors intertwined to result not in an apparently judicious decision of the new American nation but rather its most significant lost opportunity. Race and Revolution describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-century America. Included with the text of Race and Revolution are nineteen rare and crucial documents-letters, pamphlets, sermons, and speeches-which provide evidence for Nash's controversial and persuasive claims. From the words of Anthony Benezet and Luther Martin to those of Absalom Jones and Caesar Sarter, readers may judge the historical record for themselves. 'In reality,' argues Nash, 'the American Revolution represents the largest slave uprising in our history.' Race and Revolution is the compelling story of that failed quest for the promise of freedom." [from the publisher]
Subjects
Antislavery movements - United States.
Abolitionists - United States
African Americans
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - African Americans.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Social aspects.
United States - History - Confederation, 1783-1789.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.0496 N249
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The Negro in the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14043
Author
Quarles, Benjamin.
Date of Publication
c1996.
Call Number
973.315 Q1
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Responsibility
Benjamin Quarles ; with a new foreword by Thad W. Tate and a new introduction by Gary B. Nash.
ISBN
0807846031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author
Quarles, Benjamin.
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill
Publisher
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg Va., by the University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication
c1996.
Physical Description
xxxiii, 231 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Originally published: 1961.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-223) and index.
Subjects
African Americans
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - African Americans.
Additional Corporate Author
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.315 Q1
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Finding a place called home : a guide to African-American genealogy and historical identity

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2900
Author
Woodtor, Dee.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1999.
Call Number
929.1 W898
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Responsibility
Dee Parmer Woodtor.
ISBN
037540595X
Author
Woodtor, Dee.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Random House,
Date of Publication
1999.
Physical Description
xi, 452 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-439) and index.
Subjects
African Americans
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.1 W898
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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/eddb76d5-1587-464c-a322-206961869538
Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Object ID
MG0237
Date Range
1880-2003
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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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