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The pioneer Americana collection of Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Shelley

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Corporate Author: Pook & Pook.

Date of Publication: [2007]

Call Number: 745.1 P821

Responsibility: [photography & catalogue design, Joan Stevens and Kellie Seltzer].

Corporate Author: Pook & Pook.

Place of Publication: Downingtown, PA

Publisher: Pook & Pook, Inc.,

Date of Publication: [2007]

Physical Description: 219 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: "Auction: session one: Friday, April 20, 2007 at 6 PM, session two: Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 10 AM. Exhibition: Wednesday, April 11 - 9 AM to 4 PM ..."

Subjects: Shelley, Donald A. - Art collections; Shelley, Esther - Art collections; Americana - United States - Catalogs.; Americana - Pennsylvania - Catalogs.; Antiques - United States - Catalogs.; Antiques - Pennsylvania - Catalogs.; Furniture - United States - Catalogs.; Furniture - Pennsylvania - Catalogs.; Antique auctions - Pennsylvania - Downingtown - Catalogs.

Additional Author: Shelley, Donald A.; Shelley, Esther.; Stevens, Joan.; Seltzer, Kellie.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745.1 P821

Archive

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

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

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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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The 1790-1890 federal population censuses : catalog of National Archives microfilm

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11921

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Edition: revised

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 016.3046 F293 1790-1890

ISBN: 0911333630

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Edition: revised

Place of Publication: Washington, DC

Publisher: National Archives Trust Fund Board,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: xxiii, 116 p. : ill., 1 map ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Revised text by Constance Potter and Benjamin Guterman based on an edited version of a 1993 introduction written by Dr. Wayne B. Cook."--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx) and indexes.

Subjects: United States. - National Archives and Records Administration - Microform catalogs.; Registers of births, etc. - United States; Microforms; United States - Genealogy - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.; United States - Census - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.3046 F293 1790-1890

Black family research : records of post-Civil War Federal agencies at the National Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14147

Author: United States National Archives and Records Administration.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 016.326 U58

Responsibility: compiled by Reginald Washington.

Author: United States National Archives and Records Administration.

Place of Publication: Washington, DC

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration ,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: Reference Information Paper 108.

Subjects: United States. - Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and abandoned lands - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.; United States - Commissioners of Claims - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.; United States - Freeman's Bank and Trust Company - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.; African Americans - United States; African American families.; Freedmen; Registers of births, etc.

Additional Author: Washington, Reginald.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.326 U58

Microfilm resources for research : a comprehensive catalog

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11920

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 016.973 U58

ISBN: 1880875225

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Place of Publication: Washington, DC

Publisher: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: vii, 109 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: United States. - National Archives and Records Administration - Microform catalogs.; Documents on microfilm - Catalogs.; United States - History - Sources - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.; United States - Civilization - Sources - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.973 U58

The 1930 federal population census : catalog of National Archives microfilm

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14287

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Date of Publication: 2002.

Call Number: 016.3046 F293

ISBN: 188087525X

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Archives Trust Fund Board,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: xxvi, 79 p.: ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Published for the National Archives and Records Administration"--T.p. verso.

Subjects: United States. - National Archives and Records Administration - Microform catalogs.; Microforms - Catalogs.; United States - Population - Statistics - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.; United States - Census, 15th, 1930 - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.

Additional Corporate Author: National Archives Trust Fund Board.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.3046 F293

Two day unreserved public auction of antique reference books, Pennsylania history, early imprints, early photographs, 18th & 19th century manuscripts, ephemera, fraktur, folk art, art & prints...piecrimper collection of the late Jacob M. Borry of Ephrata, Pa.; primitives, pottery, English China (Late Adams, transfer decorated, gaudy ironstone, gaudy Welsh, gaudy Dutch, Lustre, Mocha, spatter, pearlware, etc.) inkwells, glassware (Stiegel-type, blown, marbles, lamps, bottles, etc.), textiles, & furniture from the collections of the late Jacob M. Borry of Ephrata, Lancaster Co, Penna. Margaret K. Osburn, formerly of Lancater Co, Penna. and others : [to be held] Friday, May 30, 2008, and Saturday, May 31, 2008

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16795

Corporate Author: Horst Auction Center (Ephrata, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 2008]

Call Number: 745.0294 H819

Responsibility: Horst Auction Center. ... ; catalogue by Clarence E. Spohn ...

Corporate Author: Horst Auction Center (Ephrata, Pa.)

Place of Publication: [Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Horst Auction Center,

Date of Publication: 2008]

Physical Description: 100 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Text inside front cover.

Subjects: Antiques - Catalogs.; Folk art - Pennsylvania - Catalogs.

Additional Author: Spohn, Clarence E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745.0294 H819

Guide to genealogical research in the National Archives of the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14446

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Edition: 3rd ed.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 016.929 U58 2000

Responsibility: edited by Anne Bruner Eales and Robert M. Kvasnicka.

ISBN: 1880875241; 1880875217

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Edition: 3rd ed.

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: vii, 411 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Subjects: United States. - National Archives and Records Administration - Catalogs.; Registers of births, etc. - United States; United States - Genealogy - Bibliography - Catalogs.

Additional Author: Eales, Anne Bruner.; Kvasnicka, Robert M.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.929 U58 2000

Memory in black and white : race, commemoration, and the post-bellum landscape

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12683

Author: Shackel, Paul A.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Call Number: 973.8 S524

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Responsibility: Paul A. Shackel.

ISBN: 0759102627 (alk. paper); 0759102635 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Author: Shackel, Paul A.

Place of Publication: Walnut Creek, CA

Publisher: Altamira Press,

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: xvii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-243) and index.

Summary: "As a nation we bring many perspectives to our commemorative places and our ideas may change over time, especially on difficult topics like slavery and racism. Why a place is saved and how it is interpreted to visitors has much to do with our collective memory of the events that took place there. Using the skills of an archaeologist and a historian, Paul Shackel examines four well-known Civil War-era National Park sites and shows us how public memory shaped their creation and continues to shape their interpretation. Shackel shows us that 'public memory' is really 'public memories'. and interpretation may change dramatically from one generation to another as interpreters try to accommodate, or ignore, certain memories. Memory in Black and White is important reading for all who are interested in history and memory of landscapes, and will be especially useful to those involved in preserving and interpreting a controversial place." [from the publisher]

Subjects: Memory - United States.; Memory - Southern States.; Racism - United States.; Racism - Southern States.; Political culture - United States.; Political culture - Southern States.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Influence.; United States - Race relations.; Southern States - Race relations.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Monuments.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.8 S524

Websites

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002013179.html

The map collector library series antique map reference CD-ROMS 2000

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13505

Corporate Author: Heritage Map Museum.

Edition: Ed. 3.

Date of Publication: c2000.

Call Number: 912.74815 H548 CD

Alternate Title: Antique map reference CD-ROMS 2000

Responsibility: Heritage Map Museum.

Corporate Author: Heritage Map Museum.

Edition: Ed. 3.

Place of Publication: [Lititz, PA]

Publisher: Heritage Map Museum,

Date of Publication: c2000.

Physical Description: 1 computer optical disc : col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes: Title from disc label.; Includes Everts and Stewart historical atlas of Lancaster County, 1875.; "CN00070832."

Summary: A reference archive of 15th-19th century atlases and maps compiled from the Heritage Map Museum's backlist of quarterly auction catalogs and the museum's collection. Lists more than 3000 maps and 1500 images as well as extensive descriptions and market values for the maps. Also includes the collected works of 24 cartographers and listings of the museum's entire collection arranged by date. The user can browse a world-wide geographical index, match mapmakers, titles, dates and images, compare market prices realized in specific time periods, research maps from a personal collection, review editions and states, and obtain cartobibliographic annotations and references.

Subjects: Heritage Map Museum - Catalogs.; Early maps - Bibliography - Catalogs.; Maps - Bibliography - Catalogs.; Map collections - Pennsylvania - Lititz - Catalogs.; CD-ROMs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Media

Call Number: 912.74815 H548 CD

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