American Revolution Bicentennial of Lancaster County Collection (MG-20)
Description
This collection gives information on the activities of the 200th celebration of the American Revolution in the Lancaster area. Folders 32 to 41 cover the celebration in Greater Lancaster. Folders 42 to 51 touch upon the activities of Lititz, Solanco, Lampeter-Strasburg, Elizabethtown, Cocalico, Columbia, New Holland, Pequea Valley, Washington Boro, Penn Manor, Millersville, and Marietta. The collection contains minutes, programs, photos, financial vouchers and newspaper clippings, audio tapes. The six volumes that make up the Bicentennial Celebration, April 1971- February 1977 scrapbooks are a compilation of published materials such as newspaper articles, magazine articles, broadsides, brochures and pamphlets. The materials relay information about the actions of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee including meetings, mailings and events. The committee chose the "Hands of Liberty" theme for the committee and upcoming celebration. The theme was present on every mailing sent out by the committee and can be found on most of the materials within the scrapbooks.
A writ of habeas corpus is a procedure for obtaining a judicial determination of the legality of an individual's custody. This collection includes petitions for writs of habeas corpus and the writs themselves, showing the names of petitioners, persons to be brought to court, nature of dispute or alleged crime, dates of writs and accompanying documents, names of judges, and names of persons that the writs are filed against. Petitioners include indentured servants, Freedom Seekers, free persons of color, convicted prisoners, those awaiting trial, relatives of prisoners, parties in child custody disputes, and relatives of army recruits and draftees. Handwritten, handwritten on printed forms, and a very few typewritten.
The Almanac Collection consists of almanacs printed in Lancaster County and other locations. They contain long-range weather predictions, calendars, moon phases, planting guides, and natural remedies. Many publications also contain articles and poems about historical events and persons, as well as government and political information, housekeeping information, recipes, songs, titles of sheet music, music for a variety of instruments, times and places of the Meetings of the Friends on the Continent of America, and engravings and descriptions of battles. Some almanacs are illustrated.
System of Arrangement
Organized by language. Each series has paper indexes arranged alphabetically, chronologically, and by box and folder numbers.
Ada M. Cochran and Bertha Cochran Landis Collection
Description
The Ada M. Cochran and Bertha Cochran Landis Collection contains letters written to Ada M. Cochran, 642 West Chestnut Street from Lizzie Brubaker, Annie Brubaker and Clarence Brubaker of Warwick Township, between 1905 and 1907, as well as reward of merit cards for Bertha Cochran and religious tracts.
Admin/Biographical History
Ada M. Cochran (b. 1874, d. 1946) lived at 642 West Chestnut Street with her sister, Bertha Cochran Landis, and worked as a school teacher in the city of Lancaster. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Brubaker was the daughter of Harry H. and Fannie Brubaker of Lexington, Warwick Twp.
Herbarium scrapbook and drawings of Ada Cochran (MG0163, Box 2, Folders 23-30)
Items in the Card Collection (MG0180)
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Ada M. Cochran Letters, 1905-1907 (MG0895), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
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
Accession Number
Unknown.MG0895
Other Numbers
MG-895
Other Number
MG-895
Classification
MG0895
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Transferred from Document Collection, Box 28, Folder 13, Items 10-15, 4 March 2022.
Liens filed by contractors showing names of parties including owner of property; description of property including location; nature of claim; description of materials and work done on property; volume and page number of recording in Mechanics' Liens Docket; and date filed.