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Wright's Ferry Mansion

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14999

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 974.815 COLU W953

1 website

ISBN: 0974420271 (slipcase for both v. : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Columbia, Pa

Publisher: Von Hess Foundation, in association with Antique Collectors' Club, Wappingers Falls, NY

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: 2 v. ill. 30 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: [1] The house / Elizabeth Meg Schaefer -- [2] The collection / Elizabeth Meg Schaefer ... [et al.].

Subjects: Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Wright family - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Wright's Ferry Mansion (Columbia, Pa.); Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Decorative arts, Early American - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Columbia (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.; Columbia (Pa.) - Biography.; Columbia (Pa.) - History - Sources.

Additional Author: Schaefer, Elizabeth Meg.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 COLU W953

Websites

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005014160.html

Historic Columbia architectural history tour : mansions, museums & riverlore

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16760

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 728.37 H673

Alternate Title: Historic Columbia architectural tour

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: [16] p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + 2 maps on 1 sheet (28 x 40 cm. folded to 28 x 22 cm.)

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Columbia (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Additional Corporate Author: Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 H673

Excerpts from the diary of F. X. Ziegler : A nineteenth century perspective of events in Columbia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11396

Author: Bennawit, John F., Jr.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Responsibility: by John F. Bennawit, Jr.

Author: Bennawit, John F., Jr.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: p.42-53 : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.105, no.2.

Subjects: Ziegler, F.X., - 1817-1902.; Cholera - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Columbia.; Columbia (Pa.) - History - Nineteenth century.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 105, number 2 (2003), p. 42-53Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.105, no.2

Columbia Historic Preservation Society newsletter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17804

Date of Publication: 2002-

Call Number: 974.815 COLU C726ch

Place of Publication: [Columbia, Pa.]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 2002-

Physical Description: v.

Notes: Library has: no. 39 --

Subjects: Columbia Historic Preservation Society.; Columbia (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 COLU C726ch

Equal but separate : the life and career of an African American businessman in Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1796?-1841 /by Teresa A. Weisser

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13151

Author: Weisser, Teresa A.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Call Number: 926.74 S661

Alternate Title: The life and career of an African American businessman in Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1796?-1841.

Author: Weisser, Teresa A.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: v, 133 leaves.

Summary: "Born in Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania at the end of the 18th century to a slave mother and an unknown father, Stephen Smith overcame the handicaps posed by racism and poverty to become one of the wealthiest African Americans in the United States. As his prosperity and prominence increased, Smith also became a recognized and respected leader of the African American community, first in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and later on the state and national level...I have sought to understand the forces that shaped him, the circumstances that allowed him to succeed in business when so many others were unable to do so, and the contributions he made to the African American community." [from the author]

Subjects: Smith, Stephen, - 1796-1841.; Columbia, Pa. - History.; African Americans - Pennsylvania.; African American business people - Pennsylvania.; Lumber trade.; Slavery - Pennsylvania; Columbia (Pa.) - Race relations - 19th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 926.74 S661

The Lancaster County cholera epidemic of 1854 and the challenge to the miasma theory of disease

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19749

Author: Osborne, John B.

Date of Publication: 2009

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.103

1 website

Responsibility: John B. Osborne

Author: Osborne, John B.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,

Date of Publication: 2009

Physical Description: p. 228-250 ; 23 cm.

Notes: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 133.; This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.

Subjects: Atlee, John L. - 1799-1885; Cholera - Pennsylvania - Columbia; Epidemics - Pennsylvania - Columbia; Medicine - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.103

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/59320/59047

The trolleys of Columbia and on to Marietta, Pa. (including Chickies Park)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10044

Author: Heim, Charles R.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 388.413 H467

Author: Heim, Charles R.

Place of Publication: Computer printout

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: 35 l. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Columbia and Ironville Electric Railway Company.; Columbia and Donegal Electric Railway Company.; Pennsylvania Traction Company.; Conestoga Traction Company.; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Trolley buses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 388.413 H467

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/580ab0d9-89f6-4279-8596-259270768360

Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 1-19-05-11

Date Range: c. 2005

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Concession stand at the Columbia Drive-In movie theater on Route 462.

Date Range: c. 2005

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Columbia Drive-In; Drive-in theaters; Concession stands

Place: West Hempfield Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 6 inches

Object ID: 1-19-05-11

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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

Bon-Ton Beauty Salon Booklets C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc. Calendars Catalogs Central Automatic Sprinkler Company Certificates Columbia �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company Commonwealth

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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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Defend or destroy? The Columbia-Wrightesville Bridge in the Gettysburg campaign

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17893

Author: Schaefer, Thomas L.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Call Number: 974.815 COLU D313 DVD

Responsibility: written and directed by Thomas L. Schaefer.

Author: Schaefer, Thomas L.

Place of Publication: [S. l.]

Publisher: A Total Magic Video Production ,

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: 1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes: "Produced for Rivertownes PA USA in commemoration of the 140th anniversary of the burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge on 28 June 1863, this program narrates the dramatic story of the bridge's destruction and details the valiant attempt of an outnumbered detachment of raw Union militia to halt the advance of Confederate Brigadier General John Gordon's determined veteran infantry."; Also "introduces the poignant, very risky participation of a company of free blacks from Columbia."

Subjects: Gettysburg (Pa.) Battle of, 1863-; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Covered bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Covered bridges - Pennsylvania - York County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; York County (Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Media

Call Number: 974.815 COLU D313 DVD

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Wright's Ferry Mansion

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14999

Websites

Historic Columbia architectural history tour : mansions, museums & riverlore

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16760

Excerpts from the diary of F. X. Ziegler : A nineteenth century perspective of events in Columbia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11396

Columbia Historic Preservation Society newsletter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17804

Equal but separate : the life and career of an African American businessman in Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1796?-1841 /by Teresa A. Weisser

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13151

The Lancaster County cholera epidemic of 1854 and the challenge to the miasma theory of disease

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19749

Websites

The trolleys of Columbia and on to Marietta, Pa. (including Chickies Park)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10044

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/580ab0d9-89f6-4279-8596-259270768360

Images

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/eddb76d5-1587-464c-a322-206961869538

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Defend or destroy? The Columbia-Wrightesville Bridge in the Gettysburg campaign

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17893