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Collection: Heritage of Christiana Collection

Title: Heritage of Christiana Collection

Object ID: MG0906

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Collection: Heritage of Christiana Collection

Title: Heritage of Christiana Collection

Description: This collection contains items relating to the history and heritage of the borough of Christiana.

Admin/Biographical History: Once known as Nobleville, Christiana is located on the eastern border of Lancaster County. It was incorporated as a borough in 1894.

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Griest, Elwood

Subjects: Christiana (Pa.); Local history; Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Search Terms: Christiana Lyceum; Christiana Machine Company; Christiana Resistance; Civil War; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Secession

Extent: 3 folders

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0906

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Heritage of Christiana Collection (MG0906), Box #, 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: 2022.MG0906

Other Numbers: MG-906

Other Number: MG-906

Classification: MG0906

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Noted at item level

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

Booklets Brochures Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County Center Square Road Station Chestnut Street Christiana Coatesville, Chester County Columbia �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, 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.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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Collection: Temperance Collection

Title: Temperance Collection

Object ID: MG0154

Date Range: 1815-1959

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Temperance Collection, 1815-1959 Object ID: MG0154 1 box 11 folders .25 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization); PV7 Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 4 Scope and Content Note

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Collection: Temperance Collection

Title: Temperance Collection

Description: The Temperance Collection includes convention programs of the Lancaster County Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.); a history of the group from 1884-1959; Pennsylvania State W.C.T.U. function programs; and a minute book from the Bart Chapter. Included are handwritten notes on some of the conventions, pro-temperance booklets and newspapers (Moral Reformer and American Reformer), and miscellaneous addresses and articles. Of special interest is a booklet "Operation Interview" in which 36 prominent Lancastrians comment on the question, "Is social drinking necessary for success?", and a newspaper article reminiscing on the temperance movement in Columbia, Pennsylvania.

Date Range: 1815-1959

Year Range From: 1815

Year Range To: 1959

Date of Accumulation: 1815-1959

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Aikin, Francis; Alexander, Eleanor B.; Brosius, Letitia; Brubaker, George; Eckman, Benjamin F.; Geist, Jacob Miller Willis; Harlan, E. W.; Heiges, George Leonard; Jackson, Josephine; Richardson, Benjamin W.; Rineer, A. Hunter; Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle; Seberry, Cora E.; Thomas, A. Elizabeth; Willard, Frances Elizabeth

Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.; Minutes (Records); Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Programs (Publications); Temperance; Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Search Terms: Associations, institutions, etc.; Bart Society; Business records; Chestnut Level, Drumore Twp.; Christiana; Churches; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Conventions; Dauphin County Historical Society; Eastland Female Temperance Society; Finding aids; Friends Academy; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Lancaster; Lancaster County Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Lititz; Locust Valley, Long Island, New York; Manheim; Manuscript groups; Minutes; National Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Pageants; Pennsylvania Senior Loyal Temperance Union; Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Poetry; Programs; Reports; Songs; Strasburg; Temperance; Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania; Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Extent: 1 box, 11 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0154

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Temperance Collection (MG0154), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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.

Other Numbers: MG-154

Classification: MG0154

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: The collection was cataloged and the finding aid was prepared in 1998-1999. Added to database 29 September 2021.

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Collection: Quarryville Land and Improvement Company Records

Title: Quarryville Land and Improvement Company Records

Object ID: MG0302

Date Range: 1883-1909

• Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org People: Hensel, William Uhler Subject Headings: Bonds Business records Charters Legal documents Letters Search Terms: Bonds Business records Charters Correspondence Finding aids Lancaster and Reading Narrow Gauge Railroad Company

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Collection: Quarryville Land and Improvement Company Records

Title: Quarryville Land and Improvement Company Records

Description: The Quarryville Land and Improvement Company contain correspondence and legal documents pertaining to the Quarryville Land and Improvement Company, Quarryville Water Company, and other organizations and businesses.

Admin/Biographical History: The Quarryville Land and Improvement Company was formed to purchase, hold, lease, and sell real estate.

Date Range: 1883-1909

Year Range From: 1883

Year Range To: 1909

Date of Accumulation: 1883-1909

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Hensel, William Uhler

Subjects: Bonds; Business records; Charters; Legal documents; Letters

Search Terms: Bonds; Business records; Charters; Correspondence; Finding aids; Lancaster and Reading Narrow Gauge Railroad Company; Legal documents; Letters; Manuscript groups; Quarryville Helicon Band; Quarryville Land and Improvement Company; Quarryville National Bank; Quarryville Park Association; Quarryville Water Company

Extent: 1 box, 8 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0302

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Quarryville Land and Improvement Company (MG0302), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Folders 1-7 were a gift of John S. Phillips, Lancaster County National Bank, Quarryville, April 1963. (Accession #1963.MG0302); Folder 8 was a gift of William W. Campbell, 6 March 2014. (Accession #2014.MG0302)

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.

Other Numbers: MG-302

Classification: MG0302

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 3 January 2022.

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Collection: Tourist Brochures

Title: Tourist Brochures

Object ID: MG0095

Collection: Tourist Brochures

Title: Tourist Brochures

Description: Collection of brochures relating to tourist attractions, museums, historic sites, events, stores, farmers' markets, hotels, and restaurants in Lancaster, Lebanon, and York Counties. Visitors' guides and road maps provide additional information about points of interest. Items in the collection date back to the late 1920s and continue to the present, but most are from the mid-twentieth century.

Year Range From: 1929

Date of Accumulation: 1929-present

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Albert, Donna; Anderson, V. F.; Best, J. Donald; Buchanan, James; Burnley, Patricia Kling; Clark, Earl; Clark, Molly; Coleman, Robert; Eberly, Hiram M.; Fulton, Robert; Grubb, Peter; Hampton, Cindy; Hand, Edward; Heine, Paul L. H.; Heine, Paul, Jr.; Heisey, M. Luther; Hess, James E.; Horst, Mel; Loose, John Ward Willson; Kauffman, B. L.; Keener, A. E.; Kingston, Joseph T.; Heisey, M. L.; MacNeill, H. T.; Monaghan, Thomas J.; Motto, Marilyn; Procter, Edward C.; Pyle, Carl E.; Ross, Betsy; Shenk, Aaron S.; Smucker, Alma; Smucker, Paul; Stoltzfus, Louise; Sutter, John Augustus; Trach, M. A.; Tortora, V. R.

Subjects: Pamphlets; Tourism

Search Terms: 340-23 Club; A. Bube's Brewery; Amish Country Motel and Restaurant; Amish Dutchland map; Amish Farm and House; Bill Bard Associates; Bird-in-Hand Farmer's Market; Brunnerville Iron Foundry; Candy Americana Museum; Catacombs; Central Hotel; Christian Herr House; Columbia Bank Museum; Columbia Cultural and Historical Association; Columbia Dungeon; Columbia Farmers' Market House; Conestoga Motor Inn; Conestoga Traction Company; Cornwall Iron Furnace; Doneckers; Donegal Presbyterian Church; Donegal Mills Plantation; Duck's New Holland House and Hotel; Dutch Haven; Dutch Wonderland; Dutchland Music Theatre; Elizabethtown College; Ephrata Cloister; Flory's Tourist Rest and Camp Site; Foodergong Lodge; General Engraving Company; General Sutter Hotel and Gold Nugget Saloon Restaurant; Gold Nugget Saloon Restaurant; Groff's Farm Restaurant; Guided Auto Tape Tour for Lancaster; Hammond and Company; Hans Herr House; Hebrew Tabernacle Reproduction; Heritage Center Museum; Heritage Map Museum; Herr Foods, Inc.; Herr's Potato Chips; Hex Barn; Historic Lancaster Walking Tour; Holiday Inn; Lancaster Host Resort; Host Farm; Hotel Brunswick; Hotel Wheatland; Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge; Intelligencer Journal; James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland; Klein Chocolate Company; Kreider's Tourist Farm Home; Lancaster Automobile Club; Lancaster Chamber of Commerce; Lancaster County Central Park; Lancaster County Council of Churches; Lancaster County Heritage; Lancaster County Historical Society; Lancaster County Outlet Shopping Guide; Lancaster County Planning Commission; Lancaster Downtown Investment District Authority; Lancaster Hilton Inn; Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society; Lancaster-York Heritage Region; Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum; Leacock Presbyterian Church; Lititz Historical Foundation; Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery; Maps; Marken and Bielfeld Inc.; Masonic Homes; Masonic Villages; Mennonite Information Center; Miller's Smorgasbord; National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors Inc.; National Central Bank; North Museum of Nature and Science; Old Mill Stream Campground; Old Village Store; Olde Lincoln House; Original Brunswick Pennsylvania Dutch Tours; Pamphlets; Pathway Publishers; Patton School; Pennsylvania Dutch Harvest Frolic; Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau; Discover Lancaster; Pennsylvania Folklife Society; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; People's Place; Photo Arts Press; Plain & Fancy Farm and Dining Room; Police Museum; Postcards; Robert Fulton Birthplace; Rock Ford; Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association; Sentinel Printing House; Sickman's Mill; South Central Pennsylvania Travel Council; Stevens House; Strasburg Railroad; Susquehanna Valley Tour; Tourism; Trinity Lutheran Church; Underground Railroad; Veitch Printing Corporation; Verdant View Farm; Vernon Martin Associates; Village Restaurant; Wagonland; Warwick Haus; Wheatland; Wilbur Chocolate Company; Wilbur Chocolate's Factory Candy Outlet; Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Company; York County Heritage Trust

Extent: 1 box, 18 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English; Pennsylvania German

Object ID: MG0095

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please contact Research Staff or Archives Staff with questions.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Classification: MG0095

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed by AL and HST, July 2007. Finding aid prepared by HST, August 2007. Updated 9 January 2008, HST.

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Collection: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Title: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Object ID: MG0153

Date Range: 1862-1987

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Advertising and Promotional Collection, 1862-1987 Object ID: MG0153 1 box 41 folders .2 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization); PV7 Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 4 Scope

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Collection: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Title: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Description: The Advertising and Promotional Collection contains materials for a wide variety of businesses and organizations in Lancaster County, including manufacturers, department and clothing stores, entertainment venues, grocery stores, restaurants, service providers, and social clubs. Of special interest is the use of both English and German in a brochure from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., as well as in the soap-making directions from the Pennsylvania Salt Co. There are also a 1921 program from Lancaster's Colonial Theatre and boxing programs that list Lancaster native, Leo Houck.

Date Range: 1862-1987

Year Range From: 1862

Year Range To: 1987

Date of Accumulation: 1862-1987

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bogle, George; Bortzfield, Jere; Butler, Smedley D.; Correll, Clint; Eberly, Jay M.; Evans, Melvern R,; Frueauff, W. Herman T.; Hawbaker, Gary; Houck, Leo; Huss, Arlene Rider; Jackson, J. T.; Jenner, Edward; Kelly, P. B.; Kepler, Aaron Conrad; Lynch, Charles O.; Manning, Peggy Sheets; Martin, John W.; Miller, Charles F.; Musser, Andrew J.; Miller, J. R.; Rohrer, Willis; Ross, Betsy; Schuneman, Ray; Skiles, John D.; Slaymaker, R. M.; Smith, Lynn A.; Smith, Marjorie A.; Stauffer, Sarah Ann; Stumpf, Ed; Suydam, Henry; Tobias, Richard J.; Yecker, Paul C.; Rowe, Ceylon; Landes, Lizzie; Stehman, Henry L.

Subjects: Advertising; Ephemera; Advertising fliers; Fliers (Ephemera)

Search Terms: A&P; A. F. Huber Food Store; Advertisements; Advertising; Advertising fliers; Announcements; Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Aunt Betty's Playhouse; Big Boy Restaurants; Boston Insurance Company; Brochures; Brownstown, West Earl Twp.; Business; Christmas carols; Clarion Steam Printing House; Clipper Magazine; Colonial Theatre; Columbia; Columbia Flour Mills; Columbia Herald Job Printing Office; Columbian Printing Company; Cope Brothers; Dr. Raub's Egg White Soap; Drawings; E. H. Gochnauer and Sons; East Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Ed Stumpf's Service Stations; Engle and Hambright; Ephemera; Express Steam Printers; Finding aids; Finks Baked Products; Flyers; Gardner and Craver; Gates Dental Company, Inc.; Glitsch' Imperial Russian Mustard; Grandview Heights; Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company; Harrison Brothers and Company; Heinitsh Furniture Company; Hershey and Groff; Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. (Maryland); Invitations; John D. Skiles, Dry Goods and Clothing; John Herr's Mill; Kelly Cadillac; Kunkel and Brother; L. B. Herr & Son; Lakeland Stabling Company; Lancaster; Lancaster Advertiser's Club; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Chemical Company; Lancaster Country Store; Lancaster County Heritage Magazine; Lancaster Dispensing Company; Lancaster Outdoor Advertising Company; Lime Spring Farm; Lorillard Tobacco Company; Lynch Drop Center Fifth Wheel and Gear Connections; Manuscript groups; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Mill Bridge Village & Camp Resort; Mills; Moderne Manor; Musselman and Slaymaker; New Holland, Earl Twp.; Pacquin's Dentist's and Physician's hand cream; Peach Bottom Slate Mining Company; Pennsylvania Salt Company; Pequea Lime; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Place Marie; Restaurants; Restore 'N More; Rohrerstown, East Hempfield Twp.; Russo Answer-Phone Service; Sayres, Scheid & Sweeton; Steinman Hardware; Stockyard Inn; Stores; Sunday News; Trivers Clothes; Trout and Shank; F. W. Woolworth Co.; H. L. Stehman and Co.; Heitshu's Drug Store

Extent: 1 box, 13 folders, .2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0153

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Business and Industry Collection (MG0107); Invoice and Receipt Collection (MG0253); Billheads from the Commissioners' Orders for Payment Collection (MG0182); Business Letterhead Collection (MG0254)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Advertising and Promotional Collection (MG0153), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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.

Other Numbers: MG-153

Other Number: MG-153

Classification: MG0153

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was originally cataloged in 1998 and the finding aid is updated as items are added. Added to database 25 August 2021.

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Watt & Shand Collection, 1880-2003 Object ID: MG0237 4 boxes 59 folders, 1 scrapbook 2 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 6 Scope and

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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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Collection: Hydroelectric Power Collection

Title: Hydroelectric Power Collection

Object ID: MG0084

Date Range: 1907-1967

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Collection: Hydroelectric Power Collection

Title: Hydroelectric Power Collection

Description: Contains pamphlets, booklets, and annual reports from various water and power companies on the Susquehanna River. They include information about dams, hydroelectric projects, and how electricity is generated; maps and history of the region; and pictures of the river and hydroelectric stations.

Date Range: 1907-1967

Year Range From: 1907

Year Range To: 1967

Date of Accumulation: 1907-1967

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Rutter, Edward H.

Subjects: Hydroelectric power plants; Pamphlets; Business records

Search Terms: Business records; Certificates; Conestoga Substation; Conewago Water and Power Company; Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company; Dams; Finding aids; Fuller Company; General Electric; Historic Strasburg Inn; Holtwood Dam; Hydroelectric power plants; Lake Aldred District; Manuscript groups; McCall Ferry Power Company; Pamphlets; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Pennsylvania Water and Power Company; Philadelphia Electric Power Company; S. Morgan Smith Company; Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation; Sunday Sun; Susquehanna Power Company; Susquehanna River

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0084

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Photograph Collection

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.

Other Numbers: MG-84

Classification: MG0084

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Updated 9 January 2008, 19 September 2008, 5 February 2009, 4 February 2010 HST

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Collection: Broadsides Collection

Title: Broadsides Collection

Object ID: MG0357

Date Range: 1775-1958

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Broadsides Collection, 1775-1958 Object ID: MG0357 2 boxes 23 folders 1 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 9 Scope and Content Note

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Collection: Broadsides Collection

Title: Broadsides Collection

Description: This collection contains broadsides for lectures, stores, businesses, and organizations.

Date Range: 1775-1958

Year Range From: 1775

Year Range To: 1958

Date of Accumulation: 1775-1958

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 09

People: Bailey, Francis; Becker, John; Bomberger, M.; Bowman, Michael; Brinton, F.; Bryson, J. H.; Chryst, Drue Young; Chryst, James; Conyngham, Redmond; Cromwell, J.; Deshong, P. M.; Eply, John; Eshleman, Elam Witmer; Fahnestock, William B.; Funk, Amos H.; Gable, Jacob; Haines, Samuel B.; Harbaugh, Henry; Hershey, Benjamin; Jefferies, Thomas; Kennedy, J. P. M.; Landis, Benjamin; Landis, David; Landis, Jesse; Landis, John; Lefever, John; Lehman, John S.; Lindsay, John J.; List, Friedrich; Mathiot, John; Maxwell, Hugh; McCall, H. W.; Mercer, J. Q.; Messersmith, Jacob; Metzler, Christian E.; Michael, J.; Roosevelt, Theodore; Scott, Joseph; Shreiner, Martin; Steele, John F.; Stevens, Enos; Witmer, A. K.; Witmer, Henry; Wylie, S. A.

Subjects: Broadsides; Political posters; Posters

Search Terms: Advertisements; Announcements; Arithmetic; Boys Work Fund; Broadsides; Camons Island; Cheap Job Printer, Lancaster Inquirer; Court of Quarter Sessions; Cromwell & Bomberger; Finding aids; Flyers; Frantz's Mill; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Lancaster Adler; Lancaster County Prison; Lancaster Soil Conservation District; Lancaster Unemployed Council; Lititz Turnpike Company; Manor Turnpike Company; Manuscript groups; Mayors; Mount Vista Gold and Silver Mining Company; New York and Pennsylvania Oil and Coal Mining Company; Newspapers; Notices; Paradise Lyceum; Pennsylvania General Assembly, House of Representatives; Petitions; Philadelphia Mourning Store, Jones & Fisher; Poetry; Political posters; Posters; Programs; Railroads; Reports; Review Print; Russel & Myers; S. B. Cox and Company; Sheriffs; Slackwater Turnpike; Steam Book and Job Printing; Stockholders; Stocks; Tolls; Union and Tribune Office; Youth Appreciation Week

Extent: 2 boxes, 19 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English, German, and Pennsylvania German

Object ID: MG0357

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents 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.

Other Numbers: MG-357

Classification: MG0357

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 3 January 2022.

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Collection: Black History Collection

Title: Black History Collection, Series 1

Object ID: MG0240_Ser01

Date Range: 1780-1834

Collection: Black History Collection

Title: Black History Collection, Series 1

Description: Series 1, Register of enslaved women and their children who were born after 1780, is a compilation of papers filed by holders of enslaved persons that show date; name and place of residence of slaveholder; name of mother (usually an enslaved person) and child; date of birth; sex of child; age when the child will be freed; official seal and signatures; and date when filed.

Date Range: 1780-1834

Year Range From: 1780

Year Range To: 1834

Date of Accumulation: 1780-1834

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Anderson, James; Atchinson, John; Baker, John H.; Barton, William; Bayly, James; Bigham, William; Black, Aaron; Boggs, Alexander; Boyd, William; Breading, David; Caldwell, Andrew; Carpenter, Samuel; Clark, Bryce; Clemson, James; Conkle, William; Cook, James; Cooke, Samuel; Crawford, James; Cunningham, Janett; Currin, James; Davis, Edward; Dewers, Thomas; Edwards, Susanna; Edwards, Thomas; Evans, James; Evans, John; Evans, Mrs. Frances; Ewing, John; Fordney, William B.; Franklin, Benjamin; Frazier, Phebe; Galbraith, Bertram Gillespie; Gale, Anthony; Gamble, James; Gibbons, Daniel; Brubaker, Marianna Gibbons; Gibson, William; Givens, Joseph; Graves, B.; Grubb, Peter; Harrison, Thomas; Haydon, George; Heaton, Jeremiah; Henderson, Archibald; Henry, William; Hubley, John; Hudson, Edward; Jacobs, Cyrus; Jenkins, John Carmichael; Johnson, Henry; Johnston, John; King, Robert; Leman, Christian; Lockhart, Josiah; Long, Stephen; Lownes, Caleb; Martin, James; Maxwell, Robert; McCally, James; McCamant, Isaac; McClure, William; McIntire, William; McLaughlin, George; Michener, James B.; Middleton, Anne; Middleton, John; Miller, John; Moore, Zachary; Neal, Thomas; Neel, Thomas; Nicholas, Michael; Old, James; Oldden, John; Patterson, James; Peden, Hugh; Porter, Andrew; Porter, William; Potts, David; Ramsey, Elizabeth; Reigert, Christopher; Ross, George; Samson, George W.; Sanderson, George; Scott, Alexander; Sewell, Charles S.; Skiles, Henry; Slaymaker, Amos; Smith, Joseph; Smith, Margaret; Smith, William; Spear, Robert; Steel, William; Stevens, Thaddeus; Thomas, Mary B.; Walker, Isaac; Wallace, Robert; Watson, John; Weld, Theodore D.; Whitehill, James; Wilson, Samuel; Work, Joseph; Yeates, James; Zantzinger, Paul

Other Creators: Pennsylvania. Court of Quarter Sessions (Lancaster County)

Subjects: African Americans--History; Slaveholders--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; Slavery--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County

Search Terms: Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery; Court of Quarter Sessions; Enslaved persons; Finding aids; Labels; Manuscript groups; Persons of color; Slaveholders; Slavery

Extent: 17 folders, 89 items, 648 pages to scan, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0240_Ser01

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Copies of MG0240, Series 1, Folders 1-9 are also on microfilm in the Research Center Library (Drawer 3, sec. 2, #206) and bound (326 R294p Oversized); Black History Collection (MG0240) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2b3d42c6-a313-4ebc-966f-516114048136

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Black History Collection (MG0240), Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL. Date accessed (day, month, year).; LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, these items reflect the racial prejudices and actions of the era. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact research@lancasterhistory.org prior to visit. Restricted access for the Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons found in Series 2, Folder 2: Use transcript in Folder 3 or microfilm.

Copyright: Images have been provided for research purposes. Please contact research@lancasterhistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish. There is no fee for publication of items in MG0240_Ser01.

Credit: Courtesy of Lancaster County Archives and LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-240, Series 1

Classification: MG0240

Description Level: Series

Custodial History: Processed prior to 1997 and updated from 2007-present. Added to database on 10 January 2022.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.

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