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African American lives

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Edition: Widescreen format.

Date of Publication: [2006]

Call Number: 929.373 A258 DVD

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Responsibility: a film by Kunhardt Productions ; executive producers, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William R. Grant, Peter W. Kunhardt ; written by Henry Louis Gates. Jr. ; series producers, Graham Judd, Leslie D. Farrell ; a production of Kunhardt Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/ WNET New York.

ISBN: 1415716943

Edition: Widescreen format.

Place of Publication: [Alexandria, Va.] : Hollywood, Calif

Publisher: PBS Home Video ; distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment,

Date of Publication: [2006]

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes: Originally broadcast as a four-part television series in 2006.; Host: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; features Oprah Winfrey, Chris Tucker, Quincy Jones, Sara-Lawrence-Lightfoot, Mae Jemison, T.D. Jakes, Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg.

Contents: Listening to our past / producer and director, Jesse Sweet; editors, Eric Davis, Michael Weingrad -- The promise of freedom / producer and director, Leslie Asako Gladsjo ; editors, Joanna Kiernan, Geeta Gandbhr -- Searching for our names / producer and director, Leslie D. Farrell; editors, Merril Stern, Kathryn Moore -- Beyond the middle passage / producer and director, Graham Judd; editors, Kate Hirson, Stefan Knerrich.

Summary: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.

Subjects: African Americans; African American families; DNA fingerprinting.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary - Feature.

Additional Author: Gates, Henry Louis.; Grant, William; Kunhardt, Peter W.; Judd, Graham.; Farrell, Leslie D.; Sweet, Jesse.; Gladsjo, Leslie Asako.; Winfrey, Oprah.; Tucker, Chris,; Jones, Quincy,; Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara,; Jemison, Mae,; Jakes, T. D.; Carson, Ben.; Goldberg, Whoopi,

Additional Corporate Author: Kunhardt Productions.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); PBS Home Video.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Media

Call Number: 929.373 A258 DVD

Websites

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/about.html

Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18954

Author: Captain of volunteers.

Date of Publication: 1847.

Call Number: 979.4403 C254

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Responsibility: by a Captain of volunteers.

Author: Captain of volunteers.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: H. Packer & Co. ...,

Date of Publication: 1847.

Physical Description: [2], 5-64 p. (first leaf blank) ; 25 cm.

Notes: This copy is a reproduction ISBN 0548410593.; Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.; Anti-annexation tract.

Summary: The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Mexican War, 1846-1848.; California - Description and travel.; California - History - 1846-1850.; Mexico, North - Description and travel.; California - Annexation to the United States.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 979.4403 C254

Websites

https://archive.org/details/altcaliforniembr00strerich/page/n7/mode/2up

American colonial wealth : documents and methods

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Author: Jones, Alice Hanson,

Edition: Second ed.

Date of Publication: c1978.

Call Number: 339.4 J76

Responsibility: by Alice Hanson Jones ; with a foreword by Stuart Bruchey.

ISBN: 0405055463 :

Author: Jones, Alice Hanson,

Edition: Second ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Arno Press,

Date of Publication: c1978.

Physical Description: 3 v. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Wealth - United States; United States - Economic conditions - To 1865 - Sources.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 339.4 J76

American Ethnographical survey: the Conestoga Expedition, 1902 (Preliminary report)

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Call Number: 905.748 GA v.1,5

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Responsibility: M.D. Learned, Dexter.

Physical Description: 1-7; 30-53 p.

Notes: In: German American Annals, v.1 (1903) and v.5 (1907).

Subjects: Germans - Pennsylvania; Strasburg (Pa. : Township) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Learned, Marion Dexter.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 GA v.1,5

Websites

https://archive.org/details/germanamericanan05germuoft/page/n9

American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution, &c. &c. with a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1209

Author: Smith, John Jay,

Edition: 3rd ed. :

Date of Publication: 1847.

Call Number: 973.3 S651 Oversize

Responsibility: Collected and ed. by J. Jay Smith and John F. Watson.

Author: Smith, John Jay,

Edition: 3rd ed. :

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Lloyd P. Smith,

Date of Publication: 1847.

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1. : ill. (65 pl.) ; 35 x 28 cm.

Notes: The plates, part printed on both sides, include 1 mounted illustration and 2 mounted portraits.; Includes letter of Robert Fulton; poem and profiles cut by John Andre.

Subjects: Autographs - United States; United States - History - Revolution - Sources.

Additional Author: Watson, John F.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.3 S651 Oversize

An address delivered before the students of Strasburg Academy, September 8, 1845 on the means of obtaining happiness and true eminence of character

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Author: Leaman, John..

Date of Publication: 1845.

Call Number: 814 L436

Responsibility: John Leaman.

Author: Leaman, John..

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: D.S. Kieffer,

Date of Publication: 1845.

Physical Description: 16 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: With: An address delivered before the Students' Literary Society, of Strasburg Academy, September 14, 1843.; With: History of the Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church and congregation of East Earl Twp. Lancaster County.

Subjects: Strasburg Academy (Strasburg, Pa.); Christian education.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 814 L436

Assessment lists and other manuscript documents of Lancaster County prior to 1729

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo745

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1916.

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

1 document

Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1916.

Physical Description: 155-194 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 20, no. 7

Subjects: Legal documents - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Tax assessment - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Deeds - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 20, number 7 (1916), p. 155-194Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.20

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Assigned estate of Chas. Steigerwalt, Esq. of Lancaster, Pa. ... : valuable collection of autograph letters and historical documents ... to be sold ... January 31, 1911

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Corporate Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)

Date of Publication: 1911]

Call Number: 017.7 S818

Responsibility: catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels.

Corporate Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Stan. V. Henkels,

Date of Publication: 1911]

Physical Description: 74 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : facsims. ; 26 cm.

Series: Catalogue / Stan. V. Henkels ; no. 1023

Subjects: Steigerwalt, Charles.; Autographs - Collections.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 017.7 S818

Autographs, old historical, topographical and genealogical letters and documents relating to Pennsylvania or to Pennsylvanians : for sale by C.W. Unger, Pottsville, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17529

Date of Publication: [19--?]

Call Number: 010.091 U57

Place of Publication: Pottsville, Pa

Publisher: C.W. Unger,

Date of Publication: [19--?]

Physical Description: 38 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Title from cover.; "List 946".

Subjects: Unger, C.W.; Autographs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 010.091 U57

Baptismal record of the German Reformed Church of New Providence, Pa. from 1760 to 1800

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1554

Date of Publication: n.d.

Call Number: 285.8 N558g

Responsibility: translated from the Old German script by Ernst Waelder, a native of Hechingen, Germany but now of Lancaster, Pa. (1977).

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: n.d.

Physical Description: 26 p. : 29 cm.

Notes: Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 401 #3.

Subjects: Zion Reformed Church (Strasburg Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Township; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Township

Additional Author: Waelder, Ernst

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 285.8 N558g

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African American lives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15002

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18954

Websites

American colonial wealth : documents and methods

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3547

American Ethnographical survey: the Conestoga Expedition, 1902 (Preliminary report)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14681

Websites

American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution, &c. &c. with a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1209

An address delivered before the students of Strasburg Academy, September 8, 1845 on the means of obtaining happiness and true eminence of character

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo505

Assessment lists and other manuscript documents of Lancaster County prior to 1729

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo745

Documents

Assigned estate of Chas. Steigerwalt, Esq. of Lancaster, Pa. ... : valuable collection of autograph letters and historical documents ... to be sold ... January 31, 1911

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15277

Autographs, old historical, topographical and genealogical letters and documents relating to Pennsylvania or to Pennsylvanians : for sale by C.W. Unger, Pottsville, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17529

Baptismal record of the German Reformed Church of New Providence, Pa. from 1760 to 1800

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1554