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Colonial craftsmen and the beginnings of American industry

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Author: Tunis, Edwin,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: [1965]

Call Number: 609.73 T926 Oversize

Responsibility: written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis.

Author: Tunis, Edwin,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: Cleveland

Publisher: World Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: [1965]

Physical Description: 159 p. illus. 31 cm.

Summary: Describes and illustrates the work of craftsmen and artisans in Colonial America. Shows types of work done in town shops and manufacturies, as well as, in homes, village shops, and country forges.

Subjects: Technology - United States; Industries - United States; Decorative arts, Early American.; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 609.73 T926 Oversize

1795-1895. One hundred years of American commerce ... a history of American commerce by one hundred Americans, with a chronological table of the important events of American commerce and invention within the past one hundred yeras

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Author: Depew, Chauncey M.

Date of Publication: 1968.

Call Number: 380 D419

Alternate Title: One hundred years of American commerce

Responsibility: ed. by Chauncey M. Depew ... Issued in commemoration of the completion of the first century of American commercial progress as inaugurated by the treaty ... negotiated by Chief Justice Jay and approved by President Washington in 1795.

Author: Depew, Chauncey M.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Greenwood,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Physical Description: 2 v. illus. (part col.) 30 cm.

Notes: Paged continuously.

Subjects: Commerce; Inventions - United States; United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.; United States - Economic conditions - 1865-1918.; United States - Commerce - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 380 D419

The Gallant Seventy-Ninth Regiment

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1962

, 1864 Mustered Out at Fairfax Seminary, Va., July 12th, 1865 �79th Regiment Monument at Chickamauga, Georgia Chattanooga was now invested by Bragg's army, and the Union forces suffered greatly from short rations, until relief was secured from Generals Hooker and Grant. Nevertheless, by November 23 the

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1962

Physical Description: [107]-129 p. ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 66, no. 3

Subjects: Pennsylvania Infantry - 79th Regiment; United States. - Army. - Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 79th (1861-1865); United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 66, number 3 (1962), p. 107-129Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.66

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The Kirby collection of historical paintings, located at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2742

Corporate Author: Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.)

Date of Publication: [1963]

Call Number: 708.1 K46 Oversize

Corporate Author: Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Easton, Pa

Publisher: The College,

Date of Publication: [1963]

Physical Description: 54 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Subjects: Kirby, Allan P - Art collections - Catalogs.; Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) - Catalogs.; Portraits, American; Portrait painting, American; Narrative painting - United States; United States in art; Painting - Pennsylvania - Easton; United States - Biography - Portraits - Catalogs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 708.1 K46 Oversize

The American heritage history of antiques from the Civil War to World War I

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Author: Davidson, Marshall B.

Date of Publication: [1969]

Call Number: 745.1 D253h

Responsibility: by the editors of American heritage. Author and editor in charge: Marshall B. Davidson.

Author: Davidson, Marshall B.

Place of Publication: [New York]

Publisher: American Heritage Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: [1969]

Physical Description: 415 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., ports. (part col.) 29 cm.

Subjects: Antiques - United States; United States - Social life and customs - 1865-1918.

Additional Title: American heritage.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745.1 D253h

Valley news echo : serving the Shenandoah and Potomac river valleys

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Date of Publication: 1965.

Call Number: 973.7 N558 Oversize

Place of Publication: Hagerstown, Md

Publisher: Potomac Edison Co.,

Date of Publication: 1965.

Physical Description: 6 v. in 1 : ill. ; 40 cm.

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 25, 1859)-v. 6, no. 4 (April 1865)

Notes: "A monthly newspaper ... which reprinted contemporary accounts of Civil War events." - Foreword.; LCHS copy missing Vol. 1 and several issues of Vol. 2.

Subjects: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Periodicals.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Centennial celebrations, etc.

Additional Corporate Author: Potomac Edison Company.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7 N558 Oversize

One nation indivisible. The union in American thought, 1776-1861

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Author: Nagel, Paul C.

Date of Publication: 1964.

Call Number: 342.73 N147

Author: Nagel, Paul C.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1964.

Physical Description: vii, 328 p. 22 cm.

Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p.289-318)

Subjects: Federal government - United States.; State rights (American politics); United States - Politics and government - 1783-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 342.73 N147

Generals in blue; lives of the Union commanders

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Author: Warner, Ezra J.

Date of Publication: [1964]

Call Number: 973.741 W281

Responsibility: by Ezra J. Warner.

Author: Warner, Ezra J.

Place of Publication: [Baton Rouge]

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

Date of Publication: [1964]

Physical Description: xxiv, 679, [1] p. ports. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 673-[680]

Subjects: Generals - United States.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.741 W281

Preserving historic America

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Corporate Author: United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

Date of Publication: 1966.

Call Number: 720 P928

Corporate Author: United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

Place of Publication: [Washington

Publisher: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]

Date of Publication: 1966.

Physical Description: 80 p. illus. 24 x 29 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 79.

Subjects: Historic buildings - United States.; Monuments - United States; Architecture - United States; Urban renewal - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 720 P928

Social statistics for Lancaster County 1860

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Date of Publication: 1965.

Call Number: Drawer 15, sec. 2

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Alternate Title: Federal nonpopulation census schedules for Pennsylvania, 1850-1880, sociasl statistics and supplemental schedules

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration,

Date of Publication: 1965.

Physical Description: 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

Series: National Archives microfilm publication ; microcopy no. 597.

Notes: Each census arranged alphabetically by county.; Library owns: Reel 4 - Social Statistics 1850 Jefferson to Northumberland Counties -- Reel 7 - Social Statistics 1860 Crawford to Monroe Counties -- Reel 16 Dependent, Defective and Delinquent Classes 1880 Lakawanna to Lebanon Counties.; Record Group 29.

Contents: The LancasterHistory Research Center only holds the "Social Statistics 1860: Crawford to Monroe Counties" microfilm reel. Digital files associated with this resource provide all pages related to Dauphin, Lancaster, and Lebanon Counties. The entire series of this resource include the following: Reels 1-5. Social Statistics, 1850. -- Reels 6-8. Social Statistics, 1860. -- Reel 10. Social Statistics, 1870. -- Reels 11-23. Dependent, defective, and deliquent classes, 1880.

Summary: The Social Statistics presents data for each township and borough in the county. The types of data include the following: Valuation of estate, real, and personal; Annual taxes; Seasons and crops with "usual average crop"; Schools/colleges/academies and the number of students; libraries and the number of volumes; Newspapers/periodicals and their circulation; Religious organizations/churcHes along with the number of persons they can accommodate and the valuation of church property; number of paupers; number of criminals; and average wages for six different categories of work.