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Guide to county and municipal records on microfilm in the Pennsylvania State Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9383

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 016.9748 P415cmr

Responsibility: compiled and edited by Nancy L.P. Fortna, Frank M. Suran.

ISBN: 0892710225 (pbk.)

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: 50 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. - Division of Archives and Manuscripts - Microform catalogs.; County government - Pennsylvania; Municipal government - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - Sources - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.; Pennsylvania - History, Local - Sources - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.

Additional Author: Fortna, Nancy L. P.; Suran, Frank M.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.9748 P415cmr

Cornwall : the people and culture of an industrial Camelot, 1890-1980

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5175

Date of Publication: 1984.

Call Number: 974.819 O12

Responsibility: Carl Oblinger.

ISBN: 0892710284 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1984.

Physical Description: vi, 123 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Interviews with Robert Arnold, Sr., and others.

Summary: " The changing impact of industrialization on American society has been a favorite problem for discussion and debate in the academic world. Rarely, however, have the actors of that controversial drama-the workers themselves - been given the opportunity to tell the tale from the uninhibited perspective of personal experience. The candid recollections contained in Cornwall effectively answer that need and, in the process, reveal some provocative and surprising conclusions about working-class response and behavior. Like other industrial ventures of the nineteenth century, the Cornwall Ore Bank Company in Lebanon County generated its share of unskilled and semi-skilled immigrant labor from eastern and southern Europe. Unlike other growing industrial giants, however, the family-operated mining enterprise skillfully constructed a sense of paternalism which engendered a climate of harmony and cooperation. Although basically a periodic treatment of workers' experiences in the twentieth century, the interviews collected here reflect the subtle confrontation between that nineteenth century legacy and the reality of the monopoly capitalism initiated by Bethlehem Steel with its takeover in 1921. A number of events, especially the depression of the 1930s, the CIO unionization drive in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and the mine closings in 1973, would provide a serious challenge to management's hold on the community, and underscore workers' desperate struggle to come to grips with capitalism's unpleasant side effects. Cornwall is an interesting and important contribution to the literature of this complex period of American social and economic history." [from Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine]

Subjects: Working class - Pennsylvania - Cornwall; Industries - Pennsylvania - Cornwall; Interviews - Pennsylvania - Cornwall.; Cornwall (Pa.) - Social life and customs.; Cornwall (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Oblinger, Carl D.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 O12

Archive

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

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

1 document

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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Index to the Guide to the microfilm of the records of Pennsylvania's revolutionary governments, 1775-1790, in the Pennsylvania State Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9387

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Date of Publication: 1980.

Call Number: 016.9748 P415prg Index

Alternate Title: Records of Pennsylvania's revolutionary governments, 1775-1790.; Guide to microfilm of Pennsylvania's revolutionary governments, 1775-1790.

Responsibility: compiled and edited by Roland M. Baumann [and] Diane Smith Wallace.

ISBN: 0892710128

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1980.

Physical Description: 77 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Pa. State Docs. class. no. PY H673.2:G946miR, Index

Subjects: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission - Microform catalogs - Indexes.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1783 - Sources - Microform catalogs - Indexes.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources - Microform catalogs - Indexes.

Additional Author: Baumann, Roland M.; Wallace, Diane S.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.9748 P415prg Index

Blacks in Pennsylvania history : research and educational perspectives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo33

Date of Publication: 1983.

Call Number: 326 B631m

Responsibility: David McBride, editor.

ISBN: 0892710276 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1983.

Physical Description: ix, 129 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "... Proceedings of the Black History in Pennsylvania Conference held in Pittsburgh on April 5 and 6, 1979"--Introd.; Includes bibliographies.

Contents: Part 1. Early Black education -- Part 2. Black life and labor in modern industrial Pennsylvania -- Part 3. Black genealogy and historiography -- Part 4. Curriculum development in Pennsylvania Black history.

Subjects: African Americans; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania - History - Congresses.

Additional Author: McBride, David,; Hopkins, Leroy.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 B631m

Discovering Pennsylvania's archeological heritage

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4456

Author: Kent, Barry C.

Date of Publication: 1980.

Call Number: 974.8011 K37d

Responsibility: by Barry C. Kent.

ISBN: 0892710101

Author: Kent, Barry C.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1980.

Physical Description: 46 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Pa. State Docs. class. no. PY H673.2:D6115

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania; Indians of North America - Northeastern States; Pennsylvania - Antiquities.; Northeastern States - Antiquities.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 K37d

Unity from diversity : extracts from selected Pennsylvania colonial documents, 1681 to 1780, in commemoration of the tercentenary of the Commonwealth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3425

Date of Publication: 1980.

Call Number: 974.802 U58

Responsibility: compiled and edited by Louis M. Waddell.

ISBN: 0892710098

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1980.

Physical Description: iv, 89 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Chapters include: Founding documents, William Penn's problems, Stormy politics, Problems of society (black and slave issues), Territorial delineation, westward expansion and Indian affairs, The French and Indian War and its consequences and The Revolutionary period.