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Records of purchases at the King George Hotel, Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, 1762-1773

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7510

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 647.94-C R311

Responsibility: transcribed and translated by Frederick S. Weiser and Larry M. Neff.

ISBN: 0911122532 (pbk.)

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Birdsboro, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: ix, 210 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans ;

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Schaeffer Family.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County; Land tenure - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - History - Sources.

Additional Author: Neff, Larry M.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 647.94-C R311

Farming, always farming : a photographic essay of rural Pennsylvania German land and life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7422

Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Responsibility: made by H. Winslow Fegley ; [introduction, Scott T. Swank ; captions, Alan G. Keiser, Frederick S. Weiser].

Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Place of Publication: Birdsboro, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ;

Notes: "Photographs from the collection of the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania."; Bibliography: p. 30.

Subjects: Fegley, H. Winslow - 1871-1944 - Photography collections.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Berks County; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Pennsylvania - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Swank, Scott T.; Keyser, Alan G.; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Additional Corporate Author: Schwenkfelder Library.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Records of pastoral acts at Zion Lutheran Church, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1795-1827

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5489

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 974.818 Z79

Responsibility: translated and edited by Frederick S. Weiser.

ISBN: 0911122516 (pbk.)

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Birdsboro, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: vi, 122 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans ;

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. iv.

Subjects: Zion Lutheran Church (Harrisburg, Pa.) - Registers.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg.; Harrisburg (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.818 Z79

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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Records of pastoral acts at the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the Muddy Creek Church, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1730-1790

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15138

Date of Publication: 1981.

Call Number: 284.1 M 943h

Responsibility: translated by William J. Hinke and Frederick S. Weiser.

ISBN: 0911122427 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Breinigsville, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1981.

Physical Description: iv, 237 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans ;

Notes: Includes index.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 109 #1.

Subjects: Muddy Creek Church (East Cocalico, Pa. : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - East Cocalico (Township); Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - East Cocalico (Township)

Additional Author: Hinke, William John,; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.1 M 943h

Records of pastoral acts at Emanuel Lutheran Church, known in the eighteenth century as the Warwick congregation, near Brickerville, Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1743-1799

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1975

Date of Publication: 1983.

Call Number: 284.1 E53a

ISBN: 0911122478 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Breinigsville, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1983.

Physical Description: vii, 229 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans ; 8

Notes: "Translated by Frederick S. Weiser."--Cover.; Includes index.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 160 #2.

Subjects: Emanuel Lutheran Church (Elizabeth, Lancaster County, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Church registers and records - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township)

Additional Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.1 E53a

Tulpehocken church records, 1730-1800 : Christ (Little Tulpehocken) Church and Altalaha Church, Rehrersburg

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18146

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 974.819 T917d

Responsibility: translated by Frederick S. Weiser.

Place of Publication: Breinigsville, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: viii, 202 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans ;

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.

Additional Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Additional Corporate Author: Christ Little Tulpehocken Church (Jefferson, Berks County, Pa.); Altahala Evangelical Lutheran Church (Rehrersburg, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 T917d

The earliest records of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1744

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18450

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Date of Publication: 1980]

Call Number: 284.1 T833Le

Alternate Title: Earliest records of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Responsibility: Frederick S. Weiser.

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1980]

Physical Description: p. 397-434 ; 24 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 14

Notes: Includes index.; "Offprint from Ebbes fer Alle-Ebber, Ebbes fer Dich, something for everyone, something for you."

Subjects: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.); Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.1 T833Le

Conrad Weiser's Account book, 1746-1760

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3511

Author: Weiser, Conrad,

Date of Publication: 1981.

Call Number: 923.2 W427

Alternate Title: The account book of Conrad Weiser :/

Responsibility: translated and edited by Larry M. Neff and Frederick S. Weiser.

ISBN: 0911122435 (pbk.)

Author: Weiser, Conrad,

Uniform Title: Account book, 1746-1760

Place of Publication: Breinigsville, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1981.

Physical Description: ix, 184 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans ;

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Weiser, Conrad, - 1696-1760.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Berks County; Berks County (Pa.) - History - Sources.

Additional Author: Neff, Larry M.; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 W427

Trinity Lutheran Church records, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3560

Date of Publication: 1988-

Call Number: 284.1 T832ds

Responsibility: translated and edited by Debra D. Smith and Frederick S. Weiser.

ISBN: 1558560092 (vol. 1); 1558562141 (vol. 2); 1558562834 (vol. 3)

Place of Publication: Apollo, PA

Publisher: Closson Press,

Date of Publication: 1988-

Physical Description: v. <1-5 > : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: v. 1. 1730-1767 -- v. 2. 1767-1782 -- v. 3. 1782-1796 -- v. 4. 1797-1810 - v. 5 burial records

Summary: Volume 5 includes a long exposition detailing the following: 1) Location of cemeteries used by Trinity Members. This section describes and provides histories of 30 different cemeteries in south central Pennsylvania; 2) Miscellaneous notes on burials of Trinity's pastors; 3) Notable persons at Trinity; 4) Inscriptons of gravestones at the Trinity graveyard. Photos of gravestones in the Memorial Wall are also displayed; 5) Trinity gravestones at Landis Valley. Some of the old graveyard stones are stored at Landis Valley Museum. A listing along with some photographs are reproduced here; 6) There are several sections that attempt to accurately catalog all the graves at the old graveyard.

Subjects: Trinity Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - Registers.; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Smith, Debra D.; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 284.1 T832ds

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