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William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library. An exhibition of holograph letters and autograph documents, selected from source materials in the Blumhaven Collection

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14322

Author: Blum, Herman,

Date of Publication: 1950]

Call Number: 923.2 P412b

Author: Blum, Herman,

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia

Publisher: Blumhaven Library and Gallery,

Date of Publication: 1950]

Physical Description: 48 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Contains also material on Thomas Holme, surveyor for Penn in Pennsylvania.; Bibliography: p. 48.

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718.; Holme, Thomas, - d. 1695.

Additional Corporate Author: Blumhaven Library and Gallery.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 P412b

The early life of Abraham Lincoln, containing many unpublished documents and unpublished reminiscences of Lincoln's early friends

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo969

Author: Tarbell, Ida M.

Date of Publication: 1896.

Call Number: 923.173 L736c

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Responsibility: By Ida M. Tarbell assisted by J. McCan Davis ...

Author: Tarbell, Ida M.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: S. S. McClure,

Date of Publication: 1896.

Physical Description: 240 p. incl. front., illus., ports. 25 cm.

Series: McClure's magazine library ; no. 3

Notes: Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.

Additional Author: Davis, J. McCan

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 L736c

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026646177&view=1up&seq=9

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

Notes and documents concerning the manorial history of the town of York, York County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1322

Date of Publication: 1992

Call Number: 974.841 N911

Responsibility: compiled by Henry James Young. With commentary, additions and everyname index by Patricia A. Gross and Leonard A. Heilman.

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: 45 p. 30 cm.

Series: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. Special Publication Number 47

Subjects: York (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Young, Henry James.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.841 N911

History of the formation of the Union under the Constitution : with liberty documents and report of the Commission

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1470

Corporate Author: United States.

Date of Publication: 1943]

Call Number: 973.4 B655

1 website

Responsibility: Sol Bloom, Director General.

Corporate Author: United States.

Place of Publication: [Washington

Publisher: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1943]

Physical Description: x, 885 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Formation of the Union under the constitution.

Summary: The book was written as part of the National celebration of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.

Subjects: United States.; United States - Constitutional history.; United States - Politics and government.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.4 B655

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050625170&view=1up&seq=7

Notes and documents: a Pennsylvanian visits the Richmond slave market

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14203

Author: Eggert, Gerald G.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.109

1 website

Responsibility: by Gerald G. Eggert.

Author: Eggert, Gerald G.

Physical Description: 571-576 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.109 (October 1985).

Subjects: Rawn, Charles C.; Philips, Jim.; Slavery - United States - Virginia

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.109

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/44088/43809

Notes and documents : the precarious freedom of Blacks in the Mid-Atlantic region : excerpts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14388

Author: Smith, Billy Gordon.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v. 113 (April 1989)

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Responsibility: by Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz.

Author: Smith, Billy Gordon.

Physical Description: p. 237 - 264.

Notes: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 113, April 1989.

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania; American newspapers - Pennsylvania; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600 - 1775.

Additional Author: Wojtowicz, Richard.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v. 113 (April 1989)

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/44424/44145

Conscience in crisis : Mennonites and other peace churches in America, 1739-1789 : interpretation and documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo126

Author: MacMaster, Richard K.

Date of Publication: 1979.

Call Number: 261.63 M167

Responsibility: Richard K. MacMaster, with Samuel L. Horst and Robert F. Ulle.

ISBN: 083611213X :

Author: MacMaster, Richard K.

Place of Publication: Scottdale, Pa

Publisher: Herald Press,

Date of Publication: 1979.

Physical Description: 575 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history ;

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. [549]-560.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Church of the Brethren - Middle Atlantic States - History - Sources.; Moravian Church - Middle Atlantic States - History - Sources.; Society of Friends - Middle Atlantic States; Mennonites - Middle Atlantic States; Schwenkfelders - Middle Atlantic States; Nonviolence; Pacifism; Draft - United States.; Conscientious objectors.; Middle Atlantic States - Church history - Sources.; Middle Atlantic States - History - Sources.

Additional Author: Horst, Samuel L.,; Ulle, Robert F.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 261.63 M167

A compendium of documents pertaining to the McCurdy Family of Kentucky and Utah

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo215

Author: McCurdy, Solomon Portious Sharp,

Date of Publication: 1982

Call Number: 929 M133m

Responsibility: compiled and annotated by Michael L. McCurdy

Author: McCurdy, Solomon Portious Sharp,

Place of Publication: Silver Spring, MD

Publisher: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1982

Physical Description: 49 p. 29 cm.

Notes: Being in part the genealogical and autobiographical manuscripts of Solomon P. McCurdy (1820-1890). Pertaining to the Sharp and McCurdy Families; indexed.

Subjects: McCurdy family.; Sharp family.; Kentucky - Genealogy.; Utah - Genealogy.

Additional Author: McCurdy, Michael L.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 M133m

Some old documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo430

Author: Schnerer, Frank E.

Date of Publication: 1906

SOME OLD DOCUMENTS. Quite recently a number of legal papers came into my possession, among them being an advertisement, letters of administration, confirmation of sale, and all in first-class condition. The advertisement is none of the elaborate or illuminated order as we see in our modern times

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Responsibility: by Frank Elser Schnerer.

Author: Schnerer, Frank E.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1906

Physical Description: [109]-113 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 4

Subjects: Schnerer, Jacob, - 1713-1790.; Elser, Peter, - d. 1786.; England, Theophelus, - d. 1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 10, number 4 (1906), p. 109-113Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.10

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William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library. An exhibition of holograph letters and autograph documents, selected from source materials in the Blumhaven Collection

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14322

The early life of Abraham Lincoln, containing many unpublished documents and unpublished reminiscences of Lincoln's early friends

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo969

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

Notes and documents concerning the manorial history of the town of York, York County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1322

History of the formation of the Union under the Constitution : with liberty documents and report of the Commission

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1470

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Notes and documents: a Pennsylvanian visits the Richmond slave market

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14203

Websites

Notes and documents : the precarious freedom of Blacks in the Mid-Atlantic region : excerpts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14388

Websites

Conscience in crisis : Mennonites and other peace churches in America, 1739-1789 : interpretation and documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo126

A compendium of documents pertaining to the McCurdy Family of Kentucky and Utah

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo215

Some old documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo430

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