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The Comprehensive Plan for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14600

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 352.96 L245cp

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Planning Commission,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: 4 vol. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Vol 1. Balance: the growth management element, April 2006 - vol. 2. Choices: the housing element, April 2006 - vol. 3. Heritage: the cultural heritage element: a strategy for preserving our sense of place, April 2006 - vol 4. Tourism: the strategic tourism development element, June 2005.; Cover title.

Subjects: Regional planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Regional planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Housing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic preservation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 352.96 L245cp

Copy Info: 2006; 2005

Lancaster walking tour for families

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15986

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Heritage.

Date of Publication: c2008.

Call Number: 917.4815 L244

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Heritage.

Place of Publication: Lancaster (Pa.)

Publisher: Heritage Center of Lancaster Co.,

Date of Publication: c2008.

Physical Description: unpaged: ill. map of center city ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Central business districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Tours.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 917.4815 L244

Index to naturalizations, 1800-1897 for Lancaster County, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15073

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 929.33 I38

Place of Publication: Photocopy

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: 2 vol. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Naturalization records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 929.33 I38

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

Department Store (Lancaster, Pa.) System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series. Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners Conditions for Access: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be

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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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Garden spot : Lancaster County, the old order Amish, and the selling of rural America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12605

Author: Walbert, David J.

Date of Publication: 2002.

Call Number: 306 W151

Responsibility: David Walbert.

ISBN: 0195148436 (alk. paper); 0195148444 (pbk.)

Author: Walbert, David J.

Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: x, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Chapters: Cultivating the Garden : The invention of Lancaster County -- Pride and Progress : Education, Literacy , and The Little Red Schoolhouse -- Dutch Country : The Amish and Tourism -- Domain of Abundance : Food and Farming -- The Landscape of Progress : Urbanization and Planning -- Preserving The Garden : Development and Farm Preservation -- Epilogue : The Harvest -- Appendix : Farms and Population Of Lancaster 1900 to 2000

Summary: It is the tension between rural tradition, progress, and urbanization that lies at the core of Garden Spot. David Walbert examines how twentieth century American culture has come to define and appreciate rurality, and how growth and economic expansion can co-exist with preservation of the traditional ways of life in the region. Will small farms fail in a culture that has increasingly come to value productivity over quality of life? What impact will further development have on maintaining this region's character? Can rurality and progress co-exist in the 21st century?A vivid portrayal of the land and people, residents and outsiders alike, Garden Spot narrates the history of this region and considers the challenges Lancaster County and its people face in order to preserve their unique place. [from the publisher]

Subjects: Rural development - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Rural conditions.; Amish Country (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 306 W151

The Prostitute, the soldier, and the individual girl : the fight for morality in World War I, Lancaster and beyond

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20377

Author: Parks, Elizabeth

Date of Publication: 2009

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Responsibility: by Elizabeth Parks

Author: Parks, Elizabeth

Date of Publication: 2009

Physical Description: 76 p.

Notes: Double click the URL for full text access.; Includes bibliography pg. 73-76.; Electronic reproduction. Lancaster, Pa. : Franklin & Marshall College, 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Twombley, Clifford J.; Law and Order Society (Lancaster, Pa.); Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA); Prostitution - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Ethics; World War, 1914-1918

Location: Lancaster History Library - Electronic Resources

Websites

https://dspace.fandm.edu/bitstream/handle/11016/8560/Parks.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Door to opportunity : public education for African-Americans in Lancaster City, 1800-1895

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13749

Author: Hopkins, Leroy T., Jr.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Responsibility: by Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr., Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy T., Jr.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: 126-152 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.103, no.3.

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Schools - Pennsylvania - Lancaster

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 103, number 3 (2001), p. 126-152Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.103 no.3

Moving day for the big railroad bridge

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16906

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Responsibility: by John Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society .

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: p. 80 - 85. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.108, no. 2 (Summer 2006).

Subjects: Railroad bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Pennsylvania Railroad.; Conestoga River (Lancaster, Pa.).

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 108, number 2 (2006), p. 80-85Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.108 no. 2

Poems for the marketplace

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17286

Date of Publication: 2006.

Responsibility: edited by Barry Rauhauser.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: p. 70 - 79 : ill. : 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v. 108, no. 2 (Summer 2006).

Notes: Includes poems written by students from the New School of Lancaster : "Dried flower cowboy" by Katie Herzog ; "Apple stand" by Sarah Coco ; "Flowers of market (Rohrers' stand)" by Dylan Bergeron Mikus ; "Market poem" by Collin MacConnell ; "Spices and friends" by Abigail Polin ; "Reina's Latino mix" by David Bishop ; "Latino comida de Reina" by David Bishop ;"Candy fix" by Eric Freeman ;"Fruit for market" by Nicole Sauder.

Subjects: Central Market (Lancaster, Pa.); Farmers' markets - Pennsylvania - Lancaster

Additional Author: Rauhauser, Barry.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 108, number 2 (2006), p. 70-79Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v. 108 no. 2

Lancaster County heritage, York County Heritage : Telling our stories: an interpretation manual for Heritage partners

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17497

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: [2007].

Call Number: 338.4 H548t

Responsibility: prepared by Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: [2007].

Physical Description: 84 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "A Program of the Lancaster County Planning Commission, Lancaster, Pennsylvania."; In spiral binder.

Subjects: Tourism and city planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Tourism and city planning - Pennsylvnaia - York County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 338.4 H548t

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