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Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Object ID
MG0237
Date Range
1880-2003
Street from Jacob M. Long, trustee to Gabriel Hirsh. Jacob M. Long was to receive $200 for the extinguishment and would receive rent from Gabriel Hirsh which was set at forty-five shillings. Attached to the document is a note by Jacob M. Long to Gabriel Hirsh noting that Long had received Hirsh’s payment
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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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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-67
Date Range
1986
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Description
Boulder and bronze tablet at the site of Naticoke Indian Village (1721 - 1748) at Indiantown in Clay Township. Monument erected in 1932.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
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Clay Twp.
Historical markers
Indiantown, Clay Twp.
Indigenous peoples
Monuments
Nanticoke Indian Village
Native Americans
Tablets
Place
Clay Twp.
Object Name
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3 x 5 inches
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A-39-01-67
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Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-68
Date Range
1986
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Description
Boulder and bronze tablet at the site of Naticoke Indian Village (1721 - 1748) at Indiantown in Clay Township. Monument erected in 1932.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
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Clay Twp.
Historical markers
Indiantown, Clay Twp.
Indigenous peoples
Monuments
Nanticoke Indian Village
Native Americans
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Clay Twp.
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-46
Date Range
1986
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Description
Boulder and bronze tablet at the site of Conestoga Indian Town. The town was located on the road from Letort to Safe Harbor in Manor Township between the years of 1682 and 1763. Monument erected in 1924.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Conestoga Indian Town
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Indigenous peoples
Manor Twp.
Monuments
Native Americans
Tablets
Place
Manor Twp.
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Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-47
Date Range
1986
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Description
Boulder and bronze tablet at the site of Conestoga Indian Town. The town was located on the road from Letort to Safe Harbor in Manor Township between the years of 1682 and 1763. Monument erected in 1924.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Conestoga Indian Town
Historical markers
Indigenous peoples
Manor Twp.
Monuments
Native Americans
Tablets
Place
Manor Twp.
Object Name
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Object ID
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Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-49
Date Range
1986
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Description
Conestoga Indian Town marker. Erected in 1924.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Conestoga Indian Town
Historical markers
Indigenous peoples
Manor Twp.
Monuments
Native Americans
Tablets
Place
Manor Twp.
Object Name
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3 x 5 inches
Object ID
A-39-01-49
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-69
Date Range
1986
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
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Boulder and bronze tablet at the site of Conoy Indian Town (1718 - 1743) near Bainbridge. It also honored the memory of French trader Peter Bezaillion. He laid out a road from this point to Compass, Chester County. Monument erected in 1933.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Bainbridge, Conoy Twp.
Conoy Indian Town
Historical markers
Indigenous Peoples
Monuments
Native Americans
Tablets
Place
Conoy Twp.
Object Name
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3 x 5 inches
Object ID
A-39-01-69
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Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-71
Date Range
1986
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Description
Conoy Indian Town marker, erected 1933.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Bainbridge, Conoy Twp.
Conoy Indian Town
Historical markers
Indigenous Peoples
Monuments
Native Americans
Tablets
Place
Conoy Twp.
Object Name
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3 x 5 inches
Object ID
A-39-01-71
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-01
Date Range
1986
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Description
Memorial pillar and tablet at 320 East Ross Street, Lancaster, marking the site of the country home of the Honorable George Ross (1730 - 1779), colonial statesman and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Erected 1897.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Ross, George
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Historical markers
Monuments
Tablets
Ross Street
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
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Print Size
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Object ID
A-39-01-01
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Object ID
A-39-01-02
Date Range
1986
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Object Name
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Collection
Historical Markers Album
Description
Memorial tablet at the birthplace of Robert Fulton (1765 - 1815) in Fulton Township, honoring him as the first man to apply steam to navigation successfully.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Date Range
1986
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Fulton, Robert
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Historical markers
Monuments
Tablets
Place
Fulton Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
3 x 5 inches
Object ID
A-39-01-02
Notes
Three copies
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