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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

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, blueprints, and insurance policies. Creators: LancasterHistory (Organization); Watt & Shand

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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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150 years of MU faces : commemorative publication 1855-2005

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15558

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 370 M652on

Alternate Title: One hundred fifty years of MU faces

Responsibility: written by Steven A. DiGuiseppe ... [et al.].

Place of Publication: [Millersville, Pa.]

Publisher: Millersville University Alumni Association,

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: 128 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Contents: Message from MU Alumni Association -- History of Millersville University -- History of MU Alumni Association -- Historical timeline -- "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" -- Millersville Alma Mater -- Guide to the profiles -- Alumni profiles -- Index.

Summary: "This special publication highlights the accomplishments of 150 Millersville University alumni."--P. 4.

Subjects: Lancaster County Normal School (Millersville, Pa.) - Alumni and alumnae.; Pennsylvania State Normal School of the Second District (Millersville, Pa.) - Alumni and alumnae.; State Teachers College (Millersville, Pa.) - Alumni and alumnae.; Millersville State College (Pa.) - Alumni and alumnae.; Millersville University of Pennsylvania - Alumni and alumnae.; Millersville University of Pennsylvania - History.; Millersville University Alumni Association - History.

Additional Author: DiGuiseppe, Steven A.

Additional Corporate Author: Millersville University Alumni Association.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 M652on

Lancaster at work : business in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17040

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 381 L245b

ISBN: 0974016233 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: vi, 138 p. : ill. ; 23 x 25 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Summary: Join Lancaster's citizens for a day at the office-or the factory. More than 130 photographs illustrate how men and women have made a living.

Subjects: Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.; Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.)Â Â - HistoryÂ Â - 19th centuryÂ Â - Pictorial works.; Â Lancaster County (Pa.)Â Â - HistoryÂ Â - 19th centuryÂ Â - Pictorial works.; Â Lancaster County (Pa.)Â Â - Social life and customsÂ Â - 19th centuryÂ Â - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Aleci, Linda S.; Heckles, Marianne.; Lestz, Gerald S.; Loose, John Ward Willson.; Rauhauser, Barry R.; Ryan,Thomas R.; Tennies, Heather S.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 381 L245b

We sing to thee : a history of Millersville University

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13667

Author: Downey, Dennis B.,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 370 M652d

Responsibility: Dennis B. Downey.

ISBN: 0975934007

Author: Downey, Dennis B.,

Place of Publication: Millersville, Pa

Publisher: Millersville University of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: xiii, 261 p. : ill. (some col.), map, ports., music ; 21 x 26 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Includes words and music for Millersville's alma mater song, "We sing to thee."

Subjects: Lancaster County Normal Institute - History.; Lancaster County Normal School (Millersville, Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania State Normal School of the Second District - History.; State Teachers College (Millersville, Pa.) - History.; Millersville State College (Pa.) - History.; Millersville University of Pennsylvania - History.; Universities and colleges - Pennsylvania - Millersville; Teachers colleges - Pennsylvania - Millersville; Teachers - Pennsylvania - Millersville

Additional Corporate Author: Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 M652d

York County, Pennsylvania township and borough officers from quarter sessions docket no. 2, 1750-1839

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13131

Author: Mariner, Mary Lou Craver.

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 974.841 M337

Responsibility: transcribed by Mary Lou Mariner; edited by Richard K. Konkel.

Author: Mariner, Mary Lou Craver.

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: iv, 139 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Special publication ; no. 62

Notes: "March, 2004."; Includes index.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. - Court of Quarter Sessions (York County); York County (Pa.) - Officials and employees.

Additional Author: Konkel, Richard K.

Additional Corporate Author: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.841 M337

The amendment that refused to die : equality and justice deferred : the history of the Fourteenth Amendment

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19151

Author: Meyer, Howard N.

Edition: Updated ed.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 342.73085 M612

Responsibility: Howard N. Meyer.

ISBN: 1568331703 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781568331706 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Author: Meyer, Howard N.

Edition: Updated ed.

Place of Publication: Lanham, Md

Publisher: Madison Books,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: xx, 291 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-278) and index.

Summary: "Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History, The Amendment That Refused to Die examines the passage of, and assault on, the "Big Fourteen," the post-Civil War amendment to the Constitution that guarantees equality and justice for all people. Howard N. Meyer explores the reaction against the amendment's sweeping reform, from judicial sabotage and KKK terrorism to the "separate but equal" debacle of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. He investigates the amendment's impact on more recent issues, such as institutionalized segregation and police misconduct, as well as the challenges faced by those who would extend the amendment's protective mantle to the interests of labor, women, homosexuals, and legal immigrants.".; "This updated edition analyzes the current attacks on the Fourteenth Amendment that not only threaten affirmative action, desegregation, voting rights, abortion rights, gay rights, protection from the tyranny of the State, and due process, but the amendment itself, the vital heart and guarantor of all our liberties."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: United States.; African Americans; Equality before the law - United States.; Due process of law - United States.; Due process of law.; Equality before the law.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 342.73085 M612

Year 2000 roster : veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. Southeastern Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7022

Author: Banta, Robert

Date of Publication: [2000]

Call Number: 940.5421 B219

Responsibility: by Robert Banta and Charles Goss, preparers.

Author: Banta, Robert

Place of Publication: [s.l.]

Publisher: The Veterans ,

Date of Publication: [2000]

Physical Description: 18 l. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 .; Battle of the Bulge.

Additional Author: Goss, Charles, preparer.

Additional Corporate Author: Southcentral Pennsylvania Veterans of the Ardennes Campaign.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 940.5421 B219

"Pennsylvania Dutch" & other essays

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13421

Author: Gibbons, Phebe Earle,

Edition: 1st Stackpole Books ed.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 301.452 G441 2001

Responsibility: Phebe Earle Gibbons ; introduction by Don Yoder.

ISBN: 0811729028 (pbk.)

Author: Gibbons, Phebe Earle,

Uniform Title: Pennsylvania Dutch and other essays

Edition: 1st Stackpole Books ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: xx, 427 p. ; 19 cm.

Notes: Originally published: Pennsylvania Dutch and other essays. 3rd ed., rev. and enl. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1882.; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Church of the Brethren. - Middle Pennsylvania District.; Pennsylvania Dutch.; Ethnology - Pennsylvania.; Country life - Pennsylvania.; Moravians - Pennsylvania.; Schwenkfelders - Pennsylvania.; Immigrants - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Ethnic relations.; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 301.452 G441 2001

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150 years of MU faces : commemorative publication 1855-2005

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15558

Lancaster at work : business in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17040

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We sing to thee : a history of Millersville University

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13667

York County, Pennsylvania township and borough officers from quarter sessions docket no. 2, 1750-1839

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13131

The amendment that refused to die : equality and justice deferred : the history of the Fourteenth Amendment

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19151

Year 2000 roster : veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. Southeastern Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7022

"Pennsylvania Dutch" & other essays

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13421