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Lancaster County bus map

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Corporate Author: Red Rose Transit Authority.

Date of Publication: [1987?]

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 152

Alternate Title: Lancaster city bus routes; Lancaster County bus routes

Responsibility: Red Rose Transit Authority.

Corporate Author: Red Rose Transit Authority.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Red Rose Transit Authority,

Date of Publication: [1987?]

Physical Description: 10 maps on 1 sheet : both sides, col. ; 60 x 57 cm. or smaller, on sheet 61 x 82 cm., folded to 21 x 12 cm.

Notes: Ancillary maps (recto): Elizabethtown -- Mount Joy -- Columbia -- Willow Street -- Manheim -- Lititz -- Ephrata -- New Holland.; "This map printed 11/87"--Panel.; Text and col. ill. on verso.

Contents: Lancaster County bus routes -- Lancaster city bus routes.

Subjects: Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Willow Street - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Manheim - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Lititz - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - Ephrata - Maps.; Bus lines - Pennsylvania - New Holland - Maps.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.; Lancaster County - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 152

Pennsylvania German tombstone inscriptions

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13547

Author: Stroh, Oscar H.

Date of Publication: c1980-c1984.

Call Number: 284 S921

Responsibility: sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chapter, Palatines to America.

Author: Stroh, Oscar H.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, PA (R.D. 4, Box 925, Harrisburg 17112)

Publisher: O.H. Stroh,

Date of Publication: c1980-c1984.

Physical Description: 2 v. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes indexes.; v. 1 (File 11) includes: Amityville Lutheran Church cemetery, Amity Township, Berks County (p. 47 - 50); Bauerman's Church cemetery, Wayne Township, Dauphin County (p. 26); Belleview United Brethren Church cemetery, North Annville Township, Lebanon Count y.; Bern Church cemetery, Berks County (p. 1 - 6); Bernville cemetery, Berks County (p. 7 - 11); Bindnagle graveyard, North Londonderry Township, Lebanon County (p. 32 - 35); Chambers Hill cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County (p. 36 - 37); Church of the Brethren (Dunkard) cemetery, Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County (p. 50 - 54); Dunkard cemetery, Derry Township, Dauphin County (p. 36); Ebersole farm graveyard, South Hanover Township. Dauphin County (p. 30); Ephrata community graveyard, Ephrata Borough (p. 43 - 47); Fetterhoff Church cemetery, Halifax Township, Dauphin County (p. 24 - 25); Fox cemetery, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (p. 62 - 64); Greiner farm cemetery, Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County (p. 42); Hoover farm cemetery, Derry Township, Dauphin County (p. 35).; v. 2 (File 11) includes: Bashore family cemetery, Bethel Township, Berks County (p. 67); Baumgardner cemetery, West Hanover Township, Dauphin County (p. 47); Bittenbender cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 45); Church of God cemetery, Halifax Township, Dauphin County (p. 47); Crum's cemetery, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County (p. 52); Enders cemetery, Jackson Township, Dauphin County (p. 51); Esterton cemetery, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (p. 39); Fisherville cemetery, Jackson Township, Dauphin County (p. 53); Huff cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 46); Huff's Union Church, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 43); Klinger's cemetery, Lykens Township, Dauphin County (p. 91); Masteller cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 46); Mount Laurel Church of God cemetery, Piketown, Dauphin County (p. 35); Muddy Creek Union cemetery, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County (p. 61); Pleasant Hill cemetery, West Donegal Township, Lancaster County (p. 64); Rutt graveyard, West Donegal Township, Lancaster County (p. 64); St. John's (Host's) Reformed Church, Tulpehocken Township, Berks County (p. 1).

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Palatine Americans - Pennsylvania; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Inscriptions - Pennsylvania.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.

Additional Corporate Author: Palatines to America (Society). Pennsylvania Chapter.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284 S921

Grave undertakings : gravestone inscriptions of Old Warwick Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8368

Author: Xakellis, Martha J.

Date of Publication: c1989-

Call Number: 310.35 X1

Responsibility: by Martha J. Xakellis.

ISBN: 155856019X (v. 1); 1558561226 (v. 2); 1558562044 (v. 3)

Author: Xakellis, Martha J.

Place of Publication: Apollo, PA

Publisher: Closson Press,

Date of Publication: c1989-

Physical Description: v. <1-4 > : ill. ; 28 cm.

Contents: v. 1. Elizabeth Township -- v. 2. Warwick Township -- v. 3. Clay township -- v.4. Penn Township -- v. 5. Lititz Borough.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennyslania; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lititz.; Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Elizabeth (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Clay (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Lititz (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.35 X1

Custom and contract : household, government, and the economy in colonial Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15753

Author: Schweitzer, Mary M.

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 338.9748 S413

Responsibility: Mary M. Schweitzer.

ISBN: 0231062885

Author: Schweitzer, Mary M.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: xii, 271 p. : ill., facsim. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. [255]-266.

Subjects: Money - Pennsylvania; Land use - Pennsylvania; Finance, Public - Pennsylvania; Households - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Economic policy.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775.; Pennsylvania - Social conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 338.9748 S413

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/8b950e59-596d-4ffd-bc86-444331137484

Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Object ID: MG0331

Date Range: 1762-2003

Adam Reigart, Jr. Returned Wager’s release of the Jacob Bare property for Reigart to hold until he receives complete payment on a bond. 9 December 1807. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Folder 4 Correspondence—Philip Wager to Adam

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Description: The Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection contains correspondence between Adam Reigart, Jr. in Lancaster and Philip Wager in Philadelphia and their families. The letters are primarily from the early nineteenth century and provide information about family illness, travel, visits, business, and family chatter. The receipts and invoices show purchases made in Lancaster and Philadelphia, especially clothing, fabric, dry goods, and meat. The remainder of the collection is made up of newspaper articles, books, and an album of poetry and drawings. The items were housed in a gig trunk which is now in the museum collection.

Admin/Biographical History: Adam Reigart, Jr. (1765-1844) was born in Lancaster. He was the eldest son of Col. Adam Reigart, owner of the Grape Tavern which served as general headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Adam Jr. founded the Reigart Wine Store in 1785 and was in business with Philip Wager in Philadelphia and Philip's son Peter throughout his career. He was the first president of the Lancaster branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and was involved with the Conestoga Navigation Company and the Union Fire Company.; Adam Jr. married Mary Magdalena Wager (1772-1806) in 1791. Mary was the daughter of Philip Wager, a Philadelphia wine merchant. They had eight daughters and a son. Susan married Stephen C. Slaymaker and Margaretta married Henry Y. Slaymaker.

Date Range: 1762-2003

Year Range From: 1762

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1762-2003

Creator: Murphy, John Slaughter, 1921-2011

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Arnold, Benedict; Baker, W.; Bare, Jacob; Blight, Peter; Boughter, Charles; Breidenhart, George; Brien, Edward; Brown, Luke; Butter, Charles; Cassidy, Edward; Clarke, John; Clendenin, Samuel; Coleman, Edward; Coleman, William; Edwards, Susanna; Ehler, John; Fisher, Sammy; Fox, Sam M.; Frey, John; Gaskill, Edmund; Gay, Edward F.; Getz, John; Givens, John; Graeff, George; Greland, D.; Hahn, B. Christian; Harrison, George; Haverstick, William; Hopkins, A. R.; Hopkins, Ann; Houston, James; Hubley, Frederick; Hubley, Joseph; Hultzheimer, N.; Hyde, Charles; Irving, Robert; Jack, Joshua; Kauffman, Jacob; King, George; Kirkpatrick, William; Kline, Jacob; Lane, John; Leiper, George G.; Lowry, Robert; Lowry, Robert K.; Mayer, George Louis; Metzger, Emanuel; Metzger, George; Metzger, Jacob; Miller, Barbara; Miller, Henry; Miller, Martin; Miller, Philip; Montgomery, William; Morris, John; Mosher, Joseph; Murphy, John Slaughter; Myer, John; Myers, John; Newlin, Nathaniel; Nice, Levi; Nimrod, Maxwell; Ogilby, Joseph; Otto, Jacob S.; Otto, John C.; Pennington, Edward; Peters, Abraham; Phinney, Zina; Price, Joseph; Price, Richard; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Adam, Jr.; Reigart, Ann; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Henrietta; Reigart, Maria Wager; Reigart, Mary; Reigart, Mary C.; Reigart, Philip Wager; Reigart, Susan; Rimfast, John; Sample, Joseph; Schaubel, Johannis; Sener, Samuel Miller; Sewell, Charles S.; Shaeffer, Jacob; Shenk, Abraham; Shenk, Christian; Shippen, Peggy; Singer, A.; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Slaymaker, Mary Steele; Slaymaker, Stephen Cochran; Smith, Ann; Smith, Anthony; Smith, Ralph; Stein, Philip; Steinman, George; Stewart, William; Sullivan, Susannah; Wager, George; Wager, Hannah; Wager, James; Wager, Mary; Wager, Peter; Wager, Philip H.; Wager, Sally; Wager, Sophia; Wager, William; Walsh, Christopher; Wentz, Thomas; Wertz, Christian; Wharton, Charles; Whitaker, George; Whitaker, John; Wimer, Michael; Winroth, Margaret; Witmer, David; Woodmund, William; Yeiser, Philip

Other Creators: Reigart family

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Invoices; Letters; Obituaries; Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Search Terms: Adam Reigart and Son; Albums; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Brenner and Reed; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cape May, New Jersey; Charles C. and J. Watson; Christ Church Burial Ground; Cincinnati, Ohio; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Delaware; Dixon Walker and Company; Earp and Brothers; Finding aids; Grape Hotel; Greene County, New York; H. Behlen and Company; Illnesses; Invoices; J. Walker and Company; John Warden and Sons; Kentucky; Lancaster; Lancaster County Almshouse; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Intelligencer; Lancaster Journal; Lancaster New Era; Lancaster Sunday News; Lane Slaymaker and Company; Letters; London, England; Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Lowry and Myers; Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Manuscript groups; Margaretta Furnace; Marietta Bank; Morning News; Mount Auburn Cemetery; New York, New York; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Ohio; Pennsylvania German Society; Pensacola, Florida; Peter Wager and Company; Philadelphia Inquirer; Pratt and Kintzing; Race Street; Receipts; Reeve's Tavern; South Carolina; Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Spain; St. James Episcopal Church; Union Fire Company; Vintners; Wager and Company; Washington Fire Company; West Point Military Academy; William Noyes and Company; Wine merchants; York Springs Boarding House; York Springs, York County, Pennsylvania; York, York County, Pennsylvania

Extent: 2 boxes, 35 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0331

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Gig trunk (2003.078); Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection (MG0331), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2003.078

Other Numbers: MG-331

Classification: MG0331

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid created by KR. Added to database 8 March 2022.

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Artifacts in the Rockford-Kauffman Museum

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13962

Author: Kauffman, Henry J.,

Date of Publication: 1986.

Call Number: 069 K21

Responsibility: by Henry J. Kauffman.

Author: Kauffman, Henry J.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Museum,

Date of Publication: 1986.

Physical Description: 51 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 51.

Subjects: Furniture, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Baskets - Pennsylvania.; Fraktur art; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Pewtercraft - Pennsylvania.; Decorative arts, Pennsylvania Dutch - Catalogs.; Folk art, Pennsylvania Dutch - Catalogs.; Pottery; Tinware - United States.; Kentucky rifle.

Additional Corporate Author: Rockford-Kauffman Museum (Lancaster, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 069 K21

Pennsylvania German fraktur and printed broadsides : a guide to the collections in the Library of Congress

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15652

Corporate Author: Library of Congress.

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 740 P415L

Responsibility: compiled by Paul Conner [sic] & Jill Roberts for the American Folklife Center ; introduction by Don Yoder.

ISBN: 0844406007

Corporate Author: Library of Congress.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Library of Congresss : For sale by the American Folklife Center,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Series: Publications of the American Folklife Center ;

Notes: Includes indexes.; Bibliography: p. 46-47.

Subjects: Library of Congress - Catalogs.; Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch; Broadsides - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Additional Author: Connor, Paul.; Roberts, Jill.

Additional Corporate Author: American Folklife Center.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 740 P415L

The Pennsylvania Dutch : craftsmen and farmers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17374

Author: Costabel, Eva Deutsch.

Date of Publication: 1986.

Call Number: 813.53 C837

Responsibility: written and illustrated by Eva Deutsch Costabel.

ISBN: 0689312814 :; 9780689312816

Author: Costabel, Eva Deutsch.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Atheneum,

Date of Publication: 1986.

Physical Description: 48 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.

Summary: Describes the crafts of Pennsylvania Dutch living in a rural atmosphere. Includes making quilts, pottery, and tin and tole ware. "Eva Costabel introduces the reader to the life of a typical Pennsylvania Dutch farming family of the colony and to the many crafts produced by the German settlers htere, including quilting, pottery-making, tombstone-carving, woodworking, calligraphy, glass-blowing, and gunsmithing, among others. Her full-color drawings, reflecting the style of the Pennsylvania Dutch, illustrate their many contributions to American life, art, and crafts." [dust jacket]

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch - Juvenile literature.; Handicraft - Pennsylvania - Juvenile literature.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Handicraft - Pennsylvania.; Folk art, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Juvenile literature.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 813.53 C837

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

The Pennsylvania culture region : a view from the barn

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7546

Author: Glass, Joseph W.,

Date of Publication: c1986.

Call Number: 728.9 G549

Responsibility: by Joseph W. Glass.

ISBN: 0835716791 (alk. paper)

Author: Glass, Joseph W.,

Place of Publication: Ann Arbor, Mich

Publisher: UMI Research Press,

Date of Publication: c1986.

Physical Description: xxiv, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: American material culture and folklife

Notes: Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 1971.; Includes index.; Bibliography: p. [241]-247.

Subjects: Barns - Pennsylvania.; Vernacular architecture - Pennsylvania.; Farmhouses - Pennsylvania.; Barns - Pennsylvania; Vernacular architecture - Pennsylvania; Farmhouses - Pennsylvania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 728.9 G549

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