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A plan for institutional services for Lancaster county, Pennsylvania : a report to the board of county commissioners of Lancaster county

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17754

Corporate Author: Lancaster County (Pa.) Citizens' Advisory Committee.

Date of Publication: 1961.

Call Number: 352.96 L245ca

Responsibility: by the Citizens' Advisory Committee.

Corporate Author: Lancaster County (Pa.) Citizens' Advisory Committee.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: 1961.

Physical Description: 36 leaves ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Planning.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Planning.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Prisons and reformatories.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Prisons and reformatories.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.96 L245ca

Dangerous guests : enemy captives and revolutionary communities during the War for Independence

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Author: Miller, Ken,

Date of Publication: 2014.

Call Number: 973.322 M648

Responsibility: Ken Miller.

ISBN: 9780801450556 (cloth : alk. paper); 0801450551 (cloth : alk. paper)

Author: Miller, Ken,

Place of Publication: Ithaca

Publisher: Cornell University Press,

Date of Publication: 2014.

Physical Description: ix, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes: Autographed by the author after his presentation of 25 September 2014.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Prologue : a community at war -- "A colony of aliens" : diversity, politics, and war in pre-revolutionary Lancaster, Pennsylvania -- "Divided we must inevitably fall" : war comes to Lancaster -- "A dangerous set of people" : British captives and the making of revolutionary identity -- "'Tis Britain alone that is our enemy" : German captives and the making of American identity -- "Enemies of our peace" : captives, the disaffected, and the refinement of American patriotism -- "The country is full of prisoners of war" : nationalism, resistance, and assimilation -- Epilogue : the empty barracks.

Summary: "As the Americans' principal site for incarcerating enemy prisoners of war, Lancaster stood at the nexus of two vastly different revolutionary worlds: one national, the other intensely local. Captives came under the control of local officials loosely supervised by state and national authorities. Concentrating the prisoners in the heart of their communities brought the revolutionaries' enemies to their doorstep, with residents now facing a daily war at home.Many prisoners openly defied their hosts, fleeing, plotting, and rebelling, often with the clandestine support of local loyalists... The challenge of creating an autonomous national identity in the newly emerging United States was nowhere more evident than in Lancaster, where the establishment of a detention camp served as a flashpoint for new conflict in a community already unsettled by stark ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. Many Lancaster residents soon sympathized with the Hessians detained in their town while the loyalist population considered the British detainees to be the true patriots of the war. Miller demonstrates that in Lancaster, the notably local character of the war reinforced not only preoccupations with internal security but also novel commitments to cause and country." [from Amazon.com]

Subjects: Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817.; Shippen, Edward, - 1639-1712 - Correspondence.; Prisoners of war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Hessians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Nationalism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Nationalism.; Prisoners of war.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.; Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; United States.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.322 M648

Loyalists, pacifists, and prisoners

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Author: Steinmetz, Rollin C.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245re

Responsibility: by Rollin C. Steinmetz ; original ill. by Grace T. Steinmetz.

ISBN: 0915010127

Author: Steinmetz, Rollin C.

Place of Publication: Lancaster [Pa.] : Lititz, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee ; distributed by Sutter House,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: 81 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series: Lancaster County during the American Revolution ;

Notes: At head of cover title: Revolutionary Lancaster.; "A Bicentennial book."; Spine title: Lancaster County during the American Revolution; Joseph E. Walker, editor.

Subjects: American loyalists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Religious aspects.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245re

Twenty feet high and ten years wide : a history of prison escapes from the Lancaster County Jail

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Author: McSherry, Patrick M.

Date of Publication: 1983

tried to escape from the various Lancaster prisons, quite a few successfully. Before leaping into the subject of Lancaster jailbreaks proper, let's see a little about the history of Lancaster County jails so that we know who's escaping from what. The whereabouts and whatzits of the first jail are still

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Responsibility: by Patrick M. McSherry.

Author: McSherry, Patrick M.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1983

Physical Description: 126-157 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 87, no. 4

Subjects: Lancaster County Prison (Pa.); Escapes.; Prisons - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 87, number 4 (1983), p. 126-157Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.87

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"Wise as serpents and harmless as doves": The contributions of the Female Prison Association of Friends in Philadelphia, 1823-1870

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Author: Scheffler, Judith.

Responsibility: y Judtih Scheffler.

Author: Scheffler, Judith.

Physical Description: 300-341 p.

Subjects: Fry, Elizabeth.; Wistar, Mary Waln - 91765-1844).; Female Prison Association of Friends.; Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.; Prison reformers - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Women prisoners.; Quaker women - Pennsylvania.; Eastern State Penitentiary - Pennsylvania - Philadelphhia.

Contained In: v. 81, no. 3, Summer 2014.Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 PHA v. 81 no. 3

Notes and documents : Student enrollment in early American schools for the deaf

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Author: Penrose, Maryly B.

Call Number: 905.29 NG v.77

Author: Penrose, Maryly B.

Physical Description: 133-140 p.

Notes: In: National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v.77 (June 1989).

Subjects: American Asylum for the Deaf, Hartford Conneticut - Registers.; New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, New York City - Registers.; Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Philadelphia - Registers.; Kentucky Asylum for the Tuition of the Deaf and Dumb, Kentucky - Registers.; Ohio Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, Columbus Ohio. - Registers.; Deaf

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.29 NG v.77

A generous and merciful enemy : life for German prisoners of war during the American Revolution

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Author: Krebs, Daniel,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Call Number: 973.371 K92

Responsibility: Daniel Krebs.

ISBN: 9780806143569; 0806143568

Author: Krebs, Daniel,

Place of Publication: Norman

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Physical Description: xv, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series: Campaigns and commanders ; v. 38

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-359) and index.

Contents: German soldiers in British service -- Subsidy treaties -- Recruitment patterns -- Social composition -- Into captivity -- Prisoners of war in western warfare -- Capture and surrender -- Prisoners of war -- The first prisoners of war in revolutionary hands, 1775-1776 -- German prisoners of war, 1776-1778 -- Provisions and exchange, 1778 -- The Convention Army, 1777-1781 -- Continuity and change, 1779-1783 -- Release and return -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Common German soldiers taken prisoner.

Summary: "Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers' letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners' responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a "generous and merciful enemy" to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war."--Publisher's website.

Subjects: German mercenaries; Prisoners of war - United States; Prisoners of war - Germany; Military prisons - United States; Forced labor - United States; Indentured servants - United States; Forced labor.; German mercenaries.; Indentured servants.; Military prisons.; Prisoners of war.; Deutscher Kriegsgefangener.; Nordamerikanischer UnabhÃ¤ngigkeitskrieg.; Tyska legosoldater; Tyska krigsfÃ¥ngar; Nordamerikanska frihetskriget 1775-1783.; FÃ¤ngelser; TvÃ¥ngsarbete; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons, German.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.; Germany.; United States.; FÃ¶renta staterna.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.371 K92

The first 75 years, 1908-1983

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Corporate Author: American Lung Association of Lancaster County (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Date of Publication: [1983]

Call Number: 614.592 A512

Responsibility: America Lung Association of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Corporate Author: American Lung Association of Lancaster County (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: [1983]

Physical Description: 64 p. : ill., ports ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Lancaster City and County.; Anti-Tuberculosis Society of Lancaster County.; The Tuberculosis Society of Lancaster County.; Lancaster County Lung Association.; American Lung Association of Lancaster County.; The Tuberculosis and Health Society of Lancaster County.; Tuberculosis; Lungs; Rossmere Sanatorium.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 614.592 A512

2015 U. S. Women's open Lancaster Country Club, Lancaster, PA July 6-12, 2015 : The Women's Open is the oldest championship open to women professionasl and amaterus. A USGA record of 1,873 golfers competed to play in the 2015 U. S. Women's Open at Lancaster Country Club

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18871

Date of Publication: 2015.

Call Number: 796.35266 T974

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: Lancaster Country Club, Lancaster, Pa.,

Date of Publication: 2015.

Physical Description: 72 p. ; ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.

Contents: PARTIAL CONTENTS. -- Jerry and Anita Hostetter (top left), Ted Brubaker (Margot's & George's son (white shirt, bottom left), p. 30 -- Mark and Patti Mauer (top left), p. 33 -- Kathryn Brandt, Bobby and Emmy (top right), p. 34 -- In the crowd, Kathryn and Bobby Brandt (top right), p. 40 -- Bernadette & Eugene Gardner (top right), p. 48 -- Scott Radcliff and Eugene Gardner (bottom right), p. 48 -- Scott Radcliffe and Eugene Gardner (top right), p. 55 -- Bobby Brandt (top right) and Rod Messick (bottom right) p. 59.

Subjects: U. S. Women's Open (Golf tournament); Lancaster Country Club (Lancaster, Pa.); Golf - United States.; Golf - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Golf for women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Women golfers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Corporate Author: United States Golf Association.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 796.35266 T974

The Lancaster barracks : where the British and Hessian prisoners were detained during the Revolution

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Call Number: 973.37 S475

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Responsibility: by Samuel M. Sener.

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Harrisburg Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Physical Description: 20 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: "Reprinted from Notes and queries, Harrisburg daily telegraph."; "Rolls of prisoners": p. 14-20.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 973.37 S475

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