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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Object ID
MG0123
Date Range
1819-1977
Finishing House �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org North Lime Street North Queen Street Palmyra, Lebanon County Parkesburg, Chester County Penn Square Pequea Tucquan Lake Pequea Twp. Philadelphia Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Company
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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Description
The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.
Date Range
1819-1977
Year Range From
1819
Year Range To
1977
Date of Accumulation
1819-1977
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 04
People
Bitner, John R.
Boardman, Harris
Bowman, John Jacob
Boyer, Zaccur Prall
Cirt, Anna N.
Griest, William Walton
Hostetter, Albert Keller
Kemrer, Clarence M.
Knapp, Walter
Kreider, Kate
Kriebel, Howard Wiegner
McClellan, Oliver Eldridge
Royer, David
Shuman, James P.
Wohlsen, Anna
Wohlsen, Peter
Subjects
Letters
Minutes (Records)
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.)
Posters
Railroads
Rates and tolls
Reading & Columbia Railroad Company
Street-railroads
Trolley cars
Search Terms
Adamstown
Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
Blueprints
Booklets
Brochures
Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Center Square Road Station
Chestnut Street
Christiana
Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Columbia
Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad
Conestoga Traction Company
Conestoga Transportation Company
Conewago Water and Power Company
Correspondence
Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania
Drawings
Duke Street
East Belt line
East King Street
East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.
Elizabethtown
Engleside, Lancaster Twp.
Ephemera
Ephrata
Express Printing Company
Greeting cards
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania
Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.
J. G. Brill Company
Kinport Road
Lancaster
Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway
Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company
Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company
Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike
Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Letters
Lititz
Maple Grove
Maps
Marietta Avenue
North Market Street
Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.
Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.
Minutes
Mount Joy
Mulberry Street
National Railway Historical Society
Neffsville, Manheim Twp.
North End Photo Finishing House
North Lime Street
North Queen Street
Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Penn Square
Pequea Twp.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photographs
Placards
Substations
President Avenue
Princess Street
Prospect Street
Quarryville
Railroads
Rates and tolls
Reading and Columbia Railroad Company
Receipts
Red Rose Transit Authority
Reports
Roads
Rocky Springs Railroad Company
Schuylkill Navigation Company
Scrapbooks
South Mountain Railroad
South Queen Street
Stock certificates
Susquehanna Railroad
Tickets
Tolls
Trolley car barns
Trolley car yards
Trolley cars
Trolleys
Turnpikes
Walnut Street
WGAL (television station)
Williams Park Station
Willow Street Turnpike
Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
WLAN (radio station)
Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania
York Bus Company
York Fair
York Railway Company
Extent
2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0123
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), 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.
Other Numbers
MG-123
Classification
MG0123
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 23 September 2021.
Documents
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A practical treatise on the law of nations, relative to the legal effect of war on the commerce of belligerents and neutrals : and on orders in council and licenses

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21889
Author
Chitty, Joseph,
Date of Publication
1812.
Call Number
Book 824 1812
Responsibility
by Joseph Chitty, Esquire. Of the Middle Temple. To which are added, extracts from Grotius, Bynkershoek, and Vattel: also, the letter of Sir William Scott, and of the Duke of Newcastle, &c. containing matters applicable to the law of prize.
Author
Chitty, Joseph,
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Published by Bradford and Read : T. B. Wait & Co. printers,
Date of Publication
1812.
Physical Description
xii, 340, [4] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: pi⁶ 1-43⁴.
Sideglosses.
Advertisements on p. [341]-[344].
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 824 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
War (International law)
War, Maritime (International law)
Prize law.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon title page (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Bradford & Read.
Thomas B. Wait and Co.
Place
United States Massachusetts Boston.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 824 1812
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Mnemonika: or, Chronological tablets; : exhibiting, in a methodical manner, the most remarkable occurrences, from the creation of the world to the present period. Comprehending brief accounts of inventions and discoveries in every department of science; biographical and historical sketches; post-offices of the United States; discoveries of countries; foundations of empires, &c. &c. : To which are added, several valuable tables

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22163
Date of Publication
1812.
Call Number
Book 1036 1812
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
Published by John F. Watson, Philadelphia; and E.J. Coale, Baltimore. B.W. Sower, & Co. printers.,
Date of Publication
1812.
Physical Description
vi, [3], 20-346 p., [1] folded leaf ; 15 cm.
Notes
"The Tablet of memory, which forms the ground-work of this book, has been published for many years successively in London and Edinburgh ..."--Preface, p. vi.
Cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 26107, which records an edition with Baltimore imprint only.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-T⁹ U².
Error in paging: p. 339 misnumbered 393.
Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
"Calendar for the nineteenth century. Published by Edward J. Coale, for Mnemonika."--Folded leaf.
Apparently from the personal library of Yeates.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 1036 not assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Mnemonics.
Chronology, Historical.
Leather bindings (Binding)
Illegible markings (Provenance)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Watson, John F.
Coale, Edward Johnson,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
B.W. Sower & Co.,
Additional Title
Tablet of memory.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
United States Maryland Baltimore.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1036 1812
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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13303
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
Responsibility
Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.
Additional Author
Britton, William W.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
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A treatise on the law of war

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21852
Author
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van,
Date of Publication
1810
Call Number
Book 806 1810
  1 website  
Responsibility
translated from the original Latin of Cornelius van Bynkershoek, being the first book of his Quaestiones juris publici, with notes, by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau.
Author
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van,
Uniform Title
De rebus bellicis.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia : Boston : Baltimore : Albany : Portland : Middlebury, (Vt.)
Publisher
Published by Farrand & Nicholas ; Farrand, Mallory & Co. ; P.H. Nicklin & Co. ; D. Farrand & Green ; Lyman, Mallory & Co. ; Swift & Chipman,
Date of Publication
1810
Physical Description
[2], xxxiv, 218, [2] p. ; 23 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: pi² a-d⁴ A-2D⁴ 2E² (last leaf blank).
Signatures preceded by a dagger, e.g. [dagger]a, [dagger]A, [dagger]2E.
Errata: p. [199].
Issued also as The American law journal, v. 3, no. 11-12, Oct. 1810.
"An account of the life and writings of the author": pages [xiii]-xxi.
Half title: Treatise on the law of war.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 806 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxx) and index.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Contents
Of war in general -- Of a declaration of war -- Of war, considered as between enemies -- Of the capture of movable property, and particularly of ships -- Of the recapture of movable property -- Of the possession of immovables taken in war -- Of the confiscation of the enemy's actions and credits -- Of hostilities in a neutral port or territory -- Of neutrality -- Of contraband -- Of trade with blockaded and besieged places -- Of the mixture of lawful with contraband goods -- Of neutral goods found on board of the ships of enemies -- Of enemy's goods found on board of neutral ships -- Of the right of Postliminy on neutral territory -- Of the right of Postliminy, as applied to cities and states -- Of pirates -- Of privateers -- Of the responsibility of owners of privateers -- Of captures made by vessels not commissioned -- Of insuring enemy's property -- Of enlisting men in foreign countries, and incidentally, of expatriation -- Of the right of the several provinces of the United Netherlands, to declare and make war -- Of reprisals -- Miscellaneous maxims and observations.
Summary
"A brief alphabetical notice of several writers and works on the civil law and the law of nations: not generally known, and which are quoted or referred to in this book": pages [xxiii]-xxx.
Subjects
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van, - 1673-1743.
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van, - 1673-1743
War (International law)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Farrand & Nicholas,
Farrand, Mallory and Co.,
Philip H. Nicklin & Co.,
D.W. Farrand & Green (Firm),
Lyman, Mallory, and Co.,
Swift & Chipman,
Fry and Kammerer,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
United States Massachusetts Boston.
United States Maryland Baltimore.
United States New York Albany.
United States Maine Portland.
United States Vermont Middlebury.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 806 1810
Websites
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An Address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21217
Date of Publication
[1812?].
Call Number
Book 461 n.d.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed at the United States' Gazette
Date of Publication
[1812?].
Physical Description
24 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature: To Judge Yeates from his obet., James Milner [partially clipped]
Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, exquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.
Shaw & Shoemaker,
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1812-1815.
United States.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress. House.
Federal Party (U.S.)
Place
United States Connecticut Hartford.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 461 n.d.
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Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-fourth. : Volume XX

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20746
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Date of Publication
1809 [i.e. 1810].
Call Number
Book 32a 1809
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
William Greer, printer--Lancaster.,
Date of Publication
1809 [i.e. 1810].
Physical Description
569, [3], 27, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 5, 1809 and concluded Mar. 20, 1810.
Last page blank.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 32 as assigned by Yeates.
"Index to the Journal of the Senate of Pennsylvania. Session 1809-10. William Greer, printer. 1810"--27 p., 2nd count.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Full leather binding with gold lettering on maroon leather on spine.
Additional Author
Greer, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Index to the Journal of the Senate of Pennsylvania, session 1809-10.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 32a 1809
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Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Harrisburg the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-eighth. : Volume XXIV

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20834
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Date of Publication
1813.
Call Number
Book 36 1813
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by Christian Gleim,
Date of Publication
1813.
Physical Description
560, 42 [i.e. 24] p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 7, 1813 and concluded Mar. 28, 1814.
Error in paging: p. 24, 2nd count, misnumbered 42.
"Index to the Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, session 1813-14"--24 p., 2nd count. Recorded separately by Shaw & Shoemaker as entry 32469.
"Members of Senate, whose seats will be vacated."--Page 560.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 36 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Full leather (Binding)
Blind tooling with maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Gleim, Christian,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Index to the Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, session 1813-14.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Harrisburg.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 36 1813
Websites
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Journal of the twentieth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord 1809, and of the commonwealth the thirty-fourth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20743
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Date of Publication
1809 [i.e. 1810]
Call Number
Book 31 1809
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by Benjamin Grimler.,
Date of Publication
1809 [i.e. 1810]
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 5, 1809 and concluded Mar. 20, 1810.
"Index to the Journal of the twentieth House of Representatives, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Lancaster--Printed by Benjamin Grimler--1810. 44 p., 2nd count. With separate title page.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Book number 31 as assigned by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Signature of J Burrows at top of verso of page 891.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Buroows, J.
Additional Title
Index to the Journal of the twentieth House of Reprensentatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 31 1809
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Journal of the twenty-second House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; : commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the third of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and of the commonwealth the thirty-sixth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20789
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Date of Publication
1811 [i.e. 1812].
Call Number
Book 33 1811
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]--
Publisher
Printed by Benjamin Grimler.,
Date of Publication
1811 [i.e. 1812].
Physical Description
815, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1811 and concluded Mar. 31, 1812.
Title vignette: state seal.
Errors in paging: p. 124, 209, 215, 807 misnumbered 224, 207, 315, 707.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 33 as assigned by Yeates.
"Index to the Journal of the twenty-second House of Representatives, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1811-12"--Page [775]-815.
"Errata."--Page [816].
Shaw & Shoemaker
Blind tooled full leather with maroon and gilt spine label.
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Grimler, Benjamin,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Index to the Journal of the twenty-second House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 33 1811
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