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Collection: Temperance Collection

Title: Temperance Collection

Object ID: MG0154

Date Range: 1815-1959

31st Annual Convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Pennsylvania, October 5-10, 1905 in Washington, Pa. Contains the program, lists of officers, committee chairman and secretaries. 7. Booklet titled “Official Programs, World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.” Philadelphia

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Collection: Temperance Collection

Title: Temperance Collection

Description: The Temperance Collection includes convention programs of the Lancaster County Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.); a history of the group from 1884-1959; Pennsylvania State W.C.T.U. function programs; and a minute book from the Bart Chapter. Included are handwritten notes on some of the conventions, pro-temperance booklets and newspapers (Moral Reformer and American Reformer), and miscellaneous addresses and articles. Of special interest is a booklet "Operation Interview" in which 36 prominent Lancastrians comment on the question, "Is social drinking necessary for success?", and a newspaper article reminiscing on the temperance movement in Columbia, Pennsylvania.

Date Range: 1815-1959

Year Range From: 1815

Year Range To: 1959

Date of Accumulation: 1815-1959

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Aikin, Francis; Alexander, Eleanor B.; Brosius, Letitia; Brubaker, George; Eckman, Benjamin F.; Geist, Jacob Miller Willis; Harlan, E. W.; Heiges, George Leonard; Jackson, Josephine; Richardson, Benjamin W.; Rineer, A. Hunter; Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle; Seberry, Cora E.; Thomas, A. Elizabeth; Willard, Frances Elizabeth

Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.; Minutes (Records); Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Programs (Publications); Temperance; Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Search Terms: Associations, institutions, etc.; Bart Society; Business records; Chestnut Level, Drumore Twp.; Christiana; Churches; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Conventions; Dauphin County Historical Society; Eastland Female Temperance Society; Finding aids; Friends Academy; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Lancaster; Lancaster County Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Lititz; Locust Valley, Long Island, New York; Manheim; Manuscript groups; Minutes; National Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Pageants; Pennsylvania Senior Loyal Temperance Union; Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Poetry; Programs; Reports; Songs; Strasburg; Temperance; Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania; Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Extent: 1 box, 11 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0154

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Temperance Collection (MG0154), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

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-154

Classification: MG0154

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: The collection was cataloged and the finding aid was prepared in 1998-1999. Added to database 29 September 2021.

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Collection: Broadsides Collection

Title: Broadsides Collection

Object ID: MG0357

Date Range: 1775-1958

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Broadsides Collection, 1775-1958 Object ID: MG0357 2 boxes 23 folders 1 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 9 Scope and Content Note

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Collection: Broadsides Collection

Title: Broadsides Collection

Description: This collection contains broadsides for lectures, stores, businesses, and organizations.

Date Range: 1775-1958

Year Range From: 1775

Year Range To: 1958

Date of Accumulation: 1775-1958

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 09

People: Bailey, Francis; Becker, John; Bomberger, M.; Bowman, Michael; Brinton, F.; Bryson, J. H.; Chryst, Drue Young; Chryst, James; Conyngham, Redmond; Cromwell, J.; Deshong, P. M.; Eply, John; Eshleman, Elam Witmer; Fahnestock, William B.; Funk, Amos H.; Gable, Jacob; Haines, Samuel B.; Harbaugh, Henry; Hershey, Benjamin; Jefferies, Thomas; Kennedy, J. P. M.; Landis, Benjamin; Landis, David; Landis, Jesse; Landis, John; Lefever, John; Lehman, John S.; Lindsay, John J.; List, Friedrich; Mathiot, John; Maxwell, Hugh; McCall, H. W.; Mercer, J. Q.; Messersmith, Jacob; Metzler, Christian E.; Michael, J.; Roosevelt, Theodore; Scott, Joseph; Shreiner, Martin; Steele, John F.; Stevens, Enos; Witmer, A. K.; Witmer, Henry; Wylie, S. A.

Subjects: Broadsides; Political posters; Posters

Search Terms: Advertisements; Announcements; Arithmetic; Boys Work Fund; Broadsides; Camons Island; Cheap Job Printer, Lancaster Inquirer; Court of Quarter Sessions; Cromwell & Bomberger; Finding aids; Flyers; Frantz's Mill; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Lancaster Adler; Lancaster County Prison; Lancaster Soil Conservation District; Lancaster Unemployed Council; Lititz Turnpike Company; Manor Turnpike Company; Manuscript groups; Mayors; Mount Vista Gold and Silver Mining Company; New York and Pennsylvania Oil and Coal Mining Company; Newspapers; Notices; Paradise Lyceum; Pennsylvania General Assembly, House of Representatives; Petitions; Philadelphia Mourning Store, Jones & Fisher; Poetry; Political posters; Posters; Programs; Railroads; Reports; Review Print; Russel & Myers; S. B. Cox and Company; Sheriffs; Slackwater Turnpike; Steam Book and Job Printing; Stockholders; Stocks; Tolls; Union and Tribune Office; Youth Appreciation Week

Extent: 2 boxes, 19 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English, German, and Pennsylvania German

Object ID: MG0357

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents 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.

Other Numbers: MG-357

Classification: MG0357

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 3 January 2022.

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Collection: Robert H. Goodell Family Papers

Title: Robert H. Goodell Family Papers

Object ID: MG0548

Date Range: 1810-1949

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Robert H. Goodell Family Papers, 1810-1949 Object ID: MG0548 1 box 3 folders .25 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 11 Scope and Content

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Collection: Robert H. Goodell Family Papers

Title: Robert H. Goodell Family Papers

Description: The Robert H. Goodell Family Papers contain documents, ephemera and family papers of Robert H. Goodell, his father, Joseph E. Goodell and their Hilliard, Sener and Zahm antecedents.

Date Range: 1810-1949

Year Range From: 1810

Year Range To: 1949

Date of Accumulation: 1810-1949

Creator: Goodell, Robert Hilliard, 1899-1992

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 11

People: Albraith, George; Albraith, John; Eberman, Jacob; Gignilliat, Leigh Robinson; Goodell, J. R.; Goodell, Joseph Edward; Goodell, Robert Hilliard; Miller, Eliza Sehner; Sener, Godlieb; Sener, Samuel Miller; Sehner, Gotlieb; Steinman, John Friedrick; Yeates, Jasper; Zahm, Godfried; Zahm, Matthias

Subjects: Ephemera; Family archives; Genealogy

Search Terms: Articles; Bonds; Cards; Chemists; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Columbia Bridge Company; Culver Military Academy; Diplomas; Ephemera; Family archives; Family crests; Finding aids; First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster; Fort Sheridan, Illinois; Genealogy; Lancaster Country Club; Manuscript groups; Obituaries; Officers' Reserve Corps; Pecano, The; Pennsylvania Serenaders; Programs; Receipts; Rotary International; Schwaigaru, Wurtenberg, Germany; Student Army Training Corps; Taxes; United States Army

Extent: 1 box, 3 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0548

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Goodell, Robert H. 1942. "The First Columbia Bridge." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 46, no. 4-5. https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2270; Goodell, Robert H. 1943. "John L. Boswell and The Columbia Spy." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 47, no. 2. https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo589; Goodell, Robert H. 1943. "Matthias Zahm's Diary." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 47, no. 4. https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo616; Goodell, Robert H. 1953. "The Second Columbia Bridge." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 57, no. 1.; Photograph of H. S. Wolfe and Robert Hilliard Goodell (3-18-01-02); Photographs of Goodell family members (2-16-11-09)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.; For original items that 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 collection 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-548

Classification: MG0548

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooper, Esquire, president judge of the eight judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct

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Author: Cooper, Thomas,

Date of Publication: 1811.

Call Number: Book 461 1811a

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Author: Cooper, Thomas,

Place of Publication: Lancaster [Pa.]

Publisher: Printed by William Hamilton.,

Date of Publication: 1811.

Physical Description: [2], 55, [1] p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "I publish the following report of proceedings in my case, for my own sake ... but I present what I honestly believe to be a fair and brief view of all that is necessary to enable others to form their own judgement."--Preface, p. [1]. Signed: Thomas Cooper.; Last page blank.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.; Bound with Oration on masonry: delivered at St. John's church in the city of Philadelphia, at the request of the right worshipful Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, on St. John's day, June 24, 1811, by James Milnor. Philadelphia: J. Maxwell, 1811 -- 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: Cooper, Thomas, - 1759-1839 - Trials, litigation, etc.; Cooper, Thomas, - 1759-1839.; Judges; Misconduct in office - Pennsylvania.; Misconduct in office.; Politics and government; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.; Pennsylvania.; Trials, litigation, etc.; Thee-quarters leather on marbled paper (Binding)

Additional Author: Hamilton, William,; Yeates', Jasper,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 461 1811a

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Das kleine Davidische Psalterspiel der Kinder Zions : von alten und neuen auserlesenen Geistes GesÃ¤ngen, allen wahren heils-begierigen SÃ¤uglingen der Weisheit, insonderheit aber denen Gemeinden des Herrn, zum Dienst und Gebrauch mit Fleiss zusammen getragen in gegenwÃ¤rtig-beliebiger Form and Ordnung : nebst einem dreyfachen darzu nÃ¼tzlichen und der Materien halben nÃ¶thigen Register

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Date of Publication: 1795.

Call Number: 090 E63m 1795

Place of Publication: Ephrata

Publisher: In der neuen Buchdruckerey, bey Salomon MÃ¤[yer],

Date of Publication: 1795.

Physical Description: [6], 575, [23] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)

Notes: Signatures: A-3Dâ¶ 3EÂ².; Printed in two columns.; Error in paging: p. 311 misnumbered 211.; Marbled end papers.; "Anhang einiger Psalmen Davids"--p. 509-575.; Evans; BÃ¶tte & Tannhoff. German printing,; Full leather binding with maroon leather label, both badly damaged.

Subjects: Hymns, German.; Inspirationists

Additional Author: Mayer, Salomon,; John McMaster,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Ephrata.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 E63m 1795

Jachin and Boaz: or An authentic key to the door of Free-Masonry, ancient and modern. : Calculated, not only for the instruction of every new made Mason, but also, for the information of all who intend to become brethren. : Illustrated with a beautiful frontispiece of the regalia, jewels and emblematical ornaments belonging to Masonry; and an accurate plan of the drawing on the floor of a lodge. : Interspersed with a variety of notes and remarks, necessary to explain and render the whole clear to the meanest capacity

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Author: Gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem Lodge.

Date of Publication: 1811.

Call Number: 366.1 P544 1811

Responsibility: By a gentleman, belonging to the Jerusalem Lodge; a frequent visitor at the Queen's Arms, St. Paul's Church-yard; the Horn, in Fleet-Street; Crown and Anchor, Strand; and the Salutation, Newgate-Street. ; Try me--prove me.

Author: Gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem Lodge.

Place of Publication: Poughkeepsie [N.Y.]

Publisher: Printed by C.C. Adams, for Richard Scott, bookseller, New-York.,

Date of Publication: 1811.

Physical Description: 107, [1] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.

Notes: Caption title: An authentic key to the door of Free-Masonry.; "Advertisement," p. [6], signed: R.S.; Last page blank.; "Odes, anthems and songs, sung in the best lodges."--p. 81-100.; Shaw & Shoemaker

Subjects: Freemasons - Rites and ceremonies.; Masonic music.; Songs.; Relief prints.; Quarter bindings (Binding)

Additional Author: Adams, Charles Chauncey,; Scott, Richard,

Place: United States New York Poughkeepsie.; United States New York New York.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 366.1 P544 1811

The life of Baron Frederick Trenck : containing his adventures, and also his excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia

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Author: Trenck, Friedrich,

Date of Publication: 1818.

Call Number: 943.0924 W743 1818

Responsibility: translated from the German by Thomas Holcroft.

Author: Trenck, Friedrich,

Uniform Title: MerkwuÃŒâ¸rdige Lebensgeschichte.

Place of Publication: Wilmington [Del.]

Publisher: Printed and sold by Robert Porter,

Date of Publication: 1818.

Physical Description: 108 p.

Notes: Abridged translation of: MerkwuÃŒâ¸rdige Lebensgeschichte.; Shaw & Shoemaker

Subjects: Trenck, Friedrich, - Freiherr von der, - 1726-1794.

Additional Author: Holcroft, Thomas,

Place: United States Delaware Wilmington.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 943.0924 W743 1818

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

is privately owned and spans the Little Conestoga Creek near Lancaster City in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It has one span of about 55 feet and was built in 1868. The owners use the old Mill for Church and School functions. There is a Datestone on the Mill which reads ‘Erbauen Von Andreas

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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.

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A Correct account of the trials of Charles M'Manus, John Hauer, Elizabeth Hauer, Patrick Donagan, Francis Cox, and others; at Harrisburgh -- June Oyer and Terminer, 1798. For the murder of Francis Shitz, on the night of the 28th December, 1797, at Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Containing, the whole evidence, and the substance of all the law arguments in those celebrated trials

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Date of Publication: 1798. (Entered according to law)

Call Number: Book 606 1798

Place of Publication: [Harrisburgh]

Publisher: Printed at Harrisburgh [Pa.] by John Wyeth,

Date of Publication: 1798. (Entered according to law)

Physical Description: [2], 163, [1] pages ; 8vo.

Notes: "The following is the last speech and dying confession of Charles M'Manus ."--Page 161-163.; Half-title: Trials and confessions of John Hauer, Charles M'Manus, &c. for the murder of Francis Shitz.; Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.; Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC; Evans

Summary: This is an account of the first murder trial in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for a crime that took place just outside of Harrisburg in December 1797. "The will of Peter Shitz left most of his estate to his sons Francis and Peter, but if they died without children, part went to his daughter Elizabeth. Hauer was the husband of Elizabeth, and he hired four Irishmen, newly arrived in the country, to kill his brothers-in-law. Two masked men raided the house one night and killed Francis with an ax, but Peter escaped. M'Manus and Hauer were hanged." [Williamreesecompany.com]

Subjects: M'Manus, Charles, - -1798.; Hauer, John, - -1798.; Hauer, Elizabeth.; Donagan, Patrick.; Cox, Francis.; Shitz, Francis, - -1797.; Trials (Murder) - Pennsylvania.; Murder - Pennsylvania - Heidelberg.; Crime - Pennsylvania - Heidelberg.; Executions and executioners - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg.; Crime.; Executions and executioners.; Murder.; Trials (Murder); Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Harrisburg.; Pennsylvania - Heidelberg.; Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)

Additional Author: M'Manus, Charles,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Court of Oyer and Terminer (Dauphin County)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 606 1798

Biblia, das ist, die ganze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments

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Date of Publication: 1819.

Call Number: 220 L975 1819; 220 L523 1819; 220 G874 1819; 220 B351 1819

Responsibility: nach der deutschen Uebersetzung von Martin Luther. ; Mit lehrreichen Vorreden, und vielen nÃ¼tzlichen und seltenen Registern versehen. ; Nebst dem dritten Buch der MaccabÃ¤er, und Zugabe des dritten und vierten Buchs Esra. ; Imgleichen: eine kurz gefasste Biblische Geschichte und Lebensbeschreibung Doctor Martin Luthers. ; [Three lines from Joshua].

Place of Publication: Lancaster, (Penn.)

Publisher: Gedruckt und im Verlage bey Johann BÃ¤r.,

Date of Publication: 1819.

Physical Description: [10], 100, 12, [4], 738, 26, [4], 227, [1], 92 p., [2] leaves of plates : 2 ill. ; 38 cm.

Notes: Illustrations variously signed: Jas. Henry sculp; J. Henry sc. According to BÃ¶tte & Tannhof, the engraver is probably John Henry. Cf. Hamilton, S. "Early American book illustrators and wood engravers," no. 1704.; Advertised in "Der Volksfreund," Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 25, 1817.; Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.; Printed in two columns.; "Biblia" printed in Roman type.; "Subscribenten-Verzeichniss."--P. [5-9], 1st count. List of subscribers' names, organized by state. Printed in four columns.; "August Herman Frankens kurzer Unterricht, wie man die Heilige Schrift zu seiner wahren Erbauung lesen solle."--P. [1-2], 4th count.; "Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes, Jesu Christi. Verdeutschet durch Doctor Martin Luther."--227, [1] p., 7th count, with separate title page. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in transcription.; Includes indexes, p. [1]-92, 8th count. Printed in three columns.; Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.; Bausman bible has genealogy of Andrew Bausman, 1806-1875 on page between the Old and New Testaments. Copy in family files.; Groff bible has genealogy 1773-1853 of Abraham Groff and Mary Bear on front of fly leaf.; Lehn bible has genealogy 1845-1880 of Christian Lehn and Mary Hartranft.; Lehn bible has genealogical notes and newspaper articles affixed to inside front cover, 1745-1873.; Lutz bible has genealogy 1797-1896 of Johanes Lutz born 1797 and Susanna Schwahr born 1804 in German and English before the New Testament.; Lutz bible: in English: All interred at Union Cemetery, Denver, Pa.; see family bible, Henry S. Goodspeed, pub. 1872.; Lutz bible: page after genealogical page and before the New Testament removed.; Lehn bible has affixed in upper right-hand corner of inside cover: "Henrich Miller, Buchbinder, in der Ost Oranien Strasse, gegenÃ¼ber der Deutch Reformirten Kirche, Lancaster."; Two loose genealogical items (1814-1869) and three miscellaneous loose items removed to MG-399; Lehn family bible.; Shaw & Shoemaker; BÃ¶tte & Tannhof. German printing,; Groff bible: full leather gold tooled binding with both clasps missing.; Bausman bible: full leather blind tooled binding with one clasp missing and one loose.; Bausman bible housed in dark blue linen box with gold title.; Lehn bible: Full leather binding with clasps missing, edge gilding.; Lutz bible: Full leather binding with spine title; one clasp missing.

Subjects: Luther, Martin, - 1483-1546; Luther, Katharina von Bora, - 1499-1552; Luther, Katharina von Bora, - 1499-1552.; Luther, Martin, - 1483-1546.; Bausman family - Genealogy.; Groff family - Genealogy.; Lehn family - Genealogy.; Lutz family - Genealogy.; Stained leather (Binding); Intaglio prints.; Leather bindings (Binding); Fillet tools (Binding); Dentelle bindings (Binding); Onlays (Binding); Lettering pieces (Binding); Gilt edges (Binding); Wooden boards (Binding); Bevelled edge boards (Binding); Clasps (Binding)

Additional Author: Luther, Martin,; BÃ¤r, Johann,; Henry, John,; Francke, August Hermann,; Keller, Felix.; Kaemmerer, B.

Additional Title: Bible.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Bible

Call Number: 220 L975 1819; 220 L523 1819; 220 G874 1819; 220 B351 1819

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