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Amish women, business sense : Old Order women entrepreneurs in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, tourist marketplace

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Author: Graybill, Beth E.

Date of Publication: 2009.

Call Number: 358.7082 G784

Responsibility: Beth E. Graybill.

Author: Graybill, Beth E.

Date of Publication: 2009.

Physical Description: [2], xi, 291 leaves : illustrations, maps

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 267-291) and abstract.

Summary: "This dissertation is an examiniation of Amish businessowmen and gender roles in the tourist marketplace of Lancaster County, PA. Tourism in Lancaster is a $1.5 billion business; tourists largely come because of the Amish and values associated with them. Recently, tourism has come to provide an important source of income for many Old Order Mennonite and Amish women, whose business enterprises cater primarily to a tourist market. Among the Amish, known for their separation from wider society, tourism now puts many women on the front lines in dealing with outsiders, a monumental shift historically. Thus, this ethnography of Amish businesswomen serves as a useful lens for examining Amish women's changing gender roles in Lancaster County today." [from the abstract]

Subjects: Amish women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Old Order Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Businesswomen - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Tourism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Amish women.; Businesswomen.; Economic history.; Old Order Mennonites.; Tourism.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions.; Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Academic theses.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 358.7082 G784

Holding the line : the telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish life

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Author: Umble, Diane Zimmerman.

Date of Publication: 1996.

Call Number: 384.608 U48

Responsibility: Diane Zimmerman Umble.

ISBN: 0801853125 (alk. paper)

Author: Umble, Diane Zimmerman.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication: 1996.

Physical Description: xix, 192 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Notes: "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia"--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references (p.[175]-184) and index.

Subjects: Telephone; Telephone - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Old Order Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history - 20th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Religious life and customs.

Additional Corporate Author: Center for American Places (Harrisonburg, Va.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 384.608 U48

Mennonite women of Lancaster County : a story in photographs from 1855-1935

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Author: Siegrist, Joanne Hess.

Date of Publication: c1996.

Call Number: 305.48687 S571

Responsibility: Joanne Hess Siegrist.

ISBN: 1561482056

Author: Siegrist, Joanne Hess.

Place of Publication: Intercourse, PA

Publisher: Good Books,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Physical Description: 220 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219).

Contents: Chapters: An overview of Lancaster Mennonite women: their many faces, their open lives, their secret selves // Lancaster Mennonite women : the tone of their lives // Mennonites and early photography // "Running Around"// Motherhood and children // Farm life and work // School and studies // Church Life and faith // Family outings // The lure of the west

Summary: Little written material remains from these women who reared large families and made homes for them, who measured their lives by the church's standards. This vibrant collection of photographs, however, tells a remarkable story of "girl crowds," courting couples, multi-generational harvest/gardening work parties, high-spirited quilters, purposeful caregivers. Thoughtful, interpretive text provides both a structural background for what the photos show, as well as stories and specific detail about what the pictures hold.A rare view of women's lives in an unusually robust community -- the Mennonites of Lancaster, Pennsylvania [from Goodreads]

Subjects: Mennonite women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history - 19th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history - 20th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 305.48687 S571

Over here : Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, during wartime

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18936

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 940.531 O96

ISBN: 9780974016269; 0974016268

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: vi, 138 p. : ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Summary: The fourth book in a series of photographic histories of the county illustrates how Lancastrians participated in times of war. From the Civil War to the Iraq war , from the homefront to the trenches, whether gathering scrap or going off to foreign lands.

Subjects: Civilians in war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.; War and society - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.; Soldiers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - 19th century - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 20th century - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Ryan, Thomas R.; Loose, John W.W.; Snow, Marcus S.; Wee, Kathy Wallace; Heckles, Marianne; Smucker, David Rempel; Netscher, C. Nat; Snow, Amanda; Weber, Robert W.; Rauhauser, Barry; Abel, Michael L.

Additional Corporate Author: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 940.531 O96

From Lancaster to the moon : recounting the 1960's and 1970's in Lancaster, Pennsylvania through the pages of Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era, Sunday News

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13893

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 070 F931 Oversize

Alternate Title: From Lancaster to the moon :

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: [294] p. : facsims. ; 36 cm.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 20th century - Sources.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 20th century - Sources.

Additional Corporate Author: Lancaster Newspapers Inc.

Additional Title: Intelligencer journal.; Lancaster new era.; Sunday news.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 070 F931 Oversize

The Amish of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18102

Author: Kraybill, Donald B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 289.71 K89

Responsibility: text by Donald B. Kraybill ; photography by Daniel Rodriguez.

ISBN: 9780811734783 (pbk.); 0811734781 (pbk.)

Author: Kraybill, Donald B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: 88 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.; Community life - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Ethnic relations.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Rodriguez, Daniel

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.71 K89

Lancaster at play : leisure in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17954

Date of Publication: 2007.

Call Number: 790 L244

Responsibility: editors: James T. Alton and Thomas R. Ryan.

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Cadmus Communications,

Date of Publication: 2007.

Physical Description: vi.; 138 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Project manager: Marianne Heckles.

Summary: The third book in a series of photographic histories of the county highlights how Lancastrians had fun and spent their leisure time from the late 1800s to 1970. Its chapters cover a wide range of subjects-from amusement parks to swimming holes to movie theaters to athletic events.

Subjects: Leisure - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - 19th century - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Heckles, Marianne.; Abel, Michael L.; Alton, James T.; Ryan, Thomas R.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 790 L244

In recognition of their prominence : a case study of the economic and social backgrounds of an ante-bellum Negro business and farming class in Lancaster County

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Author: Oblinger, Carl D.

Date of Publication: 1968.

' contacts with these whites were not limited to business and economic transactions. The black barbers also acted in concert with these whites to fight the Columbia and Lancaster Colonization Societies4; they smuggled Negro fugitives into Lancas- ter County from the South; and they supported each other in

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Responsibility: by Carl D. Oblinger.

Author: Oblinger, Carl D.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Physical Description: [65]-83 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 72, no. 2

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social conditions - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 72, number 2 (1968), p. 65-83Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.72

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The best poor man's country; a geographical study of early southeastern Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2183

Author: Lemon, James T.

Date of Publication: [1972]

Call Number: 974.800912 L556

Responsibility: [by] James T. Lemon.

ISBN: 0801811899

Author: Lemon, James T.

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press

Date of Publication: [1972]

Physical Description: xviii, 295 p. maps. 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Land use - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Dauphin County (Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania - Social conditions.; Pennsylvania - Economic conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.800912 L556

A country storekeeper in Pennsylvania : creating economic networks in early America, 1790 -1807

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16626

Author: Wenger, Diane E.,

Date of Publication: c2008.

Call Number: 381.1 W474

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Responsibility: Diane E. Wenger.

ISBN: 9780271034126 (cloth : alk. paper); 0271034122 (cloth : alk. paper)

Author: Wenger, Diane E.,

Place of Publication: University Park, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,

Date of Publication: c2008.

Physical Description: x, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-253) and index.

Contents: Introduction: a country storekeeper and his network of relationships -- Beyond "wild forest people": Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania -- The Rex Store and its local customers -- Feeding the furnaces: the iron community and the Rex Store -- "Orders thankfully received, and carefully executed": Rex and the Philadelphia merchants -- A life of "comparative ease" -- Epilogue: Rex's network and its significance.

Summary: "Examines the role that country storekeeper Samuel Rex of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, played in the society and economy of the mid-Atlantic region from 1790 to 1807. Studies consumption patterns of one typical Pennsylvania-German community"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Rex, Samuel, - d.1835.; General stores - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown; Merchants - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown; Business networks - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown; Schaefferstown (Pa.) - Commerce - History - 18th century.; Schaefferstown (Pa.) - Economic conditions - 18th century.; Schaefferstown (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 381.1 W474

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