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The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8227
Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
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Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Place of Publication
Doylestown, Pa
Publisher
Bucks County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
[6] 216 p. : plates, port. ;
Notes
Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870)
Bibliography: p. 206-208.
Contents
Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves
Summary
Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.
Subjects
Stoves.
Stove-plates.
Christian art and symbolism.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
Websites
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101079879183
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Simon Cameron's adventure in iron, 1837-1846; new biographical material including an account of the formation and dissolution of a partnership of Simon Cameron, S.F. Headley, Samuel Humes, and Thomas McNair for the manufacture and sale of iron (principally to what is now the Pennsylvania Railroad) and its political connotations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1052
Author
McNair, James Birtley,
Date of Publication
[1949]
Call Number
923.2 C182m
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Author
McNair, James Birtley,
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, Calif
Date of Publication
[1949]
Physical Description
xi, 160 p. plates, port. 23 cm.
Notes
"A limited numbered edition of 500 copies."
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [111]-156)
Subjects
Cameron, Simon, - 1799-1889.
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 C182m
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The Conestoga Wagon : a Pennsylvania German product

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1393
Author
Frey, Howard C.,
Date of Publication
1947
Mann Der unser Staat regieren kann. Ritner was elected. Workers in Iron "The Pennsylvania German migrating from the Rhenish Palatinate in large numbers between 1685 and 1710 had no lack of master artisans of the anvil. They brought with them many centuries of experience in iron working and found here
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Responsibility
by H. C. Frey.
Author
Frey, Howard C.,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1947
Physical Description
[61]-[92] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 3
Subjects
Blacksmithing.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Carriages and carts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Ironwork.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 3 (1947), p. 61-92Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51
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The Pennsylvania Dutch and their cookery : their history, art, accomplishments, also a broad collection of their food recipes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16611
Author
Frederick, J. George
Date of Publication
1946, c1935
Call Number
641.5 F852 1946
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Responsibility
by J. George Frederick.
Author
Frederick, J. George
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Business Bourse,
Date of Publication
1946, c1935
Physical Description
275 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes index to recipes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-85).
Contents
I. The Old-World background of the Pennsylvania Dutch -- II. Regional cookery and the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Art, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Cookery, American - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
641.5 F852 1946
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Erosion and related land use conditions in the Conestoga area, Pennsylvania / by Jay A. Bonsteel ... and Turner C. Bass ... Field survey by T. C. Bass and party ... United States Department of agriculture, Soil conservation service

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4807
Author
Bonsteel, Jay A.
Date of Publication
1940]
Call Number
550 E65
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Author
Bonsteel, Jay A.
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
U.S. Govt. print. off.,
Date of Publication
1940]
Physical Description
52 p. : incl. illus., plas, tables, 79 maps (78 fold. in pocket) ; 26 cm.
Series
U. S. Soil conservation service. Erosion survey no. 15
Subjects
Soil conservation - Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Bass, Turner Cheshire,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
550 E65
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Map of Shreiner's Cemetery, West Chestnut and North Mulberry Streets, Lancaster, Pennsylvania : showing the relative positons of the tombstones as they were in October 1941

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3293
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
974.815 LACI 704
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Responsibility
prepared by William Frederic Worner.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
[s.n.] ,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
1 map : photocopy ; 106 x 54 cm.
Notes
Blue line print. Gives lot numbers. Thaddeus Stevens is buried in lot 49.
Subjects
Shreiner's Cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.) - Maps.
Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 LACI 704
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Early American hand-woven coverlets, in the collection of the Art institute of Chicago

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16469
Corporate Author
Art Institute of Chicago.
Date of Publication
c1946.
Call Number
746.4 E75
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Responsibility
prepared by Mildred Davison.
Corporate Author
Art Institute of Chicago.
Place of Publication
[Chicago]
Date of Publication
c1946.
Physical Description
[15] p. illus. 19 cm.
Series
Its A picture book
Notes
Bibliography: p. [3]
Subjects
Coverlets.
Additional Author
Davison, Mildred.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
746.4 E75
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Home missions in the mother synod. Golden jubilee volume of the Board of home missions of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states

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Corporate Author
Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Board of home missions.
Date of Publication
[c1946]
Call Number
284.1 H765
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Corporate Author
Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Board of home missions.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia?]
Publisher
The Board of home missions of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states and the United Lutheran publication house
Date of Publication
[c1946]
Physical Description
5 p. β., 136 p. incl. fronts. (ports.) 21 cm.
Notes
Lancaster information on pages 8-10, 54-59.
Bibliography: p. 127.
Subjects
Lutheran Church
Missions - Pennsylvania.
Missions - New Jersey.
Church buildings - Pennsylvania.
Church buildings - New Jersey.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
284.1 H765
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History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4508
Author
Jones, U. J.
Date of Publication
c1940]
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
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Responsibility
By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...
Author
Jones, U. J.
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
The Telegraph Press,
Date of Publication
c1940]
Physical Description
440 p. incl. illus., plates, front. 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining-papers.
First edition published at Philadelphia, 1856.
Appendix, prepared by William H. Egle (including a biographical sketch of U. J. Jones and The Pattersons of Juniata): p. [351]-421.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Egle, William Henry,
Hoenstine, Floyd G.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
Websites
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41392/41392-h/41392-h.htm
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Stock in trade : being an "inventory of the store in Litiz (Pennsylvania), taken from the 4th to 8th May, 1773," and some pertinent remarks regarding service to the American public

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15935
Date of Publication
[ca. 1940]
Call Number
974.815 LITB S864
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Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Home Insurance Co.,
Date of Publication
[ca. 1940]
Physical Description
[20] p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Facsimile reproduction of the 1773 inventory.
Subjects
General stores - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Inventories - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LITB S864
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