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An historical and geographical account of the province and country of Pensilvania in America : the richness of the soil, the sweetness of the situation ... the first planters, the Dutch, Sweeds, and English with the number of its inhabitants : as also a touch upon George Keith's new religion, in his second change since he left the Quakers : with a map

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Author: Thomas, Gabriel.

Edition: Enl. and repr.

Date of Publication: 1938.

Call Number: 974.801 T456

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Responsibility: by Gabriel Thomas ; edited, with copious notes, &c. by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.

Author: Thomas, Gabriel.

Edition: Enl. and repr.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Aurand Press,

Date of Publication: 1938.

Physical Description: 32 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Notes: Originally published: London : A. Baldwin, 1698. Reprinted at the Aurand Press, 1935.; Cover title: History of Pensilvania, published in London in 1698.; "Privately printed for the editor and his friends".; Filmed with: Good order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey / by Thomas Budd. Cleveland : Burrows Co., 1902.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Aurand, A. Monroe

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.801 T456

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Das sechste und siebente [Sechstes u. siebentes] Buch Mosis, sein wahrer Wert und was das Volk darin sucht Magisch-sympathet. Hausschatz ; Nach alten Ueberliefgn aus Geheimschriften u. ZauberbuÃŒâ¸chern f. d. heutige Zeit erklaÃŒâ¸rt ; [Philadelphia]

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Date of Publication: 1931, [1931]

Call Number: 398.089 D773g 1931

Place of Publication: Dresden-A. 16 [, Striesener Platz 16]

Publisher: Buchversand Gutenberg

Date of Publication: 1931, [1931]

Physical Description: LXIV, 368 p. 19 cm.

Notes: Additional t. p. Philadelphia.; Additional t. p. : p. xvii Stuttgart, 1849, verlag von T. Scheible.; From the collections of the Heritage Center P95.2.2.; Inscription opposite frontispiee: "Eigentum von/ Mrs G Probst" (property of Mrs. G. Propst).; Black cover with title on spine in white lettering with three stars (pentagrams/penticles) above and four below; a hand-fashioned paper bag book cover guards the book as well as the subject matter; inside the flyleaf a copy of the title and contents is affixed with five wax seals imprinted with the pentagram.

Subjects: Magic.; Medicine, Medieval.; Veterinary medicine - Early works to 1800.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 398.089 D773g 1931

Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the peerage, baronetage and knightage, privy council, and order of precedence

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Author: Burke, Bernard,

Edition: 1938 coronation honours (96th) ed.

Date of Publication: [1938].

Call Number: 929.3 B959

Responsibility: by the late Sir Bernard Burke.

Author: Burke, Bernard,

Edition: 1938 coronation honours (96th) ed.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Shaw publishing co., ltd. in conjunction with Burke's peerage limited

Date of Publication: [1938].

Physical Description: clxxxiv, 3122 p. illus. (incl. coats of arms) 26 cm.

Notes: "Burke's peerage 1938 corrigenda": 8 p. inserted at end.; Portrait group of the royal family on recto of an advertising page.

Subjects: Nobility - Great Britain.; Baronetage.; Knights and knighthood - Great Britain.; Heraldry - Great Britain.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 B959

Scrapbook

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Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Scrapbook of Grace Anna Brosius Biddle

Object ID: MG0434_Box097_It02

Date Range: 1926-1937

Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Scrapbook of Grace Anna Brosius Biddle

Description: Scrapbook of Grace Anna Brosius Biddle, 1926-1937. This scrapbook highlights Grace and Clement's involvement in the community and their international travel. Newspaper clippings describe Swarthmore College events, the Clement M. Biddle Historical Library, Boys Club Federation, Rotary Club, Community Chest campaign, Red Cross campaigns, Daylight Savings Bill, and an article from a Warsaw newspaper. The volume also contains ephemera, correspondence, telegrams, invitations, programs, and announcements regarding births, marriages, and deaths in the Biddle family.

Admin/Biographical History: Grace Anna Brosius was the daughter of Hon. Marriott Henry Brosius and Elizabeth Jackson Coates Brosius of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She attended Swarthmore College from 1895-1897. She married Clement Miller Biddle (1876-1959) on 28 November 1900 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; https://www.geni.com/people/Hon-Marriott-Brosius/6000000006598453470; https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/agents/people/16142; https://archive.org/stream/biddlefamilygene00gayp/biddlefamilygene00gayp_djvu.txt

Date Range: 1926-1937

Creation Date: 1926-1937

Year Range From: 1926

Year Range To: 1937

Creator: Biddle, Grace Anna Brosius, 1877-1960

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 22

People: Biddle, Caroline Cooper; Biddle, Clement Miller; Biddle, Grace Anna Brosius; Biddle, Lydia M.; Hoover, Herbert

Subjects: American Red Cross; American Red Cross. Disaster Services; Boys’ Clubs of America; Depressions--1929; Ephemera; International Court of Justice; National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain); Quakers; Scrapbooks; Society of Friends; White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; World War, 1914-1918

Search Terms: American National Bank; American Red Cross; Boys' Club Federation; Business and Professional Womens' Club of Mount Vernon, New York; City Hall, Mount Vernon, New York; Clement M. Biddle Historical Library; Conference on Child Health and Protection; Daylight Savings Bill; Ephemera; Friends' WWI Altar, Swarthmore College; Girls' Club, Mount Vernon, New York; Great Depression; League of Nations; Liberty Calendar (13-month calendar); National Council for Prevention of War; Phi Kappa Psi; Primrose Club; Quakers; Red Cross Disaster Relief Committee; Red Cross, Chester County Chapter; Red Cross, International Conference, Japan; Rotary International; Scrapbooks; Swarthmore College; Woman's Christian Temperance Union; World Court; World War I; WWI

Extent: 1 volume

Object Name: Scrapbook

Language: English

Object ID: MG0434_Box097_It02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Associated Material: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College:; Swarthmore College Photograph Albums (SFHL-PA-010); Biddle Family Papers (SFHL-RG5-177)

Related Item Notes: Scrapbooks:; 1898-1900 (MG0434_Box096); 1911-1926 (MG0434_Box097_It01); 1935-1959 (MG0434_Box098); Photograph albums and loose photographs (Grace Anna Brosius Biddle Collection); Album 1, 1900s-1940s (GB-01-01-001 to GB-01-01-111); Album 2, 1900-1907 (GB-01-02-01 to GB-01-02-41)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Scrapbook Collection (MG0434), Box #, Object ID, 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 for permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2011.Malin

Other Numbers: MG-434

Other Number: MG-434, Box 97

Classification: MG0434

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Added to database 13 April 2022.

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Collection: Judge Joseph Wissler Collection

Title: Judge Joseph Wissler Collection

Object ID: MG0090

Date Range: 1913-1974

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Collection: Judge Joseph Wissler Collection

Title: Judge Joseph Wissler Collection

Description: The Judge Joseph Wissler Collection documents his fifty-five year career as a lawyer and judge. He recorded and categorized criminal court cases in a handwritten volume. Two scrapbooks contain his certificate of admittance to the Lancaster County Courts, letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings about criminal cases.

Admin/Biographical History: Joseph Buch Wissler was born in Clay Township, Lancaster County on 7 August 1892. Wissler attended Lititz High School and later graduated from Franklin and Marshall College. He earned his law degree from Harvard University. Wissler became a member of the Lancaster Bar Association, of which he was president in 1964 and 1965. He returned to practicing law as a local attorney after holding the position of District Attorney of Pennsylvania from 1924 to 1928. In 1941, Wissler was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and served in that position for twenty-nine years. Judge Wissler served in the law profession for over fifty-five years. Phi Beta Kappa of Franklin and Marshall College made Judge Wissler an honorary member in 1950 and the college presented him with an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1952. He was also a member of the Lancaster Tucquan Club from 1949 to 1969.

Date Range: 1913-1974

Year Range From: 1913

Year Range To: 1974

Date of Accumulation: 1913-1974

Creator: Wissler, Joseph Buch, 1892-1983

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Wissler, Joseph Buch; Gibbs, Edward Lester

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Criminal courts; Judges; Lawyers; Letters; Murder; Scrapbooks; Trials; Trials (Murder)

Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Criminal courts; Finding aids; Judges; Lawyers; Letters; Manuscript groups; Murder; Newspaper clippings; Scrapbooks; Trials; Trials (Murder)

Extent: 2 boxes, 1 handwritten volume, 2 scrapbooks, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0090

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Portrait of Judge Joseph B. Wissler, by Florence Starr Taylor, 2003.408; Photograph Collection; Commonwealth vs. Edward L. Gibbs, 1950-1951, MG0476

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-90

Classification: MG0090

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 22 January 2019.

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Historic costuming

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Author: Truman, Nevil.

Date of Publication: 1937.

Call Number: 391 T867

Responsibility: by Nevil Truman; with a foreword by C. B. Cochran.

Author: Truman, Nevil.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd.,

Date of Publication: 1937.

Physical Description: xii, 152 p. front. (port.) illus., col. plates. 25 cm.

Subjects: Costume - Great Britain.; Costume

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 391 T867

Early eighteenth century Palatine emigration; a British government redemptioner project to manufacture naval stores

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Author: Knittle, Walter Allen,

Date of Publication: [c1937]

Call Number: 974.802811 K154

Responsibility: by Walter Allen Knittle ... with a foreword by Dixon Ryan Fox.

Author: Knittle, Walter Allen,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Dorrance & Company

Date of Publication: [c1937]

Physical Description: xix, [1] p., 1 Î²., 320 p. front. (port.) illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Issued also as thesis (PH. D.) University of Pennsylvania.; Bibliography: p. [229]-241; bibliographical foot-notes.

Subjects: Palatines.; Palatines in New York (State); Naval stores.; New York (State) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Great Britain - Colonies - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802811 K154

American colonists in English records. A guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten", &c., &c., &c

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Author: Sherwood, George Frederick Tudor,

Date of Publication: 1932.

Call Number: 929.3 S554

Author: Sherwood, George Frederick Tudor,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: George Sherwood,

Date of Publication: 1932.

Physical Description: 99 p. 26 cm.

Subjects: British - United States.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.; United States - Emigration and immigration.; Great Britain - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 S554

American colonists in English records. a guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten", &c., &c., &c

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Author: Sherwood, George Frederick Taylor,

Date of Publication: 1933.

Call Number: 929.3 S554 2d. series

Author: Sherwood, George Frederick Taylor,

Place of Publication: London, England

Publisher: G. Sherwood,

Date of Publication: 1933.

Physical Description: p. 101-215 ; 26 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: British - United States.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.; United States - Emigration and immigration.; Great Britain - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 S554 2d. series

Monsieur Surrier, French ambassador, passes through Lancaster

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1930

Ralston of Philadelphia, and doubtless reached those for whom it was intended, in due season. Monsieur Surrier, French Ambassador, Passes Through Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC ' WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, May 13th, 1814, contained the following: "Monsieur Suerrier, the French Ambassador

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1930

Physical Description: [23] 0. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 1

Subjects: Surrier, Monsieur.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 34, number 1 (1930), p. 23Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.34

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Das sechste und siebente [Sechstes u. siebentes] Buch Mosis, sein wahrer Wert und was das Volk darin sucht Magisch-sympathet. Hausschatz ; Nach alten Ueberliefgn aus Geheimschriften u. ZauberbuÃŒâ¸chern f. d. heutige Zeit erklaÃŒâ¸rt ; [Philadelphia]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18941

Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the peerage, baronetage and knightage, privy council, and order of precedence

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6305

Scrapbook

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/55d0d7c0-075d-46fc-804d-171049071191

Archive

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Documents

Historic costuming

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2359

Early eighteenth century Palatine emigration; a British government redemptioner project to manufacture naval stores

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7285

American colonists in English records. A guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten", &c., &c., &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6795

American colonists in English records. a guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten", &c., &c., &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6894

Monsieur Surrier, French ambassador, passes through Lancaster

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Das sechste und siebente [Sechstes u. siebentes] Buch Mosis, sein wahrer Wert und was das Volk darin sucht Magisch-sympathet. Hausschatz ; Nach alten Ueberliefgn aus Geheimschriften u. ZauberbuÃŒâ¸chern f. d. heutige Zeit erklaÃŒâ¸rt ; [Philadelphia]

Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the peerage, baronetage and knightage, privy council, and order of precedence

Scrapbook

Archive

Documents

Historic costuming

Early eighteenth century Palatine emigration; a British government redemptioner project to manufacture naval stores

American colonists in English records. A guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten", &c., &c., &c

American colonists in English records. a guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten", &c., &c., &c

Monsieur Surrier, French ambassador, passes through Lancaster

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Das sechste und siebente [Sechstes u. siebentes] Buch Mosis, sein wahrer Wert und was das Volk darin sucht Magisch-sympathet. Hausschatz ; Nach alten Ueberliefgn aus Geheimschriften u. ZauberbuÃŒâ¸chern f. d. heutige Zeit erklaÃŒâ¸rt ; [Philadelphia]