Search Results - Research Collections

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ebadea02-7f2c-4998-b1d2-392759509150

Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

a $500 mortgage bond, a blank stock certificate, and a requisition for high- tension lines. [18__]-1912. Folder 8 Conestoga Traction Co. Booklet of early histories, “Lancaster Co., Pa.,” which describes the company’s history, its routes, and sights along the way. 1 August 1908. Booklet by H. W

1 document

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

Finding Aid

Read PDF Download PDF

A brief history of the city of Lancaster; Containing an introduction to the settlement of the county; reminiscences of the past and present of the city; the poor house and hospital; the court house; the county jail; the water works; the railroad; the Franklin and Marshall College; the manufactories; the gas works and agricultural park; with many of the old "land marks," &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16919

Author: Kilburn, Francis,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Call Number: 974.815 L244p 1870

Author: Kilburn, Francis,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pearsol and Geist, printers,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Physical Description: 40 [2] p. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Includes local business cards and advertisements.; Not in Wilkinson.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Commerce.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.815 L244p 1870

Barnes' directory of Lancaster County : embracing a full list of all the adult males and heads of families with their occupation, residence, and P.O. address, and a classified business directory : also, an appendix, containing a descriptive list of the courts, banking houses, public buildings, churches, educational and benevolent institutions, secret and other societies, &c., &c., 1875-76

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18004

Date of Publication: 1875.

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1875-76 reprint

Alternate Title: Directory of Lancaster County

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Jno. H. Barnes,

Date of Publication: 1875.

Physical Description: 508 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Advertisements throughout text.; Includes index.; Reprint.

Subjects: Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Directories - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Directories.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Commerce - Directories.

Additional Corporate Author: Jno. H. Barnes (Firm)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1875-76 reprint

A Brief history of the city of Lancaster : containing an introduction to the settlement of the county, reminiscences of the past and present of the city, the poor house and hospital, the court house, the county jail, the water works, the railroad, the Franklin and Marshall College, the manufactories, the gas works and agricultural park, with many of the old land marks, &c. ; also, the business cards of the principal merchants and manufacturers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16047

Date of Publication: 1870.

1 website

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Published by Francis Kilburn ; Pearsol & Geist, printers,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Physical Description: 40 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Bound with The Bible in Iron (1914) and Old Home Week Manheim, Pa. (1912) -- this copy is missing as of 4/11/2024. Please access using the electronic copy.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Kilburn, Francis.

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t88g9f93k;view=1up;seq=3

Memorial sermon delivered at Lancaster, Pa., June 30, 1872 : to the memory of Stuart A. Wylie, who died June 12th, 1872

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14901

Author: Kremer, A.H.

Date of Publication: 1873.

Call Number: 926.55 W983k

Responsibility: by Rev. A.H. Kremer, D.D.

Author: Kremer, A.H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Inquirer Printing House ,

Date of Publication: 1873.

Physical Description: 47 p. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Wylie, Stuart A. , - 1840-1872.; Daily Inquirer (Lancaster, Pa.); Newspaper publishing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 926.55 W983k

A biographical history of Lancaster County : being a history of early settlers and eminent men of the county; as also much other unpublished historical information, chiefly of a local character

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10438

Author: Harris, Alexander,

Date of Publication: 1872.

Call Number: 090 L244bar 1872

1 website

Responsibility: by Alex. Harris.

Author: Harris, Alexander,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Elias Barr,

Date of Publication: 1872.

Physical Description: 638 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L244bar 1872

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010768086&view=1up&seq=7

Charter to William Penn, and laws of the province of Pennsylvania, passed between the years 1682 and 1700, preceded by Duke of York's laws in force from the year 1676 to the year 1682, with an Appendix containing laws relating to the organization of the provincial courts and historical matter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3413

Corporate Author: Zonnehof Cultureel Centrum.

Date of Publication: 1879.

Call Number: 340.9 C486

Responsibility: Pub. under the direction of John Blair Linn, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Comp. and ed. By Staughton George, Benjamin M. Nead, Thomas McCamant.

Corporate Author: Zonnehof Cultureel Centrum.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: L.S. Hart, State Printer,

Date of Publication: 1879.

Physical Description: iv, 614 p. front. (port.) illus., facsims. (part fold.) 25 cm.

Notes: In pocket of volume is a "Fac-simile of the charter granted by Charles the Second to William Penn for the 'province of Pensilvania,' engraved from the original on file in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth."

Subjects: Pennsylvania. - Courts.; Law - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New Sweden - History.

Additional Author: George, Staughton.; Nead, Benjamin Matthias,; McCamant, Thomas,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.; Great Britain.; Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 340.9 C486

Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-fourth. : Volume X. which commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-fourth. : Volume X

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20596

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Date of Publication: [1800].

Call Number: Yeates Book 24a.1 1800

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Printed by William Hamilton. Franklin's Head, West King-Street,

Date of Publication: [1800].

Physical Description: 281, [1], 59, [1] p ; (fol.)

Series: Early American imprints // ed. by Clifford Kenyon Shipton and the American Antiquarian Society ; Ser. 1 ; 38214 [Dig. Serial]

Notes: "Receipts and expenditures of the Treasury of Pennsylvania ..."--59 p., 3rd count, with separate title page. Also issued separately (Evans 38218).; Evans, 38214.; Through Mar. 17, 1800.; Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.; Signature of Yeates at top of title page.; Book number 24 as assigned by Yeates.; Marbled boards, three-quarters leather, and morocco spine label with printed label Yeates 941 above.

Subjects: Finance, Public - Pennsylvania

Additional Author: Yeates, Jaaper,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Register-General's Office.; Pennsylvania. Treasury.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Yeates Book 24a.1 1800

Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-eighth. : Volume XIV

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20673

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Date of Publication: 1803 [i.e. 1804].

Call Number: Book 26a 1803

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Place of Publication: Lancaster [Pa.]

Publisher: Printed by Brown & Bowman, East King-Street.,

Date of Publication: 1803 [i.e. 1804].

Physical Description: 586 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Journal of the session which began Dec. 6, 1803 and concluded Apr. 3, 1804.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 26 as assigned by Yeates.; Signature of Yeates at top of title page.; "Expiration of the appointments of the members of the Senate."--Page 586.; Shaw & Shoemaker; Marbled boards, three-quarter leather, and maroon spine label.

Subjects: Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.; Employees.; Legislative journals.; Politics and government; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.; Pennsylvania - Officials and employees.; Pennsylvania.

Additional Corporate Author: Yeates, Jasper,; Brown & Bowman,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 26a 1803

Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20690

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Date of Publication: 1805 [i.e. 1806].

Call Number: Book 28 1805

1 website

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Place of Publication: Lancaster [Pa.]

Publisher: Printed by John Burnside.,

Date of Publication: 1805 [i.e. 1806].

Physical Description: 478 p. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Signature of Yeates at top of title page.; Book number 28 as assigned by Yeates.; "Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--Page 423-461.; "Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--Page 478.; Report of a committee 21 pages printed by William Hamilton.; Shaw & Shoemaker; Full tooled leather binding with maroon title on spine.

Subjects: Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.; Employees.; Legislative journals.; Politics and government; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.; Pennsylvania - Officials and employees.; Pennsylvania.

Additional Author: Burnside, John,; Yeates, Jaspe,r

Place: United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 28 1805

Websites

http://opac.newsbank.com/select/shaw/11126

Revise Search

Data Source

Collection

Subject

Name

Place

Decade

Material

Archival Hierarchy

Online Media

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ebadea02-7f2c-4998-b1d2-392759509150

Documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16919

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18004

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16047

Websites

Memorial sermon delivered at Lancaster, Pa., June 30, 1872 : to the memory of Stuart A. Wylie, who died June 12th, 1872

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14901

A biographical history of Lancaster County : being a history of early settlers and eminent men of the county; as also much other unpublished historical information, chiefly of a local character

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10438

Websites

Charter to William Penn, and laws of the province of Pennsylvania, passed between the years 1682 and 1700, preceded by Duke of York's laws in force from the year 1676 to the year 1682, with an Appendix containing laws relating to the organization of the provincial courts and historical matter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3413

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20596

Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-eighth. : Volume XIV

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20673

Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20690

Websites