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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

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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

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A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs

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Author: Tantaquidgeon, Gladys.

Date of Publication: 1942.

Call Number: 974.8011 T169

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Responsibility: [by] Gladys Tantaquidgeon.

Author: Tantaquidgeon, Gladys.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Historical Commission,

Date of Publication: 1942.

Physical Description: xi, 91 p. 23 cm.

Notes: "Authorities cited": p. 70-73.

Contents: Chapters: Delaware Medical Beliefs and Practices --- Curative practices and herbal remedies --- Witchcraft ---- Dreams ---Natural signs and omens --- Delaware food resources -- Appendices include: Nanticoke folk beliefs -- Weather signs -- Three Oklahoma Delaware myths -- and others

Subjects: Delaware Indians.; Indians of North America

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 T169

Websites

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The Indian Treaty of 1744

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1944

," at Pickawillany. Gist was an agent of the Ohio Company, and had been given a royal grant to examine the western country, "to mark the passes in the mountains, trace the course of rivers and observe the strength and numbers of the Indian nations." During Gist's visit, four Ottawa or French Indians

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1944

Physical Description: [57]-70 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 48, no. 3

Subjects: Indians of North America.; Iroquois Indians

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 48, number 3 (1944), p. 57-70Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.48

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Conrad Weiser, 1696-1760 : friend of colonist and Mohawk

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Author: Wallace, Paul A. W.

Date of Publication: 1945.

Call Number: 923.2 W427w

Responsibility: by Paul A.W. Wallace.

Author: Wallace, Paul A. W.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia : London

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ; Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1945.

Physical Description: 648 p. ; ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Weiser, Conrad, - 1696-1760.; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.; Iroquois Indians.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 W427w

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

, to Daniel W. Geist, Assistant Superintendent of Lancaster County schools. Several annotations. Postmarked, 4 January 1924. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Folder 1, Insert 4 Correspondence Envelope. [unknown] at McClure House

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

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 collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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The Tutelo spirit adoption ceremony : reclothing the living in the name of the dead

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Author: Speck, Frank Gouldsmith,

Date of Publication: 1942.

Call Number: 974.8011 H582

Responsibility: Frank G. Speck. Transcriptions and analysis of Tutelo music / George Herzog.

Author: Speck, Frank Gouldsmith,

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Historical Commission,

Date of Publication: 1942.

Physical Description: xix, 125 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Tutelo Indians; Rites and ceremonies.; Indians of North America

Additional Author: Herzog, George,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 H582

Rock Springs and their historic surroundings

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Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Date of Publication: 1943.

collection of Indian artifacts of the lower Susquehanna is probably the largest on record, and whose close and scientific study of the subject makes him an authority on the work of the Indians of the locality, says: "I have inspected the bowls that are carved in the serpentine rock at Rock Springs and find

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Responsibility: by Herbert H. Beck.

Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1943.

Physical Description: [45]-58 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 47, no. 3

Subjects: Hensel, George W., - 1866-1943.; Physical geography - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Petrology - Middle Atlantic States.; Indian art - North America.; Rock Springs (Fulton Twp., Lancaster County, Pa.); Mason-Dixon Line.; Maryland (Pa.) - Boundaries.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 47, number 3 (1943), p. 45-58Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.47

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Travels in New France

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Date of Publication: 1941.

Call Number: 971.018 P416

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Responsibility: by J. C. B. Prepared by Pennsylvania Historical Survey (Frontier Forts and Trails Survey) Division of Community Service Projects, Work Projects Administration. Edited by Sylvester K. Stevens, Donald H. Kent and Emma Edith Woods.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, The Pennsylvania Historical Commission,

Date of Publication: 1941.

Physical Description: xiv, 167 p. front., illus., plates (incl. map) 24 cm.

Notes: Maps on lining papers.; "The present translation is based on Casgrain's edition."--p. vi.

Summary: "A French soldier set down his memories of life and adventure in western Pennsylvania and other parts of North America during the thrilling events of the French and Indian War, and called the book 'Voyage au Canada dans le nord de l' Amerique Septentrionale, fait depuis l'an 1751 A 1761'...The author is known only by his initials, J.C.B...These reminiscences of life and events in the wilderness, in the towns of New France, and as a prisoner in New York City, give vivid pictures of the experiences of an ordinary man in an age which was full of significance for the future of America. [from the foreword]

Subjects: Indians of North America.; Canada - History - 1663-1713 (New France).; Canada - Description and travel.; United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Stevens, Sylvester Kirby,; Kent, Donald H.,; Woods, Emma Edith,; Casgrain, H. R.; J.-C. B.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical Survey.; Frontier Forts and Trails Survey.; Pennsylvania Historical Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 971.018 P416

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

, correspondence, programs and ephemera about Watt & Shand Department Store are housed in this scrapbook. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners Series 2, Box 1 Folder 1 List of Title Insurance Policies of

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Description: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.; Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.

Admin/Biographical History: On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series.; Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory; Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners

Date Range: 1880-2003

Year Range From: 1880

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1880-2003

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ammon, Cora Mae Fox; Ammon, John M.; Appel, Eva Rengier; Appel, Percy L.; Baker, Miriam Rengier; Bell, Louise Price; Berger, R. R.; Blatchley, Charles A.; Breyers, C. J.; Buchanan, James; Drukenbrod, Lee Roy; Fehl, J. Herbert; Frantz, I. E.; Fritz, C. C.; Goodhart, E. C.; Groff, Alpheaus S.; Groff, Ella L.; Hermansader, T. F.; Hirsh, Bertha; Hirsh, Gabriel; Hostetter, D. B.; Lively, Henry; Long, Jacob M.; Loss, Natalie M.; Loss, Nathan; Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.; Marshall, Elizabeth Weber; Marshall, George A.; Marshall, George W.; Marshall, Maria L. Good; May, Jennie H.; Miller, E. N.; Myers, Harry; Myers, Maria; Myers, Patricia Marshall; Myrtetus, George B.; Noonan, Ella O.; Noonan, Raymond Smith; Prangley, James; Reed, George R.; Reichley, Jacob Christian; Reifsnyder, Arden P.; Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John S.; Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen; Rohrer, George Redsecker; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker; Roth, George R.; Rupert, L. H.; Schaller, Kimberly; Shand, James; Shand, Thomas Marshall; Sherrill, Anita B.; Sherrill, S. Edward; Short, Edwin P.; Skyllas, Drossos A.; Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert; Stiles, H. A.; Stirk, Isaac; Stirk, Sarah C.; Swarr, Donald; Urban, Cassius Emlen; Watt, Laura Louise Geiger; Watt, Peter T.; Weber, May H.; Wisegarver, Harry P.; Witmer, Albert F.

Other Creators: Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)

Subjects: Advertising; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Building leases; Calendars; Catalogs; Deeds; Department stores; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Letters; Menus; Newsletters; Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail

Search Terms: A and S Realty and Investment Corporation; A. B. Rote & Co.; Advertising; Agreements; Air conditioning; American Blower Corporation; Appel & Weber; Architectural plans; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; Awards; Blueprints; Bon-Ton; Bon-Ton Beauty Salon; Booklets; C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.; Calendars; Catalogs; Central Automatic Sprinkler Company; Certificates; Columbia; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia; Correspondence; Deeds; Department stores; DUSCO Property Management, Inc.; East Hempfield Twp.; Employee handbooks; Employees; Ephemera; Escalators; Finding aids; Fire sprinklers; Floorplans; Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers; Gift certificates; Ground-rent; Hager and Bro., Inc.; Hager Realty Corporation; Heating and ventilation systems; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Job descriptions; Kroll Electric Company, Inc.; Lancaster; Lancaster Parking Authority; Lancaster Trust Company; Leases; Letters; Manuscript groups; Menus; Mortgages; Newsletters; Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.; Park City Mall; Penn Square; Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Permits; Poetry; PPL; Price lists; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company; Reynolds and Reynolds Company; Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail; Total Energy Leasing Corporation; Trion, Inc.; Watt and Shand; Workers' Compensation Act; York Corporation

Extent: 4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0237

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection 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.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-237

Classification: MG0237

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.; The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.

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The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania : Records and activities, charter, by-laws, officers, members, minutes, Indian Campgrounds, Hall of Fame, Pennsbury, 1940

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Date of Publication: 1940.

Call Number: 369.12 W442

Responsibility: compiled and edited by Henry Paul Busch.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Patterson & White Co. ,

Date of Publication: 1940.

Physical Description: viii, 205 p. : ill.p; 20 cm.

Subjects: Busch, Henry Paul; Welcome Society of Pennsylvania.; Pennsbury Manor (Morrisville, Pa.); Societies - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.12 W442

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A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs

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The Indian Treaty of 1744

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Conrad Weiser, 1696-1760 : friend of colonist and Mohawk

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4324

Archive

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The Tutelo spirit adoption ceremony : reclothing the living in the name of the dead

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4349

Rock Springs and their historic surroundings

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1399

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Travels in New France

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Archive

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The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania : Records and activities, charter, by-laws, officers, members, minutes, Indian Campgrounds, Hall of Fame, Pennsbury, 1940

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12363