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Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-09-03-12

Date Range: 1960

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Charles G. Hoffman and a steam engine at Pasadena, California, in 1960. Photo is glued to a page from a scrapbook with articles about the Hoffman family of Rheems and their engines and farm equipment.

Provenance: Donated by the Lebanon County Historical Society

Date Range: 1960

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Hoffman, Charles G.

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association; Steam engines; Tractors

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2-09-03-12

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

around the system, drawn by The Marley Company, Inc. Drawing number 54-4226. Dated 23 February 1954. Folder 29 Blueprints titled, “Alterations to Heating System in store building for Watt and Shand, Lancaster, PA”. The plan was drawn for the renovations on the first floor of the building. Plans drawn by

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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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Poverty in the Garden Spot : Prepared for the Community Action Program Committee of Lancaster County, Pa. by Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pa. under the direction of Martha Eppley and John M. Yancey. Graphics by Marcia Heimbach

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17577

Corporate Author: Lancaster County (Pa.). Community Action Program Committee.

Date of Publication: January 1966.

Call Number: 330 C734

Corporate Author: Lancaster County (Pa.). Community Action Program Committee.

Place of Publication: Elizabethtown, Pa

Date of Publication: January 1966.

Physical Description: 2 v.

Subjects: Poverty - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Eppley, Martha A.

Additional Corporate Author: Elizabethtown College.; Community Action Program Committee, Lancaster, Pa.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 330 C734

Historical problems with the Pennsylvania Germans / by Philip S. Klein

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17171

Author: Klein, Philip S.

Date of Publication: 1969.

Call Number: 390 K64

Author: Klein, Philip S.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary,

Date of Publication: 1969.

Physical Description: 35 p. : 23 cm.

Series: Community historians annual,; Community historians annual ; no. 8.

Notes: Includes biographical sketch of the author.; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch

Additional Corporate Author: Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 390 K64

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; a history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15332

Author: Nichols, Roy F.

Date of Publication: 1967.

Call Number: 974.80074 P412h

Responsibility: by Roy F. Nichols.

Author: Nichols, Roy F.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Pennsylvaina Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1967.

Physical Description: 56 p. 23 cm.

Notes: "Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1913-1945": p. 46-48. "Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1945-1966": p. 48-55.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80074 P412h

Encounter at Hanover: prelude to Gettysburg; story of the invasion of Pennsylvania culminating in the Battles of Hanover and Gettysburg, June and July, 1863; with a bicentennial view of the town founded by Colonel Richard McAllister in 1763

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1474

Corporate Author: Hanover Chamber of Commerce. Historical Publication Committee.

Date of Publication: 1963 [c1962]

Call Number: 973.734 E56

Corporate Author: Hanover Chamber of Commerce. Historical Publication Committee.

Place of Publication: [Hanover]

Date of Publication: 1963 [c1962]

Physical Description: 274 p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliography.

Subjects: Hanover, Pa., Battle of, 1863.; Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.734 E56

The Old land and the new: the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo926

Date of Publication: 1965

Call Number: 917.3 B598

Responsibility: edited and translated by Robert H. Billigmeier & Fred Altschuler Picard. Sketches by Hans Erni.

Place of Publication: Minneapolis

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Date of Publication: 1965

Physical Description: 281 p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents: Note on translation.--Introduction, by R.H. Billigmeier.--Account of a journey to North America and through the most significant parts thereof, by J. Schweizer.--Day book on a journey to North America in the year 1823, by J.J. Rutlinger.

Summary: "In the 1820's, when the flow of immigration was still small, two Swiss immigrant families wrote accounts of what seemed to them to be the most decisive experiences of their lives. These particular accounts relate to a period in the history of American immigration that is less well known than the more spectacular colonial and post- Civil War movements. They are particularly vivid and insightful personal documents affording valuable perspectives of the integration of the 'Old Immigration' of ante-bellum days." [from the introduction]

Subjects: Swiss in the United States.; United States - Description and travel - 1783-1848.; United States - Emigration and immigration - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Schweizer, Johannes,; Rutlinger, Johann Jakob,; Billigmeier, Robert Henry,; Picard, Fred Altschuler,; Erni, Hans,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.3 B598

George Croghan of Pennsboro; a paper presented before the Cumberland County Historical Society and Hamilton Library Association on May 7, 1964

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15229

Author: Crist, Robert Grant.

Date of Publication: [1965]

Call Number: 974.802 C554

Author: Crist, Robert Grant.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Dauphin Deposit Trust Co.

Date of Publication: [1965]

Physical Description: 31 p. illus., maps. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 29-31).

Subjects: Croghan, George, - d. 1782.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 C554

The Society and the Willson Memorial Building

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo847

Date of Publication: 1969.

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.73

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1969.

Physical Description: [96] p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 73, no. 2

Subjects: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - History.; Willson Memorial Building (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.73

The one-horse show; the life and times of Dan Rice, circus jester and philanthropist

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8110

Author: Kunzog, John C.

Date of Publication: 1962

Call Number: 791.3 K95

Responsibility: A chronicle of early circus days.

Author: Kunzog, John C.

Place of Publication: Jamestown, N.Y

Date of Publication: 1962

Physical Description: 434 p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Dan Rice, original name Daniel Mclaren, (born Jan. 25, 1823, New York City-died Feb. 22, 1900, Long Branch, N.J., U.S.), American clown who was one of the most highly acclaimed clowns in the history of the circus. Rice was renowned for an act that included singing, dancing, witty badinage with the audience, feats of strength, trick riding, and exhibitions of trained wild animals. [from Britanica.com]

Subjects: Rice, Dan, - 1823-1900.; Clowns - United States.; Circus - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 791.3 K95

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