Collection of brochures relating to tourist attractions, museums, historic sites, events, stores, farmers' markets, hotels, and restaurants in Lancaster, Lebanon, and York Counties. Visitors' guides and road maps provide additional information about points of interest. Items in the collection date back to the late 1920s and continue to the present, but most are from the mid-twentieth century.
Visitors from all over the world come to the Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley to experience the sights, sounds, and smells of long-gone eras. Throughout the museum's grounds and 23 furnished buildings, guides and demonstrating craftspersons explain and ue 18th and 19th century skills such as driving a Conestoga wagon to interpret rural Pennsylvania life.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Quilts and the social atmosphere of a "quilting bee" are authentic parts of Lancaster County farm life. Here area women demonstrate their art at the Pennsylvania Farm Museum at Landis Valley. Originally quilts were pieced from scraps and worn clothing, but although the traditional patterns remain the same, today's examples of the quilter's art normally begin with new fabrics. A typical applique pattern uses 300 to 1500 individual pieces, plus an infinite number of stitches.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
The Landis Valley Hotel on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Farm Museum. It is very siilar to the houses of the area built a the middle of the 19th century. The rails, of course, are for the convenient hitching of horses.
Museum pieces on a giant scale are the 1901 Peerless (with the fringe on top, at left) and the 1908 Avery steam traction engine, donated to the Pennsylvania Farm Museum at Landis Valley by J. H. Brubaker of Rohrerstown, who was a thresherman for 52 years. With him at museum is Elmer Landis. Sunday News photo.