The George Steinman Papers, Series 1 contains an album, compiled by George Steinman, with many photographs of buildings, tombstones, monuments and scenes of Lancaster city and county. Ephemera and newspaper articles are among the photographs. Represented in the album are Postlethwaite's Tavern, hotels and taverns, fire houses, the Conestoga massacre, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, Stehli Silk Mill, and schools. The four boxes contain orginal correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera or and pertaining to the same subject matter as the album.
The George Steinman Papers, Series 2 is a collection of original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera primarily compiled by George Steinman. The contents of Series 2 represent Lancaster city and county events, prominent citizens, buildings, monuments, churches, cemeteries, schools, and businesses. Most of what Steinman collected relates to 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania, highlighting Lancaster and Philadelphia. One of the key events highlighted is the Revolutionary war; with documents and images related to Philadelphia, George Washington, the Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Riot and to various buildings in early Lancaster; including but not limited to the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite's Tavern. Also included in the collection is currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1764, and Confederate States currency and bonds.
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"Mr. Geo. Steinman who started this collection of pictures. This book was presented to the Lanc. Co. Historical Society after his death by Mr. Geo. S. Franklin."
John M. Gibson is recorded as the donor, 1968, in LancasterHistory's accession records.
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Other Numbers
MG-184
Classification
MG0184
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Series 1 processed and finding aid prepared PK and MSH, 2008. Series 2 finding aid prepared by JE, 2018. Added to database 20 July 2021.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
Excerpt: "[Lester] spotted an old leather book with a brass clasp in a box of other items...Lester then took the book to Earl Groff at the Hans Herr House. Earl took it to Noah Good, who translated the first part of the instription as follows: 'This book belongs to Hans Herr. If lost, would the finder return it to me because the book means so much to me. 1724.'...One cannot state absolutely that the 1710 immigrant Hans Herr owned this book. However, the Ausbund itself was definitely printed in Europe and brought to this county...The Ausbund is based on fifty-one songs written by Anabaptists imprisoned in Passau castle between 1537 and 1540...The first American printing in 1742 added more hymns for a total of 140. Today, the Ausbund is still used as a song book in Amish congregations."
Excerpt: "In February 1744, 1710 immigrant Martin Mylin donated an Ausbund published by Christopher Saur in 1742 'to the church at the Hans Herrs'...The foregoing facts compel the conclusion that Martin Mylin's 'Church at the Hans Herrs' was not the Strasburg congregation which met at 503 Twin Elm Road. In 1744, Preacher Hans Herr did not live there, and he most likely was not yet ordained to the ministry. Moreover, it is highly unlikly that Martin Mylin attended church services there. The 'Church at the Hans Herrs' could only have been the 1719 house built by Bishop Christian Herr. And the 'Hans Herr' could only have been Christian Herr's father, patricarch Hans Herr."