printed in the Americas before 1900. The nucleus of the Franklin and Marshall German American Imprint Collection consists of items from the Unger-Bassler Collection. This collection, a large body of material relating to the early United States and in particular to Pennsylvania, was originally brought

Harrisburg Imprints from the German American Imprint Collection in the Franklin and Marshall College Library By Marilyn M. Kramer and Elaine K. Pease The items in Franklin and Marshall College's German American Imprint Collection' which have recently received attention and cataloging are those

. German American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 30-35 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 2 Notes: From newspaper entitled "Neue Unpartheyische Lancaster Zeitung und

Penn- sylvania, but there still remain a number of facts that could be present- ed from the side of the Germans. For a scholarly presentation of the early German emigration and settlements, I would refer to a work by Anton Eickhoff, entitled: 'Die Deutschen in Pennsylvanien, oder Anfang der Aus

Report of Committee on Muhlenberg Tablet The tablet in memory of Henry E. Muhlenberg was placed on the Appel building, at the northeast corner of Duke and Grant Streets, on June 4th, 1929. The bronze tablet, 12 by 18 inches, from the Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, cost $69. The bill was paid by

manufacturing among the cities of Pennsylvania. Changes in transportation made possible an even greater increase in population in the area. People could live farther away from the center of town but still travel there to work without too much trouble. The Hershey Caramel Company, predecessor of The Hershey

, the first in Philadelphia being the congregation of George Michael Weiss in 1727.36 "German" was �not dropped from the name of the denomination until 1869,37 and the archives of the Reformed Church are housed today at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the "Penn

be erected over the Pequea. �Last Thursday was the day appointed by Congress to deter- mine where the seat of the new government should be situated. Proposals were made by Carlisle, Lancaster, Yorktown, German- town and Reading, in Pennsylvania. Proposals were also received from Trenton, [N. J

- delphia, in September, 1777, that a second paper was published in Lancaster. John Dunlap, who at that time published in Philadel- phia a weekly known as Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser, fled from that city on the approach of the British. He moved his printing press to Lancaster

boys, Abraham Hendel, in which he asked for indulgence and kindly consideration ; then the examina- tion of the first and second classes of English readers, began. They read several chapters from the New Testament, and recited rules in grammar. The class in German also read from the New Testa- ment