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Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans : a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15323
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
6th printing.
Date of Publication
c1939.
Call Number
437.9748 A927 6th
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Responsibility
by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
6th printing.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Privately Printed : the Aurand Press,
Date of Publication
c1939.
Physical Description
32 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Title says 6th Edition.
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect
Pennsylvania German dialect - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language - Pennsylvania - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language - Pennsylvania - Humor.
Pennsylvania Dutch - Humor.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 A927 6th
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Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans; a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15086
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Revised Edition.
Date of Publication
1939.
Call Number
437.9748 A927 Rev
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Responsibility
by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Revised Edition.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Privately printed : The Aurand press,
Date of Publication
1939.
Physical Description
32 pages 22 cm
Subjects
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Pennsylvania German dialect - Glossaries, vacabularies, etc.
English language - Pennsylvania - Glossaries, vacabularies, etc.
English language - Pennsylvania - Humor.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutch - Humor.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 A927 Rev
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An historical and geographical account of the province and country of Pensilvania in America : the richness of the soil, the sweetness of the situation ... the first planters, the Dutch, Sweeds, and English with the number of its inhabitants : as also a touch upon George Keith's new religion, in his second change since he left the Quakers : with a map

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3799
Author
Thomas, Gabriel.
Edition
Enl. and repr.
Date of Publication
1938.
Call Number
974.801 T456
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Responsibility
by Gabriel Thomas ; edited, with copious notes, &c. by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.
Author
Thomas, Gabriel.
Edition
Enl. and repr.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Aurand Press,
Date of Publication
1938.
Physical Description
32 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Notes
Originally published: London : A. Baldwin, 1698. Reprinted at the Aurand Press, 1935.
Cover title: History of Pensilvania, published in London in 1698.
"Privately printed for the editor and his friends".
Filmed with: Good order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey / by Thomas Budd. Cleveland : Burrows Co., 1902.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.801 T456
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.18343867;view=1up;seq=9
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Stories of Pennsylvania, 1616-1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2158
Author
Singmaster, Elsie
Date of Publication
c1937-1940.
Call Number
813.52 S428
823.52 S428
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Responsibility
by Elsie Singmaster ; illustrations by Alden Turner.
Author
Singmaster, Elsie
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Book Service,
Date of Publication
c1937-1940.
Physical Description
4 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Illustrated lining papers.
v.2 includes juvenile stories of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Cresap, Conrad Weiser, Daniel Boone, Henry William Stiegel, Martyr's Mirror and John Fitch.
v. 2 with orginal paper cover and signataure of author.
Contents
v. 1. 1616-1781 -- v. 2. 1723-1797 -- v. 3. 1787-1830 -- v. 4. 1835-1860.
Subjects
Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - History - Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania - History - Juvenile fiction
Juvenile works.
Additional Author
Turner, Alden.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.52 S428
823.52 S428
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Notes and queries, historical, biographical and genealogical, relating chiefly to interior Pennsylvania: edited by William Henry Egle. Series 1-3 reprints, Series annual 1896-1900; Table of contents of these volumes revised and rearranged in one alphabet

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19390
Date of Publication
1932.
Call Number
974.8005 31 Contents
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Responsibility
by Pennsylvania State Library.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa.?
Publisher
Pennsylvania State Library,
Date of Publication
1932.
Physical Description
38 p. 23 cm.
Notes
"This compilation is not a complete index. It was arranged originally by members of the State library staff ... Additional headings prepared by other libraries have since been included."
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Periodicals.
Pennsylvania - Biography - Periodicals.
Pennsylvania - Genealogy - Periodicals.
Additional Author
Egle, William Henry,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania State Library.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
974.8005 31 Contents
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Twelfth colony plus; the formative years of Pennsylvania and a biography of James Buchanan, fifteenth and only president of the United States from Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16470
Author
Bomberger, C. M.
Date of Publication
[c1934]
Call Number
974.8 B639
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Responsibility
by C.M. Bomberger.
Author
Bomberger, C. M.
Place of Publication
Jeannette, Pa
Publisher
Jeannette Pub. Co.
Date of Publication
[c1934]
Physical Description
2 p. l., 197, [13] p. illus., plates, ports., maps. 24 cm.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Pennsylvania - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8 B639
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Unveiling of the tablet commemorating the bicentennial of the James Wright house and the Sesquicentennial of the Borough of Columbia, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3725
Author
Hiestand, Elizabeth F. G.
Date of Publication
1938
he was delighted to introduce as our principal speaker a man of Quaker descent, who would tell us about the early Quakers of a neighbor- ing state, WHAT AMERICAN LIBERTY OWES TO THE QUAKERS The Hon, Joseph R, Grundy spoke as follows: Mr, Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Friends of Pennsylvania are
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Responsibility
by Elizabeth F. G. Hiestand.
Author
Hiestand, Elizabeth F. G.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1938
Physical Description
[125]-137 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 42, no. 5
Subjects
Wright, James.
Wright, John, - 1667-1749.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Columbia (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Columbia (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 42, number 5 (1938), p. 125-137Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.42
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Benjamin Chew, 1722-1810 : head of the Pennsylvania judiciary system under Colony and Commonwealth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4321
Author
Konkle, Burton Alva,
Date of Publication
1932.
Call Number
923.4 C529k
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Responsibility
by Burton Alva Konkle.
Author
Konkle, Burton Alva,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication
1932.
Physical Description
xix, 316 p. : ports., plates, maps (1 double), facsims. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Title vignette (Chew coat of arms).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Chew, Benjamin, - 1722-1810.
Chew family.
Pennsylvania. - High Court of Errors and Appeals.
Judges - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.4 C529k
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William Penn and the Dutch Quaker migration to Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3545
Author
Hull, William Isaac,
Date of Publication
1935.
Call Number
974.802 P412h
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Alternate Title
Dutch Quaker migration to Pennsylvania
Responsibility
by William I. Hull.
Author
Hull, William Isaac,
Place of Publication
[Swarthmore, Pa
Publisher
Swarthmore college]
Date of Publication
1935.
Physical Description
xiii p., 1 l., 445 p. front., plates, ports., map, facsims. 24 cm.
Series
Swarthmore college monographs on Quaker history. no. 2
Notes
"The Dutch pioneers of Germantown": p. 395-398.
"Dutch and German settlers in Germantown, 1683-1709": p. 399-421.
Summary
" ... the study comprises, first, Penn's efforts on his three journeys to Holland and Germany to convert to Quakerism the Labadists, Pietists,and Quietists whom he found there; second, the way in which small Quaker communities on the Continent had prepared the way for these visits; and finally the rise and progress of those congregations of Dutch and German Quakers who, fleeing from persecution, accepted Penn's invitation to settle in Pennsylvania." [from the preface]
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718.
Quakers - Pennsylvania.
Society of Friends - Netherlands.
Society of Friends - Germany.
Dutch - Pennsylvania.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 P412h
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Mennonites of Lancaster conference : containing biographical sketches of Mennonite leaders; histories of congregations, missions, and Sunday schools; record of ordinations; and other interesting historical data

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12460
Author
Weaver, Martin G.,
Date of Publication
1931.
Call Number
289.7 W363
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Responsibility
by Martin G. Weaver.
Author
Weaver, Martin G.,
Place of Publication
Scottdale, Pa
Publisher
Mennonite Pub. House,
Date of Publication
1931.
Physical Description
xvi, 496 p. : front., plates, facsims. ; 22 cm.
Subjects
Mennonites - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
289.7 W363
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