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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
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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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
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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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
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Charter to William Penn, and laws of the province of Pennsylvania, passed between the years 1682 and 1700, preceded by Duke of York's laws in force from the year 1676 to the year 1682, with an Appendix containing laws relating to the organization of the provincial courts and historical matter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3413
Corporate Author
Zonnehof Cultureel Centrum.
Date of Publication
1879.
Call Number
340.9 C486
Responsibility
Pub. under the direction of John Blair Linn, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Comp. and ed. By Staughton George, Benjamin M. Nead, Thomas McCamant.
Corporate Author
Zonnehof Cultureel Centrum.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
L.S. Hart, State Printer,
Date of Publication
1879.
Physical Description
iv, 614 p. front. (port.) illus., facsims. (part fold.) 25 cm.
Notes
In pocket of volume is a "Fac-simile of the charter granted by Charles the Second to William Penn for the 'province of Pensilvania,' engraved from the original on file in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth."
Subjects
Pennsylvania. - Courts.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New Sweden - History.
Additional Author
George, Staughton.
Nead, Benjamin Matthias,
McCamant, Thomas,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Great Britain.
Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
340.9 C486
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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
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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An illustrated history of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, civil, political, and military, from its earliest settlement to the present time including historical descriptions of each county in the state, their towns, and industrial resources

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3097
Author
Egle, William Henry,
Date of Publication
1876.
Call Number
974.8009 H313 1876
974.8009 E31
Responsibility
by William Henry Egle.
Author
Egle, William Henry,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
DeWitt C. Goodrich,
Date of Publication
1876.
Physical Description
xii, 13-1186 p., front., illus. (ports., maps, facsim.), 25 cm.
Notes
Bound in three-quarter red leather and red linen.
Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham No. 2658
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History.
Pennsylvania - Local history.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8009 H313 1876
974.8009 E31
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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
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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Historical map of Pennsylvania. Showing the Indian names of streams, and villages, and paths of travel; the sites of old forts and battle-fields; the successive purchases from the Indians; and the names and dates of counties and county towns; with tables of forts and proprietary manors

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3568
Corporate Author
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1875.
Call Number
974.80091 P415s
Responsibility
Ed. by P. W. Sheafer and others.
Corporate Author
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Publication fund of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
1875.
Physical Description
26 p. fold. map. 30 cm.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History.
Additional Author
Sheafer, P. W.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80091 P415s
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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
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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The history of Pennsylvania from the earliest discovery to the present time. Including an account of the first settlements by the Dutch, Swedes, and English, and of the colony of William Penn, his treaty and pacific measures with the Indians; and the gradual advancement of the state to its present aspect of opulence, culture and refinement. By William Mason Cornell

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3100
Author
Cornell, William Mason,
Date of Publication
1876.
Call Number
974.8009 C814
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Author
Cornell, William Mason,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Quaker City Pub. House,
Date of Publication
1876.
Physical Description
575, [1] p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. [576]
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8009 C814
Websites
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