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History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science

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Author: Smith, George,

Date of Publication: 1862.

Call Number: 974.814 S648

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Responsibility: by George Smith, M.D.

Author: Smith, George,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by H.B. Ashmead,

Date of Publication: 1862.

Physical Description: vii, [1], 581, [1] p. front., plates, maps (part fold.) facsims. 22 cm.

Notes: Frontispiece (map) wanting.

Subjects: Natural history - Pennsylvania - Delaware County.; Delaware County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Delaware County Institute of Science (Media, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.814 S648

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Lancaster County Papers

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Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Physical Description: 2 vol. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: A series of pamphlets bound together.

Contents: Vol 1: Father Ferdinand Farmer, an apostolic missionary in three states by John F. Quirk--A discourse, delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 by P.J. Timlow--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Christ Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa.--Report of the commissioners appointed to examine the affairs of the Lancaster Savings Institution.; Vol.2: Resources and industries of the City of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.--Historical sketch of St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895 by Anthony F. Dorley--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Historical sketch of Zion's Reformed Church [Millersville] by D.H. Landis.

Subjects: Timlow, P.J.; St. Anthony's Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Christ Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster Savings Institution - Report.; Leacock Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.) - History.; Sacred Heart Academy (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; St. Anthony's Parochial School (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.); Reformed Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Roman Catholic Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Lutheran Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Millersville (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

An authentic history of Lancaster County : in the state of Pennsylvania

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Author: Mombert, J. I.

Date of Publication: 1869.

Call Number: 090 L244bar 1869

Responsibility: by J.I. Mombert.

Author: Mombert, J. I.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: J.E. Barr & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1869.

Physical Description: vii, 617, 175 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., maps (some fold.) 25 cm.

Notes: Natural history of the county: p. 500-614.

Subjects: Natural history - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L244bar 1869

Directory of Lancaster County: : embracing a full list of all the adult males and heads of families, with their occupation, residence, and P.O. address, and a classified business directory. Also, an appendix, containing a descriptive list of the courts, banking houses, public buildings, churches, educasional [sic] and benevolent institutions, secret and other societies, &c., &c. 1869-70

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Date of Publication: 1869.

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1869-70 reprint

Responsibility: Published by Barnes & Pearsol.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pearsol & Geist, printers, Daily Eppress [sic] Office.,

Date of Publication: 1869.

Physical Description: [5], 10-22, [1], 28-492 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Copyright 1869.; Reprint.; Includes index.

Subjects: Merchants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Directories.; Advertisements - Merchants; Directories - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - 1869

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1869-70 reprint

Complete catalogue of the names of all the students who have attended the Lititz Academy for Boys, from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1865, under the direction of Prof. John Beck to which is appended ... a valedictory letter, embracing a brief history of the rise and progress of the institution

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Date of Publication: 1865.

Call Number: 370 c736

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pearsol & Geist,

Date of Publication: 1865.

Physical Description: 72, [1] p. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Lititz Academy for Boys (Lititz, Pa.) - Directories.; John Beck's School Lyceum (Lititz, Pa.) - Directories; Schoools - Pennsylvania - Lititz; Lititz (Pa.) - History

Additional Author: Beck, John,

Additional Corporate Author: Lititz Academy for Boys (Lititz, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 c736

History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and directory of the principal business houses

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Date of Publication: 1869.

Call Number: 381 K48

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.?]

Publisher: Frederick & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1869.

Physical Description: 24 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Advertising matter throughout.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 381 K48

History of the Pennsylvania reserve corps: a complete record of the organization; and of the different companies, regiments and brigades; containing descriptions of expeditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles; together with biographical sketches of officers and personal records of each man during his term of service

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Author: Sypher, J. R.

Date of Publication: [1864]

Call Number: 974.8033 S994

Responsibility: Compiled from official reports and other documents. By J. R. Sypher, esq.

Author: Sypher, J. R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Published by E. Barr & co.

Date of Publication: [1864]

Physical Description: 723 p. illus. 23 cm.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. - Militia.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories - Pa.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.8033 S994

Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

a $500 mortgage bond, a blank stock certificate, and a requisition for high- tension lines. [18__]-1912. Folder 8 Conestoga Traction Co. Booklet of early histories, “Lancaster Co., Pa.,” which describes the company’s history, its routes, and sights along the way. 1 August 1908. Booklet by H. W

1 document

Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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Early history of the Falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill and Lehigh navigation companies, Fairmount waterworks, etc

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Author: Hagner, Charles Valerius,

Date of Publication: 1869.

Call Number: 974.811 H141

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Responsibility: by Charles V. Hagner.

Author: Hagner, Charles Valerius,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger,

Date of Publication: 1869.

Physical Description: viii, [9]-102 p. front., port. 21 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographies.

Subjects: Falls of Schuylkill (Pa.) - History.; Manayunk (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.811 H141

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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes and manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements

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Author: Watson, John F.

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 974.8 P544 1860

Responsibility: by John F. Watson ; embellished with engravings by T.H. Mumford.

Author: Watson, John F.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Elijah Thomas,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: 3 v., [28] leaves of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Spine title: Watson's annals of Philadelphia.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Mumford, Thomas Howland,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.8 P544 1860

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Lancaster County Papers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15602

An authentic history of Lancaster County : in the state of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10865

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17315

Complete catalogue of the names of all the students who have attended the Lititz Academy for Boys, from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1865, under the direction of Prof. John Beck to which is appended ... a valedictory letter, embracing a brief history of the rise and progress of the institution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15127

History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and directory of the principal business houses

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8749

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4287

Archive

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Documents

Early history of the Falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill and Lehigh navigation companies, Fairmount waterworks, etc

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6313

Websites

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16459