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Pennsylvania furniture : including important works by Philadelphia cabinetmakers : American portraits, still-lifes and landscape paintings : Philadelphia & other American silver : Pennsylvania Dutch fraktur work : sgraffito and slipware ... part one, from the estate of the late Arthur J. Sussel : public auction sale, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 23, 24 and 25 ... [at] Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3241
Corporate Author
Parke-Bernet Galleries.
Date of Publication
1958.
Call Number
645 S964
Corporate Author
Parke-Bernet Galleries.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Parke-Bernet Galleries,
Date of Publication
1958.
Physical Description
155 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Notes
"Sale number 1847."
Cover title: Arts and crafts of Pennsylvania and other notable Americana.
Subjects
Sussel, Arthur J., - 1889-1958 - Art collections.
Art, American
Furniture, American - Pennsylvania
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
645 S964
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Pennsylvania German Folklore Society : [yearbook]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17735
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society.
Date of Publication
1936-1966.
Call Number
905.748 PGFS
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society.
Place of Publication
[Allentown]
Publisher
The Society,
Date of Publication
1936-1966.
Physical Description
28 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Publication Frequency
Irregular
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1-v. 28.
Notes
Description based on: Vol. 7 (1942).
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch - Periodicals.
Folklore - Pennsylvania - Periodicals.
Germans - Pennsylvania - Folklore - Periodicals.
Pennsylvania German dialect - Periodicals.
German American literature - Pennsylvania - Periodicals.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 PGFS
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Pennsylvania German literature; changing trends from 1683 to 1942

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5673
Author
Robacker, Earl Francis.
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
974.809 R628
Responsibility
By Earl F. Robacker.
Author
Robacker, Earl Francis.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania press,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
x,217 p. 23 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 189-202.
Subjects
German-American literature - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania German dialect.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.809 R628
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Simon Cameron's adventure in iron, 1837-1846; new biographical material including an account of the formation and dissolution of a partnership of Simon Cameron, S.F. Headley, Samuel Humes, and Thomas McNair for the manufacture and sale of iron (principally to what is now the Pennsylvania Railroad) and its political connotations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1052
Author
McNair, James Birtley,
Date of Publication
[1949]
Call Number
923.2 C182m
Author
McNair, James Birtley,
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, Calif
Date of Publication
[1949]
Physical Description
xi, 160 p. plates, port. 23 cm.
Notes
"A limited numbered edition of 500 copies."
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [111]-156)
Subjects
Cameron, Simon, - 1799-1889.
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 C182m
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Wit and humor of the Pennsylvania Germans : a collection of anecdotes, stories, and witticisms : some old, some new : choicest parlor and after-dinner stories

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19393
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Illustrated ed.
Date of Publication
c1946.
Call Number
437.9748 A927w
Responsibility
by A. Monroe Aurand.
Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Edition
Illustrated ed.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Privately printed, the Aurand Press,
Date of Publication
c1946.
Physical Description
32 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
At head of title: Penna. "Dutch" joke book.
Subjects
German American wit and humor - Pennsylvania.
German Americans - Pennsylvania - Humor.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437.9748 A927w
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Stock in trade : being an "inventory of the store in Litiz (Pennsylvania), taken from the 4th to 8th May, 1773," and some pertinent remarks regarding service to the American public

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15935
Date of Publication
[ca. 1940]
Call Number
974.815 LITB S864
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Home Insurance Co.,
Date of Publication
[ca. 1940]
Physical Description
[20] p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Facsimile reproduction of the 1773 inventory.
Subjects
General stores - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Inventories - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LITB S864
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The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8227
Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
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Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Place of Publication
Doylestown, Pa
Publisher
Bucks County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
[6] 216 p. : plates, port. ;
Notes
Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870)
Bibliography: p. 206-208.
Contents
Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves
Summary
Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.
Subjects
Stoves.
Stove-plates.
Christian art and symbolism.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
Websites
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The Pennsylvania Dutch and their cookery : their history, art, accomplishments, also a broad collection of their food recipes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16611
Author
Frederick, J. George
Date of Publication
1946, c1935
Call Number
641.5 F852 1946
Responsibility
by J. George Frederick.
Author
Frederick, J. George
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Business Bourse,
Date of Publication
1946, c1935
Physical Description
275 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes index to recipes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-85).
Contents
I. The Old-World background of the Pennsylvania Dutch -- II. Regional cookery and the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Art, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Cookery, American - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
641.5 F852 1946
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The Amish of Lancaster County : a brief, but truthful account of the actual life and customs of the most unique class of people in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17696
Author
Steinfeldt, Berenice.
Date of Publication
c1940.
Call Number
289.71 S819
Responsibility
by Berenice Steinfeldt.
Author
Steinfeldt, Berenice.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Conestoga Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
c1940.
Physical Description
32, [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes
"Published in Lancaster County, Pa. by Arthur G. Steinfeldt.
c. 1 copyright 1940 "9th printing"; c. 2 copyright 1937 "2nd printing".
Subjects
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
289.71 S819
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William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library. An exhibition of holograph letters and autograph documents, selected from source materials in the Blumhaven Collection

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14322
Author
Blum, Herman,
Date of Publication
1950]
Call Number
923.2 P412b
Author
Blum, Herman,
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Blumhaven Library and Gallery,
Date of Publication
1950]
Physical Description
48 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Contains also material on Thomas Holme, surveyor for Penn in Pennsylvania.
Bibliography: p. 48.
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718.
Holme, Thomas, - d. 1695.
Additional Corporate Author
Blumhaven Library and Gallery.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 P412b
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