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2 forgotten men of the Pennsylvania frontier

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Author: Stoctay, G. G.

Date of Publication: 1972.

Call Number: 974.8009 S866

Responsibility: by G.G. Stoc-tay.

Author: Stoctay, G. G.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Neo American Church,

Date of Publication: 1972.

Physical Description: 23 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: This monograph is limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 80.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Personal narratives.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8009 S866

Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c

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Author: Captain of volunteers.

Date of Publication: 1847.

Call Number: 979.4403 C254

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Responsibility: by a Captain of volunteers.

Author: Captain of volunteers.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: H. Packer & Co. ...,

Date of Publication: 1847.

Physical Description: [2], 5-64 p. (first leaf blank) ; 25 cm.

Notes: This copy is a reproduction ISBN 0548410593.; Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.; Anti-annexation tract.

Summary: The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Mexican War, 1846-1848.; California - Description and travel.; California - History - 1846-1850.; Mexico, North - Description and travel.; California - Annexation to the United States.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 979.4403 C254

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American folk painting : selections from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III : an exhibition on display at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, November 29, 1977- January 8, 1978

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Author: Woodward, Richard B.,

Date of Publication: 1977.

Call Number: 759.13 W912

Responsibility: organized by the Virginia Museum ; and circulated by the American Federation of Arts ; catalog compiled by Richard B. Woodward.

ISBN: 091704603X; 9780917046032; 0917046021 (pbk.); 9780917046025 (pbk.)

Author: Woodward, Richard B.,

Place of Publication: Richmond

Publisher: The Museum,

Date of Publication: 1977.

Physical Description: 110 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Wiltshire, William E. - Art collections; Painting, American - Exhibitions.; Primitivism in art - United States - Exhibitions.

Additional Corporate Author: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.; American Federation of Arts.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 759.13 W912

A brief history of the Lancaster County Library

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Date of Publication: 1970?]

Call Number: 027.4748 B853

Place of Publication: [Lancaster

Date of Publication: 1970?]

Physical Description: 19 l. 28 cm.

Notes: Based on Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer's address before the Lancaster Historical Society in 1944.

Subjects: Lancaster County Library, Lancaster, Pa.

Additional Author: Kieffer, Elizabeth Clarke.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 027.4748 B853

Buchanan dying

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Author: Updike, John.

Date of Publication: [1974]

Call Number: 812.5 U66

Responsibility: a play.

ISBN: 0233965645

Author: Updike, John.

Place of Publication: [London]

Publisher: A. Deutsch

Date of Publication: [1974]

Physical Description: 262p. 21cm.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - Pres. U.S., - 1791-1860 - Drama.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 812.5 U66

Col James Duffy of Marietta entertains the Farmers' Club, 1881-1888

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1972.

of steel-framed spectacles. Nearly all were gray- headed, ruddy-cheeked, bright-eyed, and snowy-whiskered. Judging from his conversation, every man was either a school mate or a chum of George M. Dallas and James Buchanan. They talked not of the crops nor of the weather. They seemed to be far more

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Responsibility: by John Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1972.

Physical Description: [94]-116 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 76, no. 2

Subjects: Duffy, James W., - 1818-1888.; Farmers' Club of Pennsylvania.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 76, number 2 (1972), p. 94-116Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.76

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Dearest Susie; a Civil War infantryman's letters to his sweetheart

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Author: McGregor, Frank Ross,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: [1971]

Call Number: 973 H361

Responsibility: Edited and with introd. by Carl E. Hatch.

ISBN: 0682472301

Author: McGregor, Frank Ross,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Exposition Press

Date of Publication: [1971]

Physical Description: 131 p. 21 cm.

Series: An Exposition-university book

Summary: A book of letters from a soldier in the Civil War. This soldier, Frank McGregor, was born in England and spent his childhood in Scotland. His parents settled in Ohio in the early 1850s. He entered the Union army in 1862. He served in the western theater of the war, spending time in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. He was writing to his 20 year old school teacher girlfriend. The author considers the letters "timeless, because in addition to capturing the spirit and mood of loneliness, camaraderie, boredom and anxiety that soldiers of every era have experienced, Frank raised questions that thousands of Americans asked themselves again in World Wars I and II and in the Korean War, and are asking themselves even more intensely today...whether war is futile or necessary; whether all the suffering is worth it."

Subjects: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Hatch, Carl E.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973 H361

The Douglas diary; student days at Franklin and Marshall College, 1856-1858

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Author: Douglas, Henry Kyd,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Call Number: 371.8092 D734

Responsibility: Edited by Frederic Shriver Klein and John Howard Carrill. Illustrated by Florence Starr Taylor.

ISBN: 0910626006

Author: Douglas, Henry Kyd,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Franklin and Marshall College,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Physical Description: xxvi, 192 p. illus. 20 cm.

Notes: African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Summary: "March 1858...Should Kansas be admitted to the Union? Who will run Pennsylvania's canals? What is the family's relation to Society? These are but a few of the concerns recorded this month by Henry Kyd Douglas in 'The Douglas diary'. Douglas, residing on Center Square, is in the class of 1858 at F&M College. He tells of the 'students escort' to President James Buchanan during the latter's inaugural one year ago. 'The Douglas Diary' is also said to record many other events and hitherto unexplained mischief in community, college and national life during the years 1856-1858." [advertisement]

Subjects: Douglas, Henry Kyd, - 1838-1903 - Diaries.; Franklin and Marshall College - History - Personal narratives.; Diaries.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 371.8092 D734

Fraud and falsehood exposed : General Taylor's Southern face

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Corporate Author: Democratic Party (U.S.)

Date of Publication: [1848?]

Call Number: 815 P769 # 15

Responsibility: published by a Committee of Democrats.

Corporate Author: Democratic Party (U.S.)

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: Greer's Printing Office,

Date of Publication: [1848?]

Physical Description: 8 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; The issue dwarfing all others in the 1848 national elections was the disposition of territory acquired as the result of the Mexican War. Slave and Free states battled to add them to their ranks. Whig campaign pamphlets portrayed their candidate Taylor as anti-slavery in the North and as pro-slavery in the South. His opponent, Democrat Lewis Cass, was portrayed as pro-slavery in the North and anti-slavery in the South. The Democrats proceeded in a like manner. Here, for Northern consumption, Democrats demonstrate Taylor's "Southern face," i.e., his expressed comfort with Southern institutions and opposition to the Wilmot Proviso, barring slavery from the conquered territories.; In: Political Speeches.

Subjects: Cass, Lewis, - 1782-1866.; Taylor, Zachary, - 1784-1850.; Campaign literature - United States.; Presidential candidates - United States.; Presidents - United States; Slavery - United States; United States - Politics and government - 1845-1849.; Washington (D.C.) - Imprints - 19th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 815 P769 # 15

A gallery of American samplers : the Theodore H. Kapnek Collection

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Author: Krueger, Glee F.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1978.

Responsibility: Glee F. Krueger.

ISBN: 0525111301 : 052547515X

Author: Krueger, Glee F.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: E. P. Dutton with the Museum of American Folk Art,

Date of Publication: 1978.

Physical Description: 96 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 93-96.

Subjects: Kapnek, Theodore H. - Art collections.; Samplers - United States.; Embroidery - North America

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