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200th anniversary, 1754-1954, Intercourse, Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author: Intercourse Civic Association, Intercourse, Pa.

Date of Publication: 1954.

Call Number: 974.815 LEAC I61

Corporate Author: Intercourse Civic Association, Intercourse, Pa.

Place of Publication: Intercourse, Pa

Publisher: Intercourse Civic Association,

Date of Publication: 1954.

Physical Description: 192 p. : illus. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes advertisements.; Historical souvenir book and tourist guide.

Subjects: Amish.; Intercourse (Pa.) - History - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Leacock (Pa. : Township)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LEAC I61

Adventure to home

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Author: Wells, Robert,

Edition: [1st ed.].

Date of Publication: 1957.

Call Number: 813.54 W455

Responsibility: by Robert Wells; Illustrated by Mary Stevens.

Author: Wells, Robert,

Edition: [1st ed.].

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Knopf,

Date of Publication: 1957.

Physical Description: 148 pages illustrations 21 cm

Summary: "A boy had to ride sometimes, or he would burst in pieces! Twelve-year-old Dirk, a son of the plain people, dearly loved his family and would not have traded shoes with any city boy. But, still, the ways of his people were so -this way exactly and no other way! It was hard to want to ride a horse so badly he 'could taste it,' and to have to forego the pleasure because 'a horse is to work.'" [book jacket]

Subjects: Mennonites - Pennsylvania; Mennonites.; Pennsylvania.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 813.54 W455

American firearms makers: when, where, and what they made from the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century

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Author: Carey, Arthur Merwyn,

Date of Publication: [1953]

Call Number: 683 C273

Author: Carey, Arthur Merwyn,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Crowell

Date of Publication: [1953]

Physical Description: xiii, 146 p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 145-146.

Subjects: Firearms industry and trade - United States.; Firearms

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 683 C273

Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch tourist guide

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Date of Publication: c1959.

Call Number: 917.48 A516

Responsibility: edited by Alfred L. Soemaker.

Place of Publication: Kutztown, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania Folklife Society,

Date of Publication: c1959.

Physical Description: 116 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "Dunkard 'Love Feasts' by Don Yoder": p. [40]-41.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Amish; Pennsylvania Dutch - Folklore.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Additional Author: Shoemaker, Alfred Lewis,; Yoder, Don.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Folklife Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.48 A516

Andrew Ellicott : surveyor of the capital of our nation

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1950

pleasant farewell, for his two youngest daughters, Nancy and Rachel, had come from Lancaster to bid him good-bye. �Working For Pennsylvania Ellicott was employed on many occasions by the Keystone State. In 1786, he surveyed the boundary of Pennsylvania and New York from the Delaware River to the ninetieth

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1950

Physical Description: [1]-14 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 54, no. 1

Subjects: Ellicott, Andrew, - 1754-1820.; Surveyors - Pennsylvania.; City planning - Washington (D.C.); United States - Capital and capitol.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 54, number 1 (1950), p. 1-14Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.54

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Annual report

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Corporate Author: Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1958-

Call Number: 352.1 L244a

Responsibility: Lancaster City Planning Commission.

Corporate Author: Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1958-

Notes: Library has 1958, 1959.; 1958 cover title: Lancaster moves ahead;Publication 3.; 1959 cover title: Progress thru planning; Publication 7.

Subjects: City planning.; Lancaster City (Pa.) - Politics and government

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.1 L244a

The antiques book : outstanding, authoritative articles on ceramics, furniture, glass, silver, pewter, architecture, prints and other collecting interests

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Date of Publication: 1950.

Call Number: 745.1 A632

Responsibility: Edited by Alice Winchester and the staff of the magazine Antiques.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Bonanza Books,

Date of Publication: 1950.

Physical Description: 319 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: "Articles from the first fifty-six volumes of Antiques, January 1922 through December 1949."

Subjects: Collectors and collecting.; Antiques.

Additional Author: Winchester, Alice.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745.1 A632

Archive

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Collection: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Title: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Object ID: HC0001

Date Range: 1905-1974

the donor of the collection, recalled her as “warm and artistic,” and “a character.” She died April 17, 1973, at the age of 85. Works Cited: "Mrs. Franklin, pioneer of women’s knit suits, dies." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 10 May 1963, p. 2. "Accident Fatal to Mrs. Sarah A. Cox

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Collection: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Title: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Description: This collection contains ephemera related to Alice Potter Fordney, antiques dealer and rugmaker. Items in the collection include business correspondence with Armstrong, F. Schumacher & Co., and the Montclair art museum; personal correspondence with friends and family; hooked rug patterns; and antiques sale flyers from the early 20th century. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings, including the obituary of Fordney's sister Ellen Franklin; reference material for rug making and interior design (informational sheets, books and patterns); several items related to the Yeates School, which Fordney's brother William Bush Fordney attended; several photographs of unidentified persons; and a statement related to the will of William J. Fordney, her uncle.

Admin/Biographical History: Alice Potter Fordney was born June 21, 1887 in Lancaster, the daughter of Ida Cox and Thomas Potter Fordney. A prominent antique dealer from the late 1920s to her retirement in 1965, Fordney also made and sold hooked rugs.; Fordney's family features prominently in Lancaster County history. Her maternal great-grandfather was John Michael, who owned the historic Grape Hotel from 1805-1839. Fordney's paternal great-grandfather William Jenkins built Wheatland in 1828 and later sold the property to President James Buchanan. Colonel William Bush Fordney, her paternal grandfather, was a prominent lawyer in Lancaster. He served as district attorney from 1839-1845 and negotiated for the loan that enabled Lancaster city to build the "water works" in the 1830s. Sarah Cox, her maternal grandmother, was a known philanthropist and for years helped to manage the Home for Friendless Children in Lancaster. Her sister, Ellen Fordney Franklin, was a "pioneer" in the industry of women's knit suits, opening her first shop in 1929 in Philadelphia.; Fordney never married. She kept in contact with her nieces and nephews, as evidenced by letters in the collection. According to notes provided by Wendell Zercher, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine Muench, her niece and the donor of the collection, recalled her as "warm and artistic," and "a character." She died April 17, 1973, at the age of 85.; Works Cited:; "Mrs. Franklin, pioneer of women's knit suits, dies." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 10 May 1963, p. 2.; "Accident Fatal to Mrs. Sarah A. Cox." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], no date, page unknown.; "Miss Fordney, Antique Dealer, 85, Succumbs." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 18 April 1973, p. 2.; "One of Lancaster's Most Prominent and Venerable Citizens Passes Away." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 29 July 1889, p. 1.

Date Range: 1905-1974

Year Range From: 1905

Year Range To: 1974

Date of Accumulation: 1905-1974

Creator: Fordney, Alice Potter, 1887-1973

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Storage Wall: Side 28

People: Appel, Charles Rengier; Bohlen, Sidney Franklin; Bowman, Mrs. Edward J.; Boyer, R. J.; Brenneman, Mary Rue Bard; Brown, Hazel Dell; Chiarell, Fred P.; Clark, George W.; Daugherty, Harvey P.; Demuth, Charles; Dodge, Arthur B.; Embsweiler, Ruth; Erb, Edna; Fordney, Alice Potter; Fordney, William Bush Jr.; Fordney, William Jenkins; Franklin, Ellen Julia Fordney; Gibbons, Alice McIlvaine; Gilbert, L. J.; Gingrich, Milton E.; Graybill, John M.; Griest, Charles J.; Higby, Everett; Hostetter, A. K.; Howe, John; Irvine, Blanche; Kent, William Winthrop; Knodle, Edward; Krone, Herbert B.; Lindenmuth, J. D.; Long, Yvonne; Maclay, Helen Hurley; Malone, Clarence; Morris, Charles R.; Morris, Grace M.; Nauman, Gertrude Colson; Orr, Barclay; Pennypacker, Charles A.; Pennypacker, James G.; Randall, Meda; Rannels, Paul; Stokes, Agnes M.; Strickler, Belle; Wolf, Emily

Other Creators: Muench, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine, d. 2006

Subjects: American newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Women; Antique dealers; Armstrong Cork Company; Armstrong World Industries; F. Schumacher & Co.; Farm Journal Media; House & Garden; Interior decoration; Letters; Montclair Art Museum; Patterns for crafts; Rugs; Rugs, Hooked; Student newspapers and periodicals; Woman's world magazine

Search Terms: Albert Steiger Company; Antique dealers; Antique sales; Armstrong Cork Company; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Berlinwork patterns; Blue and Brown (Yeates School); Cheney Silks; Cheney Weaves; Christmas; Correspondence; Cricket Club; Dickinson Presbyterian Church; Estate sales; F. Schumacher and Company; Farm Journal Media; Fiber arts; Finding aids; Gilbert's store; Griest Homestead; Guernsey Sales Pavilion; Hager's Department Store; Hershey Fire Hall; Hooked rugs; House & Garden; Interior decoration; Kleinfelter's auction rooms; Letters; Manuscript groups; Montclair Art Museum; Odd Fellows Hall; Olson Rugs; Patterns for crafts; Rossmere Hotel; Rug patterns; Rugs; State Armory Hall; V-mail; Woman's World Magazine; Yeates School

Extent: 3 boxes, 37 folders, 333 items, 1,015 pages to scan, 4.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: HC0001

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Associated Material: Sarah McIlvaine Muench Family Papers, MS 44 at Archives and Special Collections, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.

Related Item Notes: See photograph collection.; See curatorial collection for examples of rugs.; Fordney Family Diaries (MG0539)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Archive of Alice P. Fordney (HC0001), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: The kraft paper patterns in Folders 33-37 are restricted. Please make an appointment with the Director of Archival Services to view these items.

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.

Accession Number: G.04.23.52

Classification: HC0001

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: From the Heritage Center of Lancaster County collection, G04.23.52.; Processed and finding aid prepared by MJ, June 2018.

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200th anniversary, 1754-1954, Intercourse, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3804

Adventure to home

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20974

American firearms makers: when, where, and what they made from the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2771

Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch tourist guide

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16619

Andrew Ellicott : surveyor of the capital of our nation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1192

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Annual report

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17647

The antiques book : outstanding, authoritative articles on ceramics, furniture, glass, silver, pewter, architecture, prints and other collecting interests

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14035

Archive

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Archive

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