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American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race at Philadelphia, in October, 1819, to the people of the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13728
Date of Publication
1819.
Call Number
326 P544 1819
326 A512
  1 website  
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by S.W. Conrad,
Date of Publication
1819.
Physical Description
43 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Meeting convened in Philadelphia, October 15, 1819.
Report from the Columbia, Pa. Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, p. 11-14.
Subjects
Slavery - United States
Abolitionists - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 P544 1819
326 A512
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American engraved powder horns; a study based on the J. H. Grenville Gilbert collection

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11827
Corporate Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Edition
New printing.
Date of Publication
1965 [c1946]
Call Number
736.6 M594
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Stephen V Grancsay, curator emeritus, Dept. of Arms and Armor.
Corporate Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Edition
New printing.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
R. Riling Arms Books Co.,
Date of Publication
1965 [c1946]
Physical Description
viii, 96 p. illus., map, 47 plates, port. 30 cm.
Notes
Cover title: American powder horns.
"Annotated bibliography": p. 89-96.
Subjects
Gilbert, J. H. Grenville.
Powder flasks.
Bone carving.
Additional Author
Grancsay, Stephen V.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
736.6 M594
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Bamford zinc mine, Lancaster County, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20644
Author
Mosier, McHenry
Date of Publication
1948.
  1 website  
Responsibility
McHenry Mosier
Author
Mosier, McHenry
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
US Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines
Date of Publication
1948.
Subjects
Mine examination - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Zinc mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Electronic Resources
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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
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The Christian's defence against the fears of death : with seasonable directions how to prepare ourselves to die well

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16178
Author
Drelincourt, Charles,
Edition
From the 22nd London ed.
Date of Publication
1818.
Call Number
242.4 D772
  1 website  
Responsibility
written originally in French by Charles Drelincourt ; to which is prefixed The life of the author, and his behaviour in his last moments.
Author
Drelincourt, Charles,
Uniform Title
Consolations de l'ame fidele contre les frayeurs de la mort.
Edition
From the 22nd London ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and published by Simon Probasco,
Date of Publication
1818.
Physical Description
612 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Translation of: Les consolations de lame fidele contre les frayeurs de la mort.
Inscribed Jno. N. Woods on title page.
Subjects
Death.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
242.4 D772
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The counter-revolution in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4549
Author
Brunhouse, Robert Levere,
Date of Publication
1942.
Call Number
974.8029 B895
  1 website  
Responsibility
[by] Robert Levere Brunhouse.
Author
Brunhouse, Robert Levere,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
viii, 368 p. incl. maps. 23 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 299-318.
Contents
The Background -- The Rise of the Radicals (1776-1778) -- Triumph of Radicalism (1778-1780) -- The Conservatives Emerge (1780-1782) -- Conservatives Ride to Power (1782-1784) -- Counter-Revolution Halter(1783-1786) -- Triumph of the Counter-Revolution (1786-1790).
Summary
From the Preface: "Only with the detailed story of the struggle between radical and conservative forces in each state can one gain a more complete understanding of the history of the Revolution and the Confederation."
Subjects
United States - Politics and government - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1789.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8029 B895
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Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21218
Author
Boyd, John Parker,
Date of Publication
1816
Call Number
Book 461 1816
  1 website  
Author
Boyd, John Parker,
Place of Publication
[Place of publication not identified]
Publisher
[publisher not identified],
Date of Publication
1816
Physical Description
28 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
Caption title.
Defending the author's generalship.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, esquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.
Summary
The writer is a General from the War of 1812 who had suffered defeats during the war and was not chosen to remain in the Army after the war. He defends his performance in this letter.
Subjects
Boyd, John Parker, - 1764-1830.
Military campaigns.
United States - History - War of 1812 - Campaigns.
United States.
History.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 461 1816
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Five and ten; the fabulous life of F. W. Woolworth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5037
Author
Winkler, John K.
Date of Publication
[c1940]
Call Number
923.8 W888w
  1 website  
Responsibility
by John K. Winkler...
Author
Winkler, John K.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
R. M. McBride & Company
Date of Publication
[c1940]
Physical Description
256 p. front.,plates,ports. 25cm.
Summary
"This book, first published in 1940, is the unmissable biography of Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852-1919), the American entrepreneur behind the F. W. Woolworth Company and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes". He was also the first to use self-service display cases, so customers could examine what they wanted to buy without the help of a sales clerk.Woolworth founded an international financial empire with a short lease on a tiny store, a couple of gross of tin cans and a simple but revolutionary idea. Woolworth grew up a poor farm boy who tended his father's cows barefoot, but he followed the great American dream by parlaying native ingenuity, business sense, and understanding of people into a huge fortune and establishing an institution that became a familiar part of America's way of life." [from Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=GtwuDwAAQBAJ]
Go to the following link to see an LNP newspaper article about Woolworth establishing his first successful store in Lancaster: https://goo.gl/f75cLZ
Subjects
Woolworth, Frank Winfield, - 1852-1919
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.8 W888w
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Genealogy of the descendants of Christopher Esh

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1074
Author
Blank, Benjamin L.,
Date of Publication
1949.
Call Number
929 E74d
  1 website  
Responsibility
compiled by Benjamin L. Blank.
Author
Blank, Benjamin L.,
Place of Publication
[New Holland, Pa
Publisher
Printed by the New Holland Clarion]
Date of Publication
1949.
Physical Description
200 p. 24 cm.
Subjects
Esh family.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 E74d
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Author
Singmaster, Elsie,
Date of Publication
1942.
Call Number
812 S428
  1 website  
Responsibility
a novel by Elsie Singmaster.
Author
Singmaster, Elsie,
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin company,
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
viii, 296 p. 22 cm.
Notes
Map on lining-papers.
Summary
A novel about a frontier Pennsylvania before the French And Indian Wars.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
812 S428
Websites
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