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125th anniversary (1849-1974)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1547
Author
St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Lancaster, Pa.)
Date of Publication
1974.
Call Number
282 J83
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Author
St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Lancaster, Pa.)
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
The church]
Date of Publication
1974.
Physical Description
41 p. : ill. 28 cm.
Notes
Contains advertisements of local businesses.
Subjects
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.
Roman Catholics - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Roman Catholic Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
282 J83
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The ABC books of the Pennsylvania Germans

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Author
Klinefelter, Walter,
Date of Publication
1973.
Call Number
905.748 TPG v.7
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Alternate Title
Abraham Harley Cassel, nineteenth century Pennsylvania German American book collector
Marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, 1748-1767
Responsibility
[by] Walter Klinefelter. Abraham Harley Cassel, nineteenth century Pennsylvania German American book collector [by] Marlin L. Heckman. Marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, 1748-1767 [by] Fritz Braun and Frederick S. Weiser.
Author
Klinefelter, Walter,
Place of Publication
Breinigsville
Publisher
Pennsylvania German Society,
Date of Publication
1973.
Physical Description
viii, 299 p. illus. 24 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ;
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Cassel, Abraham Harley, - 1820-1908.
German language
Pennsylvania Dutch
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Additional Author
Heckman, Marlin L.
Braun, Fritz.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 TPG v.7
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The ABC books of the Pennsylvania Germans

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Author
Klinefelter, Walter.
Date of Publication
1973.
Call Number
905.748 TPG v.7
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Author
Klinefelter, Walter.
Date of Publication
1973.
Physical Description
1-104 p.
Notes
In: The Pennsylvania German Society, v.7 (1973).
Subjects
Alphabet books.
Germans in Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 TPG v.7
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Abstracts from Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania gazette, 1728-1748

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Author
Scott, Kenneth.
Date of Publication
1975.
Call Number
929.3 S527a
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Responsibility
by Kenneth Scott.
ISBN
0806306610
Author
Scott, Kenneth.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1975.
Physical Description
v, 720 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Abstracts.
Pennsylvania - Genealogy.
New Jersey - Genealogy.
Delaware - Genealogy.
Maryland - Genealogy.
Additional Title
Pennsylvania gazette.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.3 S527a
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Abstracts from the Pennsylvania gazette, 1748-1755

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Author
Scott, Kenneth.
Date of Publication
1977.
Call Number
929.3 S527ap
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Responsibility
by Kenneth Scott & Janet R. Clarke.
ISBN
0806307862
Author
Scott, Kenneth.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1977.
Physical Description
377 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Abstracts.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Genealogy.
Additional Author
Clarke, Janet R.,
Additional Title
Pennsylvania gazette.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.3 S527ap
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Adventures in dining and interesting places to visit

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Edition
2d. ed., rev.
Date of Publication
1975.
Call Number
917.481 A244 1975
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Responsibility
edited by Rollin C. Steinmetz.
Edition
2d. ed., rev.
Place of Publication
Lititz, Pa
Publisher
Places,
Date of Publication
1975.
Physical Description
181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Autographed by the author.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc.
Additional Author
Steinmetz, Rollin C.,
Additional Corporate Author
Places.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.481 A244 1975
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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
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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
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An alphabetical listing of the assessed inhabitants of York County, Pennsylvania, for the year 1762

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Date of Publication
1979.
Call Number
974.841 A456
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Responsibility
compiled and published by the South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Inc.
Place of Publication
York, PA
Publisher
The Society,
Date of Publication
1979.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 28 cm.
Series
Special publication / South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Inc. ; no. 5-6
Contents
v. 1. Being the inhabitants of those townships which, in 1978, formed York County, Pennsylvania -- v. 2. Being the inhabitants of those townships which, in 1978, formed Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Subjects
Taxation - Pennsylvania - York County
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - York County.
Taxation - Pennsylvania - Adams County
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Adams County.
York County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Adams County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Additional Corporate Author
South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.841 A456
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The architectural surveys, 1784-1794

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Corporate Author
Mutual Assurance Company for Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire.
Date of Publication
1976.
Call Number
368 G244a
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Responsibility
Anthony N. B. Garvan ... [et al.].
Corporate Author
Mutual Assurance Company for Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Mutual Assurance Co.,
Date of Publication
1976.
Physical Description
xvii, 330 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Series
Mutual Assurance Company papers ; v. 1
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 323-325.
Subjects
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Dwellings - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Additional Author
Garvan, Anthony N. B.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
368 G244a
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Archive

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Collection
Archive of Alice P. Fordney
Title
Archive of Alice P. Fordney
Object ID
HC0001
Date Range
1905-1974
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
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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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