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The 50 great pioneers of American industry; the stories of Rockefeller, Swift, Edison, Woolworth, Squibb, Proctor, Sears, Otis, Singer, Carrier, and 40 other business leaders and courageous innovators whose activities founded major industries and shaped today's economy

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Corporate Author: News front.

Date of Publication: 1965.

Call Number: 923.8 W256

Responsibility: by the editors of News Front.

Corporate Author: News front.

Place of Publication: Chicago, Ill

Publisher: Ferguson,

Date of Publication: 1965.

Physical Description: 207 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Subjects: United States - Biography.; United States - Industries - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.8 W256

50 years of scouting in Lancaster county [1917-1967]

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Corporate Author: Boy Scouts of America. Lancaster county, Pa.

Date of Publication: 1967]

Call Number: 369.43 F527

Corporate Author: Boy Scouts of America. Lancaster county, Pa.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Date of Publication: 1967]

Physical Description: 64 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Subjects: Boy Scouts of America. - Lancaster county, Pa. - History.; Scouts and scouting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 369.43 F527

100th anniversary program, 1867-1967, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church ... Lebanon Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1967.

Call Number: 974.819 T832

Place of Publication: [S. l

Publisher: s.n.] ;

Date of Publication: 1967.

Physical Description: 16 p. : cover photograph ; 19 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Evangelical United Brethren Church - Pennsylvania - Lebanon.; Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church (Lebanon, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 T832

200th Anniversary of Allegheny Church : Lutheran and United Church of Christ, Allegheyville, Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1968

Call Number: 974.816 A422

Place of Publication: Alleghenyvill, Pa

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1968

Physical Description: 12 p. : photo. ; 29 cm.

Subjects: Allegheny Evangelical Lutheran Church (Berks Co. Pa.); Allegheny United Church of Christ (Berks Co., Pa.); Berks County (Pa.) - Church history

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 A422

1795-1895. One hundred years of American commerce ... a history of American commerce by one hundred Americans, with a chronological table of the important events of American commerce and invention within the past one hundred yeras

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Author: Depew, Chauncey M.

Date of Publication: 1968.

Call Number: 380 D419

Alternate Title: One hundred years of American commerce

Responsibility: ed. by Chauncey M. Depew ... Issued in commemoration of the completion of the first century of American commercial progress as inaugurated by the treaty ... negotiated by Chief Justice Jay and approved by President Washington in 1795.

Author: Depew, Chauncey M.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Greenwood,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Physical Description: 2 v. illus. (part col.) 30 cm.

Notes: Paged continuously.

Subjects: Commerce; Inventions - United States; United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.; United States - Economic conditions - 1865-1918.; United States - Commerce - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 380 D419

1860--the year before the war

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Author: Heiges, George L.

Date of Publication: 1961.

of rival candidates. The first party to go into action was the Democratic party which opened its convention in the hotbed of secession chatter, Charleston, South Carolina. It deadlocked after ten days and only reconvened forty-six days later in Baltimore at which time United States Senator Stephen A

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Responsibility: by George L. Heiges.

Author: Heiges, George L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1961.

Physical Description: [113]-135 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 65, no. 3

Subjects: Republican Party (Pa.) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Chronology.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 65, number 3 (1961), p. 113-135Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.65

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Abraham Lincoln's day at Gettysburg

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Author: Heiges, George L.

Date of Publication: 1963

Call Number: 973.7349 H465

Responsibility: by George L. Heiges

Author: Heiges, George L.

Publisher: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1963

Physical Description: 103 p. ill. 30 cm.

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.; Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863.; Civil war

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7349 H465

Acknowledgment

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 2 Harriet Lane Johnston

Title: Acknowledgment of George B. Willson that he has bought Harriet Lane Johnston’s Wheatland estate

Object ID: JBFP 2.2.2.002

Date Range: 1884/05/22

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 2 Harriet Lane Johnston

Title: Acknowledgment of George B. Willson that he has bought Harriet Lane Johnston’s Wheatland estate

Description: Acknowledgment of George B. Willson that he has bought Harriet Lane Johnston’s Wheatland estate for $20,000, half to be paid now and the rest in installments; sale includes plants for the garden, bookcases in library, 2 cows, one horse, all farming implements; she may continue occupying the house until 1 July next with free supply of ice, fruit, and vegetables. Approved by Harriet Lane Johnston. Written on Harriet Lane Johnston’s stationery. 120 Park Street, [Baltimore].

Date Range: 1884/05/22

Creator: Willson, George Bolivar, 1855-1929

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Container: JBFP Part 2, Box 1

People: Willson, George Bolivar; Johnston, Harriet Lane

Search Terms: Harriet Lane Johnston; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 4 pages to scan, 9 x 7 in.

Object Name: Acknowledgment

Language: English

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 2 Series 2

Object ID: JBFP 2.2.2.002

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

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Accession Number: JBMS1995.412

Other Number: JBFP Part 2, Series 2, Subseries 2, Folder 2

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Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.