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150th anniversary of the battle of the Brandywine, 1777-1927, Dilworthtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania : [program], September 9th, 10th and 11th, 1927

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4918
Date of Publication
1927.
Call Number
974.813 B817
Place of Publication
[S.l.]
Publisher
Bradywine Memorial Association,
Date of Publication
1927.
Physical Description
[20] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"The historical section of this program was prepared from material furnished by Wilmer W. MacElree [and others]."
Subjects
Brandywine, Battle of, 1777.
Dilworthtown (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Anniversaries, etc.
Additional Author
MacElree, Wilmer M.,
Additional Corporate Author
Brandywine Memorial Association.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 B817
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225th anniversary, Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18259
Corporate Author
Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church (Cochranville, Pa.)
Date of Publication
1955]
Call Number
974.813 F574
Alternate Title
Two hundred twenty-fifth anniversary, Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church
Corporate Author
Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church (Cochranville, Pa.)
Place of Publication
[Cochranville, Pa
Publisher
The Church,
Date of Publication
1955]
Physical Description
[16] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Subjects
Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church (Cochranville, Pa.) - History.
Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church (Cochranville, Pa.) - Anniversaries, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 F574
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The 1955 year book of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2648
Corporate Author
Sons of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania Society.
Date of Publication
1956.
Call Number
369.13 P413
Alternate Title
Year book of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution
Responsibility
compiled by Floyd G. Hoenstine.
Corporate Author
Sons of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania Society.
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh
Publisher
The Society,
Date of Publication
1956.
Physical Description
773 p. : ill. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index to surnames.
Subjects
Sons of the American Revolution. - Pennsylvania Society.
Patriotic societies
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.
Additional Author
Hoenstine, Floyd G.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
369.13 P413
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"A better citizenship" / Address by Frank Eshleman...delivered under the auspices of the W.S. Birely Post G.A.R. at Quarryville, PA Memorial Day, 1922

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12989
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank ,
Date of Publication
1922.
Call Number
172.1 E75
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank ,
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1922.
Physical Description
15 p. ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Citizenship.
Memorial Day addresses.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
172.1 E75
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"A better citizenship," address by H. Frank Eshleman delivered under the auspices of the W. S Birely Post, G. A. R. at Quarryville, Pa., Memorial Day, 1922

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16113
Author
Eshleman, H. Frank
Date of Publication
1922?]
Call Number
394.2684 E75 1922
Responsibility
by H. Frank Eshleman, esq., Lancaster (Pa.) Bar.
Author
Eshleman, H. Frank
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1922?]
Physical Description
15 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Caption-title.
Subjects
W. S. Birely Post, G. A. R. (Quarryville, Pa.)
Memorial Day addresses.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
394.2684 E75 1922
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Along the Sullivan Trail : the story of Sullivan's Indian expedition of 1779 that opened northern Pennsylvania and the Finger Lakes and Genesee region of New York for settlement

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1159
Author
Eyres, Lawrence E.,
Date of Publication
1954.
Call Number
973.335 E98
Author
Eyres, Lawrence E.,
Place of Publication
Elmira, N.Y
Publisher
[Advertiser Job Printery],
Date of Publication
1954.
Physical Description
40 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
"The 1779 Sullivan Expedition, also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, or Sullivan Campaign was an extended systematic military campaign during the American Revolutionary War against Loyalists ('Tories') and the four Nations of the Haudenosaunee which had sided with the British. It has been described by some historians as a genocide due to the magnitude and totality of its violence towards and destruction of the Haudenosaunee." [Wikipedia]
Subjects
Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Campaigns.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.335 E98
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An historic balcony, an address delivered at the hotel Brunswick, Lancaster, Pa., March 18, 1915, on the occasion of unveiling and dedicating a memorial tablet

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9198
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1915.
Call Number
814 H526h
Responsibility
by W. U. Hensel ...
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New era printing company,
Date of Publication
1915.
Physical Description
3 p. β., 5-15 p. plates (1 double) 2 port. (incl. front.) 24 cm.
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - Historic houses, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
814 H526h
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Appeal to arms; a military history of the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1079
Author
Wallace, Willard Mosher,
Edition
[1st ed.]
Date of Publication
[1951]
Call Number
973.3 W195
Author
Wallace, Willard Mosher,
Edition
[1st ed.]
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Harper
Date of Publication
[1951]
Physical Description
viii, 308 p. illus., maps, facsims. 22 cm.
Notes
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 275-300)
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Campaigns.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.3 W195
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Appendix : address delivered Sept. 8, 1910, at the bi-centennial celebration of Lancaster County's first settlement

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7810
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1910
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.14
Responsibility
by H. Frank Eshleman.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1910
Physical Description
3-29 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 8
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.14
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Collection
Archive of Alice P. Fordney
Title
Archive of Alice P. Fordney
Object ID
HC0001
Date Range
1905-1974
(LHo-LOC sh 85129277) Montclair Art Museum (LHo-LOC n 78095800) Patterns for crafts (LHo-LOC sh 85098793) Fordney, William J. (William Jenkins), 1844-1926 (LHo-LOC no2007042066) American newspapers --Sections, columns, etc. -- Women (LHo-LOC sh2007000508) House & Garden (LHo-LOC nb2006009687) Woman’s
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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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