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2 forgotten men of the Pennsylvania frontier

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Author: Stoctay, G. G.

Date of Publication: 1972.

Call Number: 974.8009 S866

Responsibility: by G.G. Stoc-tay.

Author: Stoctay, G. G.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Neo American Church,

Date of Publication: 1972.

Physical Description: 23 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: This monograph is limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 80.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Personal narratives.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8009 S866

1812 ancestor index : National Society United States Daughters of 1812

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Author: Galvin, Eleanor Stevens,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: c1970]-2003.

Call Number: 369.135 N277

Author: Galvin, Eleanor Stevens,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: [Washington

Publisher: National Society, United States Daughters of 1812,

Date of Publication: c1970]-2003.

Physical Description: 3 v. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Vol. 2 has imprint: Marcelline, Mo. : Walsworth Pub. Co.

Contents: [v. 1]. 1892-1970 / compiled and edited by Eleanor Stevens Galvin -- v. 2. 1970-1992 / compiled by Patricia Scruggs Trolinger -- v. 3. 1992-2002 / compiled by Mary Edwards Little.

Subjects: United States - History - War of 1812 - Registers.; United States - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Trolinger, Patricia Scruggs.; Little, Mary Edwards.

Additional Corporate Author: National Society, United States Daughters of 1812.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.135 N277

1976 Bicentennial supplement to the 1972 register

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Corporate Author: General Society of the War of 1812.

Date of Publication: [1976]

Call Number: 369.14 G326 1976

Responsibility: General Society of the War of 1812 ; [editor, Robert Glenn Thurtle].

Corporate Author: General Society of the War of 1812.

Place of Publication: Ann Arbor, Mich

Publisher: Published for the Society by Edwards Bros.,

Date of Publication: [1976]

Physical Description: iv p., p. 689-865 ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: General Society of the War of 1812.; United States - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Thurtle, Robert Glenn.

Additional Corporate Author: General Society of the War of 1812. Register of the General Society of the War of 1812.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.14 G326 1976

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

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

Abstracts from the Pennsylvania gazette, 1748-1755

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Author: Scott, Kenneth.

Date of Publication: 1977.

Call Number: 929.3 S527ap

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

The Afro-American in Pennsylvania : a critical guide to sources in the Pennsylvania State Archives

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Author: McBride, David,

Date of Publication: 1979.

Call Number: 326 M119

Responsibility: by David McBride.

Author: McBride, David,

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1979.

Physical Description: vii, 36 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents: I. Slavery: the colonial and early national period -- II. Free black life in the antebellum period: political, legal and socio-economic status -- III. The Civil War period -- IV. Reconstruction and the late nineteenth century -- V. The early twentieth century and World War I -- VI. The twenties and the New Deal decades -- VII. World War II and the modern era.

Notes: African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. - Division of Archives and Manuscripts - Catalogs.; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Manuscripts, American - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg; Pennsylvania - Race relations - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Division of Archives and Manuscripts.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 M119

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

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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Collection: John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection

Title: John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection

Object ID: MG0019

Date Range: 1850-1993

) Letters (LHo-LOC sh 85076240) Search Terms: Aeronautics Air mail service Airships Aviation Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence Finding aids Hindenburg (Airship) Hot air balloons Letters Manuscript groups Newspaper clippings Obituaries Reconnaissance aircraft �230 North President Avenue

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Collection: John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection

Title: John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection

Description: The John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection contains material about John Wise, a pioneering balloonist from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and the history of ballooning. Articles written by and about John Wise provide information about the man and his career. The bulk of Series 1 is correspondence, research notes, and drafts of "The John Wise Story," by John H. Andrews. Series 2 contains material about the ballooning hobby, other early aircraft, and the history of air mail.

Admin/Biographical History: As an adventurous and inquisitive young boy, John Wise was drawn to the skies above his native Lancaster County. He was fascinated by aerial pursuits and began to conduct experiments. He tied his cat to his homemade parachute and observed the cat's safe descent from a local church steeple.; A keen interest in ballooning developed and Wise became a famous aeronaut. Although balloon ascensions were common at county fairs and carnivals he had never observed an ascension before he made his first one in Philadelphia in 1835. John Wise completed 462 balloon ascensions including Lancaster ascensions from Penn Square and the prison yard.; In the nineteenth century many ascensions were made just for the novelty of the event, but John Wise's approach was from a scientific perspective. Each ascension gave him a chance to conduct scientific investigations of the atmosphere, pneumatics and hydrostatics.; It also gave him the opportunity to develop a more advanced flying machine. Wise was the first to observe the "great river of air which always blows from west to east" in the higher regions of the atmosphere. Today we call this phenomenon the jet stream. He also developed the ripcord safety mechanism.; John Wise promoted the advantages of balloon transportation. In 1843 he conceived a project for crossing the Atlantic Ocean and asked Congress to appropriate $15,000 for the project. Congress rejected the appropriation. Wise suggested a plan to bomb the Castle at Vera Cruz during the Mexican War and during the Civil War the Bureau of Topographical Engineers requested his services as a balloonist. He is credited with the first airmail transportation in 1859.; Detailed descriptions of his ascensions and experiments are found in his book, Through the Air, published in 1873. The last ascent of John Wise took place on September 29, 1879 from St. Louis, Missouri. This flight ended disastrously in Lake Michigan where his balloon fell and his remains lie.; Prepared by the Lancaster County Historical Society, ca. 1995.

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged into two series.; Series 1 John Wise; Series 2 History of Ballooning

Date Range: 1850-1993

Creation Date: 1850-1993

Year Range From: 1850

Year Range To: 1993

Date of Accumulation: 1850-1993

Creator: Andrews, John H.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 01

People: Albertson, Catherine; Andrews, John Henry; Atkinson, S. C.; Bache, Hartman; Ball, Charles I.; Bartlett, Mrs. R. A.; Batchelder, Robert C.; Beckwith, A.; Beller, William; Black, J. W.; Blanchard, Jean Pierre; Blitzstein, Madelin; Bradbury, Ray; Brown, Elizabeth B.; Bruce, George; Burlingame, Roger; Burr, George; Byars, W. W.; Casey, Louis; Cessna, Clyde; Coffman, Ramon; Cornish, Joseph Jenkins, III; Cox, Palmer; Douty, Esther; Douty, Esther M.; Drepperd, Carl W.; Edwards, Vincent; Elvin, Thomas; Evans, William; Field, Francis J.; Fischer, Hans; Fleck, Glen; French, Melvin; Galzer, Emmett J.; Gambetta, Francis Leon; Greeley, A. W.; Grimm, Janet; Gryzewski, Tad; Halmi, Robert; Harrell, D. Tudor; Hautrive, M.; Hayden, F. Stansbury; Hopkins, Philip S.; Hunt, E. F.; Ingle, Harold E.; Kehr, Ernest A.; Keith, Barbara; Kessler, F. W.; Klein, Frederic S.; Kouwenhoven, John A.; Kreider, Ira; Kriebel, Robert C.; Kriebel, Robert G.; Lamorisse, Albert; LaPaz, Lincoln; Lindbergh, Charles; Lindquist, H. L.; Long, Elmer R.; Lundgren, Laura May Gross; Madsen, Peter; Maier, Alfred D.; Maxwell, George T.; McCloskey, Lores; McDevitt, William; Mills, James; Myers, Wilfred; Naves, Glen W.; Nicklin, John; Pasquarella, Gus; Peers, W.; Prevost, John W.; Roland, John; Rosenfeld, Albert; Sanabria, Nicolas; Schatvet, H. C.; Serviss, Garrett P.; Smith, Philip R., Jr.; Stehling, Kurt R; Steinmetz, Rollin; Stilphen, George F.; Taylor, Florence; Thompson, Howard; Topping, A.D.; Waitt, Robert; Warner, B. H.; Watson, Marion A.; Wetherill, Richard B.; Whipple, A. W.; Wilbur, W. H.; Wise, John; Wiseman, Frederick J.; Wolcott, Charles; Wolf, Constance; Woodruff, J. C.; Wright, Wilbur; Young, Pearl

Other Creators: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)

Subjects: Hot air balloons; Hot air balloons--Launching; Airships; Aeronautics; Letters; Air mail service; Hindenburg (Airship); Reconnaissance aircraft; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

Search Terms: Aeronautics; Air mail service; Airships; Aviation; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Finding aids; Hindenburg (Airship); Hot air balloons; Letters; Manuscript groups; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Reconnaissance aircraft

Extent: 3 boxes, 40 folders, 1 scrapbook, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0019

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

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.

Other Numbers: MG-19

Classification: MG0019

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was cataloged prior to 1997; added to database on 28 February 2018.

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2 forgotten men of the Pennsylvania frontier

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3445

1812 ancestor index : National Society United States Daughters of 1812

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16180

1976 Bicentennial supplement to the 1972 register

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18270

Abstracts from Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania gazette, 1728-1748

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7738

Abstracts from the Pennsylvania gazette, 1748-1755

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7739

The Afro-American in Pennsylvania : a critical guide to sources in the Pennsylvania State Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3587

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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17225

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