100 years of camera scenes: views of eastern Lancaster county in our nation's second century. A bicentennial project of the eastern Lancaster county chapter of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee, inc
vi p., 3 β., [3]-364 p. front., pl., ports. 25 cm.
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"An Atlantic monthly press book."
"Published June, 1930."
"The chief purpose of the book is ... not at all genealogical, and only in a minor degree individually biographical."--Pref.
Contents
Preface.--Prologue.--The first generation: John Adams.--The second generation: John Quincy Adams.--The third generation: Charles Francis Adams.--The fourth generation John Quincy, Charles Francis, Henry, and Brooks Adams.--Epilogue.
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.
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African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.