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Advanced grammar and composition

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Author: Lyte, Eliphalet Oram,

Date of Publication: c1899.

Call Number: 816 L998a

Responsibility: by E. Oram Lyte.

Author: Lyte, Eliphalet Oram,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: American Book Co.,

Date of Publication: c1899.

Physical Description: 368 p. ; 19 cm.

Series: Lyte's language series

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: English language; English language - Composition and exercises.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 816 L998a

Affidavit

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Collection: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Title: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Object ID: Veterans F01 I04

Collection: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Title: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Description: Record of applications for peddlers' licenses showing date of application, name of applicant, type of license, and dates granted and lifted. Many applications for soldiers' licenses; these are peddlers' licenses issued to honorably discharged veterans. Handwritten.

System of Arrangement: Organized by year, then alphabetically by surname.

Year: 1899

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0001

People: May, Henry

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Veterans' Peddlers License; Civil War; Petitions

Object Name: Affidavit

Language: English

Condition: Good

Object ID: Veterans F01 I04

Box Number: 001

Additional Notes: Petition.; 203rd Regiment, Company A, Pennsylvania Volunteers.; Civil War.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0601

Description Level: Item

Agreement

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Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Calculations and settlement with Chester County for bridge

Object ID: Bridge F0095 I006

Date Range: 1893

Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Calculations and settlement with Chester County for bridge

Description: Also Bridge No. 5.; Location: Over [East Branch] of Octoraro Creek.; Document type: Calculations and settlement with Chester County for bridge

System of Arrangement: Records are arranged by township, then chronologically within each township.

Date Range: 1893

Year: 1893

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0001

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Agreements; Bridges; Calculations; Colerain Twp.; Creeks; Mills; Octoraro Creek, East Branch; Upper Oxford Twp., Chester County, Pennsylvania; Worth's Bridge; Worth's Mill

Place: Colerain Twp. and Upper Oxford Twp., Chester County

Extent: 3 items, 3 pieces

Object Name: Agreement

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Bridge F0095 I006

Box Number: 001

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0324

Description Level: Item

Altar

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: P.00.34.1

Date Range: c. 1805

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Communion altar from Brickerville United Lutheran Church (originally Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church). Rectangular altar of painted softwood, panelled construction all four sides with pegged mortise and tenon joints. Small panels over large. Door in the back with a recessed panel and knob handle. Molding around base, the edge of the top, and framing the recessed panels.; Modification to altar in 1947 by Bob Helman (signature underneath when removed 10-17-00) was a long platform shelf covering the back 2/5 of the top, with holes at the back, including an electrical outlet. Entire altar has been given a new coat of paint, a light chocolate brown on top and white on the sides. The unpainted interior has one shelf with a vertical divider.; Altar has been used since circa 1800 to serve communion, using the Brickerville United Lutheran Church's ten-piece pewter communion service which is also in collections (P97.08.01-10).; Perhaps made by Emanuel Dyer of Manheim or Mr. Zartman of Brickerville.

Provenance: Purchased directly from the church.

Date Range: c. 1805

Year Range From: 1790

Year Range To: 1815

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Groff Gallery

Subcategory: Ceremonial Artifact

Object Name: Altar

Oither Names: Altar, Communion

Material: Wood

Height (in): 45.25

Length (in): 49

Width (in): 33.5

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2016-04-15

Condition Notes: Large crack on top, approx. 4" from front, running halfway across top. Recently painted. Some separation at moldings. Large hole bored in altar top (for electric wire) underneath the added platform, now removed. The modern base molding also removed. Repainted top with brown and attached molding at ends of top to secure plexi top. Paint removed on door.

Object ID: P.00.34.1

Place of Origin: Lancaster County

Credit: Heritage Center Collection, acquired through generosity of James Hale Steinman Foundation and V. Ronald Smith

Accession Number: P.00.34

Ambrotype

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Collection: History Collection: Person, Sarah Ann Stauffer

Object ID: 2002.154.54

Date Range: 1850-1890

Collection: History Collection: Person, Sarah Ann Stauffer

Description: Portrait of young gentleman. Fairly faded out. Water marks/stains, one around right eye of man (viewer's left) in decorative bronze-colored frame with glass narrow gold-colored braid around edge. All with a red velvet rectangle. On the red velvet lining of the lid/cover: "Addis (?) s Lancaster Gallery/ NE Corner of Centre Square & N. Queen St." Black container has decorative motifs on front and back.

Date Range: 1850-1890

Year Range From: 1850

Year Range To: 1890

Creator: Addis's Lancaster Gallery

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 4

Storage Cabinet: Unit 20

Storage Container: Box 0615

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Object Name: Ambrotype

Height (in): 0.625

Length (in): 3.75

Width (in): 3.25

Condition: Fair

Condition Date: 2018-09-21

Condition Notes: Fabric hinge torn: ambrotype and cover are separated.; Image somewhat faded. Water marks/stains, one around right eye of man (viewer's left) Wear on outside where black has rubbed off

Object ID: 2002.154.54

Accession Number: 2002.154

Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia assembly, on the proceedings of sundry of the other states in answer to their resolutions

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Author: Addison, Alexander,

Date of Publication: 1800.

Call Number: Yeates Book 459 1800

Responsibility: by Alexander Addison.

Author: Addison, Alexander,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior ...,

Date of Publication: 1800.

Physical Description: 54, [2] p. (p. [1-2] blank) ; 18 cm. (12mo)

Notes: Signatures: A-Dâ¶ Eâ´.; Library copy imperfect: p. [1-2] at end wanting.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.; Bound with An address, &c. recommendations to the states by the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelphia: printed by David C. Claypoole, 1788 -- An examination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.; Evans

Subjects: Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798.; Alien and Sedition laws, 1798.; Politics and government; United States - Politics and government - 1797-1801.; United States.; Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Yeates Book 459 1800

Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders

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Author: Watson, John F.

Date of Publication: 1891.

Call Number: 974.811 W339

Responsibility: By John F. Watson ... Enlarged, with many revisions and additions, by Willis P. Hazard...

Author: Watson, John F.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: E. S. Stuart,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Physical Description: 3 v. fronts., illus., plates, port. 25 cm.

Notes: The third volume of this ed. was prepared at the publisher's request, by W. P. Hazard.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Hazard, Willis P.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.811 W339

An old oil mill

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Author: Hensel, L. W.

Date of Publication: 1898

AN OLD OIL MILL. At the foot of the western end of the "Mine Ridge," thereabouts better known as "Stony Hill," and in the northwest corner of Eden township, near the old Conowingo ore mines, and about half a mile east of Camargo, on a branch of Beaver creek, stands a large, quaint old stone

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Responsibility: by L. W. Hensel.

Author: Hensel, L. W.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1898

Physical Description: 213-215 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 7

Summary: This article discusses a mill property in Eden Township , Lancaster County. The mill had several owners during the 19th century, and the mill was used for various purposes: Processing wool, sawing wood, making whiskey, and pressing oil from flax seeds [hence the name "oil mill"].

Subjects: Old Oil Mill (Lancaster County, Pa.); Water mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Oil mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Linseed oil.; Flour mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 2, number 7 (1898), p. 213-215Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.2

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Application

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Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Application for reviewers

Object ID: Bridge F0310 I004

Date Range: 1892

Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Application for reviewers

Description: Court term: August 1892.; Location: South of Ranck's Mill, at Orange Street extension.; Document type: Application for reviewers

System of Arrangement: Records are arranged by township, then chronologically within each township.

Date Range: 1892

Year: 1892

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0005

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Applications; Bridges; Conestoga Creek; Creeks; East Lampeter Twp.; Lancaster Twp.; Mills; Orange Street; Ranck's Mill; Streets

Place: East Lampeter Twp. and Lancaster Twp.

Extent: 1 item, 3 pieces

Object Name: Application

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Bridge F0310 I004

Box Number: 005

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0324

Description Level: Item

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