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Albion's seed : four British folkways in America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3208
Author
Fischer, David Hackett,
Date of Publication
1989.
Call Number
973 F529
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by David Hackett Fischer.
ISBN
0195037944 (alk. paper)
Author
Fischer, David Hackett,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1989.
Physical Description
xxi, 946 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series
America, a cultural history ; v. 1
Notes
Includes index.
Includes genealogical charts.
Bibliography: p. 907-909.
Summary
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations. [from the publisher]
"More a reference book than a book you read straight through, this book advances the fascinating thesis that four groups of immigrants from England ( Albion ) essentially set much of what we now regard as American culture. The links between these four waves of immigrants from particular parts of England, and the Yankee, patrician Virginia, Quaker/Philadelphia, and Appalachian hill cultures, are documented.Its fascinating to see traits that seem inexplicable and odd traced back to obscure corners of 17th and 18th century England. We're talking about the way houses look, the way people get married, their attitude toward government, you name it." [from GoodReads]
Subjects
United States - Civilization - To 1783.
United States - Civilization - English influences.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973 F529
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American colonial wealth : documents and methods

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3547
Author
Jones, Alice Hanson,
Edition
Second ed.
Date of Publication
c1978.
Call Number
339.4 J76
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Responsibility
by Alice Hanson Jones ; with a foreword by Stuart Bruchey.
ISBN
0405055463 :
Author
Jones, Alice Hanson,
Edition
Second ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Arno Press,
Date of Publication
c1978.
Physical Description
3 v. : maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Wealth - United States
United States - Economic conditions - To 1865 - Sources.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
339.4 J76
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The American hearth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2376
Author
Barons, Richard I.
Date of Publication
[1976?]
Call Number
643.3 B871
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Author
Barons, Richard I.
Place of Publication
[Binghamton, N.Y.]
Publisher
Broome County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
[1976?]
Physical Description
[96] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Catalogue of an exhibition sponsored by the Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences.
Subjects
Kitchen utensils - United States
Kitchen utensils - United States.
United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.
Additional Corporate Author
Broome County Historical Society.
Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
643.3 B871
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Books for the back country : Patrick Orr's inventory, Lancaster, 1754

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo598
Author
Tully, Alan.
Date of Publication
1975
Philadelphia merchants the Hatboro Library record throws ". . . light on the cultural background and intellectual ambitions . . ." of the province's social leaders; 6 it does not, however, indicate what sorts of material most Pennsylvanians read. It is in answer to this objection that Patrick Orr's inventory
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Responsibility
by Alan Tully.
Author
Tully, Alan.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1975
Physical Description
[167]-172 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 79, no. 3
Subjects
Orr, Patrick.
Books and reading - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 79, number 3 (1975), p. 167-172Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.79
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Broadside

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/68b9c48b-5317-4a0c-af61-381838467430
Collection
Print Collection
Title
Hamilton Bank Country
Object ID
2015.008
Date Range
1980
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Collection
Print Collection
Title
Hamilton Bank Country
Description
Printed Broadside, "Hamilton Bank Country"
Designed by E. L. Malbertt, 10-1980
Includes a 6-county area (Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks,York, Lancaster & Chester) with small black squares marking locations of banks. Around periphery are 6 drawings, one from each county: State capitol bldg., Cornwall Furnace, Boone Homestead, Valley Forge Arch, Rock Ford Plantation and Gold Plough Tavern & General Gates House.
Date Range
1980
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Cabinet
Cabinet 2
Storage Shelf
Shelf 3
Storage Container
Box 0034
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Object Name
Broadside
Object ID
2015.008
Accession Number
2015.008
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Child life in colonial days

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18908
Author
Earle, Alice Morse,
Date of Publication
1976.
Call Number
973.2 E12ch
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Responsibility
written by Alice Morse Earle.
ISBN
0848206738 :
Author
Earle, Alice Morse,
Place of Publication
Norwood, Pa
Publisher
Norwood Editions,
Date of Publication
1976.
Physical Description
xxi, 418 p. [52] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Reprint of the 1899 ed. published by Macmillan, New York.
Includes index.
"Limited 100 copies."
Subjects
Children - United States.
United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.2 E12ch
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Colonial dames and good wives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1725
Author
Earle, Alice Morse,
Date of Publication
1988.
Call Number
305.42 E12
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Responsibility
written by Alice Morse Earle.
Author
Earle, Alice Morse,
Place of Publication
Bowie: MD
Publisher
Heritage Books,
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
315 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series
A Heritage Classic
Notes
Facsimile Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895.
Subjects
Women - United States.
United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
305.42 E12
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Community development and the revolutionary transition in eighteenth century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3961
Author
Henderson, Rodger Criage.
Date of Publication
1982.
Call Number
392 H497
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Author
Henderson, Rodger Criage.
Date of Publication
1982.
Physical Description
2 v. (xix, 699 β.) ; 21 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: β. 633-699.
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mi. : University Microfilms, 1984. 21 cm.
Contents
1. Beginnings of Community development -- 2. Problems and prospects of family reconstitution and cohort analysis -- 3. Marital patterns and family structure in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before 1741 -- 4. Duration of marriages, fertility , and family sizes: Couples married before 1741 -- 5. Mortality in early eighteenth century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -- 6. Marriage and family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1741-1770 -- 7. Marital relations, fertility, and family sizes: Couples married, 1741-1770 -- 8. Mortality in the middle decades of the eighteenth century: Lancaster County, 1741-1770 -- 9. Nuptiality in the social context of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1771-1880 -- 10. Marriage, remarriage, and marital fertility in Lancaster County, 1771-1800 -- 1. Mortality in the Revolutionary era, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1771-1800 -- 12. Revolutionary transition in eighteenth century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -- Appendix A: Aggregative analysis of Lancaster Pennsylvania Church records.
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social conditions - To 1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
392 H497
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County records survey/inventory Lancaster County, 1987

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo307
Date of Publication
1987
Call Number
016.027 P415
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Publisher
Computer printout
Date of Publication
1987
Physical Description
various pagings 29 cm.
Notes
Survey done July 11, 1986. Lists locations of county records.
Subjects
Public records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
016.027 P415
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Custom and contract : household, government, and the economy in colonial Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15753
Author
Schweitzer, Mary M.
Date of Publication
1987.
Call Number
338.9748 S413
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Responsibility
Mary M. Schweitzer.
ISBN
0231062885
Author
Schweitzer, Mary M.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Columbia University Press,
Date of Publication
1987.
Physical Description
xii, 271 p. : ill., facsim. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [255]-266.
Subjects
Money - Pennsylvania
Land use - Pennsylvania
Finance, Public - Pennsylvania
Households - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Economic policy.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775.
Pennsylvania - Social conditions.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
338.9748 S413
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