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American firearms makers: when, where, and what they made from the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century

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Author
Carey, Arthur Merwyn,
Date of Publication
[1953]
Call Number
683 C273
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Author
Carey, Arthur Merwyn,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Crowell
Date of Publication
[1953]
Physical Description
xiii, 146 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 145-146.
Subjects
Firearms industry and trade - United States.
Firearms
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
683 C273
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American locomotives : a pictorial record of steam power, 1900-1950

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Author
Alexander, Edwin P.
Date of Publication
c1950.
Call Number
385 A969a
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by Edwin P. Alexander.
ISBN
0517014238
Author
Alexander, Edwin P.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Bonanza Books,
Date of Publication
c1950.
Physical Description
254 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Sequel to: Iron horses.
Subjects
Locomotives - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
385 A969a
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Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch tourist guide

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Date of Publication
c1959.
Call Number
917.48 A516
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Responsibility
edited by Alfred L. Soemaker.
Place of Publication
Kutztown, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania Folklife Society,
Date of Publication
c1959.
Physical Description
116 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
"Dunkard 'Love Feasts' by Don Yoder": p. [40]-41.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Amish
Pennsylvania Dutch - Folklore.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Additional Author
Shoemaker, Alfred Lewis,
Yoder, Don.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Folklife Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.48 A516
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An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1811.
Call Number
Bookk 306 1811
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By John Purdon, Junr.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.
Last page blank.
"The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.
"The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.
"Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.
"Index."--p. [587]-637.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 306 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania - Digests.
Annotations and citations (Law) - Pennsylvania.
Constitutions - United States.
Constitutions - Pennsylvania.
Annotations and citations (Law)
Constitutions.
Law.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Leather bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled leather (Binding)
Fillet tools (Binding)
Lettering pieces (Binding)
Gold tooled leather (Binding)
Digests.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Purdon, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.
United States.
Pennsylvania.
Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Co.,
Fry and Kammerer,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 306 1811
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An Address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain

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Date of Publication
[1812?].
Call Number
Book 461 n.d.
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Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed at the United States' Gazette
Date of Publication
[1812?].
Physical Description
24 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature: To Judge Yeates from his obet., James Milner [partially clipped]
Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, exquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.
Shaw & Shoemaker,
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1812-1815.
United States.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress. House.
Federal Party (U.S.)
Place
United States Connecticut Hartford.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 461 n.d.
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Andrew Ellicott : surveyor of the capital of our nation

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Author
Heisey, M. Luther,
Date of Publication
1950
, than Major Ellicott always appeared to me to be in the faithful execution of the public business committed to his charge." Andrew, son of Joseph Ellicott, was born in Bucks County, January 24, 1754, and became famous as a surveyor, astronomer, scientist and mathematician. While yet a young man, he and
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Responsibility
by M. Luther Heisey.
Author
Heisey, M. Luther,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1950
Physical Description
[1]-14 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 54, no. 1
Subjects
Ellicott, Andrew, - 1754-1820.
Surveyors - Pennsylvania.
City planning - Washington (D.C.)
United States - Capital and capitol.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 54, number 1 (1950), p. 1-14Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.54
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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, animadversions on certain remarks made on the first edition of this essay, by Mr. Charles White, in a series of discourses delivered before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester in England. Also, Strictures on Lord Kaims' [sic] discourse on the original diversity of mankind. And an appendix

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Author
Smith, Samuel Stanhope,
Edition
The 2d ed., enl. and improved.
Date of Publication
1810.
Call Number
816 S659
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Author
Smith, Samuel Stanhope,
Edition
The 2d ed., enl. and improved.
Place of Publication
New-Brunswick [N. J.]
Publisher
Published by J. Simpson and Co.; [etc., etc.] L. Deare, printer,
Date of Publication
1810.
Physical Description
411 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
"Strictures on Lord Kaims' [i. e. Kames'] discourse on the original diversity of mankind": p. [307]-349.
"Appendix. Of the natural bravery and fortitude of the American Indians": p. [351]-411.
First published in Philadelphia in 1787.
"Remarks on certain strictures made on the first edition of this essay, by Mr. Charles White" (p. [247]-306) was published in London in 1799 under title: An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables.
Subjects
Kames, Henry Home, - Lord.
White, Charles, - 1728-1813.
Kames, Henry Home, - Lord, - 1696-1782.
Anthropology
Monogenism and polygenism.
Human skin color.
Indians.
Additional Corporate Author
American Philosophical Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
816 S659
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Announcement

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Collection
Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records
Title
Notice to Daniel Gibbons
Object ID
MG0846_F014
Date Range
1818/10/07
230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records, 1727-1929, 20th century Object ID: MG0846 5 boxes 4 cubic ft. 30 folders—35 documents and 90 pages to scan; original diaries and transcriptions
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Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records
Title
Notice to Daniel Gibbons
Description
Notice from Deputy-Marshall D. [ ____ ] to Mr. Daniel Gibbons demanding annexation of specified goods and a fine from the property of $96 or "a quantity of corn in the field" assessed by Pennsylvania on behalf of the U.S. government. Served 7 October 1818.
Date Range
1818/10/07
Creation Date
7 October 1818
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 19
People
Gibbons, Daniel
Subjects
Fines and recoveries
Legal documents
Search Terms
Legal documents
Notices
Extent
1 items, 2 pages to scan
Object Name
Announcement
Language
English
Object ID
MG0846_F014
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records (MG0846), Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL. Date accessed (day, month, year).
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
2021.008
Other Numbers
MG-846
Other Number
MG-846, Folder 14
Classification
MG0846
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
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Annual report

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Corporate Author
Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)
Date of Publication
1958-
Call Number
352.1 L244a
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Responsibility
Lancaster City Planning Commission.
Corporate Author
Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
[s.n.],
Date of Publication
1958-
Notes
Library has 1958, 1959.
1958 cover title: Lancaster moves ahead;Publication 3.
1959 cover title: Progress thru planning; Publication 7.
Subjects
City planning.
Lancaster City (Pa.) - Politics and government
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
352.1 L244a
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The antiques book : outstanding, authoritative articles on ceramics, furniture, glass, silver, pewter, architecture, prints and other collecting interests

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Date of Publication
1950.
Call Number
745.1 A632
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Responsibility
Edited by Alice Winchester and the staff of the magazine Antiques.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Bonanza Books,
Date of Publication
1950.
Physical Description
319 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
"Articles from the first fifty-six volumes of Antiques, January 1922 through December 1949."
Subjects
Collectors and collecting.
Antiques.
Additional Author
Winchester, Alice.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
745.1 A632
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