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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

handbooks Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County Historical markers Heating and ventilation systems Insurance policies Job descriptions Kroll Electric Company, Inc. Lancaster Lancaster Parking Authority Lancaster Trust Company Leases Letters Price lists Manuscript groups Menus Newsletters

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Description: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.; Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.

Admin/Biographical History: On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series.; Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory; Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners

Date Range: 1880-2003

Year Range From: 1880

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1880-2003

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ammon, Cora Mae Fox; Ammon, John M.; Appel, Eva Rengier; Appel, Percy L.; Baker, Miriam Rengier; Bell, Louise Price; Berger, R. R.; Blatchley, Charles A.; Breyers, C. J.; Buchanan, James; Drukenbrod, Lee Roy; Fehl, J. Herbert; Frantz, I. E.; Fritz, C. C.; Goodhart, E. C.; Groff, Alpheaus S.; Groff, Ella L.; Hermansader, T. F.; Hirsh, Bertha; Hirsh, Gabriel; Hostetter, D. B.; Lively, Henry; Long, Jacob M.; Loss, Natalie M.; Loss, Nathan; Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.; Marshall, Elizabeth Weber; Marshall, George A.; Marshall, George W.; Marshall, Maria L. Good; May, Jennie H.; Miller, E. N.; Myers, Harry; Myers, Maria; Myers, Patricia Marshall; Myrtetus, George B.; Noonan, Ella O.; Noonan, Raymond Smith; Prangley, James; Reed, George R.; Reichley, Jacob Christian; Reifsnyder, Arden P.; Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John S.; Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen; Rohrer, George Redsecker; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker; Roth, George R.; Rupert, L. H.; Schaller, Kimberly; Shand, James; Shand, Thomas Marshall; Sherrill, Anita B.; Sherrill, S. Edward; Short, Edwin P.; Skyllas, Drossos A.; Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert; Stiles, H. A.; Stirk, Isaac; Stirk, Sarah C.; Swarr, Donald; Urban, Cassius Emlen; Watt, Laura Louise Geiger; Watt, Peter T.; Weber, May H.; Wisegarver, Harry P.; Witmer, Albert F.

Other Creators: Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)

Subjects: Advertising; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Building leases; Calendars; Catalogs; Deeds; Department stores; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Letters; Menus; Newsletters; Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail

Search Terms: A and S Realty and Investment Corporation; A. B. Rote & Co.; Advertising; Agreements; Air conditioning; American Blower Corporation; Appel & Weber; Architectural plans; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; Awards; Blueprints; Bon-Ton; Bon-Ton Beauty Salon; Booklets; C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.; Calendars; Catalogs; Central Automatic Sprinkler Company; Certificates; Columbia; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia; Correspondence; Deeds; Department stores; DUSCO Property Management, Inc.; East Hempfield Twp.; Employee handbooks; Employees; Ephemera; Escalators; Finding aids; Fire sprinklers; Floorplans; Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers; Gift certificates; Ground-rent; Hager and Bro., Inc.; Hager Realty Corporation; Heating and ventilation systems; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Job descriptions; Kroll Electric Company, Inc.; Lancaster; Lancaster Parking Authority; Lancaster Trust Company; Leases; Letters; Manuscript groups; Menus; Mortgages; Newsletters; Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.; Park City Mall; Penn Square; Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Permits; Poetry; PPL; Price lists; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company; Reynolds and Reynolds Company; Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail; Total Energy Leasing Corporation; Trion, Inc.; Watt and Shand; Workers' Compensation Act; York Corporation

Extent: 4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0237

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-237

Classification: MG0237

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.; The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.

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The complete book of emigrants

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo189

Author: Coldham, Peter Wilson.

Date of Publication: 1987-1993

Call Number: 929.3 C688be

Responsibility: Peter Wilson Coldham

Author: Coldham, Peter Wilson.

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: 1987-1993

Physical Description: 4 v. ill. 24 cm.

Contents: v. 1 (1607-1660), v. 2 (1661-1699), v. 3 (1700-1750), v. 4 (1751-1776)

Subjects: British - United States; Immigrants - United States; Indentured servants.; Ship lists.; England - Emigration and immigration - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 C688be

Documents showing the successive owners of the land now constituting Susquehannock State Park, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1738-1959

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16038

Date of Publication: [1991]

Call Number: 363.68 S984

Responsibility: compiled by Dr. Ronald B. Mitchell, Freeman E. Morgan, Jr., Jay Newswanger, Warren Brannon

Place of Publication: Computer printout

Date of Publication: [1991]

Physical Description: 44, [1] p. : map ; 28 cm.

Notes: "It contians all the legal documents from John Mitchell's original grant, 1738, to the sale to the state in 1959." - Letter of transmittal.

Subjects: Mitchell family.; McCullough family.; Deeds - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Susquehannock State Park (Pennsylvania) - Deeds.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 363.68 S984

Editing historical documents : a handbook of practice

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17513

Author: Stevens, Michael E.

Date of Publication: c1997.

Call Number: 808.027 S845

Responsibility: Michael E. Stevens, Steven B. Burg.

Author: Stevens, Michael E.

Place of Publication: Walnut Creek, Calif

Publisher: AltaMira Press,

Date of Publication: c1997.

Physical Description: 264 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Series: American Association for State and Local History book series

Notes: "Published in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History, the Association for Documentary Editing, and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.

Subjects: Editing - Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Manuscripts - Handbooks, manuals, etc.; History - Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Additional Author: Burg, Steven B.

Additional Corporate Author: American Association for State and Local History.; Association for Documentary Editing.; State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 808.027 S845

German immigrant servant contracts registered at the port of Philadelphia, 1817-1831

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15205

Author: Grubb, Farley Ward,

Date of Publication: c1994.

Call Number: 929.3 G885

Responsibility: Farley Grubb.

ISBN: 0806314168

Author: Grubb, Farley Ward,

Place of Publication: Baltimore, MD

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: c1994.

Physical Description: xii, 146 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: German Americans - Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; German Americans - Genealogy.; Emigration and immigration.; Indentured servants - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Ships - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Passenger lists.; Germany - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 G885

Germans to America : lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6537

Date of Publication: c1988-

Call Number: 929.3 G373

Responsibility: edited by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby.

ISBN: 0842022791 (set : alk. paper); 0842023895 (v. 22)

Place of Publication: Wilmington, Del

Publisher: Scholarly Resources,

Date of Publication: c1988-

Physical Description: v. <1-64 > : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes indexes.; Click on Table of Contents for volumes and their dates.

Contents: v. 1. January 1850-May 1851 -- v. 2. May 1851-June 1852 -- v. 3. June 1852-September 1852 -- v. 4. September 1852-May 1853 -- v. 5. May 1853-October 1853 -- v. 6. October 1853-May 1854 -- v. 7. May 1854-August 1854 -- v. 8. August 1854-December 1854 -- v. 9. December 1854-December 1855 -- v. 10. January 1856-April 1857 -- v. 11. April 1857-November 1857 -- v. 12. November 1857-July 1859 -- v. 13. August 1859-December 1860 -- v. 14. January 1861-May 1863 -- v. 15. June 1863-October 1864 -- v. 16. November 1864-November 1865 -- v. 17. November 1865-June 1866 -- v. 18. June 1866-December 1866 -- v. 19. January 1867-August 1867 -- v. 20. August 1867-June 1868 -- v. 21. May 1868-September 1868 -- v. 22. October 1868-May 1869 -- v. 23. June 1869-December 1869 -- v. 24. January 1870-December 1870 -- v. 25. January 1871-September 1871 -- v. 26. October 1871-April 1872 -- v.27. May 1872-July 1872 -- v. 28. August 1872-December 1872 --v. 29. January 1873-May 1873 -- v. 30. June 1873-November 1873 -- v. 31. December 1873-December 1874 -- v.32. January 1875-September1876 -- v. 33. October 1876-September 1878 -- v. 34. October 1878-December 1879 -- v. 35. January 1880-June 1880 -- v. 36. July 1880-November 1880 -- v. 37. December 1880-April 1881 -- v. 38. April 1881-May 1881 -- v. 39. June 1881-August 1881 -- v. 40. August 1881-October 1881 -- v. 41. November 1881-March 1882 -- v. 42. March 1882-May 1882 -- v. 43. May 1882-August 1882 -- v. 44. August 1882-November 1882 -- v. 45. November 1882-April 1883 -- v. 46. April 1882-June 1882 -- v. 47. July 1883-October 1883 -- v. 48. November 1883-April 1884 -- v. 49. April 1884-June 1884 -- v. 50. July 1884-November 1884 -- v. 51. December 1884-June 1885 -- v. 52. July 1885-April 1886 -- v. 53. May 1886-January 1887 -- v. 54. January 1887-June 1887 -- v. 55. July 1887-April 1888 -- v. 56. May 1888-November 1888 -- v. 57. December 1888-June 1889 -- v. 58. July 1889-April 1890 -- v. 59. May 1890-November 1890 -- v. 60. December 1890-May 1891-- v. 61. June 1891-October 1891-- v. 62. November 1891-May 1892 -- v. 63. June 1892-December 1892 -- v. 64. January 1893-July 1893 -- v.65. August 1893-June 1894 -- v.66. July 1894-October 1895 - v. 67. November 1895-June 1897.

Subjects: German Americans - Genealogy.; Ships - United States - Passenger lists.; Immigrants - United States - Registers.; United States - Emigration and immigration.; Germany - Emigration and immigration.

Additional Author: Glazier, Ira A.; Filby, P. William,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 G373

Guide to warrants and patents in present York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20463

Author: Hankey, Joan R.

Date of Publication: Â©1996.

Call Number: 974.842 H241g

Responsibility: compiled by Joan R. Hankey.

Author: Hankey, Joan R.

Place of Publication: Gettysburg, PA (111 N. West Confederate Ave., Gettysburg 17325)

Publisher: Adams County Historical Society,

Physical Description: 6, 116 pages ; 29 cm

Notes: "July 1996."

Subjects: Landowners - Pennsylvania - York County - Registers.; Landowners - Pennsylvania - Adams County - Registers.; Landowners.; York County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Adams County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania - Adams County.; Pennsylvania - York County.; Genealogy.; Registers (Lists)

Additional Corporate Author: Adams County Historical Society (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.842 H241g

The Manor of Maske : its history and individual properties

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20462

Author: Glatfelter, Charles Henry,

Date of Publication: 1992.

Call Number: 974.842 G542

Responsibility: Charles H. Glatfelter, Arthur Weaner.

Author: Glatfelter, Charles Henry,

Place of Publication: Gettysburg, Pa

Publisher: Adams County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1992.

Physical Description: ix, 74 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm + 1 supplement

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Pennsylvania historic marker on US Route 30 four miles northwest of Gettysburg reads :"Surveyed in 1766. Named for an estate in England.The Manor was about 6 miles wide and 12 miles long with the southern boundary at present Mason-Dixon Line. It was the second largest reserved estate of the Penns in Pennsylvania. The western boundary line of the Manor was near this point."

Subjects: Landowners - Pennsylvania - Adams County - Registers.; Landowners.; Adams County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Manor of Maske (Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania - Adams County.; Pennsylvania - Manor of Maske.; Genealogy.; History.; Registers (Lists)

Additional Author: Weaner, Arthur.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.842 G542

Notes and documents concerning the manorial history of the town of York, York County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1322

Date of Publication: 1992

Call Number: 974.841 N911

Responsibility: compiled by Henry James Young. With commentary, additions and everyname index by Patricia A. Gross and Leonard A. Heilman.

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: 45 p. 30 cm.

Series: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. Special Publication Number 47

Subjects: York (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Young, Henry James.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.841 N911

The Story of my family, with transcriptions of family documents and family recollections

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5097

Date of Publication: 1991.

Call Number: 929 R632t

Responsibility: by Jean Hazen Dodds Taylor... et al.

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: J.H.D. Taylor,

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: iv, 246 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Dodd family.; Robbins family.; Hyde family.; Taylor family.; Taylor, Jean Hazen Dodds - Family.

Additional Author: Taylor, Jean Hazen Dodds.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 R632t

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