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Abstract of persons born outside of Pa. or the U.S. from the 1850 census : for Bart Twp., Brecknock Twp., Caernarvon Twp., Colerain Twp., Drumore Twp., East Cocalico Twp., Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster Twp., Little Britain Twp., Manor Twp., Martic Twp., and West Cocalico Twp

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Author: Renkin, G. Louise

Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R413

Responsibility: by G. Louise Rankin.

Author: Renkin, G. Louise

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: Various pagings ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Census districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; United States - Census, 7th, 1850.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R413

Abstract of persons born outside of Pa. or the U.S. from the 1850 census for the city of Lancaster, Pa

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Author: Renkin, G. Louise

Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 974.815 LACI R413

Author: Renkin, G. Louise

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: Various pagings ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Census districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster (Pa.) - Genealogy.; United States - Census, 7th, 1850

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACI R413

Album, Photograph

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Collection: History Collection: Events, Lancaster Bicentennial

Object ID: 2008.045.5

Date Range: 1992

Collection: History Collection: Events, Lancaster Bicentennial

Description: Photo album with marbelized cover and 40 plastic sleeves. 12 contain photos and notes related to Lancaster's Bicentennial celebration. Handwritten on card on first page: "June 10, 1992/ These documents from the City Safe were taken to The Conservation Centre for Art, Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia for restoration and preservation. Here are before and after pictures of; a. The Lancaster Corporation Book, 1742; b. The Charter of the City of Lancaster, 1742; c. The Plot Plan of the City of Lancaster, (?); ...Jarvis "(signature); On page 14, handwritten on a card: "This was the metal box in which the Charter was stored until someone framed it and exposed it to the light."; On page 19: "This is the Plot Plan which needs to be studied. It has the drawing of gentleman X on the reverse side. Who drew this?"; Made by Burnes (Made in China)

Date Range: 1992

Year Range From: 1976

Year Range To: 1992

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 3

Storage Cabinet: Unit 14

Storage Container: Box 0378

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Object Name: Album, Photograph

Height (in): 2.25

Length (in): 6.5

Width (in): 4.75

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2018-09-17

Object ID: 2008.045.5

Accession Number: 2008.045

The Amish wedding and other special occasions of the Old Order communities

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Author: Scott, Stephen,

Date of Publication: c1988.

Call Number: 289.73 S429a

Responsibility: by Stephen Scott.

ISBN: 0934672199 (pbk.); 9780934672191 (pbk.)

Author: Scott, Stephen,

Place of Publication: Intercourse, PA

Publisher: Good Books,

Date of Publication: c1988.

Physical Description: 128 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series: A People's Place booklet ; no. 8

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126) and index.

Contents: A Lancaster Amish wedding -- Other wedding practices -- A Woolwich Mennonite baptism -- Choosing a minister : Holmes County Amish -- An Old German Baptist Brethren annual meeting -- Meetings of other groups -- An Amish Sunday in LaGrange County, Indiana -- A Big Valley Amish funeral -- The auction at Bart -- Holidays, family days and working days.

Summary: Discusses the weddings and other special occasions of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite people, answering questions about baptisms, worship services, funeral practices, and holidays.

Subjects: Amish - United States.; Public worship; Marriage service - United States.; Amish.; Public Worship; Old Order Mennonites.; Plain People.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.73 S429a

"A mixed multitude" : the struggle for toleration in colonial Pennsylvania

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Author: Schwartz, Sally,

Date of Publication: 1987, c1988.

Call Number: 974.802 S399

Responsibility: Sally Schwartz.

ISBN: 0814778739; 9780814778739

Author: Schwartz, Sally,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: New York University Press,

Date of Publication: 1987, c1988.

Physical Description: vii, 399 p. ; 24 cm.

Series: The American social experience series ; 8

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-391) and index.

Summary: "Religious and national diversity characterized the settlements of the Delaware Valley almost from the first arrival of Europeans, and America's first pluralistic society evolved from this colony established by William Penn on the western shore of the Delaware River in 1681. Penn himself set forth a new, ideological basis for pluralism and tolerance, and this transformed a tentative, pragmatic pattern of relative harmony and tolerance into official policy. The English culture transplanted to Pennsylvania was itself fragmented. Quakers and Anglican, for example, had very different religious, social, and cultural values. Colonists from different parts of the British Isles-the Welsh, the Scots, and the Scotch-Irish-did not share common experiences or cultures. The 'Swedes' were both Swedish and Finnish in origins and culture and, while often designated 'Germans' or 'Palatines' by English-speaking Pennsylvanians, emigrants from the Rhineland spoke different dialects, practiced a wide variety of religious observances, and had little in common historically or culturally. Penn's ideals, ideas and policies set in motion forces that had significant effects on the development of this extremely heterogenous colony. This book explores the ways in which the implications of Penn's ideals were gradually worked out in Pennsylvania and how a stable and generally tolerant society was created."

Subjects: Religious tolerance - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - Ethnic relations.; Pennsylvania.; 01030 - Pennsylvania - 11030 - ethnic groups - 1680-1790 - 31030 - sociopolitical aspects

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 S399

An Alphabet of trades of yesteryear : American trades and crafts as advertised and displayed in the 1870s and 1880s, collected and displayed here for the first time, for young and old alike

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Date of Publication: c1981.

Call Number: 331.76 A456

ISBN: 0960562222 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Willow Street, Pa

Publisher: Graphic Crafts,

Date of Publication: c1981.

Physical Description: [36] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Occupations - United States

Additional Corporate Author: Graphic Crafts, Inc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 331.76 A456

An early history of Charlestown, Maryland : for Colonial Charlestown, Incorporated

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Date of Publication: 1983.

Call Number: 975.238 E13

Responsibility: compiled by the Research Committee: Darlene M. McCall, Mary D. Farrell, Lorain E. Alexander.

Place of Publication: Charlestown, Md

Publisher: Colonial Charlestown,

Date of Publication: 1983.

Physical Description: 22 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "May 14, 1983."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-22).

Subjects: Charlestown (Md.) - History.

Additional Author: McCall, Darlene M.; Farrell, Mary D.; Alexander, Lorain E.

Additional Corporate Author: Colonial Charlestown, Inc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.238 E13

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/eddb76d5-1587-464c-a322-206961869538

Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

Street from Jacob M. Long, trustee to Gabriel Hirsh. Jacob M. Long was to receive $200 for the extinguishment and would receive rent from Gabriel Hirsh which was set at forty-five shillings. Attached to the document is a note by Jacob M. Long to Gabriel Hirsh noting that Long had received Hirsh’s payment

1 document

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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Abstract of persons born outside of Pa. or the U.S. from the 1850 census : for Bart Twp., Brecknock Twp., Caernarvon Twp., Colerain Twp., Drumore Twp., East Cocalico Twp., Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster Twp., Little Britain Twp., Manor Twp., Martic Twp., and West Cocalico Twp

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15588

Abstract of persons born outside of Pa. or the U.S. from the 1850 census for the city of Lancaster, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18157

Album, Photograph

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/971b736e-b31b-4ad3-8a02-289647653709

The Amish wedding and other special occasions of the Old Order communities

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17226

"A mixed multitude" : the struggle for toleration in colonial Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17127

An Alphabet of trades of yesteryear : American trades and crafts as advertised and displayed in the 1870s and 1880s, collected and displayed here for the first time, for young and old alike

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2010

An early history of Charlestown, Maryland : for Colonial Charlestown, Incorporated

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13497

Archive

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Archive

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