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600 miscellaneous valuable receipts, worth their weight in gold; a thirty years collection, to which is added two simple guaging tables, to enable merchants to take inventory of their stock

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Author: Marquart, John.

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 641 L442 1860

Author: Marquart, John.

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: C. Henry,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: 311 p. incl. tables. 19 cm.

Notes: Includes many medical and veterinary receipts.; Includes index.

Subjects: Recipes - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 641 L442 1860

African American lives

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Edition: Widescreen format.

Date of Publication: [2006]

Call Number: 929.373 A258 DVD

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Responsibility: a film by Kunhardt Productions ; executive producers, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William R. Grant, Peter W. Kunhardt ; written by Henry Louis Gates. Jr. ; series producers, Graham Judd, Leslie D. Farrell ; a production of Kunhardt Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/ WNET New York.

ISBN: 1415716943

Edition: Widescreen format.

Place of Publication: [Alexandria, Va.] : Hollywood, Calif

Publisher: PBS Home Video ; distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment,

Date of Publication: [2006]

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes: Originally broadcast as a four-part television series in 2006.; Host: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; features Oprah Winfrey, Chris Tucker, Quincy Jones, Sara-Lawrence-Lightfoot, Mae Jemison, T.D. Jakes, Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg.

Contents: Listening to our past / producer and director, Jesse Sweet; editors, Eric Davis, Michael Weingrad -- The promise of freedom / producer and director, Leslie Asako Gladsjo ; editors, Joanna Kiernan, Geeta Gandbhr -- Searching for our names / producer and director, Leslie D. Farrell; editors, Merril Stern, Kathryn Moore -- Beyond the middle passage / producer and director, Graham Judd; editors, Kate Hirson, Stefan Knerrich.

Summary: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.

Subjects: African Americans; African American families; DNA fingerprinting.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary - Feature.

Additional Author: Gates, Henry Louis.; Grant, William; Kunhardt, Peter W.; Judd, Graham.; Farrell, Leslie D.; Sweet, Jesse.; Gladsjo, Leslie Asako.; Winfrey, Oprah.; Tucker, Chris,; Jones, Quincy,; Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara,; Jemison, Mae,; Jakes, T. D.; Carson, Ben.; Goldberg, Whoopi,

Additional Corporate Author: Kunhardt Productions.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); PBS Home Video.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Media

Call Number: 929.373 A258 DVD

Websites

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Appeals from the Orphans' Court of Lancaster County : in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania - Eastern District - January term, 1894. Estate of Thaddeus Stevens, deceased

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Call Number: 923.2 S846

Physical Description: Various publications.

Notes: Includes: Appeals from the Orphans' Court of Lancaster County (Appeals of Thaddeus J. B. Stevens and others, heirs-at-law of Thaddeus Stevens, deceased) ; Argument of Appellee (George M. Kline) ; Appellants' paper book (Chas. R. Kline and W. U. Hensel for appellant, January term, 1901, no. 72) ; Lancaster Law Review containing the decisions of the courts of Lancaster County :Stevens' appeal , Stevens' estate ad Wiestling's appeal, Stevens' estate ; Letter from George M. Kline dealing with the estate of Thaddeus Stevens.

Subjects: Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792 - 1868.

Additional Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 S846

Assigned estate of Chas. Steigerwalt, Esq. of Lancaster, Pa. ... : valuable collection of autograph letters and historical documents ... to be sold ... January 31, 1911

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Corporate Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)

Date of Publication: 1911]

Call Number: 017.7 S818

Responsibility: catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels.

Corporate Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Stan. V. Henkels,

Date of Publication: 1911]

Physical Description: 74 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : facsims. ; 26 cm.

Series: Catalogue / Stan. V. Henkels ; no. 1023

Subjects: Steigerwalt, Charles.; Autographs - Collections.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 017.7 S818

Belmont Estate 1580 Fruitville Pike

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Author: Hollinger, Mr.

Date of Publication: 1992

Call Number: 974.815 LACI O63b Oversize

Responsibility: by Hollinger as told to Nancy Gingerich

Author: Hollinger, Mr.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Library

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: unp. 28 cm.

Notes: An oral history project of Lancaster 250 Education Committee and Operation Remember.

Subjects: Belmont Estate, Lancaster, Pa.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACI O63b Oversize

Books for the back country : Patrick Orr's inventory, Lancaster, 1754

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Author: Tully, Alan.

Date of Publication: 1975

Books for the Backcountry: Patrick Orr's Inventory, Lancaster, 1754 by Alan Tully Because of the longstanding interest of historians in the intellec- tual and cultural life of colonial Philadelphia we now have a clear idea of what the reading interests of that city's elite were during the mid-eight

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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