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1875 historical atlas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author: Everts and Stewart.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Call Number: 912.74815 E93

Responsibility: compiled, drawn, and published from personal examinations and surveys by Everts & Stewart.

Corporate Author: Everts and Stewart.

Place of Publication: Knightstown, IN

Publisher: Bookmark,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: xviii, 120 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 43 cm.

Notes: Reprint of the 1875 ed. published by Everts and Stewart, Philadelphia under title: Combination atlas map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.; "Sponsored by the Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania."; Kept on top of counter-height shelving unit in Reading Room.

Subjects: Real property - Pennsylvania - Lancaster Co. - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Directories.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Everts and Stewart.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 912.74815 E93

America in 1857 : a nation on the brink

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Author: Stampp, Kenneth M.

Date of Publication: 1990.

Call Number: 973.68 S783

Responsibility: Kenneth M. Stampp.

ISBN: 0195039025 (alk. paper); 9780195039023 (alk. paper); 0195074815 (pbk); 9780195074819 (pbk)

Author: Stampp, Kenneth M.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1990.

Physical Description: ix, 388 p. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Autographed by the author.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index.

Contents: A new year and a fresh start -- Politics and the social milieu -- James Buchanan : President-elect -- The President, the Chief Justice, and a slave named Scott -- The heart of the matter : slavery and sectionalism -- Popular sovereignty, Kansas style -- Dog days -- Flush times and an autumn panic -- Northern politics : the parties in equipoise -- Politics as farce : the Lecompton Constitution -- Politics as tragedy : Buchanan's decision -- 1858 : the fruits of Lecompton.

Summary: It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Morman governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northernRepublicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). etc.

Subjects: Political science.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.; USA; United States.; United States - History, 1845-1861

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.68 S783

American colonial wealth : documents and methods

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Author: Jones, Alice Hanson,

Edition: Second ed.

Date of Publication: c1978.

Call Number: 339.4 J76

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

American folk painting : selections from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III : an exhibition on display at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, November 29, 1977- January 8, 1978

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Author: Woodward, Richard B.,

Date of Publication: 1977.

Call Number: 759.13 W912

Responsibility: organized by the Virginia Museum ; and circulated by the American Federation of Arts ; catalog compiled by Richard B. Woodward.

ISBN: 091704603X; 9780917046032; 0917046021 (pbk.); 9780917046025 (pbk.)

Author: Woodward, Richard B.,

Place of Publication: Richmond

Publisher: The Museum,

Date of Publication: 1977.

Physical Description: 110 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Wiltshire, William E. - Art collections; Painting, American - Exhibitions.; Primitivism in art - United States - Exhibitions.

Additional Corporate Author: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.; American Federation of Arts.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 759.13 W912

The American hearth

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Author: Barons, Richard I.

Date of Publication: [1976?]

Call Number: 643.3 B871

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

Amish enterprise : from plows to profits

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Author: Kraybill, Donald B.

Date of Publication: Â©1995.

Call Number: 305.687 K91a

Responsibility: Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt.

ISBN: 0801850622; 9780801850622; 0801850630; 9780801850639

Author: Kraybill, Donald B.

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication: Â©1995.

Physical Description: xiv, 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes: Autographed by the author.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-292) and index.

Subjects: Economics; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Amish.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history - 20th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions.; Economics - Related to - Religion; Mennonites; Pennsylvania

Additional Author: Nolt, Steven M.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 305.687 K91a

An Analysis of the laws of England : to which is prefixed an introductory discourse on the study of the law

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Author: Blackstone, William,

Edition: 5th edition.

Date of Publication: 1762.

Call Number: Book 955 1762

Author: Blackstone, William,

Edition: 5th edition.

Place of Publication: Oxford

Publisher: Printed at the Clarendon Press,

Date of Publication: 1762.

Physical Description: lxxvii, [7], 189, [15] pages ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 955 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Law - Early works to 1800.; Law.; Law; Great Britain.; Early works.; Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding); Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 955 1762

Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britaniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, quinto : at a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1764, in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George III. by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. : and from thence continued by adjournments to the eighteenth day of May, 1765

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21257

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXV [1765]

Call Number: Book 463 1765a

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Uniform Title: Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1765 Feb.)

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the New-Printing-Office, near the market,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXV [1765]

Physical Description: [2], 413-428 p. ; 30 cm (fol.)

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book numbr 463 as assigned by Yeates.; Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1760 (Evans 8705).; Evans,; ESTC,

Contents: An act for opening and better amending, and keeping in repair, the public roads and highways within this province -- A supplement to the act intituled, "An act for the prohibiting the importation of Germans, or other passengers, in too great numbers, in any one vessel."

Subjects: Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.; Law - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.; Law.; Session laws.; Pennsylvania.; Early works.; Blind-tooled suede (Binding)

Additional Author: Franklin, Benjamin,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 463 1765a

Archive

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

., and Henry Markley. 23 May 1771. Folder 5 Mortgage. James and Sarah Davis of Lampeter Twp., a fuller, and Michael Diefenderffer of Lancaster, are bound to Bernard Hubley of Lancaster regarding the purchase of property on King Street in Lancaster. 11 June 1772. Folder 6 Deed from Leonard Stone of Earl

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Description: The Diffenderffer Family Papers collection contains items that have been passed down through generations of the Diffenderffer family. Deeds for tracts of land in New Holland date back to the creation of New Design, the village that preceded New Holland. Correspondence and some manuscripts pertain to J. P. McCaskey's life and accomplishments. F. R. Diffenderffer's manuscripts on Easter Day and Conrad Weiser are preserved with this collection, as well as poems, a program for the C. Elvin Haupt School, and a claim of F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. against the State of Texas.

Date Range: 1691-1963

Year Range From: 1691

Year Range To: 1963

Date of Accumulation: 1691-1963

Creator: Diffenderffer family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

People: Brubaker, John; Brubaker, Margaret; Brubaker, Philip; Davis, Sarah; Diffenderfer, David; Diffenderfer, Elizabeth Shirk; Diffenderfer, John; Diffenderffer, Christina; Diffenderffer, David; Diffenderffer, David, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diffenderffer, Harold F.; Diffenderffer, John, Jr.; Diffenderffer, John, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Margaretta Stein; Diffenderffer, Michael; Freymyer, Jacob; Grim, Henry; Haupt, Charles Elvin; Hoch, Herman E.; Holl, Wendel; Hubley, Bernard; Kennerly, John; Kinzer, John; Kinzer, Magdalena; Koch, Mary; Koch, Melchior; Law, James D.; Markley, Henry; McCaskey, Donald G.; McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"; Nevin, Blanche; Painter, John; Penn, William; Rodman, John H.; Shirk, Henry; Smith, Oliver; Smith, William Evans; Sneider, Christian; Stone, David; Stone, George; Stone, Leonard; Stone, Mary; Sutton, Mary A. Diffenderffer; Thomson, Bill "Tommy"; Winter, John; Young, Matthias

Other Creators: Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz, 1918-2009; Diffenderffer, David

Subjects: Deeds; Letters; Real property

Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Conestoga River; Correspondence; Deeds; Drowning; Earl Twp.; England; Estate settlement; Finding aids; German Reformed Church of New Holland; Haupt Elementary School; Hutchings Printing House; King Street; Lancaster; Land drafts; Lemon Street School; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mortgages; New Design, Earl Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Programs; Real estate; Real property surveys; Reigart's Landing; Susquehanna River; Texas; Texas Frontier Forces; Windsor Forge

Extent: 1 box, 23 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0410

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).; Deeds in folders 1-18 were a gift of Fianna Diffenderffer and the Diffenderffer family, 4 November 2006.; Items in folders 19-23 were a gift from her nephew, David Diffenderffer, 14 August 2006.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level--please use photocopies or transcriptions for those items. Other original documents 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 collection 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.

Accession Number: 2006.MG0410_NOV

Other Numbers: MG-410

Classification: MG0410

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged by HST, November 2008. Added to database 28 July 2021.

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1875 historical atlas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15911

America in 1857 : a nation on the brink

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19772

American colonial wealth : documents and methods

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3547

American folk painting : selections from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III : an exhibition on display at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, November 29, 1977- January 8, 1978

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17225

The American hearth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2376

Amish enterprise : from plows to profits

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18939

An Analysis of the laws of England : to which is prefixed an introductory discourse on the study of the law

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22121

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21257

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