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Collection: Sphinx Club Records

Title: Sphinx Club Records

Object ID: MG0341

Date Range: 1912-2000

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Sphinx Club Records, 1912-2000 Object ID: MG0341 1 box 21 folders 1 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 8 Scope and Content Note: This

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Collection: Sphinx Club Records

Title: Sphinx Club Records

Description: This collection contains the official records of the Sphinx Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The minute books date from 1912-1985. Histories of the club were prepared in 1934 and 1962. Dinner programs, membership lists, meeting and speaker schedules, correspondence and speeches make up the bulk of the collection. There are images of some of the earliest members, as well as articles about the statue of the Sphinx.

Date Range: 1912-2000

Year Range From: 1912

Year Range To: 2000

Date of Accumulation: 1912-2000

Creator: Sphinx Club (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Appel, Roberts R.; Browne, George I.; Cooper, John Wallace; Cramer, Margaret Snader; Cramer, William Stuart; Davidson, Paul; Dippell, Marion Fox; Dippell, Victor William; Distler, Theodore A.; Donner, M. M.; Dotterer, Ray H.; Duke, Robert W.; Hager, E. M.; Hager, Nathaniel Ellmaker; Hamblin, Dora Jane; Hartman, Edwin Mitman; Hartman, Mr.; Herman, Emma Garrigan; Herman, Theodore F.; Honig, Margaret; Honig, Stanley; Jefferson, Thomas; Jordan, Paul; Jurgelski, Susan; Kell, R. M.; Kilby, Tom; Kunkel, Arthur King; Lincoln, Abraham; Maugans, David; Mencken, Henry Louis; Michalak, Beverly; Michalak, Stanley; Moore, C. Eugene; Parks, Cynthia; Poole, H. Herbert; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Roy, John; Rudisill, Carl; Rudisill, Flo; Sayres, Alfred Nevin; Schmitchew, Peter; Schwalm, Ted; Smith, Howard P.; Steinmetz, Rollin; Thornley, Richard; Twombly, Clifford Gray

Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.; Business records; Letters; Minutes (Records); Obituaries

Search Terms: Accomac Inn; Alfred's Victorian Restaurant; Associations, institutions, etc.; Business records; Bynden Wood; Conestoga Bridge; Correspondence; Finding aids; Flyers; Franklin and Marshall College; Hamilton Club; Huachung University; Letters; Manuscript groups; Membership; Minutes; Mount Gretna, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Obituaries; Outings; Poetry; Republican Party; Restaurants; Sphinx Club; St. Peter's Village, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Trivia; World War II; WWII

Extent: 1 box, 21 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0341

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).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2004.MG0341

Other Numbers: MG-341

Classification: MG0341

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed by DW. Finding aid prepared by KK, March-April 2014. Added to database 3 January 2022.

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Flag

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Collection: Military Collection

Object ID: 2002.008

Date Range: 1943-1945

Collection: Military Collection

Description: Cotton and linen flag. Red with smaller inset rectangle of white cotton with a blue cotton star in the middle. White mounting edge with metal grommets at top and bottom. World War II service flag for the signal corps aviation.

Date Range: 1943-1945

Year Range From: 1943

Year Range To: 1945

Last Owner: Messenkop, William Lawrence

Storage Location: LCHS / Willson Memorial Building

Storage Room: Guild Vault

Storage Wall: East Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 02

Storage Shelf: Shelf 2

Storage Drawer: Drawer B1

Subcategory: Ceremonial Artifact

Subject: World War, 1939-1945

Search Terms: Flags; Signal Corps; World War II; WWII

Object Name: Flag

Material: Cotton, Linen

Height (in): 11

Length (in): 17

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2002.008

Negative

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 1-10-07-36

Date Range: c. 1940s

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Object Name: Negative

Collection: General Collection

Description: Penn Square showing the Griest Bulding, Fulton Bank, and the Solders and Sailors Monument with sevice stars on it.

Date Range: c. 1940s

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Penn Square; Monuments; Griest Building; Fulton Bank; World War II

Object Name: Negative

Film Size: 4 x 5 inches

Object ID: 1-10-07-36

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Petition

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Collection: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Title: Veterans' Peddlers License

Object ID: Veterans F53 I15

Date Range: 1948

Collection: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Title: Veterans' Peddlers License

Admin/Biographical History: Record of applications for peddlers' licenses showing date of application, name of applicant, type of license, and dates granted and lifted. Many applications for soldiers' licenses; these are peddlers' licenses issued to honorably discharged veterans.