Documents relating to the county courthouse in Lancaster. Consists mostly of proposals and bids for the construction in 1852. Also included are booklets, newspaper clippings from additional construction in the 1970s, court calendars and original affidavits of witness testimony in the investigation of the burning of the courthouse in 1784.
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Credit
Lancaster County Court House Collection (MG-80), Folder #, LancasterHistory.org
The George Steinman Papers, Series 1 contains an album, compiled by George Steinman, with many photographs of buildings, tombstones, monuments and scenes of Lancaster city and county. Ephemera and newspaper articles are among the photographs. Represented in the album are Postlethwaite's Tavern, hotels and taverns, fire houses, the Conestoga massacre, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, Stehli Silk Mill, and schools. The four boxes contain orginal correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera or and pertaining to the same subject matter as the album.
The George Steinman Papers, Series 2 is a collection of original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera primarily compiled by George Steinman. The contents of Series 2 represent Lancaster city and county events, prominent citizens, buildings, monuments, churches, cemeteries, schools, and businesses. Most of what Steinman collected relates to 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania, highlighting Lancaster and Philadelphia. One of the key events highlighted is the Revolutionary war; with documents and images related to Philadelphia, George Washington, the Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Riot and to various buildings in early Lancaster; including but not limited to the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite's Tavern. Also included in the collection is currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1764, and Confederate States currency and bonds.
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"Mr. Geo. Steinman who started this collection of pictures. This book was presented to the Lanc. Co. Historical Society after his death by Mr. Geo. S. Franklin."
John M. Gibson is recorded as the donor, 1968, in LancasterHistory's accession records.
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Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-184
Classification
MG0184
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Series 1 processed and finding aid prepared PK and MSH, 2008. Series 2 finding aid prepared by JE, 2018. Added to database 20 July 2021.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
"The Story of Mary's Little Lamb as told by Mary and Her Neighbors and Friends to which is added a critical analysis of the poem," was published by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan in 1928. The text of this non-fiction book includes photos, drawings and music. A 1927 letter from Thomas Edison states that "Mary had a little lamb... were the first words ever recorded and reproduced in the phonograph." Purchased at Longfellow's Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass.
Contains 35 paginated ruled leaves with vertical lines for columns. The last two pages are blank.
Front Cover - Outside is a designed cover and has "CASH" stamped on it; Inside has "David H. Brubaker; Lancaster, Pa., R.#3.; 1922" written on it.
Back Cover - Outside is a designed cover; Inside has two columns of numbers that were added.
Book references to work done, wages received and money paid, e.g. stripping tobacco working at gas tank, cleaned stables, shoveled & opened roads with tractor, cleaned asparagus bed & cultivated, etc,; also an account of money earned at varios places, e.g. Vogels, Levy's, and also personal accounting of money received and paid.
Insert 1 - Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 4 loose sheets
o Item 1 - Letter to Ma Chere (sp?) Sweetheart Ethal.
o Item 2 - Magazine article, "Timeliness in Apple Scab Control" from the "American Fruit Grower Magazine", February 1924.
o Item 3 - Paper article "Seed Treatment and Spray Schedules" from the American Argriculturist", 7 April 1923.
o Item 4 - 1 loose sheet with costs associate with various material, e.g., clothes, car fare, plant, etc.
Admin/Biographical History
From: Donor Card, 1920 Manheim census, Find A Grave, memorial 196030584 and Obituary - "Lancaster New Era", Friday 23 February 1990, p. B-3, c. 4.
o David died 22 February 1990, buried at the East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery. He worked at Armstrong and was an antique dealer.
o Wife was Ethel Gantz, married 1929.
o From 1920 census: Son of Milton and Mary Huber Brubaker. Younger sisters: Carrie, Mary and Christina.
o Front cover missing lower right corner (~3/4") and upper left corner (~1/8").
o Front inside cover has "David H. Brubaker; Lancaster, Pa., R. #3.; 1922 written on it.
o Back inside cover has tabulation of hours written on it.
o First 2 pages have been torn out. Pages 35 to 40, 64 to 69 and 71 to 72 are blank,
Object ID
MG0963_F015
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Corrections made by Mrs. Bertha Cochran Landis, 1929 (3 leaves)
"Summary of Graff-Graeff family as it appears in this record by Mrs. Bertha Cochran Landis." Summaries of the De Hoff, William Henry , Dressler-Drissler-Trissler, and Reigart families are also included.
Reprinted from Pa. Genealogical Society Publications,v. 10 & v. 11, (1929-1932)
Also on microfilm #156, part 7.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancastaer County " page 198 #5.