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American firearms makers: when, where, and what they made from the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2771
Author
Carey, Arthur Merwyn,
Date of Publication
[1953]
Call Number
683 C273
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Carey, Arthur Merwyn,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Crowell
Date of Publication
[1953]
Physical Description
xiii, 146 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 145-146.
Subjects
Firearms industry and trade - United States.
Firearms
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
683 C273
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American locomotives : a pictorial record of steam power, 1900-1950

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Author
Alexander, Edwin P.
Date of Publication
c1950.
Call Number
385 A969a
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by Edwin P. Alexander.
ISBN
0517014238
Author
Alexander, Edwin P.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Bonanza Books,
Date of Publication
c1950.
Physical Description
254 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Sequel to: Iron horses.
Subjects
Locomotives - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
385 A969a
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Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch tourist guide

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16619
Date of Publication
c1959.
Call Number
917.48 A516
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Responsibility
edited by Alfred L. Soemaker.
Place of Publication
Kutztown, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania Folklife Society,
Date of Publication
c1959.
Physical Description
116 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
"Dunkard 'Love Feasts' by Don Yoder": p. [40]-41.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Amish
Pennsylvania Dutch - Folklore.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Additional Author
Shoemaker, Alfred Lewis,
Yoder, Don.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Folklife Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.48 A516
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Andrew Ellicott : surveyor of the capital of our nation

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Author
Heisey, M. Luther,
Date of Publication
1950
, than Major Ellicott always appeared to me to be in the faithful execution of the public business committed to his charge." Andrew, son of Joseph Ellicott, was born in Bucks County, January 24, 1754, and became famous as a surveyor, astronomer, scientist and mathematician. While yet a young man, he and
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by M. Luther Heisey.
Author
Heisey, M. Luther,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1950
Physical Description
[1]-14 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 54, no. 1
Subjects
Ellicott, Andrew, - 1754-1820.
Surveyors - Pennsylvania.
City planning - Washington (D.C.)
United States - Capital and capitol.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 54, number 1 (1950), p. 1-14Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.54
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Annual report

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17647
Corporate Author
Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)
Date of Publication
1958-
Call Number
352.1 L244a
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Responsibility
Lancaster City Planning Commission.
Corporate Author
Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
[s.n.],
Date of Publication
1958-
Notes
Library has 1958, 1959.
1958 cover title: Lancaster moves ahead;Publication 3.
1959 cover title: Progress thru planning; Publication 7.
Subjects
City planning.
Lancaster City (Pa.) - Politics and government
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
352.1 L244a
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The antiques book : outstanding, authoritative articles on ceramics, furniture, glass, silver, pewter, architecture, prints and other collecting interests

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14035
Date of Publication
1950.
Call Number
745.1 A632
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Responsibility
Edited by Alice Winchester and the staff of the magazine Antiques.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Bonanza Books,
Date of Publication
1950.
Physical Description
319 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
"Articles from the first fifty-six volumes of Antiques, January 1922 through December 1949."
Subjects
Collectors and collecting.
Antiques.
Additional Author
Winchester, Alice.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
745.1 A632
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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/161aac4d-04fa-4caa-b55b-168716285149
Collection
Gates Dental Company Collection
Title
Gates Dental Company Collection
Object ID
MG0055
Date Range
1920-1961
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Gates Dental Company Collection
Title
Gates Dental Company Collection
Description
This collection contains records of the Gates Dental Company, a dental equipment and supply company established in 1917. The records include by-laws, stockholders minutes, board minutes, presidents' reports, treasurers' reports, secretary's oath, real estate transactions, and correspondence.
Date Range
1920-1961
Year Range From
1920
Year Range To
1961
Date of Accumulation
1920-1961
Creator
Gates Dental Company, Inc.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 02
Subjects
Business records
Dental instruments and apparatus industry
Letters
Minutes (Records)
By-laws
Stockholders
Search Terms
Business records
By-laws
Correspondence
Dental instruments and apparatus industry
Finding aids
Gates Dental Company, Inc.
Letters
Manuscript groups
Minutes
Reports
Stockholders
Extent
2 boxes, 36 folders, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0055
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-55
Classification
MG0055
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
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Archive

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Collection
Archive of Alice P. Fordney
Title
Archive of Alice P. Fordney
Object ID
HC0001
Date Range
1905-1974
: Archives North, Side 27 Scope and Content Note: This collection contains ephemera related to Alice Potter Fordney, antiques dealer and rugmaker. Items in the collection include business correspondence with Armstrong, F. Schumacher & Co., and the Montclair art museum; personal correspondence with friends
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Archive of Alice P. Fordney
Title
Archive of Alice P. Fordney
Description
This collection contains ephemera related to Alice Potter Fordney, antiques dealer and rugmaker. Items in the collection include business correspondence with Armstrong, F. Schumacher & Co., and the Montclair art museum; personal correspondence with friends and family; hooked rug patterns; and antiques sale flyers from the early 20th century. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings, including the obituary of Fordney's sister Ellen Franklin; reference material for rug making and interior design (informational sheets, books and patterns); several items related to the Yeates School, which Fordney's brother William Bush Fordney attended; several photographs of unidentified persons; and a statement related to the will of William J. Fordney, her uncle.
Admin/Biographical History
Alice Potter Fordney was born June 21, 1887 in Lancaster, the daughter of Ida Cox and Thomas Potter Fordney. A prominent antique dealer from the late 1920s to her retirement in 1965, Fordney also made and sold hooked rugs.
Fordney's family features prominently in Lancaster County history. Her maternal great-grandfather was John Michael, who owned the historic Grape Hotel from 1805-1839. Fordney's paternal great-grandfather William Jenkins built Wheatland in 1828 and later sold the property to President James Buchanan. Colonel William Bush Fordney, her paternal grandfather, was a prominent lawyer in Lancaster. He served as district attorney from 1839-1845 and negotiated for the loan that enabled Lancaster city to build the "water works" in the 1830s. Sarah Cox, her maternal grandmother, was a known philanthropist and for years helped to manage the Home for Friendless Children in Lancaster. Her sister, Ellen Fordney Franklin, was a "pioneer" in the industry of women's knit suits, opening her first shop in 1929 in Philadelphia.
Fordney never married. She kept in contact with her nieces and nephews, as evidenced by letters in the collection. According to notes provided by Wendell Zercher, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine Muench, her niece and the donor of the collection, recalled her as "warm and artistic," and "a character." She died April 17, 1973, at the age of 85.
Works Cited:
"Mrs. Franklin, pioneer of women's knit suits, dies." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 10 May 1963, p. 2.
"Accident Fatal to Mrs. Sarah A. Cox." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], no date, page unknown.
"Miss Fordney, Antique Dealer, 85, Succumbs." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 18 April 1973, p. 2.
"One of Lancaster's Most Prominent and Venerable Citizens Passes Away." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 29 July 1889, p. 1.
Date Range
1905-1974
Year Range From
1905
Year Range To
1974
Date of Accumulation
1905-1974
Creator
Fordney, Alice Potter, 1887-1973
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives North
Storage Wall
Side 28
People
Appel, Charles Rengier
Bohlen, Sidney Franklin
Bowman, Mrs. Edward J.
Boyer, R. J.
Brenneman, Mary Rue Bard
Brown, Hazel Dell
Chiarell, Fred P.
Clark, George W.
Daugherty, Harvey P.
Demuth, Charles
Dodge, Arthur B.
Embsweiler, Ruth
Erb, Edna
Fordney, Alice Potter
Fordney, William Bush Jr.
Fordney, William Jenkins
Franklin, Ellen Julia Fordney
Gibbons, Alice McIlvaine
Gilbert, L. J.
Gingrich, Milton E.
Graybill, John M.
Griest, Charles J.
Higby, Everett
Hostetter, A. K.
Howe, John
Irvine, Blanche
Kent, William Winthrop
Knodle, Edward
Krone, Herbert B.
Lindenmuth, J. D.
Long, Yvonne
Maclay, Helen Hurley
Malone, Clarence
Morris, Charles R.
Morris, Grace M.
Nauman, Gertrude Colson
Orr, Barclay
Pennypacker, Charles A.
Pennypacker, James G.
Randall, Meda
Rannels, Paul
Stokes, Agnes M.
Strickler, Belle
Wolf, Emily
Other Creators
Muench, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine, d. 2006
Subjects
American newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Women
Antique dealers
Armstrong Cork Company
Armstrong World Industries
F. Schumacher & Co.
Farm Journal Media
House & Garden
Interior decoration
Letters
Montclair Art Museum
Patterns for crafts
Rugs
Rugs, Hooked
Student newspapers and periodicals
Woman's world magazine
Search Terms
Albert Steiger Company
Antique dealers
Antique sales
Armstrong Cork Company
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Berlinwork patterns
Blue and Brown (Yeates School)
Cheney Silks
Cheney Weaves
Christmas
Correspondence
Cricket Club
Dickinson Presbyterian Church
Estate sales
F. Schumacher and Company
Farm Journal Media
Fiber arts
Finding aids
Gilbert's store
Griest Homestead
Guernsey Sales Pavilion
Hager's Department Store
Hershey Fire Hall
Hooked rugs
House & Garden
Interior decoration
Kleinfelter's auction rooms
Letters
Manuscript groups
Montclair Art Museum
Odd Fellows Hall
Olson Rugs
Patterns for crafts
Rossmere Hotel
Rug patterns
Rugs
State Armory Hall
V-mail
Woman's World Magazine
Yeates School
Extent
3 boxes, 37 folders, 333 items, 1,015 pages to scan, 4.5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
HC0001
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Associated Material
Sarah McIlvaine Muench Family Papers, MS 44 at Archives and Special Collections, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.
Related Item Notes
See photograph collection.
See curatorial collection for examples of rugs.
Fordney Family Diaries (MG0539)
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Archive of Alice P. Fordney (HC0001), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
The kraft paper patterns in Folders 33-37 are restricted. Please make an appointment with the Director of Archival Services to view these items.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
G.04.23.52
Classification
HC0001
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
From the Heritage Center of Lancaster County collection, G04.23.52.
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/43553ef4-44c3-48c2-9e77-111796480136
Collection
Keppel & Bro. Collection
Title
Keppel & Bro. Collection
Object ID
MG0368
Date Range
1926-1965
230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Keppel & Bro. Collection, 1926-1965 Object ID: MG0368 4 volumes .5 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 9 Scope and Content Note: The
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Keppel & Bro. Collection
Title
Keppel & Bro. Collection
Description
The volumes in the Keppel & Bro. Collection span forty years of corporate history for R. F. Keppel & Bro.; Keppel & Ruof, Inc.; and Keppels, Inc. The payroll book shows how this company reacted during the early years of the depression.
Date Range
1926-1965
Year Range From
1926
Year Range To
1965
Date of Accumulation
1926-1965
Creator
Keppel & Bro. (Lancaster, Pa.)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 09
People
Aierstock, Harry F.
Binz, George A.
Boettger, Maud P.
Botzfield, Clarence G.
Bowman, Charles Ezra
Bricker, O. P.
Buchheil, Edward A.
Buckwalter, O. E.
Calnan, Thomas J.
Chadman, Elizabeth L.
Clark, Ada E.
Clark, John A.
Clark, Linnie S.
Denlinger, Jacob
Denlinger, John M.
Denlinger, Lizzie M.
Denlinger, Mae E.
Denlinger, Norman J.
Denlinger, Simon
Denlinger, Susanna
Denlinger, Willis B.
Diller, Adam
Eby, J. S.
Fenninger, E. S.
Fenninger, Lena
Effrig, Walter A.
Eshleman, Mary Edna
Fulmer, M. Frances
Fulmer, Mary F.
Groff, Celia
Hershey, Amos W.
Hess, Ara G.
Hess, Elvin
Hess, John
Hess, John F.
Hess, Milo H.
Horner, Ellis
Hostetter, A. Mary
Houser, Nellie E.
Keppel, P. H.
Keppel, Robert F.
Kirchner, Edward A.
Kirchner, Catherine Anna
Knobb, George L.
Knobb, Mabel F.
Kreider, Elmer
Kreider, Mary E.
Kurtz, Ellis D.
Kurtz, Martin D.
Leinart, Anna Mae
McManus, Estella
Mehaffey, Alice
Mentzer, Isaac C.
Miller, James B.
Miller, James M.
Miller, Laura E.
Mowery, Jacob B.
Myers, E. Nora
Nolt, J. C.
Ressel, L. B.
Reynolds, George K.
Rodkey, Frederick
Ruof, Anna Marie Sener
Ruof, Leo A.
Shank, Carrie N.
Shirk, Mary R.
Spigelmyer, Mary
Weaver, Aaron
Welch, Elizabeth
Wissler, Emma E.
Ziegler, George L.
Ziegler, Marie C.
Zimmerman, Ella Merle
Zimmerman, Enos L.
Zimmerman, Maurice L.
Zimmerman, Violetta B.
Zimmerman, Willis L.
Subjects
Account books
Business records
Stocks
Stockholders
Search Terms
Account books
Business records
Employees
Finding aids
Keppel & Bro.
Keppel and Ruof, Inc.
Keppels, Inc.
Lancaster
Manuscript groups
R. F. Keppel and Brother, Inc.
Stockholders
Stocks
Extent
4 volumes, .5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0368
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.
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.
Accession Number
2005.MG0368
Other Numbers
MG-368
Classification
MG0368
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/3cc9c820-1c63-4cf1-ab36-013019025371
Collection
Alice E. Brown Family Papers
Title
Alice E. Brown Family Papers
Object ID
MG0583
Date Range
1727-1963
-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Folder 1 Alice E. Brown genealogy. Families of Mary Ann Hipple and William Brown. Folder 2 Insert 1 Life of Aunt Grace and Uncle Frank, no author given. After 1960. Insert 2 Family record of Jacob Brown (14 June 1827) and Barbara Brown (7 September 1844) 4
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Alice E. Brown Family Papers
Title
Alice E. Brown Family Papers
Description
The Alice E. Brown Family Papers contain genealogy and family records, deeds, land drafts, ads and ephemera for local businesses, bonds, estate papers, wills, and personal papers. Some of the deeds and maps are for property also owned by the Coates and Pownall families. Alice's father was a race horse breeder and the collection contains certificates from the American Trotting Register for some of his horses.
Admin/Biographical History
"Alice E. Brown, age 93, of Christiana, PA passed away on Monday, March 15, 2010 at Tel Hai Retirement Community. She was born in Salisbury Twp., daughter of the late John H. & Lizzie F. Brown. She was a member of Latta Memorial Presbyterian Church of Christiana. Alice graduated from the Millersville Normal School in 1934. She was a School Teacher for 7 years at the former Simmontown one-room schoolhouse. She also worked for Dr. Beacher of Gap. She was known as a wonderful artist. She was preceded in death by 4 siblings: Norris, Phares, Lela, and Leah Brown. She was the last of her immediate family. Funeral service will take place from the Shivery Funeral Home, 111 Elizabeth Street, Christiana, PA on Wednesday, March 17th, at 11 a.m. with Rev. Jane DeFord officiating. Interment will be in the Sadsbury Friends Burial Grounds, Gap, PA."
From the obituary of Alice E. Brown, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, 16 March 2010.
Date Range
1727-1963
Year Range From
1727
Year Range To
1963
Date of Accumulation
1727-1963
Creator
Brown, Alice E., 1916-2010
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 12
People
Bedard, A. J.
Beecher, Eleanor
Beecher, Samuel
Beyer, W. F.
Brinton, Susanna
Brown, Alice E.
Brown, Barbara
Brown, Clemson
Brown, David
Brown, David, Jr.
Brown, Elizabeth F.
Brown, Hannah
Brown, J. Norris
Brown, Jacob
Brown, John H.
Brown, John Henry
Brown, Leah
Brown, Lindley T.
Brown, Lizzie F.
Brown, Lydia
Brown, Margaret C.
Brown, Phares
Brown, Samuel
Brown, Sarah "Sallie"
Brown, William
Coates, Lindley
Davis, Benjamin F.
Dubree, Absolom
Dubree, Ann
Elliot, Joseph
Eshleman, Jacob
Fleming, John
Hipple, Mary Ann
Hostetter, Abraham F.
Howell, Philip
Jackson, Mary Louise
Kunkel, H. Clinger
Lindley T. Brown
McNeely, Abigail
Mews, Hannah
Mews, John
Moore, Thomas
Murray, John
Murry, John
Murry, Susanna
Pownall, Deborah
Pownall, Ellen
Pownall, George H.
Pownall, Harriet
Pownall, Levi
Wasson, Samuel
Pownall, Martha
Pownall, Theodore
Rhea, Ann
Samson, Margaret
Samson, William
Steele, Elizabeth
Steele, Hugh E.
Swanger, John H.
Taylor, Isaac
Walker, Asahel
Wasson, Ann
Wasson, Ruth
Wasson, Usher
Wayser, Janet L. Knox
Whitson, George
Williams, Robert
Subjects
Advertisements
Deeds
Family archives
Genealogy
Horse breeders
Probate records
Search Terms
Advertisements
Certificates
Deeds
Family records
Finding aids
Genealogy
Horse breeders
Lutheran and Reformed Church
Manuscript groups
Pikeland Church
Probate records
Sadsbury Friends Cemetery
Simmontown School
Union Cemetery
Extent
1 box, 35 folders, .5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0583
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
See also the Photograph Collections
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Alice E. Brown Family Papers (MG0583), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
2010.MG0583
Other Numbers
MG-583
Classification
MG0583
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
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