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Address in commemoration of the inauguration of George Washington as first president of the United States, delivered before the two houses of Congress, December 11, 1889

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Author: Fuller, Melville Weston,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Call Number: 923.173 W318fu

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Responsibility: by Melville Weston Fuller, chief-justice of the United States.

Author: Fuller, Melville Weston,

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Physical Description: 39 p. 24 cm.

Subjects: Washington, George, - 1732-1799 - Anniversaries, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 W318fu

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t02z1nx3v&view=1up&seq=7

African American entrepreneurs in Lancaster County

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy T.

Date of Publication: 2022.

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Responsibility: Leroy T. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy T.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: LancasterHistory,

Date of Publication: 2022.

Physical Description: 221-243

Series: Journal of Lancaster County's Historical Society, vol. 122, no. 3 (Sept. 2022)

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster (Pa.); African American business enterprises; Businesspeople

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https://lancasterh.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=d8e8b5794f10e655e1c86893b66d572c

The ambitions of William Henry

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Author: Gordon, Scott Paul.

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Responsibility: by Scott Paul Gordon.

Author: Gordon, Scott Paul.

Physical Description: p. 254-284.

Notes: This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.

Summary: HISTORIANS HAVE TRAPPED William Henry of Lancaster (1729â€“86) in the identity of gunsmith. Though meant as a complimentâ€” most accounts portray Henry as the most important gunsmith in the "rifle-making hub of colonial America," Lancaster Countyâ€” - this confinement is ironic, since Henry escaped this occupation as soon as he was able. The term gunsmith, then as now, could describe men who repaired guns, who produced specialized gun parts (such as barrels or locks), who created an entire gun from scratch (lock, stock, and barrel), or who ran a factory that employed other men. Henry seems not to have engaged in any of these activities after 1760. By the last decade of his life, Henry had achieved a level of financial security (and apparently embodied the virtuous independence thought to derive from it) that led his peers to entrust him with positions of responsibility and that left Henry free to accept them. He served first in local and state governments and was later appointed an administrator and financier for the Continental army and elected twice to the Continental Congress. We have failed to register the shape of his career, the magnitude of his transformation; instead, historians have imagined that during all these varied activities, Henry continued to work as a gunsmith. Indeed, the belief that Henry "was engaged in the manufacture of firearms for over thirty years," that he produced the rifles or muskets carried by soldiers from the French and Indian War through the Revolution, has been central to stories about him. [abstract]

Subjects: Henry, William, - 1729-1786.; Simon, Joseph, - 1712-1804.; Gunsmiths - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Contained In: The Pennsylvania Magazine orf History and Biography, v. 136, no. 3.Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v. 136, no.3.

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https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/60720/60546

Amish quilts of Lancaster County

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Author: Herr, Patricia T.,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 746.46 H564a

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Responsibility: by Patricia T. Herr.

ISBN: 0764320173 (Paperback)

Author: Herr, Patricia T.,

Place of Publication: Atglen, PA

Publisher: Schiffer Pub. Ltd.,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: 189 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Amish quilts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 746.46 H564a

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003024667.html

Andes Foundry [cap pistols] - Information file

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Call Number: Information file - Andes Foundry [cap pistols]

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Notes: Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.

Summary: Inside this file is one essay written by William D. Andes in September for 1978. The introduction says, "This paper is concerned with the operations of the Andes Foundry Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania an important manufacturer of paper caps and toy pistols thought not alone in the field."

Subjects: Andes Foundry Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Toy guns - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Information File

Call Number: Information file - Andes Foundry [cap pistols]

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https://lhdo-verso.auto-graphics.com/mvc/PersistentLink?key=tUFkaheLX8ZbUqdOnDmaAg%3d%3d

An essay on the origin of the Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, its objects and progress. Read before the association on its 4th anniversary, at the Athenaeum rooms, February 24th, 1866

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15666

Author: Rathvon, Simon S.,

Date of Publication: 1866.

Call Number: 090 L244p 1866

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Responsibility: By S.S. Rathvon. To which are appended its charter, and lists of its officers, its members, and its correspondents.

Author: Rathvon, Simon S.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pearsol & Geist, printers,

Date of Publication: 1866.

Physical Description: 18 p. 23 cm.

Notes: Published by request and by authority of the Society.

Subjects: Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L244p 1866

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007678281;view=1up;seq=9

An historical view of the English government : from the settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the accession, of the House of Stewart

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Author: Millar, John,

Edition: The 2nd ed.

Date of Publication: 1790.

Call Number: Book 621 1790

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Responsibility: by John Millar, Esq. ...

Author: Millar, John,

Edition: The 2nd ed.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for A Strahan, and T. Cadell ... and J. Murray ...,

Date of Publication: 1790.

Physical Description: vii, [9], 565, [19] pages ; 28 cm (4to)

Notes: Error in paging: 237 numbered 372.; Index: p. [2]-[18] at end.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 621 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Constitutional history - Great Britain.; Constitutional history.; Politics and government; Great Britain - Politics and government.; Great Britain.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 621 1790

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t1wd44f84&view=1up&seq=5

An illustrated history of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, civil, political and military, from its earliest settlement to the present time

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Author: Egle, William Henry,

Edition: 2d ed.,

Date of Publication: 1880.

Call Number: 974.8009 E31 1880

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Responsibility: including historical descriptions of each county in the state, their towns, and industrial resources. By William H. Egle.

Author: Egle, William Henry,

Edition: 2d ed.,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: E.M. Gardner,

Date of Publication: 1880.

Physical Description: xii, 13-1186 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. ports., maps, facsim.) 27 cm.

Summary: This 1880 volume covers Pennsylvania history from the Native Americans prior to European settlement through 1876

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.; Pennsylvania - History, Local.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8009 E31 1880

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https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto02egle/page/n7/mode/2up

Avotaynu guide to Jewish genealogy

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Date of Publication: 2004.

Call Number: 929.1 A961

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Alternate Title: Guide to Jewish genealogy; Jewish genealogy

Responsibility: edited by Sallyann Amdur Sack & Gary Mokotoff.

Place of Publication: Bergenfield, N.J

Publisher: Avotaynu,

Date of Publication: 2004.

Physical Description: xv, 608 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Jews - Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Additional Author: Sack, Sallyann Amdur,; Mokotoff, Gary.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.1 A961

Websites

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003022930.html

The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time

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Author: Landis, David M.

Date of Publication: 1921.

rapidly going on. Those letters are mounted in folios entitied "Lancaster County Miscellany" and "Taylor Pa- pers", etc., rstn the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; but that does not stop the fading out of the ink. It is with the greatest diffi- culty even now that some of them may be

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Responsibility: by David M. Landis.

Author: Landis, David M.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1921.

Physical Description: 5-16 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 1

Subjects: Land settlement - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Taylor papers.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 1 (1921), p. 5-16Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062014121&view=1up&seq=11

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Address in commemoration of the inauguration of George Washington as first president of the United States, delivered before the two houses of Congress, December 11, 1889

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1051

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African American entrepreneurs in Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2131

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The ambitions of William Henry

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17509

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Amish quilts of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12213

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Andes Foundry [cap pistols] - Information file

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21338

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An essay on the origin of the Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, its objects and progress. Read before the association on its 4th anniversary, at the Athenaeum rooms, February 24th, 1866

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15666

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An historical view of the English government : from the settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the accession, of the House of Stewart

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21702

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An illustrated history of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, civil, political and military, from its earliest settlement to the present time

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3147

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Avotaynu guide to Jewish genealogy

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15439

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The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3980

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