Certificate is a "Letters Patent" entitling "The Lancaster City Street Railway Company" to operate a city railway transportation system.
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was directed by the General Assembly on May 3, 1878, to provide for the incorporation and government of Street Railway Companies in cities of the 3rd, 4th and 5th classes in the boroughs and townships in the Commonwealth. According to the infilled blanks which are written in a very legible, flowing hand, this certificated was issued on November 28, 1883. Although printed under the name and with the authority of Gov. Robt. E Pattison, the certificate is signed at the bottom by John C. Shumaker, Deputy Sec. of the Commonwealth.
Handwritten on reverse side (outside when folded) in ink is: "Letters Patent./Lancaster City Street Ry Co/ November. 28, 1883" (Written by Wendell Zercher)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Cabinet
Cabinet 2
Storage Shelf
Shelf 3
Storage Container
Box 0539
Object Name
Broadside
Material
Paper, Wove
Length (cm)
58.42
Length (ft)
1.9166666667
Length (in)
23
Width (cm)
45.085
Width (ft)
1.4791666667
Width (in)
17.75
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2023-04-27
Condition Notes
Generally good structurally with little discoloration. Heavy fold lines with some breaking at fold line extending in about 2 inches from the left side, under the gold seal. Silverfish hole about 1/2" x 1/4" near upper edge 5 " from left side. Edges good except for left side which has fold lines, small wrinkles, small tears and dot-eared upper left corner. Small holes through fold lines. Seal is tarnished and detaching w/ breaks. Revers is darkened with soil and acid burn in sections.
Broadside: Notice of Public Sale - 1 story brick dwelling, estate of Thomas M'Caslin. December 26, 1829, at 3 p.m. at public house of Bernard M'Gonigle.
Includes a 6-county area (Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks,York, Lancaster & Chester) with small black squares marking locations of banks. Around periphery are 6 drawings, one from each county: State capitol bldg., Cornwall Furnace, Boone Homestead, Valley Forge Arch, Rock Ford Plantation and Gold Plough Tavern & General Gates House.
Dual-sided bilingual (English and High German) advertisement for "Mrs. Dr. Knab's Magic Indian Vegetable Pain Killer."
26 people listed who endorse the product dated Aug. 20, 1866. Directions appear for treatment of coughs, cold, fever and ague, asthma and phthisic, dyspepsia, liver complaint, acid stomach, head ache, heartburn and indigestion, canker in the mouth, throat and stomach, cancer rash, kidney complaints, piles, sick headache and seasickness, cramp and pain in the stomach, painters' cholic, diarrhea, a summer complaint, dysentery, cholera infantum, cholera, frost bites and chilblains, sprains and bruises, whitlows, felons and boils, ringworms, rheumatism and neuralgic affection, pain in the side, back and loins, stings and bites of poisonous insects, wounds by fish hooks or the fins of fish.
The medicine is "prepared and sold by Mrs. Dr. Knab, No. 10 Church Street, near South Queen, Lancaster, Pa., where all kinds of Root and Herb Medicines can be obtained."
Printed by the Daily Intelligencer Steam Job Printing Office, Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa."
Admin/Biographical History
"A Dutch Indian: Mrs. Dr. Knab, who has a 'laboratory' in Church st., where she prepares an article she calls a Pain Killer, and which she vends on our markets and throughout this and the adjoining counties, appeared in Centre Square, this morning, in the costume of an Indian squaw, taking a position on a stand, from which she harrangued a gaping crowd, on the virtues of her 'medicine,' in broken English. The scene was ludicrous in the extreme, and as each one left the crowd which surrounded her, a broad smile was visible on his or her countenance." The Daily Evening Express, 16 November 1867, p. 2.
Some center fold marks. A portion missing on upper right edge and top center.
Object ID
MG0153_Ovrszd_F001
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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