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1879-1929, fifty years of Woolworth : over 2100 Woolworth stores celebrate this year in 1500 cities in 5 countries of the world : the fiftieth anniversary of the F.W. Woolworth Co. : with amazing buying opportunities for your nickels and dimes

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Corporate Author: F.W. Woolworth Company.

Date of Publication: c1929.

Call Number: 658.871 W917

Corporate Author: F.W. Woolworth Company.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: The Company,

Date of Publication: c1929.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: F.W. Woolworth Company.; Variety stores - United States.; Chain stores - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 658.871 W917

An authentic history of the Junior Sons of America, 1847 to 1868, and Patriotic Order Sons of America, 1869 to 1923

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Author: Stager, Henry John.

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 369 P314

Responsibility: by Henry John Stager, by John H. Druckemiller as collaborator, and edited and completed by C.H. Shirk.

Author: Stager, Henry John.

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: State Camp of Pennsylvania of the Patriotic Order, Sons of America,

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 2 v. : ill.

Subjects: Patriotic Order Sons of America. - State Camp of Pennsylvania - History.

Additional Author: Druckemiller, John H.; Shirk, C. H.

Additional Corporate Author: Patriotic Order Sons of America. State Camp of Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369 P314

An authentic history of the Junior Sons of America, 1847 to 1868, and Patriotic Order Sons of America, 1869 to 1923

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Author: Stager, Henry John.

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 369 S774

Responsibility: by Henry John Stager, by John H. Druckemiller as collaborator, and edited and completed by C.H. Shirk.

Author: Stager, Henry John.

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: State Camp of Pennsylvania of the Patriotic Order, Sons of America,

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 2 v. : ill.

Subjects: Patriotic Order Sons of America. - State Camp of Pennsylvania - History

Additional Author: Druckemiller, John H.,; Shirk, C H

Additional Corporate Author: Patriotic Order Sons of America. State Camp of Pennsylvania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369 S774

Announcement

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Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Notification that bridge repairs were completed

Object ID: Bridge F0925 I005

Date Range: 1921

Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Notification that bridge repairs were completed

Description: Document type: Notification that bridge repairs were completed.; 1. Mercer's Mill Bridge; Sadsbury Twp. and West Fallowfield Twp., Chester County; Location: 1.5 miles below Christiana.; 2. Steeleville Bridge, also known as Octoraro No. 1; Location: At Steeleville, Sadsbury Twp.; 3. Ross' Fording, also known as Octoraro No. 1.5; 4. Newcomer's Bridge, also known as Octoraro No. 2.5; Colerain Twp. and Upper Oxford Twp., Chester County; 5. Worth's Bridge; Colerain Twp. and Lower Oxford Twp., Chester County]

System of Arrangement: Records are arranged by township, then chronologically within each township.

Date Range: 1921

Year: 1921

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0013

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Bridges; Christiana, Pennsylvania; Colerain Twp.; Creeks; Fords; Lower Oxford Twp., Chester County, Pennsylvania; Mercer's Mill; Mercer's Mill Bridge; Mills; Newcomer's Bridge; Notifications; Octoraro Creek, East Branch; Ross Ford; Sadsbury Twp.; Steeleville Bridge; Steeleville, Sadsbury Twp.; Upper Oxford Twp., Chester County; West Fallowfield Twp., Chester County; Worth's Bridge

Extent: 1 item, 1 piece

Object Name: Announcement

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Bridge F0925 I005

Box Number: 013

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0324

Description Level: Item

Appendix to the journals of the City Council of the city of Reading for the year 1923

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Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 974.816 R287j

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Publisher: Weiler's Printing House ,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: 781 p., 22 p. : tables ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Includes 49th annual report of the fiscal affairs of the city of Reading, Penna.

Subjects: Reading (Pa.) - Politics and government.; Reading (Pa.) - Appropriations and expenditures.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 R287j

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Collection: Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection

Title: Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection

Object ID: MG0007

Date Range: 1744-1927

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Collection: Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection

Title: Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection

Description: The Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection contains church records, property records, legal documents, a songbook, and a liturgy book.

Admin/Biographical History: Peace United Church of Christ was formed in the late 1960s by the joining of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Adamstown and Muddy Creek United Church of Christ. Muddy Creek UCC is one of the earliest German Reformed churches in the area, its founding marked with the first recorded baptisms in January of 1731.

Date Range: 1744-1927

Year Range From: 1744

Year Range To: 1927

Date of Accumulation: 1744-1927

Creator: Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 01

People: Bechtolt, Catherine; Bechtolt, William; Becker, Jacob E.; Egly, Marcus; Frey, Jacob; Frey, Peter; Grill, Adam; Haller, Henry; Hartung, Maria; Hartung, Richard; Hartung, Solomon; Hefft, George; Lauch, Henry; Laush, Mary; Lesher, Samuel; Lutz, Casper; Penn, Richard; Penn, Thomas; Schnider, Valantin; Schober, Philip; Shoup, Christopher; Swartz, Levi P.; Swartz, Lydia; Weiss, Peter

Subjects: Lutheran Church; Reformed Church; German Reformed Church; Church records and registers; Deeds; Hymnals; Liturgies

Search Terms: Calvinist Reformation Congregation; German Reformed Congregation of Muddy Creek Church; Lutheran Congregations of Muddy Creek Church; Muddy Creek Church; Lutheran Church; Reformed Church; German Reformed Church; Financial records; Surveys; Church records and registers; Deeds; Hymnals; Liturgies; Manuscript groups; Finding aids

Extent: 1 box, 10 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English, German

Object ID: MG0007

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 3: Please use photocopy in Folder 3a; make an appointment with the Director of Archival Services to use original.

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-7

Classification: MG0007

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 8 February 2018.

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Collection: Tourist Brochures

Title: Tourist Brochures

Object ID: MG0095

Collection: Tourist Brochures

Title: Tourist Brochures

Description: Collection of brochures relating to tourist attractions, museums, historic sites, events, stores, farmers' markets, hotels, and restaurants in Lancaster, Lebanon, and York Counties. Visitors' guides and road maps provide additional information about points of interest. Items in the collection date back to the late 1920s and continue to the present, but most are from the mid-twentieth century.

Year Range From: 1929

Date of Accumulation: 1929-present

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Albert, Donna; Anderson, V. F.; Best, J. Donald; Buchanan, James; Burnley, Patricia Kling; Clark, Earl; Clark, Molly; Coleman, Robert; Eberly, Hiram M.; Fulton, Robert; Grubb, Peter; Hampton, Cindy; Hand, Edward; Heine, Paul L. H.; Heine, Paul, Jr.; Heisey, M. Luther; Hess, James E.; Horst, Mel; Loose, John Ward Willson; Kauffman, B. L.; Keener, A. E.; Kingston, Joseph T.; Heisey, M. L.; MacNeill, H. T.; Monaghan, Thomas J.; Motto, Marilyn; Procter, Edward C.; Pyle, Carl E.; Ross, Betsy; Shenk, Aaron S.; Smucker, Alma; Smucker, Paul; Stoltzfus, Louise; Sutter, John Augustus; Trach, M. A.; Tortora, V. R.

Subjects: Pamphlets; Tourism

Search Terms: 340-23 Club; A. Bube's Brewery; Amish Country Motel and Restaurant; Amish Dutchland map; Amish Farm and House; Bill Bard Associates; Bird-in-Hand Farmer's Market; Brunnerville Iron Foundry; Candy Americana Museum; Catacombs; Central Hotel; Christian Herr House; Columbia Bank Museum; Columbia Cultural and Historical Association; Columbia Dungeon; Columbia Farmers' Market House; Conestoga Motor Inn; Conestoga Traction Company; Cornwall Iron Furnace; Doneckers; Donegal Presbyterian Church; Donegal Mills Plantation; Duck's New Holland House and Hotel; Dutch Haven; Dutch Wonderland; Dutchland Music Theatre; Elizabethtown College; Ephrata Cloister; Flory's Tourist Rest and Camp Site; Foodergong Lodge; General Engraving Company; General Sutter Hotel and Gold Nugget Saloon Restaurant; Gold Nugget Saloon Restaurant; Groff's Farm Restaurant; Guided Auto Tape Tour for Lancaster; Hammond and Company; Hans Herr House; Hebrew Tabernacle Reproduction; Heritage Center Museum; Heritage Map Museum; Herr Foods, Inc.; Herr's Potato Chips; Hex Barn; Historic Lancaster Walking Tour; Holiday Inn; Lancaster Host Resort; Host Farm; Hotel Brunswick; Hotel Wheatland; Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge; Intelligencer Journal; James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland; Klein Chocolate Company; Kreider's Tourist Farm Home; Lancaster Automobile Club; Lancaster Chamber of Commerce; Lancaster County Central Park; Lancaster County Council of Churches; Lancaster County Heritage; Lancaster County Historical Society; Lancaster County Outlet Shopping Guide; Lancaster County Planning Commission; Lancaster Downtown Investment District Authority; Lancaster Hilton Inn; Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society; Lancaster-York Heritage Region; Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum; Leacock Presbyterian Church; Lititz Historical Foundation; Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery; Maps; Marken and Bielfeld Inc.; Masonic Homes; Masonic Villages; Mennonite Information Center; Miller's Smorgasbord; National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors Inc.; National Central Bank; North Museum of Nature and Science; Old Mill Stream Campground; Old Village Store; Olde Lincoln House; Original Brunswick Pennsylvania Dutch Tours; Pamphlets; Pathway Publishers; Patton School; Pennsylvania Dutch Harvest Frolic; Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau; Discover Lancaster; Pennsylvania Folklife Society; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; People's Place; Photo Arts Press; Plain & Fancy Farm and Dining Room; Police Museum; Postcards; Robert Fulton Birthplace; Rock Ford; Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association; Sentinel Printing House; Sickman's Mill; South Central Pennsylvania Travel Council; Stevens House; Strasburg Railroad; Susquehanna Valley Tour; Tourism; Trinity Lutheran Church; Underground Railroad; Veitch Printing Corporation; Verdant View Farm; Vernon Martin Associates; Village Restaurant; Wagonland; Warwick Haus; Wheatland; Wilbur Chocolate Company; Wilbur Chocolate's Factory Candy Outlet; Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Company; York County Heritage Trust

Extent: 1 box, 18 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English; Pennsylvania German

Object ID: MG0095

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please contact Research Staff or Archives Staff with questions.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Classification: MG0095

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed by AL and HST, July 2007. Finding aid prepared by HST, August 2007. Updated 9 January 2008, HST.

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Collection: World War I Collection

Title: World War I Collection

Object ID: MG0045

Date Range: 1916-1972

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Collection: World War I Collection

Title: World War I Collection

Description: The World War I Collection contains the contents of a scrapbook assembled by an unknown WWI veteran. Included are military draft cards, photographs of Ambulance Co. No. 111, 28th Division, photographs and programs for dedication of memorial monument to Ambulance Co. No. 111, postcards of France, newspaper clippings, and posters.

Date Range: 1916-1972

Year Range From: 1916

Year Range To: 1972

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

People: Andrews, David F.; Benda, W. T.; Beneker, Gerrit A.; Boyce, C. M.; Breitigan, Abraham; Brenner, William A.; Brown, Arthur William; Bryson, Raymond; Bull, Charles Livingston; Carbaugh, Calvin A.; Chambers, Charles E.; Christy, Howard Chandler; Cover, Martin; Culp, Guy; Daugherty, James A.; Davis, Robert Courtney; De Maris, Walter; Dommel, Elmer; Drepperd, C. W.; Eschbach, H. H.; Fergeson, George; Fisher, Harrison; Foringer, A. E.; Forsythe, Clyde; France, Charles; Fulton, Hugh R.; Gibble, Ammon; Griest, William Walton; Habel, Albert A.; Harner, Marvin; Helwig, John W.; Hendee, A.; Hiemenz, Edward A.; Hiestand, Benjamin; Hottenstein, H.; Kahl, William; Kellish, William; Kimmel, Harry; Krone, Herbert D.; Landis, Estes B.; Leber, Paul Revere; Lundy, Edwin H.; Lyons, Julius; Matricardi, Frank; McFarland, Owen; McKee, W. M.; Miller, Peter; Moore, Luther; Musser, John W.; Myers, S. W.; O'Bryen, Benjamin Frank; Orr, Alfred Everitt; Palm, Elam B.; Shafer, L. A.; Shenk, Roy; Shoop, J. M.; Small, W. F.; Snyder, James H.; Tittle, Walter; Usner, Isaac L.; Volk, Douglas; Wauk, S. J.; Worthington, Henry H.; Zellers, George

Subjects: Alco-Gravure; American Lithographic Co.; E. Ketterlinus & Co.; Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co.; Fatherless Children of France (Organization); Lithography; Posters; Rusling Wood, Litho.; Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Prt. Co.; Scrapbooks; Strobridge Lithographing Company; United States. Army; United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 28th; Veterans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; W.F. Powers Co.; William H. Forbes & Company; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; YMCA of the USA

Search Terms: 28th Division; Alco-Gravure; Ambulance Company No. 111; American Expeditionary Forces, Ambulance Company No. 111; American Lithographic Company; American Red Cross; Committee on Public Information Division of Pictorial Society; E. Ketterlinus and Company; Edwards and Deutsch Lithographic Company; Emergency Fleet Corporation; Fatherless Children of France (Organization); Finding aids; Haywood Strasser and Voigt Lithographic Company; Lithography; Manuscript groups; Military draft cards; Posters; Prohibition; Rotoprint Gravure Company; Rusling Wood, Litho.; Sackett and Wilhelms Lithographing and Printing Company; Scrapbooks; Strobridge Lithographing Company; United States Army; United States Army, American Expeditionary Forces; United States Army, Infantry Division, 28th; Veterans; W. F. Powers Company; William H. Forbes and Company; World War I; WWI; YMCA; Commission for Relief in Belgium

Extent: 1 box, 49 folders, 31 posters, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0045

Related Item Notes: MG-28 The Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces; MG-0028 The Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

Additional Notes: The World War I Collection contains the contents of a scrapbook assembled by an unknown WWI veteran. Included are military draft cards, photographs of Ambulance Co. No. 111, 28th Division, photographs and programs for dedication of memorial monument to Ambulance Co. No. 111, postcards of France, newspaper clippings, and posters.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

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-45

Classification: MG0045

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged before 1997. Items have been added to the collection since 1997 and the finding aid has been revised accordingly. Added to database on 19 July 2017.

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Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Object ID: MG0277

Date Range: 1798-1993

scrapbook of Conestoga View. Creator: Lancaster County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners LancasterHistory (Organization) Conditions for Access: Restrictions noted at the item level. Conditions Governing Reproductions: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at

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Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Description: The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection is comprised of accounts, registers, minutes, and other records kept by this county department. There are birth and death records, lists of inmates, supply and payroll books, and auditors' reports, and a scrapbook of Conestoga View.

Date Range: 1798-1993

Year Range From: 1798

Year Range To: 1993

Date of Accumulation: 1798-1993

Creator: Lancaster County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Ash, Phineas; Bachman, J. M.; Bachman, John; Bair, Ivan; Baney, William; Bard, R. W.; Bare, Adam; Bausman, John; Bubach, Gerhart; Carpenter, Sam; Centini, Jane E.; Clark, Thomas; Coleman, Thomas; Colwell, James; Dale, Samuel; Dorwart, Jonas; Dunlap, Stephan; Eaby, George W.; Esler, P. O.; Gibbons, William; Good, William; Graybill, N. W.; Graybill, H.; Gryder, Christian; Haines, Timothy; Halbach, W. A.; Harnish, Jacob; Harnish, Samuel; Heck, Lewis; Herr, Christian; Hershey, W. E. H.; Hildebrant, W.; Hollinger, George; Humes, Samuel; Jackson, James J.; Kean, Thomas M.; Kready, David C.; Lane, P. C.; Lenegan, Archibald M.; Light, John; Livingston, J. B.; Long, Jacob; Metzger, John W.; Meyers, Samuel M.; Murray, William; Musser, George; Nauman, J. W.; Nicholson, John; Overholzer, H. D.; Patterson, D. W.; Reed, John K.; Schwartz, Conrad; Slaymaker, Henry; Snyder, Simon; Stone, Abraham; Strine, Jacob S.; Summy, A.; Sweigart, E.; Weaver, B. F.; Webb, Will; Wein, John; Wentz, Thomas; Witmer, Abraham; Witters, Jacob W.; Young, Mathias; Zantzinger, Paul

Other Creators: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Subjects: Almshouses; Almshouses--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Auditors' reports; Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.); Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Scrapbooks

Search Terms: Almshouses; Auditors' reports; Conestoga View; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Scrapbooks

Extent: 3 boxes, 33 books and folders, 3.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0277

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection (MG0277), Folder or Book #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

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.

Classification: MG0277

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Most of the items in this collection are part of the Lancaster County Government Records, RG 08-12. They were transferred into MG-277 in 1999 during the planning of the Almshouse and Hospital exhibition. Other items are on loan from the Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation or were collected by LancasterHistory.; Added to database 21 July 2017.

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Collection: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Title: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Object ID: HC0001

Date Range: 1905-1974

Correspondence (3 items, 4 pages) Letter from The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, acknowledging receipt of four hand-hooked rugs for exhibition. Letterhead of Montclair Art Museum. 7 February 1952. Letter from Margaret E. [Bryner], Pasadena, regarding an order for a second rug. September 2. Order form for

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Collection: 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.; Processed and finding aid prepared by MJ, June 2018.

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1879-1929, fifty years of Woolworth : over 2100 Woolworth stores celebrate this year in 1500 cities in 5 countries of the world : the fiftieth anniversary of the F.W. Woolworth Co. : with amazing buying opportunities for your nickels and dimes

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An authentic history of the Junior Sons of America, 1847 to 1868, and Patriotic Order Sons of America, 1869 to 1923

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An authentic history of the Junior Sons of America, 1847 to 1868, and Patriotic Order Sons of America, 1869 to 1923

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