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Collection: David B. Landis Collection

Title: David B. Landis Collection

Object ID: MG0158

Date Range: 1812-1954

moved to Lancaster in 1888 and started Pluck Art Printery. He started out in Lancaster by publishing Pluck, a magazine dedicated to the fields of printing and photography, but soon devoted his business to commercial and society printing. The name was changed in 1914 to Landis Art Print. Printing

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Collection: David B. Landis Collection

Title: David B. Landis Collection

Description: The David B. Landis Collection consists primarily of his personal and business correspondence, as well as his poetry and writings. Of special interest are a booklet with a synopsis autobiography of his life and his picture. There are also family papers, genealogy, membership cards, and obituaries.

Admin/Biographical History: David Bachman Landis was born in Landisville, Pennsylvania on 12 February 1862, the son of Israel C. and Mary M. Landis. As a school boy, he worked in his father's dry goods store and published a paper for boys titled Keystone Amateur. He began his printing career by apprenticing at the Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company in Lancaster in 1878, and in 1883 he opened his own job printing office in Landisville where he published the Village Vigil.; Mr. Landis moved to Lancaster in 1888 and started Pluck Art Printery. He started out in Lancaster by publishing Pluck, a magazine dedicated to the fields of printing and photography, but soon devoted his business to commercial and society printing. The name was changed in 1914 to Landis Art Print.; Printing, however, was not his only passion. He was an avid bicyclist and belonged to the Lancaster Cycling Club and the League of American Wheelmen. Through these organizations, he helped to improve the condition of roads in Pennsylvania. He was active in the Lancaster County Historical Society, the Pennsylvania German Society, the Ben Franklin Club, and Grace Lutheran Church. He wrote poetry and essays, and dedicated many pieces to friends and family.; David B. Landis married Nora K. Baker of Landisville in 1885. They had four children. Nora passed away in 1910. David married his second wife, Bertha L. Cochran, in 1914.

Date Range: 1812-1954

Year Range From: 1812

Year Range To: 1954

Date of Accumulation: 1812-1954

Creator: Landis, David Bachman, 1862-1940

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Baer, Frank; Baker, Catherine; Baker, Emma W.; Baker, P. W.; Barrett, W. W.; Benner, Henry; Brown G. W.; Camp, Edward N.; Carr, George M.; Chamberlain, Frank N.; Cochran, Ada; Cole, Will T.; Conyngham, Redmond; Denlinger, D.; Diehl, H.; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diller, S.; Donaldson, W. M.; Dunbar, William H.; Ely, Alfred; Forshey, E. L.; Frederick, George W.; Garretson, G. R.; Gay, Ed. C.; Grout, J. W.; Gould, J. J.; Greider, Mary Carolyn; Greider, Joseph Landis; Griest, William Walton; Hains, Wilson R.; Haldeman, Victor Macholski; Haldy Gertrude Hensel; Hardy, E. W.; Heister, A. V.; Hershey, Harvey S.; Hershey, J. B.; Hess, Barbara K.; Holbach, George H.; Hood, Jesse A.; Hostetter A. K.; Hostetter Albert K.; Jackson, A. C., Jr.; Johnston, R. A.; Kramer, Donald; Keen, Robert H.; Kreider, A. B.; Krick, William T.; Landis, Benjamin; Landis, Bertha L. Cochran; Landis, Christian; Landis, D. M., Dr.; Landis, David Bachman; Landis, Elvin G.; Landis, Felix; Landis, Florence D.; Landis, Frances; Landis, Henry G.; Landis, Irene Janet; Landis, Israel Christian; Landis, James B.; Landis, Johannes; Landis, John; Landis, John C.; Landis, Mary M. Musselman; Landis, Michael Bachman; Landis, Nora K.; Landis, Priscilla R.; Lehman, Eliza Ann; Lehman, Emma Bachman; Lincoln, Abraham; Marrow, Paul Harding; McBride, Sarah C.; McClain, Frank B.; McGinnis, J.; Merrill, W. J.; Missemer, J. R.; Morrison, Neale; Moyer, Albert,; Moxley, C. A.; Musselman, David; Musselman, Edward M.; Musselman, Sarah; Myrtle, M.; Neale, Fred; Neale, John C.; Nissley, H. L.; Reynolds, Howard; Rial, Abram S.; Rial, S.; Rial, Susan Ann; Shields, R. I.; Shirk, John Kohr; Simon, Daniel B.; Smith, Edwin Hadley; Stein, George; Stephen, Samuel; Taft, William Howard; Thompson, C.; Trout, J. H.; Wager, D. Y.; Walsh, M.; Walsh, Thomas; Washington, George; Weber, Otto E.; Weidel, Melba Landis; Weidman, Joel; Wenaugh, W. L.; Wickersham, J. Harold; Wolf, B.; Wolf, D. Dorsey; Wolf, Edna Kempton

Other Creators: Landis, Bertha L. Cochran, d. 1959

Subjects: Genealogy; Letters; Poetry

Search Terms: Advertising; Ben Franklin Club; Correspondence; Family reunions; Finding aids; Franklin Institute; Genealogy; Invitations; Invoices; Lancaster Board of Trade; Lancaster Chamber of Commerce; Lancaster County Agricultural Society; Lancaster County Historical Society; Lancaster Cycling Club; Landis Art Press; League of American Wheelmen; Letters; Manuscript groups; Pageant of Liberty; Pennsylvania German Society; Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society; Pluck Art Printery; Poetry; Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology; Sonnets; Street and Road Committee, Lancaster Cycling Club; Unitarian Laymen's League; Village Vigil; Wickersham Printing Company; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 26 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0158

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: David B. Landis Collection (MG0158), Folder #, Insert #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use photocopies when available.

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: 1957.MG0158

Other Numbers: MG-158

Classification: MG0158

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged by DT, JM, and HST, 1998-2008. Added to database 29 July 2021.

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Collection: Sarah Moore Breneman Papers

Title: Sarah Moore Breneman Papers

Object ID: MG0365

Date Range: 1919-1956

Hardware Company, “matter of the war draft taking away our young men,” record business become so large need two new booths, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra to rehearse at $5.00 per hour [in Kirk-Johnson building], cost of Santa Claus program on WGAL is $325.00. Folder 9 Steinman Hardware Company and Kirk

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Collection: Sarah Moore Breneman Papers

Title: Sarah Moore Breneman Papers

Description: The Sarah Moore Breneman Papers contain documents from the Steinman Hardware Company, the Kirk Johnson Company, and the Lancaster Broadcasting Service, Inc. The collection includes minutes of stockholders meetings and board of director meetings, financial reports, the election of officers, letters to stockholders, presidents' reports, company by-laws and minutes of the meetings organizing the companies.

Date Range: 1919-1956

Year Range From: 1919

Year Range To: 1956

Date of Accumulation: 1919-1956

Creator: Breneman, Sarah Moore, 1932-2005

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 09

People: Atlee, Benjamin Champneys; Baker, Scott; Hess, Norman B.; Manning, Harry H.; Mease, Lorena Watson; Miller, Harry E.; Moore, Adam Zerphy; Moore, Ruth Johnson; Moore, Sylvester Zerphy; Pickel, Elwood; Pickel, Mary; Worrell, L. Bruce; Zahm, Edward J.

Other Creators: Moore, Adam Zerphy, 1895-1957

Subjects: Business records; Hardware stores; Minutes (Records); Radio stations; Stockholders

Search Terms: Brunswick Hotel; Business records; By-laws; Camp Kaul Tea House; Colonial Golf Course; Conventions; Financial records; Finding aids; First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster; Glen Moore, Manheim Twp.; Hardware stores; Inventories; Kendig Bros.; Kirk Johnson & Co.; Korean War; Lancaster Broadcasting Company; Lancaster Broadcasting Service, Inc.; Lancaster Chamber of Commerce; Lancaster General Hospital; Lancaster Symphony Orchestra; Manuscript groups; Minutes; Mortgages; North Pine Street; Obituaries; Prince Street; Radio Corporation of America; RCA; Reports; Robinson-Patman Act; Specialty Advertising Company; Sprenger Food Company; St. George Hotel; Steinman Hardware; Stevens House; Stockholders; WEST (radio station); West King Street; WGAL (radio station); WKJC (radio station)

Extent: 1 box, 14 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0365

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: See the Photograph Collection:; Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-01-01); Staff of WKJC (SH-01-01-02); Steinman Hardware Company truck (SH-01-01-03); 200 Year Anniversary of Steinman Hardware Co. (SH-01-01-04); View of south side of East King Street (SH-01-01-05); View of south side of West King Street (SH-01-01-06); Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-01); Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-02); Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-03); Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-04); Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-05); Interior of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-02-06); Framed receipt (SH-01-03-01); Image of account book (SH-01-03-02); Image of a print of the old courthouse (SH-01-03-03); Image of a print of East King Street (SH-01-03-04); Image of account book (SH-01-03-05); Map of Lancaster (SH-01-03-06); Five men in front of Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-03-07); Man looking at account book (SH-01-03-08); Close-up of Steinman Hardware Co. sign (SH-01-03-09); First block of East King Street (SH-01-03-10); Man examining shotgun shells (SH-01-03-11); Conestoga wagon jacks (SH-01-03-12); Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-03-13); Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-03-14); Archery equipment at Steinman Hardware store (SH-01-03-15); Man taking inventory of horseshoes (SH-01-03-16); See the Curatorial Collection:; Commemorative saw, "Two Hundred Years of Hardware Service 1744-1944, The Steinman Hardware Company Lancaster PA" (2005.006.1); Eyeglasses and case with label on one side "Steiman Hardware Company Lancaster PA", other side marked with printing "Arundel Tinted, Edw. J. Zahm, Jeweler, Zahm's Corner, Lancaster PA" (2005.006.2)

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.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2005.MG0365

Other Numbers: MG-365

Classification: MG0365

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 20 February 2022.

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-09-01-30

Date Range: June 1930

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Banquet at the Brunswick Hotel where Lancaster Aero Club and the Chamber of Commerce entertained the pilots participating in the "first Pennsylvania Goodwill Tour" sponsored by the Aero Club of Pennsylvania.