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Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Object ID
MG0237
Date Range
1880-2003
which is located on South Queen Street. Rengier was to be paid $15.60 and Rengier was to pay a yearly ground rent of three shillings and six pence. Signed 27 March 1905. In Record Book W, Volume 17, page 186, 15 April 1905. Folder 12 Deed from Fabian Yecker and wife to P.T. Watt and James Shand for the
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Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Description
The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.
Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.
Admin/Biographical History
On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged by series.
Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory
Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners
Date Range
1880-2003
Year Range From
1880
Year Range To
2003
Date of Accumulation
1880-2003
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 06
People
Ammon, Cora Mae Fox
Ammon, John M.
Appel, Eva Rengier
Appel, Percy L.
Baker, Miriam Rengier
Bell, Louise Price
Berger, R. R.
Blatchley, Charles A.
Breyers, C. J.
Buchanan, James
Drukenbrod, Lee Roy
Fehl, J. Herbert
Frantz, I. E.
Fritz, C. C.
Goodhart, E. C.
Groff, Alpheaus S.
Groff, Ella L.
Hermansader, T. F.
Hirsh, Bertha
Hirsh, Gabriel
Hostetter, D. B.
Lively, Henry
Long, Jacob M.
Loss, Natalie M.
Loss, Nathan
Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.
Marshall, Elizabeth Weber
Marshall, George A.
Marshall, George W.
Marshall, Maria L. Good
May, Jennie H.
Miller, E. N.
Myers, Harry
Myers, Maria
Myers, Patricia Marshall
Myrtetus, George B.
Noonan, Ella O.
Noonan, Raymond Smith
Prangley, James
Reed, George R.
Reichley, Jacob Christian
Reifsnyder, Arden P.
Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman
Rengier, Charles F.
Rengier, John S.
Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen
Rohrer, George Redsecker
Rohrer, Jeremiah
Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker
Roth, George R.
Rupert, L. H.
Schaller, Kimberly
Shand, James
Shand, Thomas Marshall
Sherrill, Anita B.
Sherrill, S. Edward
Short, Edwin P.
Skyllas, Drossos A.
Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert
Stiles, H. A.
Stirk, Isaac
Stirk, Sarah C.
Swarr, Donald
Urban, Cassius Emlen
Watt, Laura Louise Geiger
Watt, Peter T.
Weber, May H.
Wisegarver, Harry P.
Witmer, Albert F.
Other Creators
Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)
Subjects
Advertising
Architectural drawings
Blueprints
Building leases
Calendars
Catalogs
Deeds
Department stores
Historical markers
Insurance policies
Letters
Menus
Newsletters
Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.)
Scrapbooks
Stores, Retail
Search Terms
A and S Realty and Investment Corporation
A. B. Rote & Co.
Advertising
Agreements
Air conditioning
American Blower Corporation
Appel & Weber
Architectural plans
Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America
Awards
Blueprints
Bon-Ton
Bon-Ton Beauty Salon
Booklets
C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.
Calendars
Catalogs
Central Automatic Sprinkler Company
Certificates
Columbia
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company
Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia
Correspondence
Deeds
Department stores
DUSCO Property Management, Inc.
East Hempfield Twp.
Employee handbooks
Employees
Ephemera
Escalators
Finding aids
Fire sprinklers
Floorplans
Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers
Gift certificates
Ground-rent
Hager and Bro., Inc.
Hager Realty Corporation
Heating and ventilation systems
Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County
Historical markers
Insurance policies
Job descriptions
Kroll Electric Company, Inc.
Lancaster
Lancaster Parking Authority
Lancaster Trust Company
Leases
Letters
Manuscript groups
Menus
Mortgages
Newsletters
Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.
Park City Mall
Penn Square
Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company
Permits
Poetry
PPL
Price lists
Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company
Reynolds and Reynolds Company
Scrapbooks
Stores, Retail
Total Energy Leasing Corporation
Trion, Inc.
Watt and Shand
Workers' Compensation Act
York Corporation
Extent
4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0237
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection 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.
Other Numbers
MG-237
Classification
MG0237
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.
The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.
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Collection
Lancaster Brick Company Records
Title
Lancaster Brick Company Records
Object ID
MG0364
Date Range
1919-1982
9 Scope and Content Note: The Lancaster Brick Company Records contain items from the Lancaster Brick Company, including meeting minutes, names of shareholders, financial information, and documentation on incorporation and dissolution. Creators: Horning, Roy A., 1919-2008. Conditions for Access
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Lancaster Brick Company Records
Title
Lancaster Brick Company Records
Description
The Lancaster Brick Company Records contain items from the Lancaster Brick Company, including meeting minutes, names of shareholders, financial information, and documentation on incorporation and dissolution.
Admin/Biographical History
Robert Horning's great-uncle, Roy A. Horning, worked in the ceramics department at the Armstrong Cork Company plant in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and came to Lancaster to show the plant here how to make quality brick. Roy became the general manager, a position he held until he left in 1926. Robert's grandfather, Clarence Horning, came to Lancaster from Paris, Illinois and became a superintendent and then general manager and vice president until his death in 1953. At that time, his son, Roy A. Horning II was offered and accepted the position of general manager. He held that position until the plant closed in 1979. Robert Horning was also employed at the company as a teenager and for one year after graduating from high school.
The Lancaster Brick Company was founded in 1919 to provide quality brick for the new Armstrong Cork Company buildings in Lancaster. The company was successful for more than half a century before environmental concerns and the excessive cost of fuel and raw materials forced the manufactory to close in 1979.
For more information: Horning, Roy A. 1992. "The Lancaster Brick Company, 1919-1979." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 94 (Winter): 2-29. https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo328
Date Range
1919-1982
Year Range From
1919
Year Range To
1982
Date of Accumulation
1919-1982
Creator
Horning, Roy A., 1919-2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 09
People
Deyll, Edward H.
Baker, Charles G.
Bevis, Harry A.
Flinchbaugh, Robert E. S.
Horning, Clarence B.
Horning, Roy A.
Kemp, Clinton W.
Martin, Hedwig S.
Martin, James K.
Martini, H. A.
Mueller, John C.
Mueller, Paul A.
Posey, Walter William
Rengier, John B.
Seitz, A. W.
Slaugh, Dorothy M.
Stauffer, John H.
Todd, Mary Ellen
Wagner, Isabella Fiona
Wagner, Richard S.
Wohlsen, Albert Bollinger
Wohlsen, Herman Amandus
Subjects
Bricks
Business records
Financial statements
Letters
Liquidation
Manufactures
Stockholders
Search Terms
Barley, Snyder, Cooper and Barber
Bricks
Business records
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company
Correspondence
Financial statements
Finding aids
Franklin and Marshall College
Kuntz, Lesher, Siegrist, Martini and Associates
Lancaster Brick Company
Lancaster Malleable Castings Company
Letters
Liquidations
Manheim Township School District
Manuscript groups
Minutes
Posey Iron Works
Slaugh-Blumenstock and Company
Stockholders
Extent
2 boxes, 4 volumes and 5 folders, .75 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0364
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Photographs:
Lancaster Brick Company (2-08-04-18)
Lancaster Brick Company interior (2-08-04-19)
Lancaster Brick Company, showing heavy machinery (2-08-04-20)
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lancaster Brick Company Records (MG0364), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Folder 5 contains restricted material and may not be used.
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
2005.MG0364
Other Numbers
MG-364
Classification
MG0364
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 30 December 2021.
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Black studies : a select catalog of National Archives microfilm publications

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2569
Corporate Author
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Date of Publication
1984.
Call Number
016.326 B628
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ISBN
0911333088
Corporate Author
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
National Archives Trust Fund Board,
Date of Publication
1984.
Physical Description
xi, 97 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
United States. - National Archives - Microform catalogs.
African Americans
Documents on microfilm
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
016.326 B628
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Genealogical and biographical research : a select catalog of National Archives microfilm publications

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Corporate Author
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Date of Publication
1983.
Call Number
016.9293 G326
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ISBN
0911333061 (pbk.)
Corporate Author
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
National Archives Trust Fund Board, U.S. General Services Administration,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
xii, 77 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
United States. - National Archives - Microform catalogs.
Documents on microfilm
United States - Genealogy - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.
United States - Biography - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
016.9293 G326
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Guide to the records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

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Corporate Author
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Committee.
Date of Publication
1989.
Call Number
289.6 E19
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Responsibility
compiled by Jack Eckert.
Corporate Author
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Committee.
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.],
Date of Publication
1989.
Physical Description
xix, 288 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"Haverford College, Records Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Swarthmore College."
"This guide to the records in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Quaker Collection of Haverford College lists the minutes ... and other types of records"--P. v.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-268) and index.
Summary
Guide to the records of the Society of Friends from the beginings of the Quaker settlement in the Delaware River Valley in 1676 to present held in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Quaker Collection of Haverford College.
Subjects
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. - Records Committee - Manuscripts - Microform catalogs.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. - Records Committee - History - Sources - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.
Haverford College. - Quaker Collection - Microform catalogs.
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College - Microform catalogs.
Manuscripts - Pennsylvania
Manuscripts on microfilm
Catalogs, Union - Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Eckert, Jack,
Additional Corporate Author
Haverford College. Quaker Collection.
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
289.6 E19
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Immigrant and passenger arrivals : a select catalog of National Archives microfilm publications

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Corporate Author
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Date of Publication
1983.
Call Number
016.3252 I33
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ISBN
0911333053 (pbk.)
Corporate Author
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
National Archives Trust Fund Board, U.S. General Services Administration,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
xi, 46 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Immigrants & passenger arrivals.
Includes index.
Subjects
United States. - National Archives and Records Service - Microform catalogs.
Ships
Documents on microfilm
United States - Genealogy - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
016.3252 I33
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Johnson journal

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19293
Date of Publication
[1982-
Call Number
929 J68n
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ISSN
8755-1721
Place of Publication
Sacramento, CA
Publisher
Roberts Pub.,
Date of Publication
[1982-
Physical Description
v. ; 22 cm.
Publication Frequency
Quarterly,
Dates of Publication
Vol. 4, no. 1 (Nov. 1985) - Vol. 7, no. 4 (Fall 1989) Incomplete.
Notes
Imprint varies: , Broderick, CA : Verna Ellis.
Subjects
Johnson family
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 J68n
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Markers : the annual journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies

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Date of Publication
c1980-
Call Number
736.5 M354
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ISSN
0277-8726
Place of Publication
[Worcester?, Mass.]
Publisher
The Association,
Date of Publication
c1980-
Physical Description
v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publication Frequency
Annual
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1 (1979/80 ed.)-
Series
1979/80-198 : AGS publications
Notes
Imprint varies: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, <1985->
Library has: v. 1, 2, 5, 6, 16, 17, 21-27.
Subject Index to v. 1-20 also published separately.
America, history and life
Historical abstracts
Contents
v. 1. Resurrecting the epitaph -- Recording cemetery data -- Care of old cemeteries and gravestones -- Protective custody: The museum's reponsible for gravestones -- Willow tree and urn motif -- Archaeological significance of mausoleums -- Mystery, history and an ancient graveyard -- Resources for the classroom teacher -- Gravestones and historical archaeology. v. 5. Pennyslvania German gravemarkers -- Early Pennyslvania gravemarkers. v. 6. Tributes in stone and lapidary lapses: commemorating Black people in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America -- Communities of the dead: tombstones as a reflection of social organization. v 16. The year's work in gravemarker/cemetery studies. v. 17 The Quaker graveyard -- John Solomon Teetzel and the Anglo-German gravestone carving tradition of 18th century northwestern New Jersey --The year's work in gravemarker/cemetery studies. v. 21 Carving a path to freedom: the life and work of African American Stonecarver Sebastian "Boss" Hammond -- Subject index for Markers 1-20 --The year's work in cemetry and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v. 22 -- The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v.23 -- The year's work in international cemetery and gravemarker studies: and international bibliography. v.24 - Virtuous women, useful men, & lovely children - New Netherland's gravestone legacy - Myths and realities of Laural Hill's "mother and twins" monument - Embodying immortality - Borden Thorton (1762-1838), Rhode Island stonecarver - The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies : an international bibliography. v. 25 - Obituary: Gary L Collison - Death , burial and Memorialization in colonial New England - Scottish discoid gravemarkers - Beth El : Michigan's oldest Jewish cemetery - "Gothic" cast-iron gravemarkers in New Hampshire - The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v. 26 - A Tribute to James Slater - Headstones, hatchments, and heraldry, 1650-1850 - Home at last: mortuary commemoration in Virginian slave cemeteries - Westall decoration day, a poem - The Tombstones of the English East India Company in Macao: a linguistic analysis - Fok beliefs, mystics, and superstitions in Ashkenazi and Karaite tombstone inscriptions from Ukraine - The Year's work in cemetery and gravestone studies : an international bibliography.v.27 - Memorializing the Civil War Dead -- Cities of the Dead --Eighteenth-Century Gravestone Carvers of the Upper Narragansett Basin: The Real George Allen Jr. --Wooden artifacts in Cemeteries --The Year's Work in Cemetery and Gravestone Studies: an international bibliography. v.28 - A Tribute to Fred Oakley - Preserving the Sightline of Ruckstull's Minerva on the Alter to Liberty in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn - Dearth of Markers: Ambivalence of Memory in Elmira, New Yor, and Its National and Woodlawn Cemeteries-"A Holy War, on Both sides": Stonewalll Cemetery at Winchester, Virginia - Lettering on Gravemarkers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: regional Variation and the Scottish Influence - The Year's Work in cemetery and Gravestone Studies: An International Bibliography.
Subjects
Historical markers - United States
Sepulchral monuments - United States
Inscriptions - United States
Epitaphs - United States
Cemeteries - United States
United States - Antiquities - Periodicals.
Additional Corporate Author
Association for Gravestone Studies.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
736.5 M354
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The people of Three Mile Island

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Author
Del Tredici, Robert.
Date of Publication
c1980.
Call Number
974.8 D331
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Responsibility
interviews and photos by Robert Del Tredici.
Author
Del Tredici, Robert.
Place of Publication
San Francisco
Publisher
Sierra Club Books,
Date of Publication
c1980.
Physical Description
127 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Subjects
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.)
Nuclear power plants - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg Region
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8 D331
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Collection
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Photograph Collection
Title
Photograph of Louis Vyner wearing an I Survived Three Mile Island t-shirt
Object ID
LSO-01-01-04
Date Range
c. 1980
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Photograph Collection
Title
Photograph of Louis Vyner wearing an I Survived Three Mile Island t-shirt
Description
Louis Vyner, conductor of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, wearing an I Survived Three Mile Island t-shirt.
Provenance
Gift of the Penn Square Music Conservatory and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra.
Date Range
c. 1980
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Vyner, Louis
Subject
Photographs
Classification
LSO-01-01-04
Search Terms
Three Mile Island
Conductors
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Original or Copy
Original
Print Size
3.5 x 3.5 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
LSO-01-01-04
Notes
Three copies of photograph.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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