600 miscellaneous valuable receipts, worth their weight in gold; a thirty years collection, to which is added two simple guaging tables, to enable merchants to take inventory of their stock
1864-1910, Pennsylvania at Cold Harbor, Virginia : Ceremonies at the dedication of the monument erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the National Cemetery at Cold Harbor, Virginia
George Frederick Baer (September 26, 1842 - April 26, 1914) was an American lawyer who was the President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and spokesman for the owners during the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. Baer's statements on workers and labor relations became rallying cries for the unions. Most famously he wrote in a letter, later leaked to the press, "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for -- not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men of property to whom God has given control of the property rights of the country, and upon the successful management of which so much depends." Baer attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and for the last 18 years of his life he was the College's president.
Attributed to Frank R. Diffenderffer. Contains brief biographies of Abraham Herr Smith, James Hamilton, George Ross, William Henry, Edward Hand and Lindley Murray, all of whom have portraits hanging in the library.
