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Addresses at the sixth annual meeting of the Lebanon County Historical Society, December 15, 1903

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18902

Corporate Author: Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1903?]

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 2 no. 11

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Corporate Author: Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.)

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, PA

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1903?]

Physical Description: p.[ 317] -343 ; 24 cm.

Series: Historical papers and addresses / Lebanon County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 11

Contents: The Pennsylvania-German and his English and Scotch-Irish neighbors / By M.D. Learned -- The educational works of Lebanon County / By H.U. Roop -- Jacob Weidle : a biographical sketch of Hon. Jacob Weidel, Reading, Pa. -- In memoriam-William Coleman Freeman.

Subjects: Weidle, Jacob, - 1800-1873.; Freeman, William Coleman, - 1847-1903.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - History.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Learned, Marion D.; Roop, H. U.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 2 no. 11

Websites

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Archive

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Collection: Pinkerton & Slaymaker Collection

Title: Pinkerton & Slaymaker Collection

Object ID: MG0308

Date Range: 1815-1853

business was closed out in 1857. Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, p. 94. Source of Acquisition: Unknown. Custodial History (Provenance): Accruals: No further accruals are expected. Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Pinkerton & Slaymaker Collection (MG0308

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Collection: Pinkerton & Slaymaker Collection

Title: Pinkerton & Slaymaker Collection

Description: This collection contains receipts and invoices from the Pinkerton & Slaymaker business. The receipts date primarily from May 1851, with one receipt from May 1853, and are for a wide variety of items. The collection also contains letters from the Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Company and an undated check from the National Bank of Pottstown.

Admin/Biographical History: Henry Edwin Slaymaker and William C. Pinkerton went into the hardware business as Pinkerton & Slaymaker ca. 1850. The store was located on North Queen Street in Lancaster. The business was closed out in 1857.; Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, p. 94.

Date Range: 1815-1853

Year Range From: 1914

Year Range To: 1978

Date of Accumulation: 1815-1853

Creator: Pinkerton & Slaymaker

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Bickford, Bacon; Boon, Philip T.; Brady, William; Dale, W. P.; Eberley, Jacob; Govett, William; Hansson, Joseph; Harrison, John; Hayes, Jacob; Hovey, Roswell; Jones, J.; Jones, J. C.; Keller, John; Lewis, Edward; Martin, George; McNeely, William T.; Miller, Samuel; Morris, William; Mullins, Edward; Pinkerton, William C.; Reigart, Adam; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Steinman, George Michael; Strenge, George; Thompson, T. S.; Trollezlov, N.; Tucker, Samuel; Wilstach, William P.; Wilt, Peter; Wolf, W. W.; Wyman, Isaac

Subjects: Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Invoices; Business records; Hardware; Hardware stores

Search Terms: Bowlby and Brenner; Business records; Colemanville Works; Correspondence; Cuscaden and Company; E. Van Antwerp and Company; Eagles and Lockwood; F. Curtis and Company; Finding aids; Hanline and Ostheimer; Hardware; Hardware stores; Harrison Brothers and Company; Heaton and Denckla; Invoices; Justice, Steinmetz, and Justice; Letters; M. and J. M. Rowe; Manuscript groups; Meade and Long; National Bank of Pottstown; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Pinkerton and Slaymaker; Pinkerton and Smeltz; Potter and Carmichael; Receipts; Russell and Erwin Manufacturing Company; William H. Horstmann and Sons

Extent: 1 box, 3 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0308

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Pinkerton & Slaymaker Collection (MG0308), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

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-308

Other Number: MG-308

Classification: MG0308

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was cataloged and the finding aid was prepared by MEB, Spring 2006. Added to database 1 October 2021.

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Berks County : a governmental picture and a brief historic review

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6025

Corporate Author: Berks County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: c1959.

Call Number: 974.816 B513

Corporate Author: Berks County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Date of Publication: c1959.

Physical Description: 120 p. : illus., ports., col. maps ; 23 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 2.

Subjects: Berks County (Pa.) - Politics and government.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 B513

Book, Account

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/3ad28c2f-6b08-4bb1-8052-179575612536

Collection: Gary Hawbaker's Collection of Business and Personal Record Books

Title: Account book of Emanuel R. Hershey, Paradise Township.

Object ID: MG0963_F033

Date Range: 1877-1886

Collection: Gary Hawbaker's Collection of Business and Personal Record Books

Title: Account book of Emanuel R. Hershey, Paradise Township.

Description: Account book of Emanuel R. Hershey, Paradise Township. Book references cash amounts received, cords of wood hauled, hauling logs, tobacco, pair of shoes, potatoes, rolling the grass lot, ploughing, beef, load of tyes, planting corn, planting tobacco, making hay, weeding corn, harvesting, sewing clover seed, making fence, coal, hand thrashing, veal, lime, nails, meals, lumber, slate, cutting oats, loading manure, grape arbor, wheat, rye, sand, butter, Chestnut wood, etc.; Contains 120 leaves, ruled, and except for the front leaf and index, with vertical accounting lines, and paginated. Contains 4 blank pages).; "Ledger" is written on a piece f paper on the front cover.; "ERH=a" is written on front leaf.; Insert 1 - Blue donor card.; Insert 2 - 4 loose items.; London Vale Flouring Mills account page with picture of milling wheel.; Lower farm account; Isaac Leaman note; Samuel Miller note

Admin/Biographical History: From: Donor Card.; Owner not identified. This could be Dr. Emanuel R. Hershey, Pharmacist (2 May 1847 - 22 October 1921), buried in the Paradise Cemetery. His father , Abraham Hershey (16 August 1819 - 18 December 1886) at his death had three tracts of land, two of them with improvements. Emanuel was the oldest son and may have kept these records.

Date Range: 1877-1886

Creation Date: 26 February 1877 to 6 Mar 1886

Year Range From: 1877

Year Range To: 1886

Creator: Harr, David

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Storage Wall: Side 12

Storage Container: Box 0007

People: Hershey, Emanuel R.; Leaman, Isaac; Miller, Samuel; Hershey, Abraham

Other Creators: Herr, William D.

Subjects: Account books; Business records

Search Terms: Account books; Business records; Paradise Twp.; London Vale Mill

Extent: 254 pages to scan.; Size (L x W): 12-3/8" x 7-1/2"

Object Name: Book, Account

Language: English

Condition Date: 2023-10-24

Condition Notes: Front and back covers are worn and have partially separated from the spine. Spine has worn through at places.; Paper has foxing.

Object ID: MG0963_F033

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).; NOTE: Index is by first name. Also, indexed name may appear on multiple pages.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.

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.

Accession Number: 2022.021

Other Numbers: MG-963

Classification: MG0963

Description Level: Item

Brewers and breweries : a brief history of the brewing industry of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Heilman, Robert A.

Date of Publication: 1997.

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v.18, no.1

Responsibility: by Robert A. Heilman.

Author: Heilman, Robert A.

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: Lebanon County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Physical Description: 43 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "January 1997."; "Vol. 18, no. 1."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-43).

Subjects: Brewing industry - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Breweries - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County

Additional Corporate Author: Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v.18, no.1

Cemetery map of Lebanon County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16172

Date of Publication: 1996, 1969.

Call Number: 974.819 503

Alternate Title: List of cemeteries of Lebanon County

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: Lebanon County Historical Society],

Date of Publication: 1996, 1969.

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 96 x 64 cm.

Notes: Panel title.; Includes alphabetical list of 175 cemeteries.; "Revised 1996 by Christine Mason. The basis for this map was taken from the 1938 map donated to the Lebanon County Historical Society by Herman W. Louser."; Base map reprinted courtesy of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Transportation.; Original map base 1969 by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Transportation.; Reprinted 1996 by Donald Blyler Offset.; Revised 1996 by Christine Mason.

Subjects: Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Maps.; Lebanon (Pa.) - History - Maps.

Additional Author: Mason, Christine.

Additional Corporate Author: Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.); Donald Blyler Offset.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.819 503

City of Lebanon Bridges over Norfolk Southern : an historical retrospective of the people and businesses

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19024

Author: Rhoads, Donald L.

Date of Publication: [2012]

Call Number: 974.819

Alternate Title: Bridges over Norfolk Southern

Responsibility: by Donald L. Rhoads, Jr. and Gladys Bucher Sowers.

Author: Rhoads, Donald L.

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, Pa.]

Publisher: [Lebanon County Historical Society],

Date of Publication: [2012]

Physical Description: v, 79 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes: "March 2012."; "Volume 20, number 2"--Cover.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary: "Presents information on the people and areas of Lebanon affected by the Bridge over Norfolk Southern project. It provides a glimpse of the history of some families who lived in the bridge area; it also provides information on some businesses that were located on the sites where the new bridges will be constructed."--Page ii.