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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

. Signed 30 March 1940. Recorded in Deed Book N, Number 34, page 365, 30 March 1940. Folder 15 Empty. Says it should have 5 items from the years 1940, 1960, and 1967. No description of items available. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org

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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12193

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

The history of Lawn, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6453

Author: Stoffel, William E.

Date of Publication: [Â©1999.]

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 18, # 3

Alternate Title: History of Lawn, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Responsibility: by William E. Stoffel, David B. Flory.

Author: Stoffel, William E.

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, Pa.]

Publisher: [Lebanon County Historical Society],

Date of Publication: [Â©1999.]

Physical Description: iv [i.e. v], 96 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Contents: Dedication/The challenge -- Table of contents -- Special recognition -- Lawn literature -- Introduction -- Ch. 1: The time of Lawn's birth -- Ch. 2: History of the village of Lawn -- Ch. 3: Cronological [sic] history and development -- Ch. 4: The origin of Lawn's name -- Ch. 5: Geography -- Ch. 6: Native American accounts -- Ch. 7: The railroad -- Ch. 8: Lawn businesses (past and present) -- Ch. 9: Lawn layout; Lawn map (historical site locations) -- Ch. 10: Lawn E.C. Church -- Ch. 11: Lawn Fire Company -- Ch. 12: The U.S. post office -- Ch. 13: Lawn schools -- Ch. 14: Clubs and organizations -- Ch. 15: Athletic teams -- Ch. 16: Leading citizens -- Ch. 17: Unusual events -- Ch. 18: Lawn events historical and social -- Ch. 19: Historical pictures -- Closing comments.

Subjects: Lebanon County (Pa.) - History.; Lawn (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Flory, David B.

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

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 18, # 3

Lebanon County : a post card history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14839

Author: Brown, Donald R.

Date of Publication: 1992.

Call Number: 974.819 B878

Responsibility: compiled and edited by Donald R. Brown, Robert A. Heilman, Henry C. Westenberger.

Author: Brown, Donald R.

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa. (924 Cumberland St., Lebanon 17042)

Publisher: Lebanon County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1992.

Physical Description: 203, [2] p. : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]).

Subjects: Postcards - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - History - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Heilman, Robert A.; Westenberger, Henry C.

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

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 B878

A map of historical sites and memorabilia of the City of Lebanon

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19448

Author: Leiby, Earl P.

Date of Publication: c1991.

Call Number: 974.819 501

Responsibility: made available as a public service by the Lebanon County Historical Society ; researched, compiled, cartographed and prepared by Earl P. Leiby & Charles C. Stine ; with editing by Henry C. Westenberger & John J. Foster ; annexation map by Allen A. Freed.

Author: Leiby, Earl P.

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, Pa.]

Publisher: Lebanon County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: c1991.

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 60 x 63 cm. + index ([7] p. ; 28 cm.)

Notes: Panel title.; Accompanied by: Index of locations on the map of historical sites and memorabilia of the City of Lebanon.; Index on verso.; In lower left margin: 147076.

Subjects: Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lebanon - Maps.; Lebanon (Pa.) - History - Maps.

Additional Author: Stine, Charles C.; Westenberger, Henry C.; Foster, John J.; Freed, Allen A.

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

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.819 501

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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12193

Cemetery map of Lebanon County

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

The history of Lawn, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6453

Lebanon County : a post card history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14839

A map of historical sites and memorabilia of the City of Lebanon

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19448