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Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Object ID
MG0237
Date Range
1880-2003
Title Company of Philadelphia Correspondence Deeds Department stores DUSCO Property Management, Inc. East Hempfield Twp. Employees Ephemera Escalators Mortgages Finding aids Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers Gift certificates Ground-rent Hager and Bro., Inc. Hager Realty Corporation Employee
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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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Collection
James Buchanan Foundation Photograph Collection
Title
Mural of James Buchanan
Object ID
JB-04-13-01
Date Range
January 2002
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Collection
James Buchanan Foundation Photograph Collection
Title
Mural of James Buchanan
Description
Mural of James Buchanan on wall of a building on Shankill Road, West Belfast, Ireland.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Date Range
January 2002
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Buchanan, James
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Art
James Buchanan Presidential Library
Murals
Shankill Road
West Belfast, Ireland
Place
West Belfast, Ireland
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
JB-04-13-01
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Object ID
A-53-01-91
Date Range
2008
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Description
Former site of Mr. Spangler's residence. Attached note reads: Mr. Spangler residence, he was a barber for 10 Chair Bransby Shop West King St. On sly he cut hair for us poor kids in bsmnt. on kitchen step stool for 15-25 cents. Son Spib got electrocuted when radio fell into tub. Two other boys worked as jobbers at Solomon Watch Part Supply Store on Prince St.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Date Range
2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Schaller, Francis X. Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Cabbage Hill
Barbershops
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
A-53-01-91
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Cabbage Hill Album
Object ID
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Date Range
2008
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Description
Former site of George Scheuchenzuber's barber shop, 545 St. Joseph Street. He later moved to Dorwart between High and Vine Streets.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Date Range
2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Schaller, Francis X. Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Cabbage Hill
Barbershops
St. Joseph Street
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
A-53-01-92
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Object ID
A-53-01-93
Date Range
2008
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Description
Former site of Rupert Danz barber shop, 652 St. Joseph Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Date Range
2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Schaller, Francis X. Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Cabbage Hill
Barbershops
St. Joseph Street
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
A-53-01-93
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Object ID
A-53-01-94
Date Range
2008
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Object Name
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Description
Former site of Amico (Cicero) shoe repair shop, in garage, next to 109 New Dorwart Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Date Range
2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Schaller, Francis X. Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Cabbage Hill
Shoe repair shops
New Dorwart Street
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
A-53-01-94
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Cabbage Hill Album
Object ID
A-53-01-95
Date Range
2008
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Description
Former site of Geiger barber shop, Manor Street near Filbert Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Date Range
2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Schaller, Francis X. Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Cabbage Hill
Barbershops
Manor Street
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
A-53-01-95
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Object ID
A-53-02-12
Date Range
2008
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Object Name
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Description
St. Joseph's Parochial School, 8th grade class, 1944. Sitting from left to right: Anna Shreiner, Francis X. Schaller, Jr. , Marie Siegler. First row: John Hohenwarter, Verna Reynolds, Davie Harnish, Dorothy Brignola, Charles Schreck, Doris Roschel, Vearl Danz. Second row: Theresa Zellner, jean Butz, Mary Lehman, Louis Wittensoldner, Geraldine Draude, Albert Weber, Robert Hilbert Sr., Mary Philothea O. S. F., Fred Roschel, Mildred Arnold, Shirley Phelan, Robert eckman, Mary Musser. Third row: Joseph Meier, Geraldine Dommel, Eugene Darrenkamp, Donald Danz, Patricia Rieker, Patricia Farrell, Patricia Liebley, James Burger, John Muchenthaler, Geraldine Winnerling, Robert Henkel, Margert Walsh, Richard Leineweaver. 4th and 5th rows: Rose Connor, Michael Kirchner, Doris Brown, Helene Wiebush, Robert Flick, Loraine Nolan, Elizabeth Werhel, Matthew Gegg, Rosemary Elbert, Richzrd Zimmerman. Last row: Father Moeller, Dolores Shertzer, Joseph Kirchner, Martha McIntyre, Msgr. Joseph J. Schweich.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Date Range
2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Arnold, Mildred
Brignola, Dorothy
Brown, Doris
Burger, James
Butz, Jean
Connor, Rose
Danz, Donald
Danz, Vearl
Darrenkamp, Eugene
Dommel, Geraldine
Draud, Geraldine
Eckman, Robert
Elbert, Rosemary
Farrell, Patricia
Flick, Robert
Gegg, Matthew
Harnish, David
Henkel, Robert
Hilbert, Robert Sr.
Hohenwarter, John
Kirchner, Joseph
Kirchner, Michael
Lehman, Mary
Leineweaver, Richard
Liebley, Patricia
Mary Philothea, Sister O.S.F.
McIntyre, Martha
Meier, Joseph
Muchenthaler, John
Musser, Mary
Nolan, Loraine
Phelan, Shirley
Reynolds, Verna
Rieker, Patricia
Roschel, Doris
Roschel, Fred
Schaller, Francis X. Jr.
Schreck, Charles
Schweich, Joseph J.
Shertzer, Dolores
Shreiner, Anna
Walsh, Margaret
Weber, Albert
Werhel, Elizabeth
Wiebush, Helene
Winnerling, Geraldine
Wittensoldner, Louis
Zellner, Theresa
Ziegler, Marie
Zimmerman, Richard
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Cabbage Hill
Education
Schools
St. Joseph's School
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
A-53-02-12
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Cabbage Hill Album
Object ID
A-53-02-58
Date Range
2008
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Description
Dan Kuhlman's barber shop, Third and Manor Streets.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Date Range
2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Kuhlman, Dan
Schaller, Francis X. Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Cabbage Hill
Third Street
Manor Street
Barbershops
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
A-53-02-58
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Object ID
A-53-02-69
Date Range
2008
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Collection
Cabbage Hill Album
Description
Mavrotes Macredes had a barber shop here at 232 West Strawberry Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Date Range
2008
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Macredes, Mavrotes
Schaller, Francis X. Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Cabbage Hill
Strawberry Street
Barbershops
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
A-53-02-69
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