by Percy Jewett Burrell, master of the pageant; Alice Kraft, associate and dance director; Harry A. Sykes ... composer and musical director; presented by the people of the city and county of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 24th, 25th and 26th, 1929, 7:45 o'clock in the evening.
Shows location of railroads, canals, iron furnaces and ore mines and coal deposits. Accompanying text from the citizens of Columbia to the U.S. Congress.
"The author,John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 - October 14, 1937) , was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York. His parents were Harriet and David; his mother was of Tuscarora, French, Oneida, and Scottish descent, his father of English and Scottish, but raised in a Tuscarora family. His parents raised him speaking the English language, but when he left the reservation to attend schools in Wilson and Lockport, he learned to speak the Tuscarora language from other students who spoke the language." [from Wikipedia]
Summary
Discussion of the formation of the Iroquois League by five separate native American tribes ( Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ) in 16th century America.
A sketch of the life and character of the Rev. David Caldwell, D. D. near sixty years pastor of the churches of Buffalo and Alamance. Including two of his sermons; some account of the Regulation, together with the revolutionary ... incidents in which he was concerned; and a very brief notice of the ecclesiastical and moral condition of North-Carolina while in its colonial state
Percy Jewett Burrell, pageant director and co-author with Laura F. Kready and H. Clifton Thorbahn. Presented upon Williamson athletic field by the people of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 5th, 6th and 7th, 1926.
Label attached to t.-p.: This volume, subsequently expanded by the results of further research, was a dissertation submitted to the Graduate board of Clark university ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy ... [1926]
The American loyalists; or, Biographical sketches of adherents to the British crown in the war of the revolution; alphabetically arranged; with a preliminary historical essay
The Engle history and family records of Dauphin and Lancaster counties. The numerous lineal descendants of Ulrich Engel. Short sketches of Engle families not related. A sketch of the arrival and record of the origin of the brethren in Christ church of which a large number of these descendants are menbers
American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution, &c. &c. with a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs
Haines and Shirk families at a family reunion. Identified are Sally Shirk Haines, Minnie Haines Skiles, Elva Haines, Lida Haines Mull, Ruth Haines Henry, Mabel Haines Whiteside, Stella Henry Weigand, Maris Henry, Blanche Henry Abele,
