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Polk's official street directory, car line and information guide of Lancaster including ready reference map: giving description, location,number and intersection of each street, and the nearest car line to each number on the street, also key numbers for use with Polk's Ready Reference Map. Also routes of city and suburban car lines, list of public buildings, cemeteries, churches, fire department, libraries, parks,police department, post office, schools and other valuable information

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Date of Publication: 1924

Call Number: 917.4815

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers,

Date of Publication: 1924

Physical Description: 64 p. map ; 15 cm.

Notes: Includes advertising.; Map tipped in rear cover.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.

Additional Corporate Author: R.L. Polk & Co.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 917.4815

The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo

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Author: Sipe, C. Hale

Date of Publication: 1929.

Call Number: 974.8011 S618w

Author: Sipe, C. Hale

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: The Telegraph Press,

Date of Publication: 1929.

Physical Description: 793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.

Notes: Tail-pieces.; "Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]; "Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.; "Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.; "List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.; Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.; Indians of North America; Fortification - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Pennsylvania - Historic houses, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 S618w

The Sesqui-centennial high street

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Author: Lowrie, Sarah Dickson,

Date of Publication: 1926.

Call Number: 974.80069 P544

Responsibility: by Sarah D. Lowrie and Mabel Stewart Ludlum.

Author: Lowrie, Sarah Dickson,

Place of Publication: Phila

Publisher: Lippincott,

Date of Publication: 1926.

Physical Description: 96 p., plates : illus., front. ; 18 cm.

Notes: Cover title: The book of the street.

Subjects: Philadelphia.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Streets - Market street.

Additional Author: Ludlum, Mabel Stewart,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80069 P544

Economy of old and Ambridge of today : historical outlines, embracing the settlement and life of Economy of old, together with the vast development in recent years of Ambridge and surroundings on this historic spot

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Author: Wagner, Elise Mercur.

Date of Publication: 1924.

Call Number: 974.892 A495

Responsibility: compiled by Elise Mercur Wagner.

Author: Wagner, Elise Mercur.

Place of Publication: [Ambridge, Pa.]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1924.

Physical Description: 95 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "Centennial Souvenir Program, June 6,7,8, 1924."; Economy was the name of a settlement in western Pennsylvania of the Harmony Society in early 19th century . It was a religious communal society. The area later became the town of Ambridge.

Subjects: Economy (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.; Ambridge (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.892 A495

By-laws of Lancaster Commandery, No. 13 Knights Templar and the appendant orders : together with the history, list of officers and members

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Corporate Author: Freemasons (Lancaster, Pa.). Knights Templar. No. 13.

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 366.1 K71b

Corporate Author: Freemasons (Lancaster, Pa.). Knights Templar. No. 13.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: s.n. ,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: 39 p. : 14 cm.

Subjects: Freemasons (Lancaster, Pa.). - Knights Templar. - No. 13

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 366.1 K71b

The early architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : being an account of the origin and development of architectural forms in Lancaster County during the eighteenth century

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Author: Kocher, Alfred L.

Date of Publication: 1920

- delphia and such objects of adornment were often a part of the cargo trans- ported in the Conestoga wagons along the Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike. The rather unusual and elaborate mantels from the Diller House on Queen Street were of the imported variety and show a close resemblance to one OLD

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Responsibility: by Alfred L. Kocher, A.I.A.

Author: Kocher, Alfred L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1920

Physical Description: 91-106 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 24, no. 5

Subjects: Architecture.; Greek revival (Architecture); Architecture, Domestic - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Architecture, Colonial - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 24, number 5 (1920), p. 91-106Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.24

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In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia District : Elizabeth Kuhns, to the use of Frank. S. Everts and Silas E. Overdeer, Partners, Trading as Everts and Overdeed, appellants, vs. Conestoga Traction Company, Appellee - Brief of appellants - Appeal from judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, to June term , 1920, No. 87

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Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 346.032 S631c

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 23,41 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; "K. L. Shirk, John A. Coyle, attorneys for appellants.

Subjects: Kuhns, Elizabeth.; Shirk, K. L.; Coyle, John A.; Everts & Overdeer (firm).; Conestoga Traction Company.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 346.032 S631c

In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District : January term 1925, No. 257 - Elizabeth Kuhns, to the use of Frank. S. Everts and Silas E. Overdeer, Partners, Trading as Everts and Overdeed, appellants, vs. Conestoga Traction Company, Appellee - Brief for appellee - Brief from judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, to June term , 1920, No. 87

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Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 346.032 S631

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 9 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; "S. R. Zimmerman, John E. Malone, attorneys for appelee."

Subjects: Kuhns, Elizabeth.; Zimmerman, S. R.; Malone, John E.; Everts & Overdeer (firm).; Conestoga Traction Company.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 346.032 S631

Greetings from the Sesqui-centennial International Exposition celebrating 150 years of American independence

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Date of Publication: [1926]

Call Number: 974.811 P544g

Responsibility: ... Copyrighted by John D. Cardinell, official photographer and publisher.

Meeting: Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: C. Teich,

Date of Publication: [1926]

Physical Description: [32] p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.

Notes: On cover: Philadelphia, the birthplace of liberty; official souvenir view book.; Printed wrappers.

Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.) - Pictorial works.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.811 P544g

Comb making in America, an account of the origin and development of the industry for which Leominster has become famous, to which are added pictures of many of the early comb makers and views of the old time comb shops

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Author: Walton, Perry,

Date of Publication: c1925]

Call Number: 688.5 W241

Responsibility: compiled and privately printed for Bernard W. Doyle, president of the Viscoloid company, inc., in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the comb industry in Leominster, Massachusetts.

Author: Walton, Perry,

Place of Publication: [Boston

Date of Publication: c1925]

Physical Description: xiv, 158 p. incl. front., illus., ports. pl. 27 cm.

Notes: "Compiled, written and printed under direction of Perry Walton."

Contents: Antiquity of combs -- Establishment of the comb industry in America -- Growth of the comb industry in West Newbury -- The Noyes family : their relation to the comb industry -- Improvements in the manufacture of combs -- The Hills family and the comb industry in Leominster -- Comb-making in Clinton, Massachusetts, and other industrial centers -- Horn, tortoise shell, ivory and their substitutes -- The town of Leominster.

Subjects: Combs.

Additional Author: Doyle, Bernard W.

Additional Corporate Author: Viscoloid company, Leominster, Mass.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 688.5 W241

Lancaster County history in the several series of the Pennsylvania archives and other provincial and state source books

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1925

Schuylkill and enter Philadelphia in hordes (153); a list of the recruiting officers for Lancaster County (173); a commission on for- feited estates in our county (199); action against Little Britain's tumultuous election (110); remonstrances by Lancaster County inhabitants against a State Convention in 1779

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Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1925

Physical Description: 23-32 p. 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3

Notes: Books entitled Statutes at Large, Colonial Records, First Series of Pennsylvania Archives, and Votes of Assembly

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 29, number 3 (1925), p. 23-32Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.29

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Historic roadsides in New Jersey; a condensed description of the principal colonial and revolutionary landmarks in New Jersey, arranged for the convenience of students and motorists. The society of colonial wars in the state of New Jersey

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Corporate Author: General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.). New Jersey.

Date of Publication: [1928]

Call Number: 974.9 N531

Corporate Author: General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.). New Jersey.

Place of Publication: Plainfield, N.J

Publisher: W. L. Glenney

Date of Publication: [1928]

Physical Description: 1 p. l., 115 p. front., illus., fold. map. 23 cm.

Notes: Map mounted on lining-paper.; Bibliography: p. 111.

Subjects: Historic buildings - New Jersey.; New Jersey - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.9 N531

Partial genealogy of the Landis family; with some historical notes embracing the direct lineal descendants of Abraham Landis

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Author: Mumma, Beulah F.,

Date of Publication: 1925]

Call Number: 929 L257m

Author: Mumma, Beulah F.,

Place of Publication: [Waynesboro? Pa

Date of Publication: 1925]

Physical Description: 58 p. 20 cm.

Subjects: Landis family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 L257m

The Kentucky rifle; a study of the origin and development of a purely American type of firearm, together with accurate historical data concerning early colonial gunsmiths, and profusely illustrated with photographic reproduction of their finest work

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Author: Dillin, John Grace Wolfe,

Date of Publication: 1924.

Call Number: 683 D578 Oversize

Responsibility: By Captain John G. W. Dillin.

Author: Dillin, John Grace Wolfe,

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National rifle association of America,

Date of Publication: 1924.

Physical Description: 4 p. l., viii, 124, [6] p. front. (port.) illus., 126 pl. on 64 l. (incl. ports., facsims.) 33 cm.

Notes: "Edited by Kendrick Scofield."

Subjects: Kentucky rifle.

Additional Author: Scofield, Kendrick,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 683 D578 Oversize

"A destructive and unfounded attack by modern historians : upon the truthfullness of the Declaration of Independence examined and exposed,"

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Author: Eshleman, H. Frank

Date of Publication: 1923?]

Call Number: 973.313 D917e

Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman.

Author: Eshleman, H. Frank

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1923?]

Physical Description: 8 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Caption-title.

Subjects: United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.313 D917e

A pictorial record of the Sesqui-centennial international exposition: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1st-December 1st, Nineteen Hundred Twenty Six Commemorating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

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Date of Publication: 1926.

Call Number: 974.811 P544s

Meeting: Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: John D. Cardinell, official photographer and publisher,

Date of Publication: 1926.

Physical Description: [64] p. : chiefly ill. ; 20 x 24.5 cm.

Notes: Printed wrappers.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.811 P544s

The location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier

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Author: Magee, Daniel F.

Date of Publication: 1925

THE LOCATION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE MARTIN CHARTIER TRACT, TOGETHER WITH THE SITE OF THE ORIGINAL RESIDENCE OF MARTIN CHARTIER. By D. F. Magee, Esq. The part assigned me is to locate on the ground, partly in Manor Town- ship and a small part in Washington Borough, (originally Charleston) the early

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Responsibility: by D. F. Magee, Esq.

Author: Magee, Daniel F.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1925

Physical Description: 97-100 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 8

Subjects: Chartier, Martin, - d. 1718.; French Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 29, number 8 (1925), p. 97-100Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.29

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Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 1, 1905

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Corporate Author: A. Hoen and Company.

Date of Publication: [1923?]

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 517 Oversize

Corporate Author: A. Hoen and Company.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: H. Hoen & Co. Lith.,

Date of Publication: [1923?]

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 99 x 105 cm.

Notes: "April 1, 1923."; Includes table of township road mileages and distance table.

Subjects: Post office buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Highway Dept.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 517 Oversize

Wrightsville's book of facts : a souvenir inspired by the sixtieth anniversary of an event of the Civil War which occurred at Wrightsville, York County, PA known as "Farthest east reached by the Confederate Army" June 28th 1863-1923 including a classified professional and business directory

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Corporate Author: Historical Committee (Wrightsville, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 974.841 W947

Responsibility: prepared by the Historical Committee.

Corporate Author: Historical Committee (Wrightsville, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Wrightsville, Pa

Publisher: The Committee,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: 96 p. ; 20 cm.

Subjects: Wright, John, - 1667-1749.; Confederate States of America. - Army.; Wrightsville (York County, Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.; Wrightsville (York County, Pa.) - History.; Wrightsville (York County, Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Wrightsville (York County, Pa.) - Directories.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.841 W947

Report of the committee to place and unveil a marker designating and commemorating the Indian town of Conestoga, in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Penna

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Date of Publication: 1924

the barracks in Philadelphia, which was on what is now Washington Square, in the rear of Independence Hall. About the time that the Paxton Boys destroyed this Conestoga Town, largely augmented for their errand of death they headed toward Philadelphia to kill the Delawares in charge of Bernard Adam

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1924

Physical Description: 129-149 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 9

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718.; Indian Town (Conestoga, Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Conestoga Indians.; Paxton Boys.; Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.; Conestoga (Pa. : Township) - History.

Additional Author: Magee, Daniel F.; Landis, David H.,; Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 9 (1924), p. 129-152Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28

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The Sesqui-centennial high street

Economy of old and Ambridge of today : historical outlines, embracing the settlement and life of Economy of old, together with the vast development in recent years of Ambridge and surroundings on this historic spot

By-laws of Lancaster Commandery, No. 13 Knights Templar and the appendant orders : together with the history, list of officers and members

The early architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : being an account of the origin and development of architectural forms in Lancaster County during the eighteenth century

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Greetings from the Sesqui-centennial International Exposition celebrating 150 years of American independence

Comb making in America, an account of the origin and development of the industry for which Leominster has become famous, to which are added pictures of many of the early comb makers and views of the old time comb shops

Lancaster County history in the several series of the Pennsylvania archives and other provincial and state source books

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Historic roadsides in New Jersey; a condensed description of the principal colonial and revolutionary landmarks in New Jersey, arranged for the convenience of students and motorists. The society of colonial wars in the state of New Jersey

Partial genealogy of the Landis family; with some historical notes embracing the direct lineal descendants of Abraham Landis

The Kentucky rifle; a study of the origin and development of a purely American type of firearm, together with accurate historical data concerning early colonial gunsmiths, and profusely illustrated with photographic reproduction of their finest work

"A destructive and unfounded attack by modern historians : upon the truthfullness of the Declaration of Independence examined and exposed,"

A pictorial record of the Sesqui-centennial international exposition: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1st-December 1st, Nineteen Hundred Twenty Six Commemorating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

The location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier

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Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 1, 1905

Wrightsville's book of facts : a souvenir inspired by the sixtieth anniversary of an event of the Civil War which occurred at Wrightsville, York County, PA known as "Farthest east reached by the Confederate Army" June 28th 1863-1923 including a classified professional and business directory

Report of the committee to place and unveil a marker designating and commemorating the Indian town of Conestoga, in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Penna

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