Our volunteer firemen : a look at firefighting in early America as exemplified by the men and machines of Lancaster, Lebanon, Reading and York, Pennsylvania
Declaration of Independence in Lancaster--Thomas Wharton, Jr. in Lancaster--Baron Steuben in Lancaster--Lancaster in 1778--Lancaster in 1783--Ephrata Community--Lancaster in 1788--Camel in Lancaster--Lancaster in 1795--Lancaster in 1797--John Marshall in Lancaster--First elephant in Lancaster--General Pinckney in Lancaster--Lancaster in 1807--Alexander Wilson in Lancaster--Mrs. Royall's visit to Lancaster--Royal Arabian horse in Lancaster--Daniel Webster in Lancaster--Rich men of Lancaster City in 1845--The Wreath--Chinese soldier in the Civil War--Hope Church--Seventy-fifth aniversaryof Hope Church--Story of Salome Le Roy--Tory of the Revolution.
Illustrations--Rare old Lancaster imprint--Lancaster Count Courthouse--Residence of Christopher Marshall--Trinity Lutheran Church--Cat Tavern--Old Ferry House--Buildings of the Ephrata Cloister--Watermark, Ephrata Cloister--Finest Colonial House in Lancaster--Caleb Cope House--Barracks on Howard Avenue--Saron House. Ephrata Cloister--Cell, Ephrata Cloister--Watermarks, Ephrata Cloister--Room in Saron House, Ephrata Cloister--Kitchen, Ephrata Cloister--Fireplace, Ephrata Cloister--Matin Room--Ephrata Cloister--Seal, Ephrata Cloister--Government Buildings, Lancaster--Washington Hotel--Old Powder House--Lancaster Academy--Male camel--Watermarks, Ephrata Cloister--Johann Conrad Beissel--Tomb of Johann Conrad Beissel--Fountain Inn--Rockford, Home of General Hand--White Swan Tavern--Blunderbuss--Lancaster City Hall--Newspaper account of Marshall's arival--Residence of Jasper Yeates--Residence of Timothy Matlack--Advertisement of the elephant--Oldest tobacco shop in the United States--Old wooden sign, Demuth Tobacco Shop--View of North Queen Street about 1840--William Pitt Tavern--Sign of William Pitt Tavern--Lancaster in 1810--Anchor Inn, Lititz, Pa.--Heinitsh's Drug Store--James Buchanan--Steinman's Hardware Store--Slaymaker's Hotel--Abbeville--House and tannery of Georg H. Krug--Fire engine--View of West King Street about 1850--The Wreath--Button Suctio Engine--Hose cart--Hope Episcopal Church, Mount Hope, Pa.--Mount Hope Mansion--Memorial chancel and altar, Hope Church--Brew House--Bird's-eye view of Lancaster--German Reformed Church--House built about 1760--Lancaster County Prison.
"... Proceedings of the Black History in Pennsylvania Conference held in Pittsburgh on April 5 and 6, 1979"--Introd.
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Part 1. Early Black education -- Part 2. Black life and labor in modern industrial Pennsylvania -- Part 3. Black genealogy and historiography -- Part 4. Curriculum development in Pennsylvania Black history.
Bern church record Bern Township, Berks County Pennsylvania: Baptisms (1739-1835) including tombstone inscriptions of burial grounds at Bernville from the library of Dr. Glenn P. Schwalm
This resource is from a Canadian area that was pioneered by Pennsylvania Mennonites from Franklin and Lancaster Counties. The death notices not only document deaths in the Canadian area but also deaths that occurred in Lancaster County.
edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench ; with a foreword by Marcus A. McCorison ; and an afterword by James Russell Wiggins.
ISBN
0912296186 :
Place of Publication
Worcester, [Mass.]
Publisher
American Antiquarian Society,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
383 p. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Essays: 1. Printers and the American Revolution -- by Stephen Botein / 2. Freedom of the press in revolutionary America : The evolution of libertarianism, 1760 - 1820 -- by Richard Buel Jr / 3. The role of the newspaper press in the southern colonies on the eve of the Revolution : an interpretation -- by Robert M. Weir / 4. The Colonial German-language press and the American Revolution -- by Willi Paul Adams / 5. The character and coherence of the Loyalist press -- by Janice Potter and Robert M. Calhoon / 6. British correspondence in the colonial press, 1763 - 1775 ; a study in Anglo-American Misunderstanding before the American Revolution -- by Paul Langford / 7. Some statistics on American printing, 1764-1783, by G. Thomas Tanselle / 8. Afterword : The Legacy of the Press in the American Revolution, by James Russell Wiggins
Summary
In the forward, the book is described as a colleciton of "essays on the activities, place, and influence of American printers and journalists during the period of our Revolution."
