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The underground railroad. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers, of the road

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Author: Still, William,

Edition: Rev. ed.

Date of Publication: [c1871]

Call Number: 973.7115 S857

Responsibility: By William Still . . . Illustrated with 70 fine engravings by Bensell, Schell and others, and portraits from photographs from life . . .

Author: Still, William,

Edition: Rev. ed.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa., Cincinnati, O. [etc.]

Publisher: People's Publishing Company

Date of Publication: [c1871]

Physical Description: 780, [5] p. incl. front., illus. plates, ports. 25 cm.

Notes: African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Underground railroad.; Fugitive slaves - United States.; Slavery - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 S857

The American statesman: a political history, exhibiting the origin, nature and practical operation of constitutional government in the United States; the rise and progress of parties, the legislation relating to all matters of national importance, with views of distinguished statesmen on questions of foreign and domestic policy

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Author: Young, Andrew W.

Edition: Rev. and enl.

Date of Publication: [1877]

Call Number: 973 Y68

Responsibility: By Andrew W. Young ...

Author: Young, Andrew W.

Edition: Rev. and enl.

Place of Publication: New York [etc.]

Publisher: H.S. Goodspeed & Company

Date of Publication: [1877]

Physical Description: xxxv, [21]-1594, 70 p. 10 port. (incl. front.) 24 cm.

Subjects: United States - Politics and government.; United States - History.; United States - Politics and government - 1783-1865.; United States - History - 1783-1865.; United States - Constitutional history.

Additional Author: Ferris, George T.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973 Y68

Archive

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Collection: City of Lancaster Records

Title: City of Lancaster Records

Object ID: MG0420

Date Range: 1763-1919

1774; oaths of office sworn by various men from 1764 to 1769; and an extract of Lancaster Borough laws enacted 22 January 1774 reporting the regulations and fines of this borough. Creators: City Council (Lancaster, Pa.); Tax Assessor (Lancaster, Pa.); Bureau of Police (Lancaster, Pa.) System of

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Collection: City of Lancaster Records

Title: City of Lancaster Records

Description: Series 1 contains invoices, arrest warrants, and tax collector books for the city of Lancaster. Invoices that were approved by the city council in 1878, 1883 and 1884 for payroll and supplies include road and bridge maintenance, water works, fire departments, clerk and inspection work, and costs incurred by the city during an outbreak of small pox. Arrest warrants for 1918-1919 show names of defendant(s) and police officer, the charge, date and case number. There are also tax collector records for 1860-1889, incomplete.; Series 2 contains documents regarding the market houses, waterworks, lamps, roads, railroad and city ordinances. Petitions support a candidate for night watchman, seek to repeal an ordinance for hanging signs and regulations for public scales, and request a reward for the apprehension of a murderer. There is an 1815 naturalization certificate for James Williams and a resolution regarding a visit of Gen. Andrew Jackson.; Series 3 contains miscellaneous items related to the Borough of Lancaster (1742 to 1818) found in the Document Collection. Items include an act regulating the buildings and keeping in repair the streets, lanes, and alley of Lancaster, passed 14 January 1774; oaths of office sworn by various men from 1764 to 1769; and an extract of Lancaster Borough laws enacted 22 January 1774 reporting the regulations and fines of this borough.

Date Range: 1763-1919

Year Range From: 1763

Year Range To: 1919

Creator: City Council (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

People: Able, John F.; Allen, Samuel; Althouse, Henry F.; Amer, William; Amwake, William F. H.; Arnold, John. L.; Atkins, Bessie; Aument, Charles F.; Baer, John; Bair, G. D.; Bair, L. D.; Baker, Edward W.; Barber, Samuel; Barr, Charles H.; Barr, J. K.; Barr, Jacob K.; Bauer, Peter J.; Bauman, Ray; Beamsderfer, Howard; Beck, William; Beck, William D.; Beidle, John; Beitz, Philip; Bender, Frantz; Benedict, H. F.; Best, John; Betz, Philip; Bickham, James; Bitner, D. P.; Bitner, David; Bletz, David; Blickenderfer, R.; Bolbach, Philip; Bolenius, R. M.; Bowman, Martin; Bowman, William; Brimmer, Frederick; Brown, B. J.; Brown, C. H.; Brown, George W.; Brown, J. S.; Brown, Jesse S.; Burkholder, Clayton; Burrowes, F. S.; Bushong, Walter G.; Calder, George; Callahan, George B.; Carpenter, James C.; Carr, James; Casini, Frank; Cassel, A. N.; Castner, Frank; Charles, Walter; Cherry, Patrick; Churchill, Marion; Clark, William; Clendman, E. S.; Cochran, H. B.; Cooper, Thomas F.; Cranley, Ambrogi; Cummings, Samuel; Curry, Joseph; Daily, D. G.; Daily, David G.; Deacon, Edward; Deem, David L.; Deen, D. L.; Deiby, Philip; Deichler, Harry; Dickee, Frederick; Dickle, Fred; Diffenbaugh, A. L.; Diller, Harry A.; Doerley, Henry; Doerson, Philip; Dommel, Harry; Dorley, Harry; Dorley, Henry; Dornbaugh, Graybill; Douts, Walter; Druckemiller, Jacob; Dull, Walter W.; Eaby, George W.; Eberman, H. F.; Eberts, Jasper; Eckert, Henry; Eckert, Leonard; Ehler, Henry; Eichholtz, Robert L.; Eleight, James M.; Elligott, James M.; Elliott, Samuel; Ellis, Charles T.; Embich, Christian; Ensurian, H. M.; Erb, J. B.; Erisman, C. Y.; Eshleman, D. Y.; Evans, Samuel; Faesig, Frank J.; Fellman, John; Fetter, Jacob; Finefrock, B. Frank; Finney, W. B.; Finney, William B.; Fisher, William; Fisher, Henry; Fisher, Wilson; Fitzpatrick, J. A.; Flora, Charles W.; Fondersmith, G. L.; Fox, Benjamin; Franciscus, Stofel; Franklin, Witney; Frantz, Andrew F.; Freh, John; Fries, George; Fritchey, J. U.; Furniss, Joseph; Gable, Jacob; Gerhart, William R.; Gill, John; Goodman, Jonas; Gorman, John; Gormley, Charles; Grauer, George; Greenwalt, Charles; Greivetz, D.; Groff, B. F.; Groff, H. D.; Groff, H. L.; Groff, Raymond; Grubley, John; Gundaker, Jacob; Hagen, Patrick; Haines, Harry; Halbach, J.; Halbach, Jacob; Haley, James; Hamilton, J. A.; Hamilton, John A.; Hardy, George; Harkins, W. E.; Harsh, Benjamin; Hart, John; Hartman, J.; Heinitsh, Charles A.; Henry, Benjamin; Henry, William; Herr, L. B.; Hinchey, Edward; Hindie, Robert; Hogarth, Joseph; Holman, I. D.; Holman, Janice; Hopson, John; Hostetter, Simon; Howell, H. N.; Howell, Henry H.; Huber, Joseph H.; Hubley, Isaac; Jeffries, John R.; Johnson, George; Johnson, J. W.; Johnson, John F.; Kachel, Elvin; Kahle, William; Karer, Henry; Kauffman, Isaac; Kauffman, J. R.; Keller, John; Keller, Kauffman; Kepler, Aaron Conrad; Kiehl, John C.; Kirkpatrick, William; Kirsch, John; Kitch, Davis; Kline, G. M.; Kreckovich, Michael; Kuhns, John; Kurtz, George; Landis, D. B.; Landis, F. F.; Landis, A. B.; Landis, Philip; Laucks, John H.; Lauman, Ludwig; Lawrence, George; Lawrence, William; Lebzelter, Philip; Leonard, H.; Leonard, Henry; Levan, S. H.; Levan, William A.; Levengood, John; Lichty, J. B.; Long, Abram; Long, John F.; Lorentz, William; Loucks, J. H.; Loucks, John H.; Lyons, Harry; MacGonigle, John T.; Madden, Thomas; Markley, J. B.; Martin, Henry; Massaline, Frank; Mastenna, Antonio; Maxwell, Abram; May, Henry; Mayer, David M.; Mayer, George; Maynard, Walter; McDonald, Alexander; McCarter, A. W.; McCarter, Arthur; McCormick, D. R.; McCue, George W.; McCulley, R. C.; McCully, R. G.; McDonnell, Samuel; McElligott, Thomas F.; McGeehan, John; McKilchey, Charles; McLaughlin, Daniel; Mencher, M. H.; Metzger, M. A.; Metzger, M. I.; Miller, Fred J.; Miller, H.; Miller, Harry; Miller, Herman; Miller, Howard; Miller, Philip; Mohr, Malin; Montooth, Samuel; Montor, Benny; Moore, Harry; Moowawer, Oliver; Morgan, Thomas H.; Morrow, R. M.; Moyer, H. M.; Murray, John; Musser, F. W.; Musser, John; Myers, C. F.; Myers, John C.; Myers, William; Nagle, Peter; Neff, Abraham; Negley, Frank L.; Netscher, C. E.; Nickel, Albert; Noll, Lewis; Nolls, F. Lewis; O'Conner, Thomas; O'Donell, Frank; Orem, William; Orem, William J.; Oster, R. S.; Ostheim, Joseph; Overly, H.; Pavenger, Gertrude; Pearsol, John H.; Pennington, William; Pinkerton, Elizabeth; Pool, Samuel J.; Price, Thomas P.; Price, William W.; Pryor, Fred; Puck, Thomas P.; Pyott, J. D.; Quade, C. F.; Raub, M. W.; Raum, Samuel; Rawlings, Henry; Rawlins, John; Reeder, T. L.; Reily, James; Reiner, Henry; Reinir, Anslem; Remley, John; Richardson, William; Ricker, Frank A.; Ringwalt, Amos; Rogers, Harry; Rogers, Henry; Rohrer, DuBois; Rohrer, J. B.; Roy, William H.; Rudy, Philip; Ruhl, Cyrus; Russel, Charles; Samson, Benjamin; Schaum, George H.; Schindler, A.; Schwartz, John; Schwebel, Charles; Sehner, George; Seibley, Andrew; Seran, S. H.; Sevan, S. H.; Shaffner, Caspar; Sheil, Raymond F.; Shenck, H. C.; Shenk, Joseph; Shroder, F.; Shulmyer, Russel; Siegler, John A.; Skinner, John; Smallvachs, Alexander; Smith, C. Henry; Smith, John; Smith, Michael; Snyder, E. E.; Snyder, Elmer; Snyder, George; Solsky, Samuel; Sorenze, William; Spurrier, A. K.; Staices, George; Stainz, George W.; Stauffer, John F.; Steel, Charles; Stehman, W. H.; Steinman, G. M.; Steinman, George M.; Steinwandel, A.; Stone, John; Stone, Lodwick; Sussner, Henry; Thran, John W.; Thurlow, Thomas; Tillinghast, B. C.; Tillotson, L. G.; Tomlinson, George; Trapnell, David N.; Voght, Christian; Waitz, Gustave; Walker, Edward; Warfel, Bertha; Weiles, Lewis F.; Welchans, Edward; Wenger, D. H.; Westhaffer, H. E.; Wetzel, Edward; Wetzel, John; White, Henry A.; Whitlock, Isaac; Wiley, W. B.; Wilhelm, F.H.; Wimer, J. A.; Winower, Harry J.; Winower, Peter; Wise, Christian; Wisler, J. L.; Wolf, Joseph; Wolpert, L.; Worthington, Henry P.; Worthington, Henry R.; Zell, William D.; Ziegler, J. A.

Other Creators: Tax Assessor (Lancaster, Pa.); Bureau of Police (Lancaster, Pa.).

Subjects: Business records; Criminal records; Lancaster (Pa.)--Bureau of Police; Lancaster (Pa.)--Tax Assessor; Tax collection

Search Terms: American Fire Engine and Hose Company; American Life Insurance Company; Arrests; Bartle and Snyder; Baumgardner, Eberman and Company; Bowers and Hurst; Brimmer and Tucker; Chain Carrier; Christian Wise and Brothers; Common Sense Metallic Packing Manufacturing Company; Conestoga Steam Mills; D. H. Wenger and Brother; Declarations; Directors of the Poor of Lancaster County; Empire Hook and Ladder Company; Everts and Overdeer; F. Shroder and Company; Fines; Flinn and Breneman; Friendship Fire Company; G. L. FonDersmith; G. Sener and Sons; George Fries and Company; George M. Steinman and Company; George Martin and Company; Givler, Bowers and Hurst; Gorrecht and Company; H. Baumgardner and Company; Humane Fire Company; Humphreville and Keiffer; Invoices; J. Stewart and Son; James W. Queen and Company; John Baer's Sons; John Best and Son; John Mingle and Son; Kauffman and Keller; Kauffman Keller and Company; Kepler and Slaymaker; L. G. Tillotson and Company; Lancaster and Williams Town Pike Company; Lancaster City Bureau of Police; Lancaster City Steam Soap and Candle Works; Lancaster County Prison; Lancaster Examiner; Lancaster Freie Presse; Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel Company; Lancaster Intelligencer; Lancaster Lamp Committee; Lancaster New Era; Lancaster Waterworks; Leonard and Ellis; Market House No. 1; Market House No. 2; Market House No. 3; Maxim Electric Light and Power Company; Mellert and Company; Miller and Detz Contractors; Mrs. H. Miller and Son; Oaths of office; Payroll; Pennsylvania Globe Gas Light Company; Pennsylvania Railroad; Pennsylvania Telephone Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philip Lebzelter and Company; Pontz and Brothers; Regulations; Regulators; Shiffler Fire Company; Snyder and Price; Sprecher and Pfeiffer; Station houses; Steinman and Hensel; Stoner, Shreiner and Company; Sun Fire Company; Union Fire Company; Washington Fire Company; Weimer and Carter; West Reading Pipe and Machine Works

Extent: 3 boxes 37 folders 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0420

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Lancaster City Archives; George and Rhonda Andreadis Collection of Lancaster City Records (MG0545)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-420

Classification: MG0420

Description Level: Fonds

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Letters from an American farmer ; and Sketches of eighteenth-century America : more letters from an American farmer

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Author: St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur, J. Hector,

Date of Publication: c1963.

Call Number: 818.103 C926

Responsibility: by Hector St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur ; with a foreword by Albert E. Stone, Jr.

Author: St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur, J. Hector,

Uniform Title: Letters from an American farmer

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: New American Library,

Date of Publication: c1963.

Physical Description: 477, [3] p. ; 18 cm.

Series: A Signet classic ; CQ136

Notes: Includes index.; "Landscapes", dramatic sketches: p. 398-463.

Subjects: St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur, J. Hector, - 1735-1813.; Farm life - United States.; United States - Social life and customs - 1775-1783.; United States - Description and travel - To 1783.; Nantucket (Mass.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Stone, Albert E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 818.103 C926

Postage stamps of the United States : an illustrated description of all United States postage and special service stamps issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847 to December 31, 1961

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Corporate Author: United States. Post Office Dept. Office of Special Assistant to the Postmaster General.

Date of Publication: 1962.

Call Number: 383.22 U58

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Corporate Author: United States. Post Office Dept. Office of Special Assistant to the Postmaster General.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: United States Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1962.

Physical Description: 230 p. : ill. 24

Subjects: Postage stamps - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 383.22 U58

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1795-1895. One hundred years of American commerce ... a history of American commerce by one hundred Americans, with a chronological table of the important events of American commerce and invention within the past one hundred yeras

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Author: Depew, Chauncey M.

Date of Publication: 1968.

Call Number: 380 D419

Alternate Title: One hundred years of American commerce

Responsibility: ed. by Chauncey M. Depew ... Issued in commemoration of the completion of the first century of American commercial progress as inaugurated by the treaty ... negotiated by Chief Justice Jay and approved by President Washington in 1795.

Author: Depew, Chauncey M.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Greenwood,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Physical Description: 2 v. illus. (part col.) 30 cm.

Notes: Paged continuously.

Subjects: Commerce; Inventions - United States; United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.; United States - Economic conditions - 1865-1918.; United States - Commerce - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 380 D419

Archive

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, caÃ±ons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country

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Author: Bryant, William Cullen,

Date of Publication: [c1872-74]

Call Number: 913.3 B915 Oversize

Alternate Title: Picturesque America; Land we live in

Responsibility: With illustrations on steel and wood, by eminent American artists. Edited by William Cullen Bryant.

Author: Bryant, William Cullen,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: D. Appleton and company

Date of Publication: [c1872-74]

Physical Description: 2 v. frontispiece, ill., plates. 33 cm.

Notes: Added t.p., engraved, in each volume.; The main literary work on this publication was done by Oliver B. Bunce. The introduction was written and proofsheets read by W.C. Bryant. Cf. J.C. Derby's "Fifty years among authors ..."; "Contents" in each vol. includes names of authors and artists. "List of engravings on steel" in each vol. includes names of artists and engravers.; Inscribed to daughter Mary Ann by Jacob Stauffer, Dec. 25, 1874.; Library has vol. 2 only.

Subjects: United States - Description and travel.; QuÃ©bec (Province) - Description and travel.; Steel engravings - New York (N.Y.) - 1870-1880.

Additional Author: Bunce, Oliver Bell,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 913.3 B915 Oversize

Archive

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Collection: Revolutionary War Collection

Title: Revolutionary War Collection

Object ID: MG0098

Date Range: 1776-1976

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Collection: Revolutionary War Collection

Title: Revolutionary War Collection

Description: The Revolutionary War Collection contains a variety of materials from and about the Revolutionary War in Lancaster County and Pennsylvania. The original records include correspondence, military pay certificates, court records, and an orderly book kept by Lt. Col. Adam Hubley, Jr. during the Sullivan Campaign of 1779. There are also research notes and secondary sources, including a list of prisoners of war, a list of males in Lancaster County in 1776, Continental Hospital Returns 1777-1780, articles, information on soldiers buried in Lancaster County, and an article about John Paul Jones.

Date Range: 1776-1976

Creation Date: 1776-1976

Year Range From: 1776

Year Range To: 1976

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Beddulph, Robert; Boyd, John; Burd, James Edward; Chambers, Stephen; Coedans, James; Cooke, William; Ferree, John; Getty, Christian; Gurney, Francis; Hubley, Adam; Jolly, James A. "Jim"; Joy, Daniel; Kieffer, Henry Martyn; Moore, William; Neal, James; Patterson, Alex; Porter, Thomas; Ramsay, David; Rapp, Brandon; Reid, George W.; Worner, William Frederic; Zellty, John A.

Subjects: Cemeteries; Letters; Military history; Military regulations; Newtown, Battle of, Newtown, N.Y., 1779; Prisoners of war; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle of, Stony Point, N.Y., 1779; Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons

Search Terms: Battle of Newtown; Battle of Stony Point; Cemeteries; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Finding aids; Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Letters; Manuscript groups; Military history; Military records; Military regulations; Prisoners of war; Receipts; Revolutionary War; Soldiers; Sullivan Campaign, 1779

Extent: 3 boxes, 40 folders, 1.25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0098

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Credit: Revolutionary War Collection (MG-98), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Numbers: MG-98

Other Number: MG-98

Classification: MG0098

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged prior to 1997. Items have been added and the finding aid has been updated since 1997.

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Seeing America and its great men; the journal and letters of Count Francesco dal Verme, 1783-1784

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Author: Dal Verme, Francesco,

Date of Publication: [1969]

Call Number: 917 D313

Responsibility: Translated and edited by Elizabeth Cometti.

ISBN: 081390255X

Author: Dal Verme, Francesco,

Place of Publication: Charlottesville

Publisher: University Press of Virginia

Date of Publication: [1969]

Physical Description: xxxiii, 147 p. illus., maps, ports. 25 cm.

Notes: Library has photocopy of p. 32-35; 118-123: The Middle States and New England.; Mention is made of his visits to Ephrata, Lititz, Manheim and Lancaster.; Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [95]-136)

Subjects: United States - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.; West Indies - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Cometti, Elizabeth,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917 D313

A review of the political conflict in America, from the commencement of the anti-slavery agitation to the close of southern reconstruction; comprising also a resume of the career of Thaddeus Stevens: being a survey of the struggle of parties which destroyed the republic and virtually monarchized its government

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1136

Author: Harris, Alexander,

Date of Publication: 1876.

Call Number: 923.2 S846ha

1 website

Responsibility: By Alexander Harris.

Author: Harris, Alexander,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: T.H. Pollock,

Date of Publication: 1876.

Physical Description: vii, [9]-517 p. 24 cm.

Notes: African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868.; United States - History - 1849-1877.; United States - Politics and government - 1849-1877.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 S846ha

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https://archive.org/details/reviewofpolitica01harr/page/n3

Oration by Mr. John W. Forney : at the 101st celebration of American Independence, July 4, 1877, in the International Exhibition Building, Fairmount Park, by invitation of the Board of Managers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11976

Author: Forney, John W.

Date of Publication: 1877.

Call Number: 814 F727i

Author: Forney, John W.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Vallette, Haslam,

Date of Publication: 1877.

Physical Description: 23 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Fourth of July orations.; United States - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 814 F727i

The Old land and the new: the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's

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Date of Publication: 1965

Call Number: 917.3 B598

Responsibility: edited and translated by Robert H. Billigmeier & Fred Altschuler Picard. Sketches by Hans Erni.

Place of Publication: Minneapolis

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Date of Publication: 1965

Physical Description: 281 p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents: Note on translation.--Introduction, by R.H. Billigmeier.--Account of a journey to North America and through the most significant parts thereof, by J. Schweizer.--Day book on a journey to North America in the year 1823, by J.J. Rutlinger.

Summary: "In the 1820's, when the flow of immigration was still small, two Swiss immigrant families wrote accounts of what seemed to them to be the most decisive experiences of their lives. These particular accounts relate to a period in the history of American immigration that is less well known than the more spectacular colonial and post- Civil War movements. They are particularly vivid and insightful personal documents affording valuable perspectives of the integration of the 'Old Immigration' of ante-bellum days." [from the introduction]

Subjects: Swiss in the United States.; United States - Description and travel - 1783-1848.; United States - Emigration and immigration - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Schweizer, Johannes,; Rutlinger, Johann Jakob,; Billigmeier, Robert Henry,; Picard, Fred Altschuler,; Erni, Hans,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.3 B598

Colonial craftsmen and the beginnings of American industry

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6421

Author: Tunis, Edwin,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: [1965]

Call Number: 609.73 T926 Oversize

Responsibility: written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis.

Author: Tunis, Edwin,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: Cleveland

Publisher: World Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: [1965]

Physical Description: 159 p. illus. 31 cm.

Summary: Describes and illustrates the work of craftsmen and artisans in Colonial America. Shows types of work done in town shops and manufacturies, as well as, in homes, village shops, and country forges.

Subjects: Technology - United States; Industries - United States; Decorative arts, Early American.; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 609.73 T926 Oversize

Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11825

Author: Devens, R. M.

Date of Publication: 1879.

Call Number: 973 D489

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Author: Devens, R. M.

Place of Publication: Springfield, Mass

Publisher: C. A. Nichols,

Date of Publication: 1879.

Physical Description: 1004 p. illus., ports.

Subjects: United States - History.; United States - History - 1783-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973 D489

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwb3cs&view=1up&seq=11

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwb3cr&view=1up&seq=11

The Olden time : a monthly publication devoted to the preservation of documents and other authentic information in relation to the early explorations and the settlement and improvement of the country around the head of the Ohio

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3099

Date of Publication: 1876.

Call Number: 974.80083 O44

Responsibility: edited by Neville B. Craig, esq.

Place of Publication: Cincinnati

Publisher: Reprinted by Robert Clarke & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1876.

Physical Description: 2 v. : fold. map, fold. facsim. ; 25 cm.

Notes: A reprint of the periodical issued Jan. 1846-Dec. 1847.

Subjects: Ohio River Valley - History - Sources.; Pennsylvania - History - Sources.; Northwest, Old - History - Sources.

Additional Author: Craig, Neville B.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80083 O44

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Collection: Grand Army of the Republic Collection

Title: Grand Army of the Republic Collection

Object ID: MG0017

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Collection: Grand Army of the Republic Collection

Title: Grand Army of the Republic Collection

Description: Collection consists of records of the Grand Army of the Republic and allied organizations. Most papers are from G.A.R. Post 478 (Mount Joy) and Post 84 (Lancaster). Included are minute books, burial records, membership applications, correspondence, national and state G.A.R. orders, encampment information, and Post correspondence. Many records are in book form.; Soldiers and sailors honorably discharged from the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the U.S. who fought in the cause of the Union from Apr. 12, 1861 to Apr. 9, 1865 were eligible to become members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Allied Orders include: Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Woman's Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans U.S.A. (later Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War) and their Auxiliary, as well as the Daughters of Veterans (later Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War).

Creation Date: 1861-1931

Year Range From: 1861

Year Range To: 1931

Date of Accumulation: 1861-1931

Creator: Grand Army of the Republic Post 478

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 01

People: Cruikshank, William; Furgeson, Elizabeth; Leach, David; Long, George; Nissley, D. H.; Nissley, David H.; Stephenson, Benjamin F.; Thomas, George H.; Thumb, Tom; Veil, Chas. H.; Wimer, John; Wolf, Joseph

Other Creators: Grand Army of the Republic Post 84; Grand Army of the Republic Post 524.

Subjects: Business records; Grand Army of the Republic; Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Pennsylvania; Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Pennsylvania; Sons of Veterans, U.S.A; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Woman's Relief Corp (U.S.). Department of Pennsylvania

Search Terms: Burial records; Business records; Civil War; Correspondence; Finding aids; Grand Army of the Republic; Iroquois Band; Stork's Orchestra; Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; Letters; Lincoln Cemetery; Manuscript groups; Mount Joy Cemetery; Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Woman's Relief Corp (U.S.)

Extent: 6 boxes, 56 folders, 24 volumes, 3 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0017

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-17

Classification: MG0017

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was cataloged prior to 1997; added to database on 6 March 2018.

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U.S. Grant and the colored people. : His wise, just, practical, and effective friendship thoroughly vindicated by incontestable facts in his record from 1862 to 1872. : Words of truth and soberness! He who runs may read and understand!! Be not deceived, only truth can endure!!!

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Author: Douglass, Frederick,

Date of Publication: 1872

Call Number: 973.82 D737

1 website

Author: Douglass, Frederick,

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: Published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee,

Date of Publication: 1872

Physical Description: 8 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Letter addressed "To the colored people of the United States." Signed: Frederick Douglass. Washington, July 17, 1872.; Caption title.; Published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee. Cf. List of documents published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee. Speech of the Postmaster General, at Jackson, Mich. ... Washington, D.C., 1872, p. [8].; Text printed in two columns.

Summary: A brief address in the midst of the 1872 election campaign designed to document Ulysses S. Grant's support for African American liberation and civil rights. Douglass hoped thereby to rally the black vote for Grant.

Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. - 1822-1885.; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-); African Americans; Freedmen; Campaign literature - United States - Specimens.

Additional Corporate Author: Union Republican Congressional Committee.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.82 D737

Websites

https://archive.org/details/usgrantcoloredpe00doug/page/1

The history of Pennsylvania from the earliest discovery to the present time. Including an account of the first settlements by the Dutch, Swedes, and English, and of the colony of William Penn, his treaty and pacific measures with the Indians; and the gradual advancement of the state to its present aspect of opulence, culture and refinement. By William Mason Cornell

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3100

Author: Cornell, William Mason,

Date of Publication: 1876.

Call Number: 974.8009 C814

1 website

Author: Cornell, William Mason,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Quaker City Pub. House,

Date of Publication: 1876.

Physical Description: 575, [1] p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. [576]

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8009 C814

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t1jh3ss5k&view=1up&seq=11

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Collection: Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

Title: Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces (MG-0028)

Object ID: MG0028

Date Range: 1913-1981

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Collection: Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

Title: Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces (MG-0028)

Description: Records of the Society which was formed to continue the traditions of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, which began in World War I. Includes membership lists, post minutes, correspondence, financial reports, convention programs, scrapbooks, and Divisional histories.

Date Range: 1913-1981

Year Range From: 1913

Year Range To: 1981

Date of Accumulation: 1913-1981

Creator: Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 01

People: Diffenderfer, William C.; Stern, Charles Augustus; Walze, George T.

Subjects: Business records; Letters; Programs (Publications); Scrapbooks; United States. Army; United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 28th; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; World War, 1939-1945

Search Terms: American Expeditionary Forces, Ambulance Company No. 111; Business records; Correspondence; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Minutes; Programs; Scrapbooks; United States Army; United States Army, American Expeditionary Forces; United States Army, Infantry Division, 28th; World War I; World War II; WWI; WWII

Extent: 6 boxes, 59 folders, 3 scrapbooks, 5 books, 3 cubic feet

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0028

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: MG-17 The Grand Army of the Republic Collection; MG- 18 The Civil War Collection; MG-45 The World War I Collection; MG-209 The Col. Robert E. Miller Collection; MG-29 The Gen. Daniel B. Strickler Collection

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-28

Classification: MG0028

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was cataloged prior to July 1997; added to database 5 September 2017.

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Letters from an American farmer ; and Sketches of eighteenth-century America : more letters from an American farmer

Postage stamps of the United States : an illustrated description of all United States postage and special service stamps issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847 to December 31, 1961

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1795-1895. One hundred years of American commerce ... a history of American commerce by one hundred Americans, with a chronological table of the important events of American commerce and invention within the past one hundred yeras

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Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, caÃ±ons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country

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Seeing America and its great men; the journal and letters of Count Francesco dal Verme, 1783-1784

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Oration by Mr. John W. Forney : at the 101st celebration of American Independence, July 4, 1877, in the International Exhibition Building, Fairmount Park, by invitation of the Board of Managers

The Old land and the new: the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's

Colonial craftsmen and the beginnings of American industry

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The Olden time : a monthly publication devoted to the preservation of documents and other authentic information in relation to the early explorations and the settlement and improvement of the country around the head of the Ohio

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U.S. Grant and the colored people. : His wise, just, practical, and effective friendship thoroughly vindicated by incontestable facts in his record from 1862 to 1872. : Words of truth and soberness! He who runs may read and understand!! Be not deceived, only truth can endure!!!

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