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One Year Lancaster in 1870-1880: A compilation from newspapers with accompanying notes

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Date of Publication: c.1980.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO H465

Responsibility: compiled with comments by George L. Heiges.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: c.1980.

Physical Description: v. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Extractions from the various newspapers of Lancaster, Pa., done a hundred years after the events took place to satisfy the curiousity of the compiler.; Includes index.; Library lacks 1874 and 1875.

Subjects: Newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Intelligencer Journal (Newspaper); Examiner and Express (Newspaper); New Era (Newspaper); American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 1870-1880.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs. - 1870-1880.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 1870--1880.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO H465

Cornwall : the people and culture of an industrial Camelot, 1890-1980

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5175

Date of Publication: 1984.

Call Number: 974.819 O12

Responsibility: Carl Oblinger.

ISBN: 0892710284 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1984.

Physical Description: vi, 123 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Interviews with Robert Arnold, Sr., and others.

Summary: " The changing impact of industrialization on American society has been a favorite problem for discussion and debate in the academic world. Rarely, however, have the actors of that controversial drama-the workers themselves - been given the opportunity to tell the tale from the uninhibited perspective of personal experience. The candid recollections contained in Cornwall effectively answer that need and, in the process, reveal some provocative and surprising conclusions about working-class response and behavior. Like other industrial ventures of the nineteenth century, the Cornwall Ore Bank Company in Lebanon County generated its share of unskilled and semi-skilled immigrant labor from eastern and southern Europe. Unlike other growing industrial giants, however, the family-operated mining enterprise skillfully constructed a sense of paternalism which engendered a climate of harmony and cooperation. Although basically a periodic treatment of workers' experiences in the twentieth century, the interviews collected here reflect the subtle confrontation between that nineteenth century legacy and the reality of the monopoly capitalism initiated by Bethlehem Steel with its takeover in 1921. A number of events, especially the depression of the 1930s, the CIO unionization drive in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and the mine closings in 1973, would provide a serious challenge to management's hold on the community, and underscore workers' desperate struggle to come to grips with capitalism's unpleasant side effects. Cornwall is an interesting and important contribution to the literature of this complex period of American social and economic history." [from Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine]

Subjects: Working class - Pennsylvania - Cornwall; Industries - Pennsylvania - Cornwall; Interviews - Pennsylvania - Cornwall.; Cornwall (Pa.) - Social life and customs.; Cornwall (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Oblinger, Carl D.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 O12

Scrapbook

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Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Amish Culture

Object ID: MG0434_Box021

Date Range: 1988/04 - 1995/07

Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Amish Culture

Description: This scrapbook discusses many aspects about the Lancaster County Amish community. Several well-known Amish customs are mentioned throughout the newspaper clippings such as Rumspringa, barn raising, marriage season, and education. Other articles contain information about funeral customs, past-time activities, agriculture and other occupations. An article of special interest surrounds two Amish men arrested for religious beliefs.

Date Range: 1988/04 - 1995/07

Creation Date: April 1988 - July 1995

Year Range From: 1988

Year Range To: 1995

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 22

Subjects: Agriculture--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Amish; Amish farmers; Amish women; Amish--Customs and practices; Amish--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States; Amish--Marriage customs and rites; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--Education; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--20th century; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--Economic conditions; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--Social life and customs; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--Public Opinion; Barns; Carriages; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Funeral rites and ceremonies; Horticulture; Lancaster (Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.)--History, local; Rumspringa; Scrapbooks

Search Terms: Amish; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Newspaper clippings; Scrapbooks; Women

Extent: 1 volume

Object Name: Scrapbook

Language: English

Object ID: MG0434_Box021

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Ferster, H. V. the Education of Amish Children. Buffalo, New York: Typescript, 1980.; Amish Traditions. Call Number: 289.71 Y54; The Amish of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Call Number: 289.71 S819; Amish Beliefs, Customs and Discipline. Call Number: 289.71 L643

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

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions. Please request this item by contacting Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to your visit.

Copyright: This item 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.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-434

Other Number: MG-434, Box 21

Classification: MG0434

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Cataloged by CRB, October 2007. Added to database, 24 September 2023.; Previously housed in the Scrapbook Collection, Book 158.; This project was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, ME60112, 2007-2008.

Cotton mills of Lancaster City, Pennsylvania : a collection of historical information about cotton from the Colonial Days (1770) of Lancaster City, through the 1800's when cotton mills were established, to the demise of the largest mill in the city in 1949, together with data on cotton production and the cotton market through 1976

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18840

Date of Publication: 1977

Call Number: 621 C948

Responsibility: compiled by W.T. Crook, Jr.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1977

Physical Description: 122 L : ill., Photographs; 29 cm.

Notes: Compiled for the Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Conestoga Steam Mill (Lancaster, Pa.); Farnum Mills (Lancaster, Pa.); Cotton manufacturing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Manufacturers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 621 C948

The heritage of Lancaster

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: [1978]

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L863

Responsibility: by John Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Woodland Hills, Cal

Publisher: Windsor publications,

Date of Publication: [1978]

Physical Description: xi, 226 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Published under the sponsorship of the Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry.; Research provided by the Lancaster County Historical Society.

Subjects: Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Corporate Author: Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference; Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L863

Farming, always farming : a photographic essay of rural Pennsylvania German land and life

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Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Responsibility: made by H. Winslow Fegley ; [introduction, Scott T. Swank ; captions, Alan G. Keiser, Frederick S. Weiser].

Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Place of Publication: Birdsboro, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ;

Notes: "Photographs from the collection of the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania."; Bibliography: p. 30.

Subjects: Fegley, H. Winslow - 1871-1944 - Photography collections.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Berks County; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Pennsylvania - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Swank, Scott T.; Keyser, Alan G.; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Additional Corporate Author: Schwenkfelder Library.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Interviewing the people of Pennsylvania : a conceptual guide to oral history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1676

Author: Oblinger, Carl D.

Date of Publication: 1978.

Call Number: 907.3 O12

Responsibility: by Carl Oblinger.

Author: Oblinger, Carl D.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1978.

Physical Description: iv, 84 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Minorities - Pennsylvania; Oral history.; Interviewing.; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Sources.; Pennsylvania - Social conditions - Sources.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 907.3 O12

College Hill in the 80's and 90's memoirs of a Franklin and Marshall faculty daughter

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Author: Heller, Mary Belle Stahr.

Date of Publication: 1971.

people in the neighborhood and we had nice parties. My sister Helen was five years older than I, and I did not play with her much. However, I played a good deal with John and Char- lie and Hugh. Charlie loved dogs, and always had one. Our back yard was full of dogs' graves. May Jenks had lots of dolls

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Responsibility: by Mary Belle Stahr Heller.

Author: Heller, Mary Belle Stahr.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1971.

Physical Description: [19]-37 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 1

Subjects: Heller, Mary Belle Stahr.; Franklin and Marshall College.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Heller, Jane.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 1 (1971), p. 19-37Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75

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Founding mothers : women in America in the Revolutionary era

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1381

Author: De Pauw, Linda Grant.

Date of Publication: 1975.

Call Number: 973.3 D419

Responsibility: Linda Grant de Pauw ; wood engravings by Michael McCurdy.

ISBN: 0395218969 :

Author: De Pauw, Linda Grant.

Place of Publication: Boston

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,

Date of Publication: 1975.

Physical Description: xi, 228 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. [220]-222.; African American reources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Summary: Describes the daily lives, social roles, and contributions of women living during the revolutionary period.

Subjects: Women - United States; Women's rights - United States; Women; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775 - Juvenile literature.; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.

Additional Author: McCurdy, Michael.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.3 D419

Through the windows of Wickersham

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Author: Hiestand, Esther Mae Longenecker,

Date of Publication: 1986

Call Number: 370 H633

Responsibility: by Mrs. Paul Hiestand

Author: Hiestand, Esther Mae Longenecker,

Place of Publication: Elizabethtown, PA

Publisher: Y/Z Printing Co.

Date of Publication: 1986

Physical Description: 166 p. ill. 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index

Contents: Part I: Stackstown- History of Stackstown, Tillman S. Kraybill farm, Oliver Sager, William Ort, Benjamin Hoffman, Goudie's Creamery, Aunt Sally's store, Demmy's milk route, Stackstown Store // Part II: Billmeyer: J. E. Baker, Conoy Store, Billmeyer School, Rebecca Chapel, Bainbridge Sportsmen's Club // Part III: Wickersham School.

Summary: "Located in the rolling hills of Lancaster County,Pennsylvania, the Wickersham Grammar School faithfully served the surrounding communities from 1870 to 1955....Although the Wickersham School forms the heart of this book, I have included the history of Stackstown and Billmeyer, since the pupils who attended the school came from these areas." [from the preface]