American Revolution Bicentennial of Lancaster County Collection (MG-20)
Description
This collection gives information on the activities of the 200th celebration of the American Revolution in the Lancaster area. Folders 32 to 41 cover the celebration in Greater Lancaster. Folders 42 to 51 touch upon the activities of Lititz, Solanco, Lampeter-Strasburg, Elizabethtown, Cocalico, Columbia, New Holland, Pequea Valley, Washington Boro, Penn Manor, Millersville, and Marietta. The collection contains minutes, programs, photos, financial vouchers and newspaper clippings, audio tapes. The six volumes that make up the Bicentennial Celebration, April 1971- February 1977 scrapbooks are a compilation of published materials such as newspaper articles, magazine articles, broadsides, brochures and pamphlets. The materials relay information about the actions of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee including meetings, mailings and events. The committee chose the "Hands of Liberty" theme for the committee and upcoming celebration. The theme was present on every mailing sent out by the committee and can be found on most of the materials within the scrapbooks.
Guide to the microfilm of the miscellaneous manuscripts of the Revolutionary War era, 1771-1791 (manuscript group 275) in the Pennsylvania State Archives, 1 roll : a microfilm project of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Muster rolls and prisoner-of-war lists in American archival collections pertaining to the German mercenary troops who served with the British forces during the American Revolution
The early paper money of America : an illustrated, historical, and descriptive compilation of data relating to American paper currency from its inception in 1686 to the year 1800
Middle Octorara and the Revolution : a history prepared for the Bicentennial and 250th Anniversary Committee of the Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church
American folk painting : selections from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III : an exhibition on display at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, November 29, 1977- January 8, 1978
Genealogy tables for some Garman families descended from immigrants Adam Germann, 1731?-1806 on ship Albany in Philadelphia, Sept. 2, 1749, and Johann Leonhardt Germann, 1724?-1813, fellow passenger : two members of the great wave of "Penna. Dutch" colonists from Germany & Switzerland to central Pennsylvania before the War of Independence from England in the mid-eighteenth century
Quilt made to commemorate the United States Bicentennial by students of Frances Sears' 5th grade class at Wickersham Elementary. Students selected topics for their quilt squares. THey then researched designed, and created their squares. Ms. Sears created a scrapbook to document the project (part of Archives colelction).
"A Paper read before the annual meeting of the Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society, Schaff Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1973."
