Note: This collection of Musical Events Programs contains programs for the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Lancaster Conservatory of Music, Lancaster Community Concert Association, The American Guild of Organists, Pennsylvania Academy of Music, Musical Arts Society, The Oratorio Society, and Lancaster

8 Scope and Content Note: The Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection contains correspondence between Adam Reigart, Jr. in Lancaster and Philip Wager in Philadelphia and their families. The letters are primarily from the early nineteenth century and provide information about family illness

Bon-Ton Beauty Salon Booklets C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc. Calendars Catalogs Central Automatic Sprinkler Company Certificates Columbia �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company Commonwealth

cigars. Binder tobacco was grown mostly in Wisconsin and Con- necticut. Wrapper tobacco came from Connecticut and Florida, although some was imported from the Dutch East Indies. General Cigar maintained a Leaf Department in the building at the corner of Frederick Street and Lancaster Avenue. This

The Life and Times of The Green Dragon By Kathryn Donaldson The farmer's market has been a part of Lancaster County life since the 1700s. When the city of Lancaster was first planned, space was set aside for just that purpose. It is truly amazing how little has been documented for posterity

heavily-traveled colonial highways linking the Philadelphia area with Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg. Business became increasingly brisk, which helped to establish this small community. The idea of a bank in Blue Ball was originally discussed on a beautiful day in June, 1906, by George K. Diller, A.M

. Channel 8 memo to cover events for TV coverage. Newspaper items relate news of past 20 years. Company newsletter and thank you note to Lancaster Newspaper. The portfolio concludes with a RCA family newsletter dated November-December 1962 depicting the last 20 years in pictures and stories. �230 North

: Archives South, Side 9 Scope and Content Note: Series 2 of the Harold Morrin Collection contains personal journals, species checklists, newspaper articles, certificates, and correspondence in relation to birding in Lancaster County and all over the world. Creator: Morrin, Harold B., 1923-2012 System of

-building. The Lancaster Concrete Tile Company, Harvey L. Saylor of Manheim, and the Musselman Concrete Pipe Company of New Holland, do considerable business in this new building material. It was only about a year following the Great War that several Lancaster industrialists gathered, probably at the

, Side 11 Scope and Content Note: The United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records contain minutes of union meetings, negotiations with Armstrong Cork Company and Kerr Group, Inc., publications of Local 285 and Armstrong, correspondence with national union representatives, union flyers and other

expertise, that contributed to flooding the west side of Lancaster. It is assumed that sophis- ticated construction projects such as reservoirs are challenging even under ideal circumstances. In brief, tight-fisted town fathers were asking for trouble and they got it. Water and the 19th-Century City

authority and prosecution of vice began. Lancaster was soon to proceed from an "open vice city" to a "clean city." Dr. Twombly stated that women working for low wages around dangerous, unguarded machinery were prey to temptation. In an article in 1913, he states: "What about our women tobacco strippers in

Wyoming. He roamed America and the Continent for years with his stupendous Wild West Shows, becoming an international icon. He even produced the first realistic western movies. But it was toward the end of his glory, in 1913, that the train carrying Buffalo Bill's show rumbled into the Lancaster railroad