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A history of colonial Virginia, the first permanent colony in America, to which is added the genealogy of the several shires and counties and population in Virginia from the first Spanish colony to the present time

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9564

Author: Cridlin, William Broaddus.

Edition: Pageant ed.

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 975.502 C928

Responsibility: By William Broaddus Cridlin ...

Author: Cridlin, William Broaddus.

Edition: Pageant ed.

Place of Publication: Richmond, Va

Publisher: Williams printing co.,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: vi, 181, 13 p. incl. front. (map) 21 cm.

Subjects: Names, Geographical - Virginia.; Virginia - History - Colonial period.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.502 C928

Comb making in America, an account of the origin and development of the industry for which Leominster has become famous, to which are added pictures of many of the early comb makers and views of the old time comb shops

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17221

Author: Walton, Perry,

Date of Publication: c1925]

Call Number: 688.5 W241

Responsibility: compiled and privately printed for Bernard W. Doyle, president of the Viscoloid company, inc., in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the comb industry in Leominster, Massachusetts.

Author: Walton, Perry,

Place of Publication: [Boston

Date of Publication: c1925]

Physical Description: xiv, 158 p. incl. front., illus., ports. pl. 27 cm.

Notes: "Compiled, written and printed under direction of Perry Walton."

Contents: Antiquity of combs -- Establishment of the comb industry in America -- Growth of the comb industry in West Newbury -- The Noyes family : their relation to the comb industry -- Improvements in the manufacture of combs -- The Hills family and the comb industry in Leominster -- Comb-making in Clinton, Massachusetts, and other industrial centers -- Horn, tortoise shell, ivory and their substitutes -- The town of Leominster.

Subjects: Combs.

Additional Author: Doyle, Bernard W.

Additional Corporate Author: Viscoloid company, Leominster, Mass.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 688.5 W241

Journal of an English emigrant farmer : a record of the journey of an unknown Englishman to America in the year 1838 and his sojourn for a summer among the early pioneer settlers of Muncy Valley

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8103

Date of Publication: 1928.

Call Number: 974.851 J86

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Responsibility: edited by T. Kenneth Wood.

Place of Publication: Williamsport [Pa.]

Publisher: Lycoming Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1928.

Physical Description: 38 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Proceedings and papers - Lycoming Historical Society ; no. 6

Notes: "Occasional Publication No. 6."

Subjects: Farmers; United States - Description and travel - 1783-1848.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Wood, T. Kenneth.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.851 J86

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The Engle history and family records of Dauphin and Lancaster counties. The numerous lineal descendants of Ulrich Engel. Short sketches of Engle families not related. A sketch of the arrival and record of the origin of the brethren in Christ church of which a large number of these descendants are menbers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1204

Author: Engle, Morris M.,

Date of Publication: [1927]

Call Number: 929 E585e

Alternate Title: History of the Engle Family in America 1754-1927.

Responsibility: Compiled, arranged, indexed and published by Morris M. Engle ...

Author: Engle, Morris M.,

Place of Publication: Mt. Joy, Pa

Publisher: The Bulletin press

Date of Publication: [1927]

Physical Description: 161 p. illus. (incl. ports., maps) 24 cm.

Subjects: Engle family (Ulrich Engel, fl. 1753); Groff family.; Kauffman family.; Miller family.; Stauffer family.; Brubaker family.; Hershey family.; Musser family.; Oberholtzer family.; Stoner family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 E585e

A dictionary of the non-English words of the Pennsylvania-German dialect, with an appendix

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12946

Author: Lambert, Marcus Bachman,

Date of Publication: c1924]

Call Number: 433 L222

Responsibility: by Marcus Bachman Lambert ...

Author: Lambert, Marcus Bachman,

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster Press,

Date of Publication: c1924]

Physical Description: xxxi, 193 p. 25 cm.

Notes: "Copyrighted 1924 by the Pennsylvania-German Society."

Subjects: Pennsylvania German dialect - Dictionaries.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania-German Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 433 L222

In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia District : Elizabeth Kuhns, to the use of Frank. S. Everts and Silas E. Overdeer, Partners, Trading as Everts and Overdeed, appellants, vs. Conestoga Traction Company, Appellee - Brief of appellants - Appeal from judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, to June term , 1920, No. 87

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16235

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 346.032 S631c

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 23,41 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; "K. L. Shirk, John A. Coyle, attorneys for appellants.

Subjects: Kuhns, Elizabeth.; Shirk, K. L.; Coyle, John A.; Everts & Overdeer (firm).; Conestoga Traction Company.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 346.032 S631c

In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District : January term 1925, No. 257 - Elizabeth Kuhns, to the use of Frank. S. Everts and Silas E. Overdeer, Partners, Trading as Everts and Overdeed, appellants, vs. Conestoga Traction Company, Appellee - Brief for appellee - Brief from judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, to June term , 1920, No. 87

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16234

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 346.032 S631

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 9 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; "S. R. Zimmerman, John E. Malone, attorneys for appelee."

Subjects: Kuhns, Elizabeth.; Zimmerman, S. R.; Malone, John E.; Everts & Overdeer (firm).; Conestoga Traction Company.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 346.032 S631

Appendix to the journals of the City Council of the city of Reading for the year 1923

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17740

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 974.816 R287j

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Publisher: Weiler's Printing House ,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: 781 p., 22 p. : tables ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Includes 49th annual report of the fiscal affairs of the city of Reading, Penna.

Subjects: Reading (Pa.) - Politics and government.; Reading (Pa.) - Appropriations and expenditures.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 R287j

A constitutional league of peace in the stone age of America; the League of the Iroquois and its constitution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo690

Author: Hewitt, J. N. B.

Date of Publication: 1920.

Call Number: 970.1 S664c

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Responsibility: by J. N. B. Hewitt.

Author: Hewitt, J. N. B.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1920.

Physical Description: 527-545 p. 24 cm.

Notes: From: Smithsonian Institution. Annual report. 1918.; "The author,John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 - October 14, 1937) , was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York. His parents were Harriet and David; his mother was of Tuscarora, French, Oneida, and Scottish descent, his father of English and Scottish, but raised in a Tuscarora family. His parents raised him speaking the English language, but when he left the reservation to attend schools in Wilson and Lockport, he learned to speak the Tuscarora language from other students who spoke the language." [from Wikipedia]

Summary: Discussion of the formation of the Iroquois League by five separate native American tribes ( Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ) in 16th century America.

Subjects: Iroquois Indians.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 970.1 S664c

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Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 1, 1905

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Corporate Author: A. Hoen and Company.

Date of Publication: [1923?]

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 517 Oversize

Corporate Author: A. Hoen and Company.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: H. Hoen & Co. Lith.,

Date of Publication: [1923?]

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 99 x 105 cm.

Notes: "April 1, 1923."; Includes table of township road mileages and distance table.

Subjects: Post office buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Highway Dept.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 517 Oversize

Polk's official street directory, car line and information guide of Lancaster including ready reference map: giving description, location,number and intersection of each street, and the nearest car line to each number on the street, also key numbers for use with Polk's Ready Reference Map. Also routes of city and suburban car lines, list of public buildings, cemeteries, churches, fire department, libraries, parks,police department, post office, schools and other valuable information

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16637

Date of Publication: 1924

Call Number: 917.4815

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers,

Date of Publication: 1924

Physical Description: 64 p. map ; 15 cm.

Notes: Includes advertising.; Map tipped in rear cover.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.

Additional Corporate Author: R.L. Polk & Co.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 917.4815

The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4506

Author: Sipe, C. Hale

Date of Publication: 1929.

Call Number: 974.8011 S618w

Author: Sipe, C. Hale

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: The Telegraph Press,

Date of Publication: 1929.

Physical Description: 793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.

Notes: Tail-pieces.; "Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]; "Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.; "Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.; "List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.; Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.; Indians of North America; Fortification - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Pennsylvania - Historic houses, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 S618w

Wrightsville's book of facts : a souvenir inspired by the sixtieth anniversary of an event of the Civil War which occurred at Wrightsville, York County, PA known as "Farthest east reached by the Confederate Army" June 28th 1863-1923 including a classified professional and business directory

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16462

Corporate Author: Historical Committee (Wrightsville, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 974.841 W947

Responsibility: prepared by the Historical Committee.

Corporate Author: Historical Committee (Wrightsville, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Wrightsville, Pa

Publisher: The Committee,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: 96 p. ; 20 cm.

Subjects: Wright, John, - 1667-1749.; Confederate States of America. - Army.; Wrightsville (York County, Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.; Wrightsville (York County, Pa.) - History.; Wrightsville (York County, Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Wrightsville (York County, Pa.) - Directories.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.841 W947

A series of descriptive papers upon a tour made to Alaska, during the summer of 1929 : going by way of the Canadian Rockies, and the inside passage, and returning by way of Northern United States Rockies

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7259

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: ca. 1929]

Call Number: 979.8 E75

Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman ....

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: ca. 1929]

Physical Description: 24 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; "Reprint from the 'Ephrata Review'"--Cover.

Contents: The glory of the Canadian Rockies -- On the way to Alaska -- Tourists' Alaska -- Eastward over the Northern United States Rockies.

Subjects: Alaska - Description and travel.; Rocky Mountains - Description and travel.

Additional Title: Ephrata review.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 979.8 E75

An authentic history of the Junior Sons of America, 1847 to 1868, and Patriotic Order Sons of America, 1869 to 1923

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1864

Author: Stager, Henry John.

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 369 P314

Responsibility: by Henry John Stager, by John H. Druckemiller as collaborator, and edited and completed by C.H. Shirk.

Author: Stager, Henry John.

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: State Camp of Pennsylvania of the Patriotic Order, Sons of America,

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 2 v. : ill.

Subjects: Patriotic Order Sons of America. - State Camp of Pennsylvania - History.

Additional Author: Druckemiller, John H.; Shirk, C. H.

Additional Corporate Author: Patriotic Order Sons of America. State Camp of Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369 P314

An authentic history of the Junior Sons of America, 1847 to 1868, and Patriotic Order Sons of America, 1869 to 1923

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5438

Author: Stager, Henry John.

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 369 S774

Responsibility: by Henry John Stager, by John H. Druckemiller as collaborator, and edited and completed by C.H. Shirk.

Author: Stager, Henry John.

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: State Camp of Pennsylvania of the Patriotic Order, Sons of America,

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 2 v. : ill.

Subjects: Patriotic Order Sons of America. - State Camp of Pennsylvania - History

Additional Author: Druckemiller, John H.,; Shirk, C H

Additional Corporate Author: Patriotic Order Sons of America. State Camp of Pennsylvania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369 S774

A brief historical review of the achievements of German nationals in the early days of American colonization. The period from 1564 to 1682 inclusive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15504

Author: Lohr, Otto,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 974.8002 L833

2 websites

Responsibility: by Otto Lohr.

Author: Lohr, Otto,

Place of Publication: Hoboken [N.J.]

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: 7, [1] p. 21 cm.

Series: Historical bulletin ; no. 1

Subjects: Germans - United States.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8002 L833

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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20011010004br.1

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20011010004br.2

A short preface to a copy of a memorandum of Jacob Eicholtz, the artist

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3673

Author: Hostetter, Ida L. K.

Date of Publication: 1925

was a young man. Large painting of Marc Anthony delivering an oration over the dead body of Caesar. Over 60 figures represented. Is now in Pittsburgh. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hostetter, Ida L. K. Title: A short preface to a

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Responsibility: by Ida L. K. Hostetter.

Author: Hostetter, Ida L. K.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1925

Physical Description: 107-111 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 9

Subjects: Eichholtz, Jacob, - 1776-1842.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 29, number 9 (1925), p. 107-111Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.29

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A brief description of Indian life and Indian trade of the Susquehannock Indians. The tribe which inhabited what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A compilation of pen pictures by the earliest Europeans with whom they came in contact. Also giving a study of the exact location and period of occupation of their villages and fort stes based on the articles found in Indian graves here

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4254

Author: Landis, David H.,

Date of Publication: c1929]

Call Number: 974.8011 L257b

Responsibility: By D. H. Landis ...

Author: Landis, David H.,

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Date of Publication: c1929]

Physical Description: 1 p. Î²., [7]-48 p. front. (port.) illus. 23 cm.

Notes: Owing to an imperfect impression, p. 48 is numbered 4 in this copy.; "Only 150 copies will be printed and type destroyed."; "Reprinted from the Lancaster new era and also Intelligencer journal, June 22, l929."

Subjects: Susquehanna Indians.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 L257b

Maps and pictures of old Lancaster : report to the Society of an exhibition of pictures

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4396

Date of Publication: 1922

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.26

Responsibility: by the Committee on Entertainment.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1922

Physical Description: 127-132 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 26, no. 6

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Slides.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.26

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A history of colonial Virginia, the first permanent colony in America, to which is added the genealogy of the several shires and counties and population in Virginia from the first Spanish colony to the present time

Comb making in America, an account of the origin and development of the industry for which Leominster has become famous, to which are added pictures of many of the early comb makers and views of the old time comb shops

Journal of an English emigrant farmer : a record of the journey of an unknown Englishman to America in the year 1838 and his sojourn for a summer among the early pioneer settlers of Muncy Valley

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A dictionary of the non-English words of the Pennsylvania-German dialect, with an appendix

Appendix to the journals of the City Council of the city of Reading for the year 1923

A constitutional league of peace in the stone age of America; the League of the Iroquois and its constitution

Websites

Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 1, 1905

Wrightsville's book of facts : a souvenir inspired by the sixtieth anniversary of an event of the Civil War which occurred at Wrightsville, York County, PA known as "Farthest east reached by the Confederate Army" June 28th 1863-1923 including a classified professional and business directory

A series of descriptive papers upon a tour made to Alaska, during the summer of 1929 : going by way of the Canadian Rockies, and the inside passage, and returning by way of Northern United States Rockies

An authentic history of the Junior Sons of America, 1847 to 1868, and Patriotic Order Sons of America, 1869 to 1923

An authentic history of the Junior Sons of America, 1847 to 1868, and Patriotic Order Sons of America, 1869 to 1923

A brief historical review of the achievements of German nationals in the early days of American colonization. The period from 1564 to 1682 inclusive

Websites

A short preface to a copy of a memorandum of Jacob Eicholtz, the artist

Documents

Maps and pictures of old Lancaster : report to the Society of an exhibition of pictures