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Out of the silent past : a short story of the Byerland Church and the community in which it grew up from its very beginning until the present time

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17619

Author: Campbell, Rhoda H.

Date of Publication: 1950]

Call Number: 289.7 C189

Responsibility: Rhoda H. Campbell.

Author: Campbell, Rhoda H.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Feldser Printing,

Date of Publication: 1950]

Physical Description: 52 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Byerland Mennonite Congregation (Willow Street, Pa.); Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.7 C189

Along the Sullivan Trail : the story of Sullivan's Indian expedition of 1779 that opened northern Pennsylvania and the Finger Lakes and Genesee region of New York for settlement

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1159

Author: Eyres, Lawrence E.,

Date of Publication: 1954.

Call Number: 973.335 E98

Author: Eyres, Lawrence E.,

Place of Publication: Elmira, N.Y

Publisher: [Advertiser Job Printery],

Date of Publication: 1954.

Physical Description: 40 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "The 1779 Sullivan Expedition, also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, or Sullivan Campaign was an extended systematic military campaign during the American Revolutionary War against Loyalists ('Tories') and the four Nations of the Haudenosaunee which had sided with the British. It has been described by some historians as a genocide due to the magnitude and totality of its violence towards and destruction of the Haudenosaunee." [Wikipedia]

Subjects: Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Campaigns.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.335 E98

Mennonites in Europe

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4026

Author: Horsch, John,

Date of Publication: 1950.

Call Number: 289.7 H817m

Author: Horsch, John,

Place of Publication: Scottdale, Pa

Publisher: Mennonite Pub. House,

Date of Publication: 1950.

Physical Description: 427 p. illus., facsim., ports. 24 cm.

Series: Mennonite history ;

Notes: Written at the request of the Historical Committee of Mennonite General Conference. Cf. Introd., p. xi.; "Notes and references": p. [399]-406. Bibliography: p. [47]-412.; "2d ed."

Subjects: Mennonites - Europe.; Mennonites

Additional Corporate Author: Mennonite General Conference. Historical and Research Committee.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.7 H817m

The church music of the Old Order Amish of the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10407

Author: Hohmann, Rupert Karl,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 4: #28

Responsibility: Rupert Karl Hohmann.

Author: Hohmann, Rupert Karl,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Physical Description: iv, 257 leaves : ill.; 1 reel ; 35 mm.

Notes: Vita.; Labeled on box # 28.; Bibliography: leaves [252]-257.; Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1960. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Subjects: Church music; Church music - United States.; Mennonites; Amish

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 4: #28

Queen of the dark chamber; the story of Christiana Tsai

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1006

Author: Tsai, Christiana.

Date of Publication: [1953]

Call Number: 922 T877

Responsibility: as told to Ellen L. Drummond. Drawings by Ellen L. Drummond.

Author: Tsai, Christiana.

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: Moody Press

Date of Publication: [1953]

Physical Description: 160 p. illus. 22 cm.

Notes: LCHS has autographed copy.

Summary: Christiana Tsai was the daughter of the governor of Nanjing, China. She attended a Christian school there that was run by Charles and Lucy Leaman, missionaries from Lancaster County, PA. She became active in Christian work in China and later came to live in Paradise, PA. She has been referred to as "Queen of the Dark Chamber" because of her need to spend much of her time in darkened rooms due to a medical condition.

Additional Author: Drummond, Ellen L.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 922 T877

The story of the Declaration of Independence

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15638

Author: Malone, Dumas,

Date of Publication: 1954.

Call Number: 973.313 M257

Responsibility: Pictures by Hirst Milhollen and Milton Kaplan.

Author: Malone, Dumas,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1954.

Physical Description: 282 p. illus., ports., facsims. 29 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 269. "Picture sources": p. 271-279.

Subjects: United States.

Additional Author: Milhollen, Hirst Dillon,; Kaplan, Milton,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.313 M257

Amish traditions; dedicated to the welfare of the Amish people everywhere to lighten their burdens and to all people searching for the truth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17695

Author: Yoder, Joseph W.

Date of Publication: 1950.

Call Number: 289.71 Y54

Author: Yoder, Joseph W.

Place of Publication: Huntington, Pa

Publisher: Yoder Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1950.

Physical Description: xi, 215 p. 21 cm.

Subjects: Mennonites

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.71 Y54

The story of the Lancaster Union Stock Yards

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13371

Date of Publication: 1959.

Call Number: 636.0831 S884

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Lancaster Livestock Exchange and the Union Stock Yard Company ,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Summary: Promotional booklet . Features information on the history of the stock yards, information about the stock yards as of 1959 and LOTS of black and white pictures, including, cattle pens, unloading chutes, railroad dock facilities, stockyard alleys, hog pens, loading facilities, weighmaster, veal calf sales, daily market news service, cattle judging at 4-H Club time, The Stockyard Inn, Exchange Room.

Subjects: Lancaster Union Stock Yards.; Stock yards - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 636.0831 S884

The story of the Susquehannocks

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4874

Author: Benson, Evelyn A.

Date of Publication: 1958.

Call Number: 974.8011 B474

Responsibility: by Evelyn A. Benson.

Author: Benson, Evelyn A.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology,

Date of Publication: 1958.

Physical Description: 38 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Susquehanna Indians.; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.; Archaeology - Pennsylvania.

Additional Corporate Author: Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology. Conestoga chapter no. 4. Education committee.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 B474

The story of the Brethren

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3200

Author: Fisher, Virginia S.

Date of Publication: [1957]

Call Number: 286.5 F537

Author: Fisher, Virginia S.

Place of Publication: Elgin, Ill

Publisher: Brethren Pub. House

Date of Publication: [1957]

Physical Description: 176 p. illus. 24 cm.

Subjects: Church of the Brethren - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 286.5 F537

The story of Yorktown : as told by Conrad Shultz

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7087

Author: Van Baman, W. Walter,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Call Number: 974.841 V218s

Responsibility: by W. Walter Van Baman ; illustrated by Elizabeth McMillan Quinn.

Author: Van Baman, W. Walter,

Place of Publication: [S.Î²

Publisher: s.n.]

Date of Publication: 1959.

Physical Description: 183 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: York (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Poetry.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.841 V218s

The story of Safe Harbor

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1388

Author: Schuleen, Ernest T.

Date of Publication: 1959.

THE STORY OF SAFE HARBOR Anyone who has motored through the southwest quadrant of Lancaster County has probably seen the red arrow-shaped signs with the words SAFE HARBOR in white letters. Old timers know that these point to the huge hydroelectric plant on the Susquehanna River, and possibly may re

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Responsibility: by Ernest T. Schuleen.

Author: Schuleen, Ernest T.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Physical Description: [79]-110 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 63, no. 2

Subjects: Safe Harbor (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 63, number 2 (1959), p. 79-110Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.63

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Sardi's, the story of a famous restaurant

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13119

Author: Sardi, Vincent,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: 1953

Call Number: 642.5 S244

Responsibility: by Vincent Sardi, Sr., and Richard Gehman.

Author: Sardi, Vincent,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Holt

Date of Publication: 1953

Physical Description: 244 p. port. 22 cm.

Summary: The co-author, Richard Gehman, was a native of Lancaster County, PA.

Notes: Richard Boyd Gehman (May 20, 1921 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania- died May 13, 1972 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was an American author of five novels and 15 nonfiction books, as well as more than 3,000 magazine articles, including over 400 features.[1] Gehman wrote under many different pen names, such as Meghan Richards, Frederick Christian, Martin Scott, Michael Robinson and F.C. Uffelman.[2]Gehman attended McCaskey High School in Lancaster, and worked on several daily newspapers in Lancaster before joining the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in World War II. He served four years as a writer for The Oak Ridge Times in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war he moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and began freelancing for Esquire, Life, Time, Cosmopolitan, Colliers, Argosy, True, Saga, and The Saturday Evening Post magazines. Gehman was an original Contributing Editor at Playboy.Gehman's circle of friends included many well-known American writers, editors, painters, and actors, including Robert Frost, Joseph Heller, E.B. White, Roger Angell, Jackson Pollack, Diane Arbus, Howard Memerov, Estelle Parsons, Jerry Lewis, Maurice Zolotow, Charlotte Zolotow, Morton Thompson and Anthony Hecht, among others. [from Wikipedia]