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The Lancaster Cemetery and Woodward Hill Cemetery Lancaster, Pennsylvania, preservation needs assessment for the Historic Trust of Lancaster County funded by the Lancaster County Foundation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18251

Date of Publication: 1991.

Call Number: 352.72 H673

Responsibility: prepared by Landscapes : landscape architecture, planning, historic preservation.

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: [iii] 61 + appendices unpaged : ill., maps. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "with the assistance of David Schuyler, Historian."

Subjects: Historic Trust of Lancaster County (Lancaster, Pa.).; Woodward Hill cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.) - Planning.; The Lancaster Cemetery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Planning.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania; Lancaster County, Pa. - Planning.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.72 H673

Early American illuminated manuscripts from the Ephrata Cloister

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13333

Author: Benson, Cynda L.

Date of Publication: 1994]

Call Number: 745.67 B474

Responsibility: Cynda L. Benson.

ISBN: 087391046X

Author: Benson, Cynda L.

Place of Publication: [Northampton, Mass

Publisher: Smith College Museum of Art,

Date of Publication: 1994]

Physical Description: [24] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Notes: "The exhibition and publication were supported by the Friends of the Smith College Museum of Art."--[p. 2].; Includes bibliographical references (p. 6,18-[22]).

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister - Manuscripts.; Ephrata Cloister - Exhibitions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 745.67 B474

Church record of the Christ (Maxatawny or De Long's) Reformed Church at Bowers, Berks County, Pennsylvania, (1765-1832), from the library of Dr. and Mrs. Glenn P. Schwalm

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15763

Author: Hinke, William John,

Date of Publication: c1991.

Call Number: 974.816 C561

Responsibility: Schuylkill Roots researchers.

ISBN: 1558560815; 9781558560819

Author: Hinke, William John,

Place of Publication: Apollo, PA

Publisher: Closson Press,

Date of Publication: c1991.

Physical Description: 68 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Originally compiled by William J. Hinke in November of 1918"--1st prelim. p.; Includes index.

Subjects: Christ Reformed Church (Bowers, Pa.) - Registers.; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Bowers.; Bowers (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Schwalm, Glenn P.

Additional Corporate Author: Christ Reformed Church (Bowers, Pa.); Schuylkill Roots (Research team)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 C561

Robert Skeen of Pennsylvania and Virginia and some of his descendants

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5506

Author: Day, Carol Skeen,

Date of Publication: c1998.

Call Number: 929 S627

Responsibility: by Carol Skeen Day.

Author: Day, Carol Skeen,

Place of Publication: [Washington, D.C.]

Publisher: C.S. Day,

Date of Publication: c1998.

Physical Description: 107 leaves : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (leaf 88) and index.

Subjects: Skene family.; Skeen, Robert, - d. 1795 - Family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 S627

A Swigart-Meyers saga : the ancestors and descendants of Edmund K. Swigart (1867-1934) and Henrietta M. Meyers (1868-1948) : including the following allied lines, Beinbrech/Bonebrake ... [et al.]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2006

Author: Swigart, Edmund K.

Date of Publication: 1997.

Call Number: 929 S977

Responsibility: compiled and written by Edmund K. Swigart ; with major contributions by Peggie Sheets Manning, Helen Hunt Read and Virginia Gress Smith.

Author: Swigart, Edmund K.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Gateway Press,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Physical Description: xxvi, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index.

Subjects: Swigart family.; Myers family.; Bonebrake family.; Brewer family.; Campbell family.; Cook family.; Krumrine family.; Freshour family.; Funk family.; Harlocker family.; Hedich family.; Holman family.; Homrighauser family.; Immel family.; Lein family.; Miller family.; Russell family.; Small family.; Sunderland family.; Weidler family.; Marshall family.

Additional Author: Manning, Peggie Sheets.; Read, Helen Hunt.; Smith, Virginia Gress,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 S977

Small business

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2396

Date of Publication: 1992

Call Number: 974.815 LACI O63ab Oversize

Responsibility: by Charles Nestel as told to Susannah Benson

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Library

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: 14 p. 28 cm.

Notes: An oral history project of Lancaster 250 Education Committee and Operation Remember.

Subjects: Small business.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 974.815 LACI O63ab Oversize

Session I: 2-day unreserved public auction of Pennsylvania German folk art and antiques, the collections of the late Dr. Earl F. and Ada F. Robacker (of White Plains, New York): to be held Friday,May 26, and Saturday, May 27, 1989

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16969

Corporate Author: Horst Auctioneers (Ephrata, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1990]

Call Number: 745.0294 H819r

Responsibility: Horst Aucts. ... ; catalogue by Clarence E. Spohn ...

Corporate Author: Horst Auctioneers (Ephrata, Pa.)

Place of Publication: [Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Horst Auctioneers,

Date of Publication: 1990]

Physical Description: various paging : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Text inside front cover.; Price list accompanies each session.; Number Seven of Eight Bound Sets autographed by the editor.; Bound with Session II: 2-day unreserved public auction of Pennsylvania German folk art and antiques, the collections of the late Dr. Earl F. and Ada F. Robacker (of White Plains, New York): to be held Friday, June 23rd and Saturday, June 24th, 1989 -- Session III: 2-day unreserved public auction of Pennsylvania German folk art and antiques, the collections of the late Dr. Earl F. and Ada F. Robacker (of White Plains, New York): to be held Friday, July 21st and Saturday, July 2nd, 1989 -- Session IV: 2-day unreserved public auction of Pennsylvania German folk art and antiques, the collections of the late Dr. Earl F. and Ada F. Robacker (of White Plains, New York): to be held Friday August 18th and Saturday, August 19th, 1989 -- Session V: Three day unreserved public auction of Americana, Pennsylvania German imprints, Pennsylvania history, antique reference books, post cards and miscellaneous paper from the libraries and collections of the late Dr. Earl F. and Ada F. Robacker of White Plains, New York, the late Edgar H. Sittig of Shawnee-on-Delaware, Penna., and others: to be held Friday September 1 and Saturday, September 2nd, and Monday September 4th [1989].

Subjects: Folk art - Pennsylvania - Catalogs.; Americana - Catalogs.; Imprints; Pennsylvania - Catalogs.; Postcards - Catalogs.

Additional Author: Spohn, Clarence E.; Robacker, Earl. F.; Robacker, Ada F.; Sittig, Edgar H.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745.0294 H819r

Robert Fulton : a brief look into the life of one of America's leading inventors

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15245

Author: Eckert, Leo H.

Date of Publication: c1990.

Call Number: 926 F974e

Responsibility: Leo H. Eckert.

Author: Eckert, Leo H.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: c1990.

Physical Description: 20 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Fulton, Robert, - 1765-1815.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 926 F974e

The Robert Barber, Jr. house : a relic of Quaker hegemony

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo341

Author: Shirk, Willis L.

Date of Publication: 1994.

. From the time of its construction, the Blunston home had been distinguished from other local homes as a center of entertainment and hos- pitality to prominent people who passed over the ferry. The formal design features of Robert Barber, Jr.'s 1760 home express the genteel aspirations of a middling

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Responsibility: by Willis L. Shirk, Jr.

Author: Shirk, Willis L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: [79]-98 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 96, no. 3

Subjects: Barber family.; Barber, Robert.; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania; Architecture, Georgian - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 96, number 3 (1994), p. 79-98Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.96

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The descendants of Robert Galt/Gault of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3068

Author: Galt, William B.

Date of Publication: 1998.

Call Number: 929 G179

Responsibility: compiled by William B. Galt.

Author: Galt, William B.

Place of Publication: San Mateo, CA (749 26th Ave., San Mateo 94403)

Publisher: W.B. Galt,

Date of Publication: 1998.

Physical Description: viii, 251 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-201) and index.

Subjects: Gault family.; Galt, Robert, - ca. 1680-ca. 1726 - Family.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 G179

Ayars heirs : dedicated to the descendants of Robert Ayars (1650-1719)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17891

Date of Publication: 1996-c2004.

Call Number: 929 A973h

Place of Publication: Summerdale, PA

Publisher: Echo Pub.,

Date of Publication: 1996-c2004.

Physical Description: v. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Publication Frequency: Quarterly

Notes: Title from caption.; Library has: Jan. 1998 - Sept. 2004, inc.

Subjects: Ayars, Robert, - ca. 1650-1719 - Family; Ayers family

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 A973h

The Girvin genealogy : the descendants of Robert Girvin (the immigrant) and Mary Smith

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13509

Author: Girvin, J. Barry

Date of Publication: 1995?

Call Number: 929 G529

Author: Girvin, J. Barry

Place of Publication: Computer printout

Date of Publication: 1995?

Physical Description: 1 vol. unpaged ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Printout of family group sheets.

Subjects: Girvin family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 G529

The McPhersons of Illinois and related families : a genealogy of the descendants of Archibald MacPherson of Scotland, 1581-1989, including the genealogy of the Maxey Family of Wales and the lineage of Laura Estella (Maxey) McPherson through her mother Polly (Irion) Wright to the Poindexter family from the Isle of Jersey

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8462

Author: MacPherson, Earl,

Date of Publication: 1990.

Call Number: 929 M172

Responsibility: compiled by Earl MacPherson, Anita Hodge, Laura Gelfius, Mary Helen Mullins and Myra Jean Estes.

Author: MacPherson, Earl,

Place of Publication: Dahlgren, Illinois

Publisher: Helen (Gelfius) Mullins ,

Date of Publication: 1990.

Physical Description: xvi, 248 p. : ills. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Contains index.

Subjects: McPherson family.; Maxey family.

Additional Author: Hodge, Anita ,; Gelfius, Laura ,; Mary Helen Mullins ,; Myra Jean Estes ,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 M172

The gift is small, the love is great : Pennsylvania German small presentation frakturs

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8994

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Call Number: 740 W427

Responsibility: by Frederick S. Weiser.

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: York Graphic Services,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: 119 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "23rd in a series Keepsake book"--P. [120].

Subjects: Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 740 W427

The rise and fall of the American Whig Party : Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19184

Author: Holt, Michael F.

Date of Publication: 1999.

Call Number: 324.2732 H758

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Responsibility: Michael F. Holt.

ISBN: 0195055446 (alk. paper); 9780195055443 (alk. paper)

Author: Holt, Michael F.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1999.

Physical Description: xviii, 1248 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [1181]-1201) and index.

Summary: "The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was represented at every level of American politics - local, state, and federal - in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-two years that it existed. Now, in The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Michael Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written - a monumental history covering in rich detail the American political landscape from the Age of Jackson to impending disunion."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: Whig Party (U.S.) - History.; Whig Party (U.S) - History.; Whigs (USA); United States - Politics and government - 19th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 324.2732 H758

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Host "Tulpehocken" Church at Marion Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania : from the library of Dr. & Mrs. Glenn P. Schwalm

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15327

Corporate Author: Schuylkill Roots (Research team)

Date of Publication: c1991.

Call Number: 974.816 H757

Responsibility: "Schuylkill Roots" Researchers.

ISBN: 1558560823; 9781558560826

Corporate Author: Schuylkill Roots (Research team)

Place of Publication: Apollo, PA

Publisher: Closson Press,

Date of Publication: c1991.

Physical Description: 128 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents: Book one: -- Baptisms by Rev. Dominicus Bartholomaeus of 1748-1751 -- Baptisms by Rev. William Stoy -- Baptisms by Rev. Jacob Zufall -- Book two: -- Opening entries & confirmations by Stoy -- Baptisms by Rev. Stoy & others (1754-1847) approx. 1,056 baptisms -- Marriages (1752-1760) -- Baptisms (1842-1851) -- Baptisms outside Host church (1753-1754) -- Reformed opening records (1775) -- Church account book -- Confirmations (1830-1849) -- Comminicants (1830-1857) -- Continuation of church accounting -- Baptisms of F. Herman Jr., Reformed preacher (1830-1833) -- Baptisms by Rev. Mr. Zehring (1851-1855) -- Host church cementery records (comp. 1906) -- Comprehensive surname index.

Subjects: Host "Tulpehocken" Church (Marion Township, Pa.) - Registers.; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Marion (Berks County : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Marion (Berks County : Township); German Americans - Pennsylvania - Marion (Berks County : Township) - Genealogy.; Marion (Berks County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Schwalm, Glenn P.; Schwalm, Carolyn,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 H757

Marion family history the ancestors and descendants of Robert E. Marion, Jr. and Richard B. Marion

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1500

Date of Publication: 1992

Call Number: 929 M341

Responsibility: Compiler: Robert E. Marion, Jr.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: 293 p. charts 27 cm.

Subjects: Marion family.; Bochler family.; Bowman family.; Flagg family.; King family.; Westwood family.; Zecher family.

Additional Author: Marion, Robert E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 M341

Eighteenth century register of emigrants from southwest Germany (to America and other countries)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11852

Author: Hacker, Werner,

Date of Publication: [1994]

Call Number: 929.3 H118e

Responsibility: edited by Werner Hacker.

ISBN: 155856165X

Author: Hacker, Werner,

Place of Publication: Apollo, Pa

Publisher: Closson Press,

Date of Publication: [1994]

Physical Description: xviii, 516 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Notes: A combined index listing only those who emigranted to America from the author's Auswanderung aus dem frÃ¼heren Hochstift Speyer nach SÃ¼dosteuropa und Ãœbersee im XVIII. Jahrhundert, Auswanderung aus Baden und dem Breisgau, Auswanderungen aus Oberschwaben im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert archivalisch dokumentiert, "Auswanderung aus den Territorien der Reichstadt Ulm," and to all emigrants listed in the author's KurpfÃ¤lzische Auswanderer vom unteren Neckar and Auswanderung aus Rheinpfalz und Saarland im 18. Jahrhundert.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Germany.; Immigrants - Germany.; Immigrants - United States.; Germany - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 H118e

Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18679

Date of Publication: c1998.

Call Number: 973.221 C759

Responsibility: edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.

ISBN: 0807847348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: c1998.

Physical Description: x, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.

Contents: Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - United States.; Acculturation - United States; Indians of North America; Indians, Treatment of - United States; Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Congresses.; Acculturation - United States - Congresses.; Indians of North America - Congresses.; United States - Territorial expansion.; United States - Territorial expansion - Congresses.

Additional Author: Cayton, Andrew R. L.; Teute, Fredrika J.

Additional Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.221 C759

Emigrants in chains : a social history of forced emigration to the Americas of felons, destitute children, political and religious non-conformists, vagabonds, beggars and other undesirables, 1607-1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9980

Author: Coldham, Peter Wilson.

Date of Publication: c1992.

Call Number: 364.68 L688

Responsibility: Peter Wilson Coldham.

ISBN: 0806313293 :

Author: Coldham, Peter Wilson.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: c1992.

Physical Description: 188 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188).

Subjects: Prisoners, Transportation of - England; Prisoners, Transportation of - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 364.68 L688

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