Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
iv, 89 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Chapters include: Founding documents, William Penn's problems, Stormy politics, Problems of society (black and slave issues), Territorial delineation, westward expansion and Indian affairs, The French and Indian War and its consequences and The Revolutionary period.
Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations,
Date of Publication
c2000.
Physical Description
vi, 149 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"... with support from Institute of Museum and Library Services, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and Pennsylvania Heritage Tourism Initiative."
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1984.
Physical Description
vi, 123 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Interviews with Robert Arnold, Sr., and others.
Summary
" The changing impact of industrialization on American society has been a favorite problem for discussion and debate in the academic world. Rarely, however, have the actors of that controversial drama-the workers themselves - been given the opportunity to tell the tale from the uninhibited perspective of personal experience. The candid recollections contained in Cornwall effectively answer that need and, in the process, reveal some provocative and surprising conclusions about working-class response and behavior. Like other industrial ventures of the nineteenth century, the Cornwall Ore Bank Company in Lebanon County generated its share of unskilled and semi-skilled immigrant labor from eastern and southern Europe. Unlike other growing industrial giants, however, the family-operated mining enterprise skillfully constructed a sense of paternalism which engendered a climate of harmony and cooperation. Although basically a periodic treatment of workers' experiences in the twentieth century, the interviews collected here reflect the subtle confrontation between that nineteenth century legacy and the reality of the monopoly capitalism initiated by Bethlehem Steel with its takeover in 1921. A number of events, especially the depression of the 1930s, the CIO unionization drive in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and the mine closings in 1973, would provide a serious challenge to management's hold on the community, and underscore workers' desperate struggle to come to grips with capitalism's unpleasant side effects. Cornwall is an interesting and important contribution to the literature of this complex period of American social and economic history." [from Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine]
Digging up details of ordinary lives : an archaeological investigation of a 19th- and 20th-century residential site in Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA
Archaeological investigation of a 19th- and 20th-century residential site in Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA
Responsibility
investigation conducted by Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. (CHRS) ; sponsored and funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in consultation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities ; Harry E. Whipkey and Roland M. Baumann, project directors, Martha L. Simonetti, assistant project director, Roland M. Baumann, editor, Douglas H. West, editorial associate, George R. Beyer and Gabrielle W. Smith, editorial assistants.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1978.
Physical Description
54 microfilm reels : ill. ; 35 mm. + 1 index (77 p. ; 23 cm.)
Notes
Library owns reels, #31, Appointments File : Military (A-R); #32 Appointments File : Military (S-Z) and Political (A-F); #33, Appointments File : Political (F-S); and #34, Appointments File : Political (S-Z).
Use with guidebook and index shelved at LCHSBK 016.9748 P415prg and index.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1979-
Physical Description
v. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Supplement to Bibliography of Pennsylvania history by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Includes index.
Contents
1. Additions through 1970 -- 2. Additions through 1973 -- 3. Additions through 1976 -- 4. Additions through 1979 -- 5. Additions through 1982 -- 6. Additions through 1985.
