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Andree's balloon expedition in search of the North pole

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Author: Lachambre, Henri,

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 629.13322 A555

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Responsibility: by Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron

Author: Lachambre, Henri,

Uniform Title: Andree.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: F.A. Stokes

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: 306 p. incl. illus., plates, port. front. 19 cm.

Notes: Translation of: Andree : au p^ole nord en ballon.; Andree's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an effort to reach the North Pole in which all three Swedish expedition members S. A. Andree, Knut Fraenkel, and Nils Strindberg perished. Andree, the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass, with luck, straight over the North Pole on the way. The scheme was received with patriotic enthusiasm in Sweden, a northern nation that had fallen behind in the race for the North Pole. [from Wikipedia]

Subjects: Andree, Salomon August, - 1854-1897.; Balloon ascensions.; North Pole.

Additional Author: Machuron, Alexis.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 629.13322 A555

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Andrew Gregg Curtin: his life and services

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Author: Egle, William Henry,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Call Number: 923.2 C978e

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Responsibility: Ed. by William H. Egle, M. D.

Author: Egle, William Henry,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Avil Printing Company,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Physical Description: xiv, 521 p. plates, ports., facsim., front., pl. 23 cm.

Notes: Articles by various writers, relating to Curtin.; "Curtin was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He attended Bellefonte Academy and Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law and was employed as a lawyer. Curtin first entered politics in the 1840 election, where he campaigned for Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. In 1855, Governor James Pollock appointed him as Superintendent of Public Schools. With the collapse of the Whigs, Curtin switched to the newly formed Republican Party and successfully ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 1860. Curtin won re-election to the office in 1863. In the 1860 presidential election, Curtin helped Abraham Lincoln win the Republican nomination. Curtin was a strong supporter of President Lincoln's policies in the Civil War, and Curtin committed Pennsylvania to the war effort. Curtin organized the Pennsylvania Reserves into combat units, and oversaw the construction of the first Union military camp for training militia. It opened in an agricultural school nearby Harrisburg as Camp Curtin on April 18, 1861, and more than 300,000 men were drilled there during 4 years. In the years that followed, Curtin became a close friend and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, visiting the White House several times in order to converse about the status of the war effort. Curtin was very active during the Gettysburg Campaign, working with Major General Darius N. Couch and Major Granville O. Haller to delay Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and prevent it from crossing the Susquehanna River. Major General George G. Meade, a Pennsylvania officer whom Curtin had recommended for brigadier general and command of one of the Pennsylvania reserve brigades in 1861, defeated Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Governor Curtin was the principal force behind the establishment of the National Cemetery there. Through his agent, David Wills, Curtin procured the attendance of President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the cemetery. Governor Curtin was sitting with Lincoln on the platform on November 19, 1863, when Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address. To coordinate Union war efforts, Curtin convened the Loyal War Governors' Conference on September 24 and 25, 1862, in Altoona. This event was one of his most significant contributions to the Union war effort. After the war, Curtin lost his party's Senate nomination to Simon Cameron, and was appointed Ambassador to Russia by President Ulysses S. Grant. Curtin later switched to the Democratic Party, and served as a Congressman from 1881 until 1887. He died at his birthplace of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and is buried there in Union Cemetery." [wikipedia]

Contents: Chapters: Andrew Gregg Curtin / Curtin and free schools / Curtin elected governor 1860 / Curtin's first administration / Curtin re-elected governor 1863 / Curtin's second term / Soldiers organized by Curtin / The Pennsylvania Reserves / Curtin and the soldiers' orphans / Curtin and the Altoona conference / Curtin's early war trials / Curtin's first military telegraph / Curtin's care of the soldiers / Curtin and the private soldiers / Curtin's personal attributes / Curtin and his home community / Curtin and the state credit / Curtin and Clement B Barclay / Curtin as minister to Russia / Curtin's gubernatorial battles / Curtin as a civil administrator / Curtin and Pennsylvania at the beginning of the war / Curtin in the constitutional convention / Curtin and the state flags / Curtin's funeral

Summary: The book is a collection of essays by various men who knew or worked with Governor Curtain. They describe aspects of his character and the challenges he faced.

Subjects: Curtin, Andrew Gregg, - 1815-1894.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 C978e

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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders

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Author: Watson, John F.

Date of Publication: 1891.

Call Number: 974.811 W339

Responsibility: By John F. Watson ... Enlarged, with many revisions and additions, by Willis P. Hazard...

Author: Watson, John F.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: E. S. Stuart,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Physical Description: 3 v. fronts., illus., plates, port. 25 cm.

Notes: The third volume of this ed. was prepared at the publisher's request, by W. P. Hazard.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Hazard, Willis P.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.811 W339

The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751. With biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events

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Author: Spangler, Edward W.

Date of Publication: 1896.

Call Number: 929 S747

Responsibility: by Edward W. Spangler.

Author: Spangler, Edward W.

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: [Printed by the York Daily Publishing Co.]

Date of Publication: 1896.

Physical Description: xii, 605 p. front., illus., plates, ports., facsims., geneal. tables, col. coat of arms. 26 cm.

Subjects: Spangler family.; York County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 S747

Annual report of the American Historical Association

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Corporate Author: American Historical Association.

Date of Publication: 1890-

Call Number: 905.748 AHA

Corporate Author: American Historical Association.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: G.P.O.,

Date of Publication: 1890-

Physical Description: v. : maps, tables ; 23-25 cm.

Publication Frequency: Annual

Dates of Publication: 1889-

Notes: Part of the illustrative matter is folded.; Some issues have title: Annual report.; Latest issue consulted: 1992.; LCHS has 1931 (v,I, II, III), 1933, 1934; Vol. 1 of 1931 has articles dealing with the contributions (based on 1790 census) of English, Scots, Celtic Irish, Ulster Irish, and Germans.; Index to the Writings on American history 1902-1940; General index to Papers and Annual reports, 1884-1914, in 1914, v. 2.

Subjects: History - Periodicals.; Historiography - United States - Periodicals.; United States - History - Periodicals.

Additional Corporate Author: Smithsonian Institution. Press.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 AHA

Annual report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Industrial Statistics.

Date of Publication: 1876]-1915 ;

Call Number: 353.3 P412 Pt. 3 v. 10 1881-82

Alternate Title: Industrial statistics; Report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Industrial Statistics.

Place of Publication: [Harrisburg

Publisher: Dept. of Internal Affairs, Bureau of Industrial Statistics,

Date of Publication: 1876]-1915 ;

Physical Description: 39 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Publication Frequency: Annual

Dates of Publication: 1874-5-1913/14.

Notes: LCHS has v. 10 (1881-82).; State printer varies.

Subjects: Labor - Pennsylvania; Industries - Pennsylvania; Manufacturing industries - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Economic conditions - Statistics - Periodicals.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Internal Affairs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 353.3 P412 Pt. 3 v. 10 1881-82

An old petition from citizens of Martic Township

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Author: Evans, Samuel,

Date of Publication: 1897

battalion of �militia at the Battle of Brandywine, and a member of the Legislature for many ycars. Major David Jenkins, of Caernarvon, who also commanded a battalion in the Jersey campaign of 1776. William Brown, a member of the Leg- islature, and one of the signers of the petition. John Smiley, a member of

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Responsibility: by Samuel Evans, Esq.

Author: Evans, Samuel,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1897

Physical Description: [160]-166 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 5

Subjects: Martic (Pa. : Township) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 5 (1897), p. 160-166Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1

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Andree's balloon expedition in search of the North pole

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Andrew Gregg Curtin: his life and services

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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders

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The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751. With biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events

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Annual report of the American Historical Association

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Annual report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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