100 years of camera scenes: views of eastern Lancaster county in our nation's second century. A bicentennial project of the eastern Lancaster county chapter of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee, inc
American Revolution Bicentennial of Lancaster County Collection (MG-20)
Description
This collection gives information on the activities of the 200th celebration of the American Revolution in the Lancaster area. Folders 32 to 41 cover the celebration in Greater Lancaster. Folders 42 to 51 touch upon the activities of Lititz, Solanco, Lampeter-Strasburg, Elizabethtown, Cocalico, Columbia, New Holland, Pequea Valley, Washington Boro, Penn Manor, Millersville, and Marietta. The collection contains minutes, programs, photos, financial vouchers and newspaper clippings, audio tapes. The six volumes that make up the Bicentennial Celebration, April 1971- February 1977 scrapbooks are a compilation of published materials such as newspaper articles, magazine articles, broadsides, brochures and pamphlets. The materials relay information about the actions of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee including meetings, mailings and events. The committee chose the "Hands of Liberty" theme for the committee and upcoming celebration. The theme was present on every mailing sent out by the committee and can be found on most of the materials within the scrapbooks.
Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee ; distributed by Sutter House,
Date of Publication
1976.
Physical Description
viii, 87 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
"A Bicentennial book."
Contents
Chapters: Mennonites and Amish // Presbyterian // Church of the Brethren // Religious Society of Friends // United Church of Christ // Lutheran Church // Jewish Faith // Episcopal Church // Roman Catholic Church // Moravian Church // United Methodist Church // Brethren in Christ Church // Evangelical Congregational Church // The Ephrata Cloister
Lancaster diary, 1776 : excerpts from diaries, day-books, journals, newspapers, and court records of the daily life of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1776
