This Reigart family collection contains family papers and items related to Adam Reigart's business. The business items include licenses to sell wines and spirits, postage accounts, financial and legal documents, orders for wines and spirits, and correspondence. Receipts represent payments for direct tax, household furniture tax, water rent, and watch and lamp tax. An item of note is the 1795 stock certificate for the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
The Almanac Collection consists of almanacs printed in Lancaster County and other locations. They contain long-range weather predictions, calendars, moon phases, planting guides, and natural remedies. Many publications also contain articles and poems about historical events and persons, as well as government and political information, housekeeping information, recipes, songs, titles of sheet music, music for a variety of instruments, times and places of the Meetings of the Friends on the Continent of America, and engravings and descriptions of battles. Some almanacs are illustrated.
System of Arrangement
Organized by language. Each series has paper indexes arranged alphabetically, chronologically, and by box and folder numbers.
