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Collection
Collateral Appraisements
Title
Collateral Appraisements
Object ID
Coll App 1910 F002 R
Date Range
1910
Collection
Collateral Appraisements
Title
Collateral Appraisements
Description
Appraisements of real estate for inheritance tax. Some personal property appraisals are also included. Appraisals include: name of decedent; location and description of real estate; description of personal property; valuation of real estate and personal property; and assessed tax. May also include names of heirs. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name. Handwritten; from 1886, handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name.
Date Range
1910
Date of Accumulation
1849-1913
Year
1910
Creator
Register of Wills
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
Storage Container
Box 0013
People
Rengier, Charles F. Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Collateral appraisement
Lancaster
Place
Lancaster
Extent
16 boxes (8 cubic feet)
Object Name
Appraisal
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
Coll App 1910 F002 R
Box Number
013
Additional Notes
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 03-00 0312
Description Level
Item
Less detail
Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Object ID
MG0237
Date Range
1880-2003
. Noonan, Raymond Smith Prangley, James Reed, George R. Reichley, Jacob Christian Reifsnyder, Arden P. Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman Rengier, Charles F. Rengier, John S. Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen Rohrer, George Redsecker Rohrer, Jeremiah Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker Roth, George R. Rupert, L. H. Schaller
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Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Description
The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.
Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.
Admin/Biographical History
On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged by series.
Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory
Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners
Date Range
1880-2003
Year Range From
1880
Year Range To
2003
Date of Accumulation
1880-2003
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 06
People
Ammon, Cora Mae Fox
Ammon, John M.
Appel, Eva Rengier
Appel, Percy L.
Baker, Miriam Rengier
Bell, Louise Price
Berger, R. R.
Blatchley, Charles A.
Breyers, C. J.
Buchanan, James
Drukenbrod, Lee Roy
Fehl, J. Herbert
Frantz, I. E.
Fritz, C. C.
Goodhart, E. C.
Groff, Alpheaus S.
Groff, Ella L.
Hermansader, T. F.
Hirsh, Bertha
Hirsh, Gabriel
Hostetter, D. B.
Lively, Henry
Long, Jacob M.
Loss, Natalie M.
Loss, Nathan
Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.
Marshall, Elizabeth Weber
Marshall, George A.
Marshall, George W.
Marshall, Maria L. Good
May, Jennie H.
Miller, E. N.
Myers, Harry
Myers, Maria
Myers, Patricia Marshall
Myrtetus, George B.
Noonan, Ella O.
Noonan, Raymond Smith
Prangley, James
Reed, George R.
Reichley, Jacob Christian
Reifsnyder, Arden P.
Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman
Rengier, Charles F.
Rengier, John S.
Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen
Rohrer, George Redsecker
Rohrer, Jeremiah
Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker
Roth, George R.
Rupert, L. H.
Schaller, Kimberly
Shand, James
Shand, Thomas Marshall
Sherrill, Anita B.
Sherrill, S. Edward
Short, Edwin P.
Skyllas, Drossos A.
Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert
Stiles, H. A.
Stirk, Isaac
Stirk, Sarah C.
Swarr, Donald
Urban, Cassius Emlen
Watt, Laura Louise Geiger
Watt, Peter T.
Weber, May H.
Wisegarver, Harry P.
Witmer, Albert F.
Other Creators
Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)
Subjects
Advertising
Architectural drawings
Blueprints
Building leases
Calendars
Catalogs
Deeds
Department stores
Historical markers
Insurance policies
Letters
Menus
Newsletters
Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.)
Scrapbooks
Stores, Retail
Search Terms
A and S Realty and Investment Corporation
A. B. Rote & Co.
Advertising
Agreements
Air conditioning
American Blower Corporation
Appel & Weber
Architectural plans
Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America
Awards
Blueprints
Bon-Ton
Bon-Ton Beauty Salon
Booklets
C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.
Calendars
Catalogs
Central Automatic Sprinkler Company
Certificates
Columbia
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company
Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia
Correspondence
Deeds
Department stores
DUSCO Property Management, Inc.
East Hempfield Twp.
Employee handbooks
Employees
Ephemera
Escalators
Finding aids
Fire sprinklers
Floorplans
Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers
Gift certificates
Ground-rent
Hager and Bro., Inc.
Hager Realty Corporation
Heating and ventilation systems
Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County
Historical markers
Insurance policies
Job descriptions
Kroll Electric Company, Inc.
Lancaster
Lancaster Parking Authority
Lancaster Trust Company
Leases
Letters
Manuscript groups
Menus
Mortgages
Newsletters
Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.
Park City Mall
Penn Square
Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company
Permits
Poetry
PPL
Price lists
Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company
Reynolds and Reynolds Company
Scrapbooks
Stores, Retail
Total Energy Leasing Corporation
Trion, Inc.
Watt and Shand
Workers' Compensation Act
York Corporation
Extent
4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0237
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-237
Classification
MG0237
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.
The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.
Documents
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Collection
Civil War Collection
Title
List of contributors to the new stand of colors presented to the 79th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
Object ID
MG0018_SerA_F028_It06
Date Range
1863/03/01
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Collection
Civil War Collection
Title
List of contributors to the new stand of colors presented to the 79th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
Description
Copy of the list of contributors to the new stand of colors presented to the 79th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
"We, the undersigned agree to pay the sums set opposite our names ($1. each) for the purpose of purchasing a stand of colors for the 79th Pennsylvania (Lancaster County) Regiment of Volunteers, commanded by Col. Henry A. Hambright--to be presented as a testimonial of the high regard and esteem in which they are held by their fellow-citizens at home, for their admirable discipline and unflinching bravery at Chaplin Hills and Chattanooga."
The names have been recorded in the copy, they are not the original signatures and may not be accurate.
Date Range
1863/03/01
Creation Date
1 March 1863
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 01
Storage Container
Box 0001
People
Alexander, Elizabeth Old Hopkins
Alexander, James K.
Atlee, John Light, Jr.
Atlee, William Augustus
Baer, Reuben A.
Baker, Daniel G.
Baker, Philip S.
Balmer, Andrew
Bard, Abraham Swope
Barnes, James
Barnitz, H. S.
Barr, George R.
Baumgardner, Henry
Bausman, Jacob
Best, John
Betzer, Uriah
Black, James
Bletz, Frederick Sehner
Bowers, J.
Bowman, Jesse
Boyd, Stephen William Porter
Breneman, George Ford
Breneman, William Adam
Brinton, John Ferree
Brinton, William Penn
Brooks, William P.
Brown, Amos
Brubaker, George
Buckins, Charles
Bushong, Amos
Carpenter, James C.
Carpenter, William
Champneys, Benjamin
Christ, F. H.
Clark, Edward
Cochran, John Jefferson
Conrad, P. C.
Coyle, James
Daugherty, John S.
Dellinger, John
Denlinger, John
Dickey, Oliver James
Dietrich, H., Jr.
Diller, William
Ditmars, A. D.
Doner, John
Dysart, James P.
Eckert, John V.
Ellmaker, Nathaniel
Erisman, Emanuel J.
Eshleman, Benjamin
Eshleman, John
Evans, John
Evans, Robert A.
Fahnestock, Henry
Fitzpatrick, Philip
Fordney, Henry
Fordney, William Bush
Frantz, Andrew M.
Gable, John Starke
Gast, Christian
Gast, Conrad
Gill, William L.
Good, J. B.
Gormley, James
Graham, Dana
Gumpf, William
Hager, C.
Haldy, Lewis
Hamp, Christian
Harnish, David S.
Hauk, A. A.
Heinitsh, Charles A.
Heistand, John A.
Heitshu, George H.
Herr, A. M.
Herr, Christian G.
Herr, Daniel
Hershey, Jacob H.
Hiffler, Laurence
Hildebrand, John
Hiller, Casper
Holbrook, Marcus D.
Hood, Alexander H.
Huber, Henry
Johns, John
Johns, Peter
Kauffman, Jacob S.
Kemper, Levi G.
Kenegy, John
King, David
Kline, George Messersmith
Knapp, Laurentz
Konigmacher, A.
Krabill, J. E.
Krugh, John H.
Lanars, J.
Lechler, Anthony
Lechler, Jacob
Lee, Amos
Leman, C. C.
Leman, William
Levan, George
Livingston, John Boyd
Long, Henry Grimler
Long, Isaac
Long, K. H.
Long, Robert
Look, Z. R.
Malone, Michael
Markley, George H.
Martin, B. B.
Masten, Peter
Mayer, D. H.
McCleary, C.
McEvoy, Patrick
McGovern, John
McGrann, John
McGrann, Richard
Meixell, Andrew
Metzger, John, Jr.
Miller, Samuel H.
Miller, Theodore
Miller, William
Morton, William
Murphy, John
Musselman, C. L.
Myers, James
Myers, John P.
Myers, William H.
North, Henry M.
Parker, Samuel
Parry, Henry B.
Peters, Abraham, Jr.
Peters, Mary
Pinkerton, Henry
Porter, Thomas C.
Purcel, James
Pyfer, William L.
Rathvon, H.
Reed, George Krug
Reese, John
Reigart, Emanuel C.
Reist, Levi S.
Rengier, Charles Frederick
Richards, Luther
Rohrer, Israel
Russell, John R.
Sailes, William
Sanderson, Alfred
Sanderson, George
Schroder, Francis
Sener, J. Frederick
Sener, John Frederick
Shaeffer, Bartram A.
Shaffner, John
Shank, Abraham
Sheaff, John A.
Skiles, John D.
Slaymaker, Henry Edwin
Smith, Abraham Herr
Smith, Frederick
Smith, James
Smoker, John R.
Springer, Abraham J.
Stephens, H. R.
Stewart, James
Stone, J. S.
Swarr, Hiram Behm
Swentzel, A.
Trivets, J. M.
Wenger, Joel
Widmyer, Christian
Wiley, William B.
Williams, William
Wise, John
Witmer, Ann
Wolf, David Kemper
Wolf, T.
Yecher, B.
Yundt, Edwin Henry
Zahm, Edward J.
Zahm, Godleib M.
Zahm, H. S.
Subjects
Standards, Military
United States. Army--Flags
Search Terms
79th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (1861-1865)
Altick and McGinnis
Beahm and Potts
Campbell and Marshal
Civil War
D. Bair and Company
Deaner and Scaum
Flags
Fundraising
Gable and Brother
Lowry and Okesan
Martin and Lantz
Paulick and McCuly
United States Army
Wentz and Brother
Extent
1 item, 10 pages to scan
Object Name
List
Language
English
Object ID
MG0018_SerA_F028_It06
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Civil War Collection (MG0018), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
Copyright
Images have been provided for research purposes only. Please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.
LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-18
Other Number
MG-18, Series A, Folder 28, Item 6
Classification
MG0018
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Added to database 28 December 2023.
Images
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