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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.

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Collection: Lancaster Brick Company Records

Title: Lancaster Brick Company Records

Object ID: MG0364

Date Range: 1919-1982

, James K. Martini, H. A. Mueller, John C. Mueller, Paul A. Posey, Walter William Rengier, John B. Seitz, A. W. Slaugh, Dorothy M. Stauffer, John H. Todd, Mary Ellen Wagner, Isabella Fiona Wagner, Richard S. Wohlsen, Albert Bollinger Wohlsen, Herman Amandus �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster

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Collection: Lancaster Brick Company Records

Title: Lancaster Brick Company Records

Description: The Lancaster Brick Company Records contain items from the Lancaster Brick Company, including meeting minutes, names of shareholders, financial information, and documentation on incorporation and dissolution.

Admin/Biographical History: Robert Horning's great-uncle, Roy A. Horning, worked in the ceramics department at the Armstrong Cork Company plant in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and came to Lancaster to show the plant here how to make quality brick. Roy became the general manager, a position he held until he left in 1926. Robert's grandfather, Clarence Horning, came to Lancaster from Paris, Illinois and became a superintendent and then general manager and vice president until his death in 1953. At that time, his son, Roy A. Horning II was offered and accepted the position of general manager. He held that position until the plant closed in 1979. Robert Horning was also employed at the company as a teenager and for one year after graduating from high school.; The Lancaster Brick Company was founded in 1919 to provide quality brick for the new Armstrong Cork Company buildings in Lancaster. The company was successful for more than half a century before environmental concerns and the excessive cost of fuel and raw materials forced the manufactory to close in 1979.; For more information: Horning, Roy A. 1992. "The Lancaster Brick Company, 1919-1979." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 94 (Winter): 2-29. https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo328

Date Range: 1919-1982

Year Range From: 1919

Year Range To: 1982

Date of Accumulation: 1919-1982

Creator: Horning, Roy A., 1919-2008

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 09

People: Deyll, Edward H.; Baker, Charles G.; Bevis, Harry A.; Flinchbaugh, Robert E. S.; Horning, Clarence B.; Horning, Roy A.; Kemp, Clinton W.; Martin, Hedwig S.; Martin, James K.; Martini, H. A.; Mueller, John C.; Mueller, Paul A.; Posey, Walter William; Rengier, John B.; Seitz, A. W.; Slaugh, Dorothy M.; Stauffer, John H.; Todd, Mary Ellen; Wagner, Isabella Fiona; Wagner, Richard S.; Wohlsen, Albert Bollinger; Wohlsen, Herman Amandus

Subjects: Bricks; Business records; Financial statements; Letters; Liquidation; Manufactures; Stockholders

Search Terms: Barley, Snyder, Cooper and Barber; Bricks; Business records; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Correspondence; Financial statements; Finding aids; Franklin and Marshall College; Kuntz, Lesher, Siegrist, Martini and Associates; Lancaster Brick Company; Lancaster Malleable Castings Company; Letters; Liquidations; Manheim Township School District; Manuscript groups; Minutes; Posey Iron Works; Slaugh-Blumenstock and Company; Stockholders

Extent: 2 boxes, 4 volumes and 5 folders, .75 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0364

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Photographs:; Lancaster Brick Company (2-08-04-18); Lancaster Brick Company interior (2-08-04-19); Lancaster Brick Company, showing heavy machinery (2-08-04-20)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lancaster Brick Company Records (MG0364), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 5 contains restricted material and may not be used.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2005.MG0364

Other Numbers: MG-364

Classification: MG0364

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 30 December 2021.

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Clipping, Newspaper

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Collection: Menu Collection

Title: "Nostalgia Marks Hotel's Last Night"

Object ID: MG0339_F007_In02

Date Range: 1963

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Collection: Menu Collection

Title: "Nostalgia Marks Hotel's Last Night"

Description: Newspaper article, "Nostalgia marks hotel's last night: Owner's eyes filled with tears as guests sign 'Auld Lang Syne'," by Gerald S. Lestz. Lancaster New Era.

Date Range: 1963

Creation Date: [1963]

Creator: Lancaster New Era

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Andes, William D., Jr.; Barr, Richard; Burnett, C. E. "Tex"; Cohen, Burrell; Dunlap, Anne Louise Reist; Dunlap, James Cecil; Farkas, Albert A.; Fournaris, James F.; Hopf, Richard; Lestz, Gerald S.; Mack, J. Edward; Means, Grant; Myers, Bernard J.; Myers, Margaret; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John B.; Schneebeli, Otto J.; Schock, Dorothy; Seibel, M. J.; Seibel, Martin; Shand, Dorothy Schaeffer; Shand, William; Shoemaker, Robert Reed; Shoemaker, Mabel Alexander "Bubbles"; Stauffer, Claude R.

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Restaurants

Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Newspaper clippings; Restaurants; Stevens House; Toby Room

Extent: 1 items, 1 page to scan

Object Name: Clipping, Newspaper

Language: English

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2021-11-26

Object ID: MG0339_F007_In02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Stevens House Hotel Records (MG0246)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder # (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Items may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2014.MG0339.F7

Other Numbers: MG-339, Folder 7, In 2

Other Number: MG-339, Folder 7, Insert 2

Classification: MG0339

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Added to database 26 November 2021.

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The groundhog turns the tide of the American Revolution

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Author: Rengier, John B.

Date of Publication: c1976.

Call Number: 813.5 R293

Responsibility: by John B. Rengier / cover by Thomas F. Regan -

Author: Rengier, John B.

Place of Publication: Quarryville, Pa

Publisher: Slumbering Groundhog Lodge,

Date of Publication: c1976.

Physical Description: 15 p. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Groundhog Day - Fiction.; Quarryville (Pa.) - Fiction.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 813.5 R293

Independence

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Author: Rengier, John B.

Date of Publication: 1963.

Call Number: 808.2 R412

Author: Rengier, John B.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1963.

Physical Description: 23 p. , 28 cm.

Notes: Play in one act set in Lancaster on 7 July 1776.; Working script.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Drama.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 808.2 R412

The law in Judge Jasper Yeates's library

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Author: Rengier, John B.

Date of Publication: 1958.

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Responsibility: by John Rengier.

Author: Rengier, John B.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1958.

Physical Description: 96-108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 62, no. 2

Subjects: Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817.; Yeates Colonial Law Library (Lancaster, Pa.); Law libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 62, number 2 (1958), p. 96-108Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.62

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: James Buchanan Foundation Photograph Collection

Object ID: JB-01-09-01

Date Range: April 20, 1956

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: James Buchanan Foundation Photograph Collection

Description: 100th Anniversary celebration at Wheatland. Identified from left to right: R. E. Fellers, Director, Division of Philately; E. George Siedle, Assistant Postmaster General, Bureau of Transportation; Samuel C. Slaymaker, Buchanan Foundation; Albert J. Robertson, Assistant Postmaster General and Controller, Bureau of Finance; John B. Rengier, President, Buchanan Foundation; Frederic S. Klein, Director of Public Relations, Buchanan Foundation. Taken in Mr. Siedle's office, Washington, D. C., at time of decision to issue Wheatland stamp commemorating a Presidential shrine in Pennylvania, in the 100th anniversary year of the election of James Buchanan to the presidency, 1856. Five copies of photograph. Taken for the Post Office Department of the United States of America.