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Amish quilts of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16958
Author
Silber, Julie,
Date of Publication
c1990.
Call Number
746.9 S582
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Responsibility
Julie Silber ; with an essay by Eve Wheatcroft Granick.
ISBN
0961443723
9780961443726
Author
Silber, Julie,
Place of Publication
San Francisco
Publisher
Espirit De Corp.,
Date of Publication
c1990.
Physical Description
39 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition AMISH: The Art of the Quilt, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, June 9-September 2, 1990"--P. [2] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 33).
Subjects
Amish quilts.
Amish quilts - Exhibitions.
Additional Corporate Author
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
746.9 S582
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An index to the wills and administration bonds of Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1800-1864

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5625
Author
Young, Henry James.
Date of Publication
c1997.
Call Number
974.842 Y68
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Responsibility
by Henry James Young.
Author
Young, Henry James.
Place of Publication
York, PA (P.O. Box 1824, York 17405)
Publisher
South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
vi, 102 p. ; 28 cm.
Series
Special publication ; no. 55
Subjects
Wills - Pennsylvania - Adams County
Adams County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.842 Y68
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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/28a8c389-4e24-4157-8061-272548030010
Collection
Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection
Title
Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection
Object ID
MG0277
Date Range
1798-1993
Mathias Young. 1800-1801. Insert 3 Expense Account for 1803-1804. (Very fragile, use photocopy.) Insert 4 Auditor’s Report, Samuel Humes, Treasurer, to John Joseph Henry, President Judge. Signed by Paul Zantzinger and Lewis Heck. 1803-1804. Insert 5 Auditors’ Report, George Musser, Esq., Treasurer. 1803
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Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection
Title
Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection
Description
The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection is comprised of accounts, registers, minutes, and other records kept by this county department. There are birth and death records, lists of inmates, supply and payroll books, and auditors' reports, and a scrapbook of Conestoga View.
Date Range
1798-1993
Year Range From
1798
Year Range To
1993
Date of Accumulation
1798-1993
Creator
Lancaster County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 08
People
Ash, Phineas
Bachman, J. M.
Bachman, John
Bair, Ivan
Baney, William
Bard, R. W.
Bare, Adam
Bausman, John
Bubach, Gerhart
Carpenter, Sam
Centini, Jane E.
Clark, Thomas
Coleman, Thomas
Colwell, James
Dale, Samuel
Dorwart, Jonas
Dunlap, Stephan
Eaby, George W.
Esler, P. O.
Gibbons, William
Good, William
Graybill, N. W.
Graybill, H.
Gryder, Christian
Haines, Timothy
Halbach, W. A.
Harnish, Jacob
Harnish, Samuel
Heck, Lewis
Herr, Christian
Hershey, W. E. H.
Hildebrant, W.
Hollinger, George
Humes, Samuel
Jackson, James J.
Kean, Thomas M.
Kready, David C.
Lane, P. C.
Lenegan, Archibald M.
Light, John
Livingston, J. B.
Long, Jacob
Metzger, John W.
Meyers, Samuel M.
Murray, William
Musser, George
Nauman, J. W.
Nicholson, John
Overholzer, H. D.
Patterson, D. W.
Reed, John K.
Schwartz, Conrad
Slaymaker, Henry
Snyder, Simon
Stone, Abraham
Strine, Jacob S.
Summy, A.
Sweigart, E.
Weaver, B. F.
Webb, Will
Wein, John
Wentz, Thomas
Witmer, Abraham
Witters, Jacob W.
Young, Mathias
Zantzinger, Paul
Other Creators
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Subjects
Almshouses
Almshouses--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History
Auditors' reports
Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.)
Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History
Scrapbooks
Search Terms
Almshouses
Auditors' reports
Conestoga View
Finding aids
Manuscript groups
Scrapbooks
Extent
3 boxes, 33 books and folders, 3.5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0277
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection (MG0277), Folder or Book #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions are noted at the item level.
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.
Classification
MG0277
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Most of the items in this collection are part of the Lancaster County Government Records, RG 08-12. They were transferred into MG-277 in 1999 during the planning of the Almshouse and Hospital exhibition. Other items are on loan from the Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation or were collected by LancasterHistory.
Added to database 21 July 2017.
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Collection
John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection
Title
John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection
Object ID
MG0019
Date Range
1850-1993
was a gift of the family of John Andrews. Other items have been collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Administrative/Biographical History: As an adventurous and inquisitive young
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John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection
Title
John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection
Description
The John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection contains material about John Wise, a pioneering balloonist from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and the history of ballooning. Articles written by and about John Wise provide information about the man and his career. The bulk of Series 1 is correspondence, research notes, and drafts of "The John Wise Story," by John H. Andrews. Series 2 contains material about the ballooning hobby, other early aircraft, and the history of air mail.
Admin/Biographical History
As an adventurous and inquisitive young boy, John Wise was drawn to the skies above his native Lancaster County. He was fascinated by aerial pursuits and began to conduct experiments. He tied his cat to his homemade parachute and observed the cat's safe descent from a local church steeple.
A keen interest in ballooning developed and Wise became a famous aeronaut. Although balloon ascensions were common at county fairs and carnivals he had never observed an ascension before he made his first one in Philadelphia in 1835. John Wise completed 462 balloon ascensions including Lancaster ascensions from Penn Square and the prison yard.
In the nineteenth century many ascensions were made just for the novelty of the event, but John Wise's approach was from a scientific perspective. Each ascension gave him a chance to conduct scientific investigations of the atmosphere, pneumatics and hydrostatics.
It also gave him the opportunity to develop a more advanced flying machine. Wise was the first to observe the "great river of air which always blows from west to east" in the higher regions of the atmosphere. Today we call this phenomenon the jet stream. He also developed the ripcord safety mechanism.
John Wise promoted the advantages of balloon transportation. In 1843 he conceived a project for crossing the Atlantic Ocean and asked Congress to appropriate $15,000 for the project. Congress rejected the appropriation. Wise suggested a plan to bomb the Castle at Vera Cruz during the Mexican War and during the Civil War the Bureau of Topographical Engineers requested his services as a balloonist. He is credited with the first airmail transportation in 1859.
Detailed descriptions of his ascensions and experiments are found in his book, Through the Air, published in 1873. The last ascent of John Wise took place on September 29, 1879 from St. Louis, Missouri. This flight ended disastrously in Lake Michigan where his balloon fell and his remains lie.
Prepared by the Lancaster County Historical Society, ca. 1995.
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged into two series.
Series 1 John Wise
Series 2 History of Ballooning
Date Range
1850-1993
Creation Date
1850-1993
Year Range From
1850
Year Range To
1993
Date of Accumulation
1850-1993
Creator
Andrews, John H.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 01
People
Albertson, Catherine
Andrews, John Henry
Atkinson, S. C.
Bache, Hartman
Ball, Charles I.
Bartlett, Mrs. R. A.
Batchelder, Robert C.
Beckwith, A.
Beller, William
Black, J. W.
Blanchard, Jean Pierre
Blitzstein, Madelin
Bradbury, Ray
Brown, Elizabeth B.
Bruce, George
Burlingame, Roger
Burr, George
Byars, W. W.
Casey, Louis
Cessna, Clyde
Coffman, Ramon
Cornish, Joseph Jenkins, III
Cox, Palmer
Douty, Esther
Douty, Esther M.
Drepperd, Carl W.
Edwards, Vincent
Elvin, Thomas
Evans, William
Field, Francis J.
Fischer, Hans
Fleck, Glen
French, Melvin
Galzer, Emmett J.
Gambetta, Francis Leon
Greeley, A. W.
Grimm, Janet
Gryzewski, Tad
Halmi, Robert
Harrell, D. Tudor
Hautrive, M.
Hayden, F. Stansbury
Hopkins, Philip S.
Hunt, E. F.
Ingle, Harold E.
Kehr, Ernest A.
Keith, Barbara
Kessler, F. W.
Klein, Frederic S.
Kouwenhoven, John A.
Kreider, Ira
Kriebel, Robert C.
Kriebel, Robert G.
Lamorisse, Albert
LaPaz, Lincoln
Lindbergh, Charles
Lindquist, H. L.
Long, Elmer R.
Lundgren, Laura May Gross
Madsen, Peter
Maier, Alfred D.
Maxwell, George T.
McCloskey, Lores
McDevitt, William
Mills, James
Myers, Wilfred
Naves, Glen W.
Nicklin, John
Pasquarella, Gus
Peers, W.
Prevost, John W.
Roland, John
Rosenfeld, Albert
Sanabria, Nicolas
Schatvet, H. C.
Serviss, Garrett P.
Smith, Philip R., Jr.
Stehling, Kurt R
Steinmetz, Rollin
Stilphen, George F.
Taylor, Florence
Thompson, Howard
Topping, A.D.
Waitt, Robert
Warner, B. H.
Watson, Marion A.
Wetherill, Richard B.
Whipple, A. W.
Wilbur, W. H.
Wise, John
Wiseman, Frederick J.
Wolcott, Charles
Wolf, Constance
Woodruff, J. C.
Wright, Wilbur
Young, Pearl
Other Creators
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Subjects
Hot air balloons
Hot air balloons--Launching
Airships
Aeronautics
Letters
Air mail service
Hindenburg (Airship)
Reconnaissance aircraft
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Search Terms
Aeronautics
Air mail service
Airships
Aviation
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Correspondence
Finding aids
Hindenburg (Airship)
Hot air balloons
Letters
Manuscript groups
Newspaper clippings
Obituaries
Reconnaissance aircraft
Extent
3 boxes, 40 folders, 1 scrapbook, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0019
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
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.
Other Numbers
MG-19
Classification
MG0019
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
This collection was cataloged prior to 1997; added to database on 28 February 2018.
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"Chuse thy cloaths by thine own eye" Quaker clothing during William Penn's residence at Pennsbury Manor, 1683-1701

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo860
Author
Young, Paula B.
Date of Publication
1990
Call Number
391 Y75
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Responsibility
Paula B. Young and Eileen Dickerson
Author
Young, Paula B.
Place of Publication
Morrisville, PA
Publisher
Pennsbury Society
Date of Publication
1990
Physical Description
29 p. ill. 28 cm.
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718 - Clothing.
Pennsbury Manor (Morrisville, Pa.)
Clothing and dress.
Additional Author
Dickerson, Eileen.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
391 Y75
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Gregory G. Young Photography presents Lancaster County a bird's eye view unique interactive CD-ROM

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4788
Date of Publication
c1998.
Call Number
974.815 LACO G822 DVD
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Alternate Title
Lancaster County, a bird's eye view.
Place of Publication
Landisville, PA
Publisher
Gregory G. Young Photography,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
1 computer laser optical disc sd., col. : 4 3/4 in. 1 fast start instructions +1 readme.txt. + 1 user's guide.
Notes
"Contains aerial views of Lancaster County and includes a pausable slide show of 165 overall shots of towns."
Reproductions of photographs must be purchased from publisher: Gregory D. Young Photography, 1340 Pennscott Drive, Landisville, PA 17538-1815.
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Aerial views.
Additional Author
Gregory G. Young Photography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Media
Call Number
974.815 LACO G822 DVD
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Lancaster County Civil War sites revisited

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15361
Author
Young, Ronald C.
Date of Publication
2005.
Call Number
973.76 Y75
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Responsibility
by Ronald C. Young.
Author
Young, Ronald C.
Place of Publication
Apollo, Pa
Publisher
Closson Press ,
Date of Publication
2005.
Physical Description
vii, 69 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.
Contents
Christiana Riot Site and Monument--The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge--Fulton Hall--Railroads, Stations and Yards--The Yard at Dillerville--Pennsylvania Railroad Station Lancaster City--Norris Locomotive Works--Caldwell House Hotel and Abraham Lincoln--Camp of Instruction-122nd Pa. Volunteer Infantry--General John Reynolds-Birthplace and Grave Site--President James Buchanan--Wheatland--Grave Site--Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church--Lancaster Soldiers and Sailors Monument--Millersville Civil War Monument.
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History, military - 19th century.
Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
973.76 Y75
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the Civil War

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Author
Young, Ronald C.
Date of Publication
2002.
Call Number
973.71 Y75
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Responsibility
by Ronald C. Young.
Author
Young, Ronald C.
Place of Publication
Apollo, PA
Publisher
Closson Press ,
Date of Publication
2002.
Physical Description
viii, 156 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Autographed copy.
Contents
Contents--Pre-War Lancaster: A Short History of Lancaster County--A Seed of War, Watered With Blood: The Riot at Christiana--The Stars and Stripes have Been Insulted and Dragged in the Dust: The War begins--To the Susquehanna Boys!: Lancaster and the Battle of Gettysburg--Fire on the River: The Burning of the Columbia/Wrightsville Bridge--A President and his People: Abraham Lincoln and Lancaster--The War Over! Thanks Be to God!: Postwar Lancaster--The Regiments--History is the Essence of Innumerable Biographies: Lancaster County Civil War Notables.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
973.71 Y75
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Notes and documents concerning the manorial history of the town of York, York County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1322
Date of Publication
1992
Call Number
974.841 N911
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Responsibility
compiled by Henry James Young. With commentary, additions and everyname index by Patricia A. Gross and Leonard A. Heilman.
Place of Publication
York, Pa
Publisher
South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society
Date of Publication
1992
Physical Description
45 p. 30 cm.
Series
South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. Special Publication Number 47
Subjects
York (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Young, Henry James.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.841 N911
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Pennsylvania and the presidency : a twain that seldom meets

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19123
Author
Madonna, G. Terry.
Date of Publication
2008.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v. 132
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Responsibility
by G. Terry Madonna and Michael Young.
Author
Madonna, G. Terry.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
p. 403 - 416 : 19 cm.
Series
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 132, no. 4 (October 2008).
Notes
This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Presidents - Pennsylvania
Politics and culture - Pennsylvania.
One party systems - Pennsylvania.
Political parties - Pennsylvania
Additional Author
Young, Michael.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v. 132
Websites
https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/59102/58827
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