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Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Object ID: MG0277

Date Range: 1798-1993

. Meyers, Samuel M. Murray, William Nauman, J. W. Nicholson, John Patterson, D. W. Reed, John K. Slaymaker, Henry Snyder, Simon Stone, Abraham Strine, Jacob S. Summy, A. Weaver, B. F. Wein, John Witters, Jacob W. Subject Headings: Almshouses Almshouses--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Auditors

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Collection: 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.

Documents

Finding Aid

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"Both ornamental and useful" : the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9866

Date of Publication: 1990.

Call Number: 362.5 B749

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Responsibility: Prepared by Monique Bourque, Nancy K. Zeigler, Bernard L.Herman, Rebecca J. Sides.

Place of Publication: Newark, Del

Publisher: Center for Architecture and Engineering, University of Delaware,

Date of Publication: 1990.

Physical Description: v. 93 p. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Photocopy.

Contents: The Architectural Context of the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital: Setting and Current Appearance Construction Changes in the Structure Early Almshouses and Hospitals of the Lower Delaware Valley / The Social and Cultural Context of the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital: English Antecedents and Early Pennsylvania Poor Relief General Functions of the Almshouse The Almshouse and the Community Occupants of the Almshouse Conclusions / Recommendations for Future Use.

Subjects: Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.); Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Bourque, Monique.; Zeigler, Nancy K.; Herman, Bernard L.; Sides, Rebecca J.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 362.5 B749

Websites

https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/15865/Both+Ornamental+and+UsefulThe+Lancaster+County+Almshouse+and+Hospital.pdf?sequence=1

Children's Homes - Information file

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21532

Call Number: Information file - Children's Homes

Notes: Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.

Subjects: Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Orphanages - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Information File

Call Number: Information file - Children's Homes

The development of the charitable landscape : the construction of the Lancaster County almshouse in regional context

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8834

Author: Herman, Bernard L.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Responsibility: by Bernard L. Herman.

Author: Herman, Bernard L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: 114-134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.102, no. 2/3.

Subjects: Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.).; Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Almshouses - Pennsylvania.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 102, number 2/3 (2000), p. 114-134Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.102, no.2/3

Lancaster County Home & Hospital burials in Potters Field

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17295

Date of Publication: n.d.

Call Number: 310.35 C857

Place of Publication: Photocopy

Date of Publication: n.d.

Physical Description: 7 l. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Photocopies from MG-277 Almshouse Collection, Book 30, Lancaster County Historical Society Archives.; A photograph of the Lancaster County Home can be found in our photo collection, objectID 2-21-04-01.

Subjects: Lancaster County Home and Hospital.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Burials - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.35 C857

List of paupers, 1809-1825: In association with Lancaster Co. Poor and House of Employment

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20685

Call Number: Microfilm drawer 3

Subjects: Lancaster County Poor and House of Employment (Lancaster, Pa.); Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Registers.; Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Microfilm drawer 3

Minutes of Directors of Poor [1798-1866]/ List of Paupers [1809-1825]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20684

Call Number: Drawer 3, sec. 2: #248

Alternate Title: Minutes of Directors of the Poor and the House of Employment

Notes: vol. 1: Nov. 1798-Feb. 1826/vol. 2: Mar. 1826-Mar. 1856/vol. 3: Apr. 1856-Dec. 1866.; On same microfilm as List of Paupers, 1809-1825, "in association with Lancaster Co. Poor and House of Employment"; Microfilm box labeled # 248.

Subjects: Lancaster County Poor and House of Employment (Lancaster, Pa.); Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Almshouses - Archives

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 3, sec. 2: #248

The two hundred year history of the Lancaster County almshouse and hospital / by Page Talbott

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8746

Author: Talbott, Page.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Author: Talbott, Page.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: 82-113 : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.102, no. 2/3.

Subjects: Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.).; Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 102, number 2/3 (2000), p. 82-113Lancaster History Library - Journal974.815 L224 v.102