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Collection: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Title: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Object ID: HC0001

Date Range: 1905-1974

dealers (LHo-LOC sh 85005745) Interior decoration (LHo-LOC sh 85067272) Armstrong Cork Company (LHo-LOC n 50001851) Armstrong World Industries (LHo-LOC n 83169682) F. Schumacher & Co. (LHo-LOC n 91059671) Correspondence (LHo-LOC sh 85033035) Letters (LHo-LOC sh 85076240) Student newspapers & periodicals

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Collection: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Title: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Description: This collection contains ephemera related to Alice Potter Fordney, antiques dealer and rugmaker. Items in the collection include business correspondence with Armstrong, F. Schumacher & Co., and the Montclair art museum; personal correspondence with friends and family; hooked rug patterns; and antiques sale flyers from the early 20th century. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings, including the obituary of Fordney's sister Ellen Franklin; reference material for rug making and interior design (informational sheets, books and patterns); several items related to the Yeates School, which Fordney's brother William Bush Fordney attended; several photographs of unidentified persons; and a statement related to the will of William J. Fordney, her uncle.

Admin/Biographical History: Alice Potter Fordney was born June 21, 1887 in Lancaster, the daughter of Ida Cox and Thomas Potter Fordney. A prominent antique dealer from the late 1920s to her retirement in 1965, Fordney also made and sold hooked rugs.; Fordney's family features prominently in Lancaster County history. Her maternal great-grandfather was John Michael, who owned the historic Grape Hotel from 1805-1839. Fordney's paternal great-grandfather William Jenkins built Wheatland in 1828 and later sold the property to President James Buchanan. Colonel William Bush Fordney, her paternal grandfather, was a prominent lawyer in Lancaster. He served as district attorney from 1839-1845 and negotiated for the loan that enabled Lancaster city to build the "water works" in the 1830s. Sarah Cox, her maternal grandmother, was a known philanthropist and for years helped to manage the Home for Friendless Children in Lancaster. Her sister, Ellen Fordney Franklin, was a "pioneer" in the industry of women's knit suits, opening her first shop in 1929 in Philadelphia.; Fordney never married. She kept in contact with her nieces and nephews, as evidenced by letters in the collection. According to notes provided by Wendell Zercher, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine Muench, her niece and the donor of the collection, recalled her as "warm and artistic," and "a character." She died April 17, 1973, at the age of 85.; Works Cited:; "Mrs. Franklin, pioneer of women's knit suits, dies." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 10 May 1963, p. 2.; "Accident Fatal to Mrs. Sarah A. Cox." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], no date, page unknown.; "Miss Fordney, Antique Dealer, 85, Succumbs." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 18 April 1973, p. 2.; "One of Lancaster's Most Prominent and Venerable Citizens Passes Away." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 29 July 1889, p. 1.

Date Range: 1905-1974

Year Range From: 1905

Year Range To: 1974

Date of Accumulation: 1905-1974

Creator: Fordney, Alice Potter, 1887-1973

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Storage Wall: Side 28

People: Appel, Charles Rengier; Bohlen, Sidney Franklin; Bowman, Mrs. Edward J.; Boyer, R. J.; Brenneman, Mary Rue Bard; Brown, Hazel Dell; Chiarell, Fred P.; Clark, George W.; Daugherty, Harvey P.; Demuth, Charles; Dodge, Arthur B.; Embsweiler, Ruth; Erb, Edna; Fordney, Alice Potter; Fordney, William Bush Jr.; Fordney, William Jenkins; Franklin, Ellen Julia Fordney; Gibbons, Alice McIlvaine; Gilbert, L. J.; Gingrich, Milton E.; Graybill, John M.; Griest, Charles J.; Higby, Everett; Hostetter, A. K.; Howe, John; Irvine, Blanche; Kent, William Winthrop; Knodle, Edward; Krone, Herbert B.; Lindenmuth, J. D.; Long, Yvonne; Maclay, Helen Hurley; Malone, Clarence; Morris, Charles R.; Morris, Grace M.; Nauman, Gertrude Colson; Orr, Barclay; Pennypacker, Charles A.; Pennypacker, James G.; Randall, Meda; Rannels, Paul; Stokes, Agnes M.; Strickler, Belle; Wolf, Emily

Other Creators: Muench, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine, d. 2006

Subjects: American newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Women; Antique dealers; Armstrong Cork Company; Armstrong World Industries; F. Schumacher & Co.; Farm Journal Media; House & Garden; Interior decoration; Letters; Montclair Art Museum; Patterns for crafts; Rugs; Rugs, Hooked; Student newspapers and periodicals; Woman's world magazine

Search Terms: Albert Steiger Company; Antique dealers; Antique sales; Armstrong Cork Company; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Berlinwork patterns; Blue and Brown (Yeates School); Cheney Silks; Cheney Weaves; Christmas; Correspondence; Cricket Club; Dickinson Presbyterian Church; Estate sales; F. Schumacher and Company; Farm Journal Media; Fiber arts; Finding aids; Gilbert's store; Griest Homestead; Guernsey Sales Pavilion; Hager's Department Store; Hershey Fire Hall; Hooked rugs; House & Garden; Interior decoration; Kleinfelter's auction rooms; Letters; Manuscript groups; Montclair Art Museum; Odd Fellows Hall; Olson Rugs; Patterns for crafts; Rossmere Hotel; Rug patterns; Rugs; State Armory Hall; V-mail; Woman's World Magazine; Yeates School

Extent: 3 boxes, 37 folders, 333 items, 1,015 pages to scan, 4.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: HC0001

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Associated Material: Sarah McIlvaine Muench Family Papers, MS 44 at Archives and Special Collections, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.

Related Item Notes: See photograph collection.; See curatorial collection for examples of rugs.; Fordney Family Diaries (MG0539)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Archive of Alice P. Fordney (HC0001), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: The kraft paper patterns in Folders 33-37 are restricted. Please make an appointment with the Director of Archival Services to view these items.

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: G.04.23.52

Classification: HC0001

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: From the Heritage Center of Lancaster County collection, G04.23.52.; Processed and finding aid prepared by MJ, June 2018.

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The Armstrong book of interior decoration

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Corporate Author: Armstrong Cork Company.

Date of Publication: [1962]

Call Number: 747 A735

Corporate Author: Armstrong Cork Company.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: MacMillan

Date of Publication: [1962]

Physical Description: 191 pages illustrations (some color) plans 28 cm

Subjects: Armstrong World Industries.; Interior decoration.; Tiles in interior decoration.; Floor coverings.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 747 A735

Armstrong World Industries - Information file

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Call Number: Information file - Armstrong World Industries

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: Armstrong World Industries.; Armstrong Cork Company.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Information File

Call Number: Information file - Armstrong World Industries

Article

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Collection: James Buchanan Collection

Title: The Wheatlands

Object ID: MG0096 F058 In02

Date Range: 1959/03/04

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Collection: James Buchanan Collection

Title: The Wheatlands

Description: An article from Armstrong’s Research and Development Center News titled, “The Wheatlands” by J. H. Widmyer. Lancaster.

Date Range: 1959/03/04

Creator: Widmyer, J. H.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

Storage Container: Box 0002

People: Widmyer, J. H.

Subjects: Armstrong World Industries; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.)

Search Terms: Armstrong Cork Company; Armstrong World Industries; Armstrong's Research and Development Center News; Articles; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Wheatland; James Buchanan; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan, 21 x 22 cm

Object Name: Article

Language: English

Parent Object ID: MG0096

Object ID: MG0096 F058 In02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Collection (MG0096) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3760; James Buchanan Family Papers; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph Collection; Curatorial Collection; Wheatland Collection; Wheatland Mansion

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Number: MG-0096, Folder 058, Insert 02

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Digitization of the James Buchanan Collection was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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How Armstrong floored America : the people who made it happen, 1945-1995

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Author: Moore, C. Eugene,

Date of Publication: 2007.

Call Number: 674.9 M821

Responsibility: [by] C. Eugene Moore.

ISBN: 9780974016245 (pbk.); 0974016241 (pbk.)

Author: Moore, C. Eugene,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 2007.

Physical Description: 200 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Armstrong World Industries - History.; Conglomerate corporations - United States; Floor coverings industry - United States.

Additional Author: Alton, James T.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 674.9 M821

Inspiring 1950s interiors from Armstrong

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Author: Moore, C. Eugene,

Date of Publication: c1997.

Call Number: 747.2 M821

Responsibility: C. Eugene Moore.

ISBN: 0764304585 (pbk.)

Author: Moore, C. Eugene,

Place of Publication: Atglen, PA

Publisher: Schiffer Pub.,

Date of Publication: c1997.

Physical Description: 176 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Subjects: Armstrong World Industries.; Interior decoration - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 747.2 M821

Interior solutions from Armstrong the 1960s

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Author: Moore, C. Eugene,

Date of Publication: c1999.

Call Number: 747.2 M821i

Responsibility: C. Eugene Moore.

ISBN: 0764307002 (pbk.)

Author: Moore, C. Eugene,

Place of Publication: Atglen, Penn

Publisher: Schiffer,

Date of Publication: c1999.

Physical Description: 175 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Subjects: Armstrong World Industries.; Interior decoration - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 747.2 M821i

Let the buyer have faith : the story of Armstrong

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Author: Mehler, William A.

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 674.9 M498s

Responsibility: by William A. Mehler, Jr.

Author: Mehler, William A.

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: 3 vol; 28 cm.

Notes: Note attached to cover of v. 1: "This binder contains the original manuscript of "Let the Buyer Have Faith," a history of Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (formerly Armstrong Cork Company) published in 1988 and written by William A. Mehler, Jr. In an effort to make the book seem more readable for a general audience, footnotes were not included in the published version. This binder shows the text annotated with sources of information."; Note attached to cover of v. 2: "This binder, entitled "Management Commentaries," contains materials prepared by William A. Mehler, Jr. as a supplement to his book "Let the Buyer Have Faith," a history of Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (formerly Armstrong Cork Company), published in 1988. Intended for members of the management organization, it describes the historical philosophies of the Company as applied to various parts of the management process."; Note attached to cover of v. 3: "This binder contains the notes of interviews conducted by William A. Mehler, Jr. as part of the research for his book, "Let the Buyer Have Fatih, a history of Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (formerly Armstrong Cork Company) published in 1988."

Contents: v. 1: Let the buyer have faith: source references -- v.2: Management commentaries -- v. 3: Interviews conducted by William A. Mehler for the book.

Subjects: Armstrong World Industries - History.; Conglomerate corporations - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 674.9 M498s

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How Armstrong floored America : the people who made it happen, 1945-1995

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18838

Inspiring 1950s interiors from Armstrong

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Interior solutions from Armstrong the 1960s

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Let the buyer have faith : the story of Armstrong

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15045