The George Steinman Papers, Series 1 contains an album, compiled by George Steinman, with many photographs of buildings, tombstones, monuments and scenes of Lancaster city and county. Ephemera and newspaper articles are among the photographs. Represented in the album are Postlethwaite's Tavern, hotels and taverns, fire houses, the Conestoga massacre, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, Stehli Silk Mill, and schools. The four boxes contain orginal correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera or and pertaining to the same subject matter as the album.
The George Steinman Papers, Series 2 is a collection of original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera primarily compiled by George Steinman. The contents of Series 2 represent Lancaster city and county events, prominent citizens, buildings, monuments, churches, cemeteries, schools, and businesses. Most of what Steinman collected relates to 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania, highlighting Lancaster and Philadelphia. One of the key events highlighted is the Revolutionary war; with documents and images related to Philadelphia, George Washington, the Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Riot and to various buildings in early Lancaster; including but not limited to the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite's Tavern. Also included in the collection is currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1764, and Confederate States currency and bonds.
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"Mr. Geo. Steinman who started this collection of pictures. This book was presented to the Lanc. Co. Historical Society after his death by Mr. Geo. S. Franklin."
John M. Gibson is recorded as the donor, 1968, in LancasterHistory's accession records.
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-184
Classification
MG0184
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Series 1 processed and finding aid prepared PK and MSH, 2008. Series 2 finding aid prepared by JE, 2018. Added to database 20 July 2021.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (23 p. : 13 cm.).
Notes
Title and version from disc surface.
"CD #196."
Summary
Contains ca. 476,000 individuals who lived in or who were born in Southeastern Pennsylvania before 1800. The records, found in 213 church, meeting and pastoral records were compiled by John T. Humphrey and published in the 13 volume set "Pennsylvania births".
Preface--Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Sadsbury Township, birth records from the 1730s--Little Britain Monthly Meeting, Little Britain Township, birth records from the 1770s--St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster, birth records from the 1750s--Muddy Creek Lutheran Church, East Cocalico, baptismal register begun in 1733--Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Elizabeth Township, also called Old Warwick Lutheran Church, baptismal register begun in 1742--Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1730--Moravian Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1743--First Reformed Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1736,--Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, birth records from the 1730s--St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Lancaster, birth records from the 1770s--Zion Lutheran Church, Manheim, baptismal register begun in 1771--Muddy Creek Reformed Church, East Cocalico Township, birth records from the 1770s--Bangor Protestant Episcopal church, Caernarfon Township, birth records from the 1770s--Bergstrasse Lutheran Church, Ephrata Township, birth records from the 1740s--Rev. John Waldschmidt, personal register begun in 1751--Rev. John Cuthbertson, personal register, begun in 1751--Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing, personal register begun in 1779--Christ Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown, birth records from the 1770s--St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Strasburg, birth records from the 1750s--Swamp Reformed Church, West Cocalico Township, baptismal register opened in 1788--Zion Reformed Church, Elizabeth Township, also known as Reyer's Reformed Church, birth records from the 1760s--Blasser Reformed Church, West Donegal Township, birth records from the 1750s--White Oak Lutheran and Reformed Churches, Penn Township, baptismal register opened in 1754--Zeltenreich/Seltenreich Reformed Church, baptismal records from the 1740s--Maytown Reformed Church, East Donegal Township, birth records from the 1760s--St. Paul's Reformed Church, Manheim, baptismal register begun in 1771--Pequea Reformed Church, Strasburg Township, birth records from the 1740s--Maytown Lutheran Church, East Donegal Township, birth records from the 1760s--Cocalico Reformed Church, Ephrata, birth records from the 1740s--Rev. John Casper Stoever, Jr., personal register begun in 1729--Moravian Church, Lititz, baptismal register opened in 1744..