"A beautiful volume containing over 600 full color illustrations of local advertising from around the Cocalico Valley. Included in the book is the history of the various newspapers that were published in the Cocalico Valley, a selection of 19th and early 20th century public auction broadsides, and an outstanding sampling of advertising ephemera of area businesses. Accompanying each advertising item is a detailed history of the business which it prompted. Businessesinclude: general merchandise and dry goods stores, drug stores, clothing and shoe stores, grocery stores, hardware stores and lumber yards, hotels, etc." [from the Journal of the Historical Society Of The Cocalico Valley]
Pictorial book of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ;
Notes
"No. 1910."
Summary
"An illustrated picture book containing over 125 captioned "portraits"of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century residents of the Cocalico Valley arranged by municipality. Pictures include sports teams, school classes, bands and orchestras, fraternal organizations, people at work and leisure, children, and individual portraits." [From the Journal of the Historical Society Of The Cocalico Valley]
The Historical Society of Cocalico Valley : Printed by Fulton Press,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
232 p. : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Summary
"An illustrated picture book containing over 167 late eighteenth and early nineteenth photographs and illustrations documenting a wide variety of subjects in the Cocalico Valley. Each illustration is accompanied by detailed historical text. The photographs are arranged by municipality and include the boroughs of Adamstown, Akron, Denver and Ephrata, and the townships of Earl (Hinkletown), Clay, West Earl, Ephrata, East Cocalico, and West Cocalico. Subjects include churches, businesses, homes and homesteads, modes of transportation, schools,mills, etc." [from the Journal of the Historical Society Of TheCocalico Valley]
