topic:"Ephrata" found 42 records - Research Collections

The Ephrata Union School District developes a school improvement program for her public schools

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Date of Publication: 1957.

Call Number: 373.224 E63

Responsibility: Clarence E. Ackley and Associates.

Place of Publication: [Camp Hill, Pa.]

Publisher: Clarence E. Ackley,

Date of Publication: 1957.

Physical Description: 84 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: On cover: A survey report, November, 1957.

Summary: A survey authorized by the Ephrata Union School Board to determine the adequacy of Ephrata's present school plant and program.

Subjects: Ephrata Union School District (Ephrata, Pa.) - Education.; Schools - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Educational surveys - Ephrata Union School District (Ephrata, Pa.)

Additional Corporate Author: Ephrata Union School Board (Ephrata, Pa.); Clarence E. Ackley and Associates.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 373.224 E63

A study of two distinct periods of Ephrata Cloister history

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1951

StudyofTwo Distinct Periods Perio Ephrata (.,Coiner BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE I. Mills of the Cloister The Ephrata Cloisters owed its founding, if not its raison d'etre to Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in April, 1690, at Eberbach in the German Palatinate. Beissel's father was an intemperate

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Responsibility: by Jack Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1951

Physical Description: [145]-[179] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 55, no. 6

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.; Miller, Johann Peter.; Eckerling family.; Ephrata Cloister.; Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Printing - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Mysticism - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 55, number 6 (1951), p. 145-179Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.55

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History of Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company, Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company, Lancaster, Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company : and any other trolley roads in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1944.

Call Number: 388.4 L574

Responsibility: compiled by Harry David Lentz, Jr.

Place of Publication: Lebanon [Pa.]

Publisher: Lentz,

Date of Publication: 1944.

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Trolley roads in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties.

Subjects: Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company - History.; Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company - History.; Lancaster Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company - History.; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Additional Author: Lentz, Harry David,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 388.4 L574

Public utilities of Ephrata Borough

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Author: Franck, Ira Stoner,

Date of Publication: 1950

Public Ephrata Borough With Interesting Sidelights By IRA S. FRANCK Ephrata began its life as a municipality in 1891 and with its advent as a borough began at once its two principal chronic headaches, "light" and "water." Prior to the incorporation the Ephrata Water Company 1 had attempted in a

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Responsibility: by Ira S. Franck.

Author: Franck, Ira Stoner,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1950

Physical Description: [41]-60 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 54, no. 3

Subjects: Ephrata Water Company (Pa.) - History.; Public utilities - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Electric utilities - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 54, number 3 (1950), p. 41-60Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.54

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The Ephrata Cloister : an introduction

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Author: Doll, Eugene Edgar.

Date of Publication: 1958.

Call Number: 286.3 D665

Responsibility: by Eugene E. Doll ; drawings by Ralph D. Dunkelberger.

Author: Doll, Eugene Edgar.

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Ephrata Cloister Associates,

Date of Publication: 1958.

Physical Description: 32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 32.

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister - History.; Seventh-Day Baptists - Pennsylvania; Germans - Pennsylvania - Ephrata; Ephrata (Pa.) - Religious institutions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 D665

The roll of drums

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Author: Wallower, Lucille,

Date of Publication: 1945.

Call Number: 813.54 W215r

Responsibility: by Lucille Wallower, illustrated by the author.

Author: Wallower, Lucille,

Place of Publication: Chicago, Ill

Publisher: A. Whitman & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1945.

Physical Description: 111 pages including color frontispiece illustrations (some color) 24 x 20 cm

Summary: "The author, in selecting the background for her story, turns to the famous Ephrata Cloister in the Pennsylvania Dutch country of southeastern Pennsylvania. This cloister contains serious-minded, religious men and women who feed the soldiers and bind their wounds. They like young Stephen so much that they are especially nice to him. In return, and at considerable risk of which he thinks nothing, he eagerly volunteers to thwart a plot against the life of General Washington who is planning to visit the wounded soldiers." [dust jacket]

Subjects: Washington, George, - 1732-1799; Ephrata Cloister - Fiction.; Ephrata Cloister.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 813.54 W215r

History of Ephrata, Pa., and its cloister/ by Milton H. Heinicke

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Author: Heinicke, Milton H.,

Date of Publication: ca. 1956.

Call Number: 286.3 H469

Author: Heinicke, Milton H.,

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: ca. 1956.

Physical Description: various paging: maps. ; 28 cm.

Contents: Letter to Elizabeth Keifer detailing his research - Appraisal of Adam Koningmacher's estate - The Gibbons tract, Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster County, Pa. (map and text) - [Indenture:] James Gibbons to Moses Brinton - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congregation, Conestoga, 172?-1732 Foreward - First early English land grants - Pennsylvania granted to William Penn,1681 - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congretation Conestoga, 1721-1732 (map) - Conestoga German Baptist Congregaton (map) - Founding of the Germapn Baptist Sabbatarians at Conestogao 1721-1732 (text) - German Seventh Day Baptist branches: Virginia - Ephrata Borough limits and underlying Penn grants (map and text) - Cloister properties with surrounding properties with date warranted (map) - Disposal of various Cloister properties (map) - Approximate location of all Cloister buildings (map) - Chronology of land in Cloister - Acquisition of 27 1/2 acres and buildings by the state including inventory of personal property - Various names by which theGermanSabbatariaons and site were known.

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.; Ephrata Cloister.; Seventh-Day Baptists - Pennsylvania.; Germans - Pennsylvania.; Ephrata (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 H469

Sources for the history of the Ephrata Cloisters / compiled by Eugene E. Doll

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Author: Doll, Eugene Edgar.

Date of Publication: 1944.

Call Number: 286.3 D665e

Author: Doll, Eugene Edgar.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation,

Date of Publication: 1944.

Physical Description: 140 p. 27 cm.

Series: Bibliographies on German American history ;

Notes: Cover title: The Ephrata Cloisters an annotated bibliography.

Contents: Sources for the history of the Ephrata cloister, comp. by E. E. Doll.--Ephrata; the printing press of the brotherhood, 1745-1794, comp. by Anneliese M. Funke.

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister - Bibliography.; Seventh-Day Baptists - Pennsylvania; Printing - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.

Additional Author: Funke, Anneliese Marckwald.

Additional Corporate Author: Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 D665e

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

County, Pennsylvania Correspondence Death Decedents' estates Earl Twp. East Earl Twp. Ephrata Estate settlement Farmers National Bank Finding aids Florida Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania Funerals Gap, Salisbury Twp. Grand Forks Herald Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota Health Hotel

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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The Ephrata Union School District developes a school improvement program for her public schools

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16809

A study of two distinct periods of Ephrata Cloister history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3373

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Archive

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History of Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company, Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company, Lancaster, Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company : and any other trolley roads in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6276

Public utilities of Ephrata Borough

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The Ephrata Cloister : an introduction

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo69

The roll of drums

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History of Ephrata, Pa., and its cloister/ by Milton H. Heinicke

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Sources for the history of the Ephrata Cloisters / compiled by Eugene E. Doll

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