topic:"Keys" found 33 records - Research Collections

Edward T. Fraim Lock Company - Information file

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Call Number: Information file - Edward T. Fraim Lock Company

Alternate Title: Fraim Lock Company - Information file.

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: Edward T. Fraim Lock Company.; Locks and keys - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Information File

Call Number: Information file - Edward T. Fraim Lock Company

Key

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Collection: History Collection: Events

Object ID: 1992.008.1

Collection: History Collection: Events

Description: Large, heavy cast iron key marked "LIBBY" in raised letters along the length of shaft.; Libby prison was originally a warehouse located in Richmond, VA that became a prison in 1862, housing Union soldiers.

Year Range From: 1860

Year Range To: 1900

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 29

Storage Shelf: Shelf 4

Subcategory: Household Accessory

Subject: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Search Terms: Civil War; Keys

Object Name: Key

Material: Iron

Length (in): 7.5

Width (in): 3

Condition: Good

Object ID: 1992.008.1

Place of Origin: Richmond, Virginia

Accession Number: 1992.008

Key

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Collection: History Collection: Places & Spaces

Object ID: 1923.003.1

Date Range: c. 1900

Collection: History Collection: Places & Spaces

Description: Keys to Shober Hotel. Set of three related large bronze keys (A, B, C), each with oval handle and heart-shaped cutout. Long hollow barrels shafts are lathe-turned, with decorative turned detail near handle. Each shaft has slight tapering, increasing in diameter from handle to opposite end. Ends have a flat rectangular "tooth" cut and shaped into similar but varying configurations.; A) 5 inches long with ring and bead turning.; B) 4.875 inches long with ring and bead turning.; C) 4 inches long with ring and vase turning.

Date Range: c. 1900

Year Range From: 1890

Year Range To: 1920

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 29

Storage Shelf: Shelf 4

Subcategory: Household Accessory

Subject: Hotels; Locks and keys

Search Terms: Hotels; Keys; Shober's Hotel

Object Name: Key

Material: Bronze

Dimension Details: See description

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-04-13

Condition Notes: A) Best condition with very few dents or marring.; B) Heavy wear with dents and nicks, esp. the 1.5" long section at shaft end along spine.; C) Moderate marring, esp. along spine opposite tooth.

Object ID: 1923.003.1

Accession Number: 1923.003

Letter

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Collection: Liquor License Papers

Title: Liquor License Papers

Object ID: Tav 1854 F20 I38

Date Range: 1854/04

Collection: Liquor License Papers

Title: Liquor License Papers

System of Arrangement: Arranged by municipalities by year.

Date Range: 1854/04

Year: 1854

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0021

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Cross Keys Hotel; Depositions; Lancaster; Letters; Liquor license; Petitions; Taverns

Place: Lancaster

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Tav 1854 F20 I38

Box Number: 021

Additional Notes: Second petitioner: Kreider, [ ].; Letter of support and depositions.; April term.; Known as the Cross Keys Hotel.; Located on West King Street.; Signers of Letter: Henry Pinkerton, John Myer, Augustus Kuhn, Michael McGonigle, William Leonard, George D. Eberman, P. G. Eberman, Frederick Smith, Jacob H. Rhoads, C. O. Richards, Thomas Ellmaker, Charles Boughter, John P. Myer, George M. Steinman, M. H. Locher, Taylor St. John, Charles Gillespie, M. B. Danner, W. Whiteside, D. W. Patterson, G. R. Hendrickson, W. M. Kline, J. Bowman, John K. Reed, Samuel A. Dysart, Peter McConomy, Watson H. Miller, Daniel Swope, George Keller, James P. Dysart, William B. Fahnestock, Reah Frazer.; Depositions from: Samuel Z. Tripple, John Holl, Isaac [Nult].; 2 items, 4 pieces

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0602

Description Level: Item

Locksmiths and locks in Lancaster County

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Author: Kauffman, Henry J.,

Date of Publication: 1992.

making of locks and keys. Lockmaking would have been a tedious work for "rough and ready" blacksmiths; however, there always have been exceptions to a general rule. Without further knowledge of these faraway places, the focus will now turn to matters in Lancaster County. One of the real sources about

1 document

Responsibility: by Henry J. Kauffman.

Author: Kauffman, Henry J.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1992.

Physical Description: [52]-57 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 94, no. 2

Subjects: Locks and keys - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 94, number 2 (1992), p. 52-57Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.94