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Collection
Lancaster Electric, Light, Heat and Power Company Collection
Title
Lancaster Electric, Light, Heat and Power Company Collection
Object ID
MG0136
Date Range
1844-1911
Millersville State Normal School. There is also a list of residents in Lancaster city using incandescent lamps in 1901. Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization) Conditions for Access: Original documents may be used by researchers—contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk
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Collection
Lancaster Electric, Light, Heat and Power Company Collection
Title
Lancaster Electric, Light, Heat and Power Company Collection
Description
The Lancaster Electric Light, Heat and Power Company Collection contains the contracts and specifications for building the Slackwater, Rock Hill and Wabank plant to generate electricity for the Lancaster area. There are lists of costs to provide lighting for the Millersville State Normal School. There is also a list of residents in Lancaster city using incandescent lamps in 1901.
Date Range
1844-1911
Year Range From
1844
Year Range To
1911
Date of Accumulation
1844-1911
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 04
People
Brenneman, Joseph P.
Burke, Susanna
Campbell, Amos
Stark, Kate
Subjects
Electric industries
Electricity
Search Terms
Blueprints
Contracts
Correspondence
Edison Electric Company
Finding aids
Generators
Keller and Hook
Lamps
Lancaster
Lancaster Electric Light, Heat and Power Company
Legislation
Letters
Lighting
Manuscript groups
Millersville State Normal School
Ordinances
Pennsylvania Water and Power Company
Platt Iron Company
Proposals
Rock Hill Power Plant
Slackwater Power Plant
Specifications
Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company
Sturgass Governor Engineering
Transformers
Turbines
Wabank Power Plant
Extent
1 box, 28 folders, .5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0136
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).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-136
Classification
MG0136
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 13 January 2022.
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Collection
George and Rhonda Andreadis Collection of Lancaster City Records, Series 5
Title
George and Rhonda Andreadis Collection of Lancaster City Records, Series 5 Lamps and Lighting
Object ID
MG0545_Series05
Date Range
1834-1895
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Collection
George and Rhonda Andreadis Collection of Lancaster City Records, Series 5
Title
George and Rhonda Andreadis Collection of Lancaster City Records, Series 5 Lamps and Lighting
Description
The documents in MG0545 Series 5 pertain to providing street lighting around Lancaster City. Series begins in 1834 with the City Council receiving bids for oil to burn in street lamps and concludes in 1895 with an invoice from the Citizens' Electric, Heat and Power Co. This series also includes invoices for parts, payment receipts for various labors connected to the city power system, petitions to have lamps installed or removed, and bids from companies to receive the city contract to provide citizens of Lancaster with light.
System of Arrangement
This collection is organized into series by subject:
Series 1 Market Houses
Series 2 Fire Department
Series 3 Bridges
Series 4 Railroads
Series 5 Lamps and Lighting
Series 6 Relief Fund
Series 7 Administrative Records
Date Range
1834-1895
Year Range From
1834
Year Range To
1895
Date of Accumulation
1834-1895
Creator
Lancaster (Pa.)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 11
People
Algier, Michael
Althouse, Henry
Baumgardner, Henry
Bietz, Jacob
Blickenderfer, R.
Brown, George W.
Brown, Theodore
Carpenter, Dr.
Corcoran, Hugh
Cosgrove, Johannes
Ecinaras, C.
Ernst, George, Jr.
Fairer, A.
Flick, John
Frain, Davis M.
Gable, Jacob
Garber, Abraham
Geiger, E.
Getz, Elleanor
Hambright, Henry
Harman, Daniel
Hawthorn, H. C.
Henry, J.
Hess, Josiah
Hildebrand, Casper
Hildebrand, Henry
Howister, Ken
Kautz, Jacob F.
Kerfoot, George B
Lamparter, Ehrhart
Lamparter, Elizabeth
Lamparter, Mrs.
Long, John F.
Mackley, J. R.
Magendabler, John
Mathiot, John
McCuhley, J.
Mefsenkop, John
Miller, Herman
Morningstar, Jacob
Morton, William
Oberman, J.
Raub, M.
Renard, Henry
Richard, Luther
Ringwalt, A. S.
Sanderson, George
Schaeffer, Bartram
Schaum, Henry
Schaum, John P.
Sewars, William
Simpson, Jacob G.
Skiles, John D.
Smith, John
Sturgis, B. R.
Tyle, Henry
Wagner, J. Jacob
Werz, Jacob
Wiley, John
Yeisley, George
Subjects
Lamps
Street lighting
Business records
Lancaster (Pa.)
Search Terms
Boon and Cockley
Business records
Citizens' Electric Light
Contracts
Coonley and Woodward
Finding aids
Gable and Company
Heat and Power Company
Heintish and Carter House
Heupel and Huber
Invoices
Isaac Diller and Sons
John Bush and Son
Lamp Committee
Lamps
Lancaster City Waterworks
Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel Company
Manuscript groups
Morris Tasker and Company
Ordinances
Pennsylvania Globe Gas Light Company
Pinkerton and Slaymaker
Proposals
Receipts
Shenk and Long
State Electric Lighting Company
Street lighting
Extent
1 box, 17 folders, .25 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0545_Series05
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory
Related Item Notes
Lancaster City Archives
George and Rhonda Andreadis Collection of Lancaster City Records, MG0545
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions. Original documents may be used. Please contact research@lancasterhistory.org prior to visit.
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.
Other Numbers
MG-545, Series 5
Other Number
MG-545, Series 5
Classification
MG0545
Description Level
Series
Custodial History
Note: These documents are mostly administrative records, not permanent records, and were likely purged by the city offices when they were no longer needed. We are fortunate that they survived as they contain details about Lancaster's past.
The collection was organized and rehoused by JP, Summer 2011; finding aid typed by KR, April 2012.
Documents
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Cooking utensils and cookery of our grandmothers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19487
Author
Hark, (Mrs.) J. Max Hark.
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 6
Responsibility
by Mrs. J. Max Hark.
Author
Hark, (Mrs.) J. Max Hark.
Physical Description
p. [225] - 231 : ill. , 24 cm.
Series
Lebanon County Historical Society papers and addresses v. VI , no. 10.
Notes
Also in Vol. VI, no. 10 : "Lard dips, candle sticks and lamps : or, The light of other days" by Mary L. Roedel ( p. 232 - 241.)
Subjects
Cookery, American.
Kitchen utensils - Pennsylvania.
Lamps - Pennsylvania.
Lighting, Architectural and decorative - Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Roedel, Mary L.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 6
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Cornelius and Company of Philadelphia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19124
Author
Jones, J. Kenneth.
Call Number
738.8 A633 1983
Responsibility
by J. Kenneth Jones.
Author
Jones, J. Kenneth.
Physical Description
p. 1218 - 1222 : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series
in: Magazine Antiques, v. 124, no. 6 (December 1983).
Subjects
Cornelius and Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Candelabra - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Decorative arts - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Lamps - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
738.8 A633 1983
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Early lighting; a pictorial guide

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13495
Corporate Author
Rushlight Club.
Date of Publication
1972]
Call Number
749.63 R953
Responsibility
compiled and published by the Rushlight Club.
Corporate Author
Rushlight Club.
Place of Publication
[Boston
Date of Publication
1972]
Physical Description
x, 129 p. illus. 29 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 125-126.
Subjects
Lamps
Lighting, Architectural and decorative
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
749.63 R953
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Early lighting : from tallow to oil in early America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9077
Date of Publication
1977, c1975.
Call Number
749.63 S646
Responsibility
compiled and edited by Elmer L. Smith ; photography by Melvin J. Horst.
ISBN
0911410392
Place of Publication
Lebanon, Pa
Publisher
Applied Arts Publishers,
Date of Publication
1977, c1975.
Physical Description
32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Subjects
Lamps
Lighting, Architectural and decorative
Additional Author
Smith, Elmer Lewis.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
749.63 S646
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John Long and John Boyer : nineteenth-century craftsmen in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15116
Author
Herr, Donald M.
Call Number
905.748 PHM v. 29 2006
Responsibility
by Donald M. Herr.
Author
Herr, Donald M.
Physical Description
20 - 28 p. : ill., 29 cm.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, v. 29, no. 2 (April 2006).
Subjects
Long, John, - 1787 - 1856.
Boyer, John Palm, - 1833-1901.
Lamps - Lancaster County
Woodworkers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Artisana - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PHM v. 29 2006
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Collection
Wilton - Armetale Photograph Collection
Object ID
WI-01-04-63
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
Wilton - Armetale Photograph Collection
Description
Wilton - Armetale - lamps
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Search Terms
Wilton - Armetale
Lamps
Place
Mount Joy
Object Name
Negative
Film Size
2.25 x 2.75 inches
Object ID
WI-01-04-63
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Collection
Henry Kauffman Photograph Collection
Object ID
HK-09-01-04
  1 image  
Object Name
Negative
Collection
Henry Kauffman Photograph Collection
Description
TIn lamp
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Lamps
Tin
Object Name
Negative
Film Size
3 x 4 inches
Object ID
HK-09-01-04
Images
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Collection
Henry Kauffman Photograph Collection
Object ID
HK-09-01-05
  1 image  
Object Name
Negative
Collection
Henry Kauffman Photograph Collection
Description
Tin lamp
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Tin
Lamps
Object Name
Negative
Film Size
2 x 2 inches
Object ID
HK-09-01-05
Images
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