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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Object ID
MG0123
Date Range
1819-1977
  1 document  
Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Description
The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.
Date Range
1819-1977
Year Range From
1819
Year Range To
1977
Date of Accumulation
1819-1977
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 04
People
Bitner, John R.
Boardman, Harris
Bowman, John Jacob
Boyer, Zaccur Prall
Cirt, Anna N.
Griest, William Walton
Hostetter, Albert Keller
Kemrer, Clarence M.
Knapp, Walter
Kreider, Kate
Kriebel, Howard Wiegner
McClellan, Oliver Eldridge
Royer, David
Shuman, James P.
Wohlsen, Anna
Wohlsen, Peter
Subjects
Letters
Minutes (Records)
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.)
Posters
Railroads
Rates and tolls
Reading & Columbia Railroad Company
Street-railroads
Trolley cars
Search Terms
Adamstown
Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
Blueprints
Booklets
Brochures
Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Center Square Road Station
Chestnut Street
Christiana
Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Columbia
Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad
Conestoga Traction Company
Conestoga Transportation Company
Conewago Water and Power Company
Correspondence
Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania
Drawings
Duke Street
East Belt line
East King Street
East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.
Elizabethtown
Engleside, Lancaster Twp.
Ephemera
Ephrata
Express Printing Company
Greeting cards
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania
Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.
J. G. Brill Company
Kinport Road
Lancaster
Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway
Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company
Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company
Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike
Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Letters
Lititz
Maple Grove
Maps
Marietta Avenue
North Market Street
Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.
Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.
Minutes
Mount Joy
Mulberry Street
National Railway Historical Society
Neffsville, Manheim Twp.
North End Photo Finishing House
North Lime Street
North Queen Street
Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Penn Square
Pequea Twp.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photographs
Placards
Substations
President Avenue
Princess Street
Prospect Street
Quarryville
Railroads
Rates and tolls
Reading and Columbia Railroad Company
Receipts
Red Rose Transit Authority
Reports
Roads
Rocky Springs Railroad Company
Schuylkill Navigation Company
Scrapbooks
South Mountain Railroad
South Queen Street
Stock certificates
Susquehanna Railroad
Tickets
Tolls
Trolley car barns
Trolley car yards
Trolley cars
Trolleys
Turnpikes
Walnut Street
WGAL (television station)
Williams Park Station
Willow Street Turnpike
Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
WLAN (radio station)
Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania
York Bus Company
York Fair
York Railway Company
Extent
2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0123
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions are noted at the item level.
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-123
Classification
MG0123
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 23 September 2021.
Documents
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Collection
Edward D. Glass Press Pass Collection
Title
Edward D. Glass Press Pass Collection, 1904-1905
Object ID
MG0915
Date Range
1904-1905
  1 document  
Collection
Edward D. Glass Press Pass Collection
Title
Edward D. Glass Press Pass Collection, 1904-1905
Description
This collection contains twelve press passes issued to Edward D. Glass, reporter for the Lancaster Examiner newspaper, in 1904.
Admin/Biographical History
: Edward D. Glass (1881-1962) worked as a proof reader and reporter for the Lancaster Examiner newspaper from c. 1900 to c. 1910. He later worked as a weaver at Stehli Silk Mill.
Date Range
1904-1905
Year Range From
1904
Year Range To
1905
Date of Accumulation
1904-1905
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 19
People
Glass, Edward D.
Forepaugh, Adam
Reed, G. Harry
Brandt, Simon L.
Boyd, H. C.
Shoff, Frederic
Peoples, John B.
Griffiths, H. B.
Griest, William Walton
Feeley, Thomas F.
Shower, Samuel B.
Subjects
Reporters and reporting
Search Terms
Finding aids
Manuscript groups
Reporters
Press passes
Circuses
Rocky Springs
Theaters
Lady Gay
Baseball
Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway
Rossmere
Woolworth's Rooftop Gardens
Newsboys
Extent
1 folder
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0915
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Edward D. Glass Press Pass Collection, 1904-1905 (MG0915), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
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
Accession Number
2003.MG0915
Other Numbers
MG-915
Other Number
MG-915
Classification
MG0915
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Transferred from Document Collection, Box 33, Folder 1, 14 April 2022.
Documents
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Garden Spot trolleys : an illustrated history of the electric street railway in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2870
Author
Cummings, Luther P.
Date of Publication
c1977.
Call Number
388.4 C971
Responsibility
by Luther P. Cummings and Benson W. Rohrbeck.
Author
Cummings, Luther P.
Place of Publication
West Chester, Pa
Publisher
B. Rohrbeck Traction Publications,
Date of Publication
c1977.
Physical Description
170 p. : ill., maps (1 fold. in pocket) ; 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania traction series
Subjects
Conestoga Traction Company.
Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company.
Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway Company.
Lancaster and Southern Street Railway Company.
Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Trolley buses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Additional Author
Rohrbeck, Benson W.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
388.4 C971
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-05-11-31
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Lancaster and York Furnace Trolley Car. J. G. Brill Company, Car and Truck Builders, Philadelphia, Order 14054.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
J. G. Brill Company
Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway
Trolleys
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
9 x 4.5 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
2-05-11-31
Images
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