Complete catalogue of the names of all the students who have attended the Lititz Academy for Boys, from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1865, under the direction of Prof. John Beck to which is appended ... a valedictory letter, embracing a brief history of the rise and progress of the institution
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15127
- Place of Publication
- Lancaster, Pa
- Publisher
- Pearsol & Geist,
- Date of Publication
- 1865.
- Physical Description
- 72, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Lititz Academy for Boys (Lititz, Pa.) - Directories.
- John Beck's School Lyceum (Lititz, Pa.) - Directories
- Schoools - Pennsylvania - Lititz
- Lititz (Pa.) - History
- Additional Author
- Beck, John,
- Additional Corporate Author
- Lititz Academy for Boys (Lititz, Pa.)
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
- Call Number
- 370 c736
Notes on the Rebel invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d and 3d, 1863
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2532
- Alternate Title
- Rebel invasion of Maryland
- Responsibility
- By M. Jacobs ...
- Author
- Jacobs, M.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott & Co.,
- Date of Publication
- 1864.
- Physical Description
- iv, 5-47 p. front. (fold. map) 18 cm.
- Summary
- The author was a professor of mathematics and chemistry at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg at the time of the Civil War. He was also the Lutheran pastor at the campus church.This book is a day-by-day account of the invasion beginning weeks before the Battle of Gettyburg. It was published in the year following the battle. The is no bibliography nor footnotes, but there is an excellent map of the battlefield.
- Subjects
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
- Untied States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Book
- Call Number
- 973.7 J17
Websites
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes and manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16459
- Responsibility
- by John F. Watson ; embellished with engravings by T.H. Mumford.
- Author
- Watson, John F.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Elijah Thomas,
- Date of Publication
- 1860.
- Physical Description
- 3 v., [28] leaves of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
- Notes
- Spine title: Watson's annals of Philadelphia.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subjects
- Pennsylvania - History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
- Additional Author
- Mumford, Thomas Howland,
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
- Call Number
- 974.8 P544 1860
Annual report of the Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania ... for the year 1866
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19162
- Corporate Author
- Pennsylvania. Adjutant-General's Office.
- Date of Publication
- 1867.
- Call Number
- 355.37 H313 1866
- Corporate Author
- Pennsylvania. Adjutant-General's Office.
- Place of Publication
- Harrisburg, PA
- Publisher
- Singerly & Myers,
- Date of Publication
- 1867.
- Physical Description
- 1221 p. ; 25 cm.
- Contents
- Includes index.
- Subjects
- Pennsylvania. - Militia.
- Regimental histories.
- United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories.
- Pennsylvania.
- United States.
- History.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
- Call Number
- 355.37 H313 1866
An essay on the origin of the Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, its objects and progress. Read before the association on its 4th anniversary, at the Athenaeum rooms, February 24th, 1866
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15666
- Author
- Rathvon, Simon S.,
- Date of Publication
- 1866.
- Call Number
- 090 L244p 1866
1 website
- Responsibility
- By S.S. Rathvon. To which are appended its charter, and lists of its officers, its members, and its correspondents.
- Author
- Rathvon, Simon S.,
- Place of Publication
- Lancaster, Pa
- Publisher
- Pearsol & Geist, printers,
- Date of Publication
- 1866.
- Physical Description
- 18 p. 23 cm.
- Notes
- Published by request and by authority of the Society.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
- Call Number
- 090 L244p 1866
Websites
History of the Pennsylvania reserve corps: a complete record of the organization; and of the different companies, regiments and brigades; containing descriptions of expeditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles; together with biographical sketches of officers and personal records of each man during his term of service
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4287
- Responsibility
- Compiled from official reports and other documents. By J. R. Sypher, esq.
- Author
- Sypher, J. R.
- Place of Publication
- Lancaster, Pa
- Publisher
- Published by E. Barr & co.
- Date of Publication
- [1864]
- Physical Description
- 723 p. illus. 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Pennsylvania. - Militia.
- United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories - Pa.
- Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
- Call Number
- 974.8033 S994
- Collection
- James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan
- Title
- Letter from James Buchanan to Harriet Lane Johnston
- Object ID
- JBFP 1.1.1.190
- Date Range
- 1866/06/30
2 documents
4 images
- Title
- Letter from James Buchanan to Harriet Lane Johnston
- Description
- Letter from James Buchanan to Harriet Lane Johnston looking forward to her family’s visit on July 4th and an answer to Mrs. Ellis’ letter. Wheatland.
- Date Range
- 1866/06/30
- Creator
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Container
- JBFP Part 1, Box 3
- Subjects
- Personal correspondence
- Letters
- Fourth of July
- Search Terms
- Correspondence
- Correspondence, Personal
- Letters
- Fourth of July
- Harriet Lane Johnston
- James Buchanan
- Buchanan Collections
- James Buchanan Presidential Library
- Extent
- 1 item, 4 pages to scan, 2.75 x 8 in.
- Object Name
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Parent Object ID
- JBFP Part 1 Series 1
- Object ID
- JBFP 1.1.1.190
- Associated Material
- James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,
- http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers
- James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,
- https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/
- James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
- http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html
- James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
- https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
- Related Item Notes
- James Buchanan Family Papers
- MG-96 James Buchanan Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
- Photograph collections
- Curatorial collections
- Wheatland Mansion
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- May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
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- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Accession Number
- JBMS1995.099
- Other Number
- JBFP Part 1, Series 1, Subseries 1, Folder 190
- Description Level
- Item
- Custodial History
- The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
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History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6921
- Responsibility
- by George Smith, M.D.
- Author
- Smith, George,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Printed by H.B. Ashmead,
- Date of Publication
- 1862.
- Physical Description
- vii, [1], 581, [1] p. front., plates, maps (part fold.) facsims. 22 cm.
- Notes
- Frontispiece (map) wanting.
- Additional Corporate Author
- Delaware County Institute of Science (Media, Pa.)
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Book
- Call Number
- 974.814 S648
Websites
Profile of centre [i.e. center] line of route of Litiz [sic] and Brickerville turnpike road
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15537
- Corporate Author
- James W. Queen and Company.
- Date of Publication
- 1867.
- Call Number
- 974.815 WARW 500
- Alternate Title
- Profile of center line of route of Lititz and Brickerville turnpike road
- Responsibility
- published by James W. Queen & Co.
- Corporate Author
- James W. Queen and Company.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Pa
- Publisher
- James W. Queen & Co.,
- Date of Publication
- 1867.
- Physical Description
- 1 map profile : ms., 2 col. ; 38 x 107 cm.
- Notes
- "Profile Plate A July 1867."
- Subjects
- Roads - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Township) - Maps, Physical.
- Roads - Pennsylvania - Lititz - Maps, Physical.
- Roads - Pensylvania - Brickerville - Maps, Physical.
- Warwick (Pa. : Township) - Maps, Physical.
- Lititz (Pa.) - Maps, Physical.
- Brickerville (Pa.) - Maps, Physical.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Map
- Call Number
- 974.815 WARW 500
Early history of the Falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill and Lehigh navigation companies, Fairmount waterworks, etc
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6313
- Author
- Hagner, Charles Valerius,
- Date of Publication
- 1869.
- Call Number
- 974.811 H141
1 website
- Responsibility
- by Charles V. Hagner.
- Author
- Hagner, Charles Valerius,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger,
- Date of Publication
- 1869.
- Physical Description
- viii, [9]-102 p. front., port. 21 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographies.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
- Call Number
- 974.811 H141