- Collection
- Decorative Arts Collection: Textiles
- Description
- Woven jacquard coverlet with red roses, blue 9-petaled flowers, 8-point stars, red birds, and blue rose trees.
- Center field: alternate stripes of blocks of red roses with blue 9-petaled flowers encircled by small 8-point stars with 2 larger stars between flowers.
- Outer border: Alternate redbirds and blue rose treets on 3 sides.
- Head edge: Bound with commercial red twill tape.
- Center seam: Self fringe on 3 edges. Side wool fringes are looped.
- Corner blocks: "Made by J. Witmer Manor Township for Hennah Sauder 1839"
- Date Range
- 1839
- Made By
- Witmer, Jacob
- Last Owner
- Sauder, Hennah
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 5
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 39
- Storage Container
- Box 0058
- People
- Witmer, J.
- Sauder, Hennah
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Search Terms
- Manor Twp.
- Coverlets
- Object Name
- Coverlet
- Length (in)
- 103.5
- Width (in)
- 90
- Condition
- Excellent
- Condition Date
- 2016-05-23
- Condition Notes
- well-made
- Object ID
- 1950.006.4
- Accession Number
- 1950.006
- Collection
- Decorative Arts Collection: Textiles
- Object ID
- 2009.004
- Date Range
- 1842
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- Collection
- Decorative Arts Collection: Textiles
- Description
- Coverlet of red wool and blue-green cotton. 2 loom widths decoratively and strongly seamed in the center with red wool. This coverlet is comparatively light weight. Self-fringes of red wool on both sides. Foot end is rolled and hand-stitched. Red wool fringes appear to have been individually applied.Top/head edge is finished with a 1.5-inch wide folded silky red binding. Some machine stitching in black thread and also hand-stitching to attach the binding.
- Center field contains rows of circular designs. Roses border the lower edge and foliage in urns border the sides.
- Unlike most coverlets, Satler's weaver's blocks in bottom corners are oriented to be read from the top of the coverlet.
- "1842 LEACOCK TOWNSHIP LAN. COU. CATHARINA BAER"
- Date Range
- 1842
- Made By
- Satler, Lewis
- Last Owner
- Baer, Catharina
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 5
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 39
- Storage Shelf
- Shelf 1
- Storage Container
- Box 0139
- People
- Satler, Lewis
- Baer, Catharina
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Search Terms
- Leacock Twp.
- Coverlets
- Object Name
- Coverlet
- Material
- Cotton, Wool
- Length (cm)
- 190.5
- Length (ft)
- 6.25
- Length (in)
- 75
- Width (cm)
- 214.63
- Width (ft)
- 7.0416666667
- Width (in)
- 84.5
- Dimension Details
- Width: 77.5 + 3.5-inch fringes on both sides = 84.5 inches wide
- Length: 72 inches + 3-inch fringe on bottom = 75 inches long
- Condition
- Fair
- Condition Date
- 2016-05-23
- Condition Notes
- Strong fringe loss at sides and foot.
- Some stains.
- Object ID
- 2009.004
- Notes
- Updated By: CMR 05/23/2016
- Weaver Lewis Satler [Saddler] is cited in:
- 1. Heisey, John W., compiler. "A Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers." Wmsburg, VA: The Colonial Wmsbrg. Foundation, 1978. p. 100.
- 2. Anderson, Clarita. "American Coverlets and Their Weavers." Wmsburg, VA, 2002. p. 206.
- Accession Number
- 2009.004
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- Collection
- Heritage Center Collection
- Description
- Birth & baptismal certificate on laid paper. Printed form with central textblock in German within a multiple line border. Infilled and decorated around textblock by Speyer; cross-legged angel at top, pelicans feeding young at sides and flowers at sides and bottom. Watercolors are red, blue, yellow, green and brown.
- Infilled for Johannes, son of Valiendein (Valentine) and Eliesabetha (Elisabetha) Bohmer of Brecknock Township in Lancaster Co., born Dec. 13, 1788.
- Georg Friederich Speyer (active 1774-1801) used this printed form produced c. 1789 by Barton & Johnson of Reading. See Notes.
- Date Range
- c. 1789
- Year Range From
- 1789
- Year Range To
- 1895
- Creator
- Speyer, Georg Friederich
- Made By
- Barton & Johnson
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 5
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 43
- Storage Shelf
- Bin 2-F
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Search Terms
- Fraktur
- Baptismal records
- Object Name
- Fraktur
- Oither Names
- Taufschein
- Material
- Paper, Ink, Watercolor
- Height (in)
- 16.5
- Width (in)
- 13
- Dimension Details
- Frame is 19.75 x 16'.
- Condition
- Good
- Condition Date
- 2015-07-27
- Condition Notes
- General wear with numerous creases and wrinkles; one pronounced vertical centerline crease. Repaired tears, esp at left edge. All edges are ragged and uneven, esp. at right.
- Conserved by CCAHA in 1989 (see report in file). Hinged into window mat & back mat. Relaced in its original frame using UF-3 Plexiglas and acid-free cardboard on reverse with a taped mylar dust shield.
- Object ID
- G.77.50.1
- Notes
- Printed form by Reading printers Thomas Barton and Benjamin Johnson, circa 1789 (see Klaus Stopp, The Printed Birth & Baptismal Certificates of the Pa. Germans, v. 4, p. 84). Speyer used this printed form for Johannes Bohmer who was born the previous year in1788.
- Place of Origin
- Lancaster County
- Role
- Artist
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Flanders Smith, Heritage Center Collection
- Accession Number
- G.77.50
Images
- Description
- Military insignia, two eagles
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 1
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 09
- Storage Shelf
- Top
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Object Name
- Insignia
- Object ID
- 2015.018.3
- Accession Number
- 2015.018
- Collection
- Tool Collection: Agriculture
- Description
- Tobacco spear iron tip. Hollow spear point fits onto a now-missing wooden shaft and is used to spear several tobacco plant that would be hung for drying.
- Provenance
- From MG-394, Walter Hess inventory.
- Year Range From
- 1880
- Year Range To
- 1940
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 1
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 57
- Storage Shelf
- Shelf 3
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Object Name
- Spear, Tobacco
- Material
- Iron
- Length (in)
- 6.25
- Width (in)
- 1.825
- Depth (in)
- 0.75
- Object ID
- 2015.026
- Accession Number
- 2015.026
- Collection
- History Collection: Business & Industry
- Description
- Booklet from Brubaker's Hatchery titled "Brubaker's Strain Single Comb White Leghorns, mating list 1914. 12 pages, 6 leaves. Publisher listed on back cover: Poultry Item Press, Sellersville, Penna.
- Date Range
- 1914
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 1
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 09
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Search Terms
- Beechdale Duck Farm
- Object Name
- Ephemera
- Height (in)
- 6.375
- Width (in)
- 3.5
- Condition
- Good
- Object ID
- 2015.022.4
- Notes
- Transferred to Archives, MG- 756.
- Accession Number
- 2015.022
- Collection
- Heritage Center Collection
- Description
- Birth certificate is hand done by artist using design elements from printed fraktur. Multicolor text is enclosed in a central arched arbor w/ flame finials. Text names Christian, a son of Jacob and Barbara (KIndig) Bachman, born 1827 in Lampeter Twp. Two confronting angels flank arbor and 2 additional text blocks of religious verse support arbor. A pavilion at bottom is flanked by blue trees & large colorful pinwheel flowers.
- Border at sides and top have colorful, repeating floral/foliate motifs; top is arched. Hearts and flowers fill top corners. Above arbor is a large 4-point stylized star flanked by reclining trees.
- Artist uses red, blue, light blue, black, yellow, white, green, orange and brown.
- Inscribed on reverse in black ink is "No 4 made by Eli Haverstick 1834."
- Provenance
- Descent in Bachman family to donor. Two nearly identical birth certificates are known, for older sister Anne, b. 1823 (private owner-Barbara Ann Mable) and younger brother John, b. 1832 (G.96.9.1). Similarity suggests all were made at the same time in 1834.
- Bachman family genealogy in file. See info on Christian Bachman in Mennonite Arts, 2002, pp. 56-57.
- Date Range
- c. 1832
- Year Range From
- 1832
- Year Range To
- 1840
- Creator
- Haverstick, Eli
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 5
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 43
- Storage Shelf
- Shelf 2
- Storage Drawer
- Bin 2-A
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Subject
- Fraktur art
- Frakturs (Documents)
- Search Terms
- Fraktur
- Birth records
- Object Name
- Fraktur
- Oither Names
- Birth Certificate
- Material
- Paper, Ink, Watercolor
- Height (in)
- 11.75
- Width (in)
- 9.75
- Dimension Details
- Frame is H: 19.75" and W: 16.25".
- Condition
- Good
- Condition Date
- 2015-09-21
- Condition Notes
- Conserved by Susan Duhl in 2001. Generally worn and discolored. Repair to edge tears & corner loss. Abrasions & paper fill in top right corner were in-painted with watercolor. Tape at back of top edge is now removed w/ remaining stain. See report in file.
- Object ID
- G.00.23.1
- Notes
- Haverstick is believed to be a teacher due to being absent on tax rolls for Conestoga Twp.
- Christian Bachman (1827-1901) became a prominent cabinetmaker in eastern Lancaster County, just like his father Jacob Bachman (1798-1867). He married Barbara Buckwalter in 1855. After marriage, he moved to Strasburg where he set up his own shop.
- Place of Origin
- Conestoga Twp.
- Role
- Artist
- Credit
- In memory of Charles Bachman, grandson of Christian Bachman, by his son Charles Bachman, Jr. and family.
- Accession Number
- G.00.23
Images
- Collection
- History Collection: Person
- Title
- Pedestal Compote Bowl
- Object ID
- 2015.025
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- Collection
- History Collection: Person
- Title
- Pedestal Compote Bowl
- Description
- White, pink, and gold pierced bowl compote with pink band surrounded by gold on base from the Shreiner family. "S" in gold script on base. Gold paint traces basket shape made by piercings in bowl. Florets on basket where gold lines intersect. Composed of three pieces with screw holding them together, through stem.
- Provenance
- Descent within Shreiner family to donor. Mueller is related to Shreiner family through his maternal grandmother Mary Elizabeth Cochran (Mrs. Louis B. Sprecher). Her mother was Alma C. Shreiner (1855-1940) , Mrs. Henry B. Cochran. Alma's father was Henry Michael Shreiner (1832-1919), a watchmaker/jeweler.
- Last Owner
- Shreiner family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- West Wall
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 33
- Storage Shelf
- Shelf 1
- People
- Schreiner
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Object Name
- Compote
- Material
- Ceramic
- Height (in)
- 7
- Width (in)
- 9
- Dimension Details
- base is 4.75 in wide.
- Condition
- Good
- Object ID
- 2015.025
- Credit
- Gift of Paul Mueller, Jr.
- Accession Number
- 2015.025
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- Collection
- Firefighting Collection: Washington Fire Company
- Title
- Washington Parade Belt
- Object ID
- 1922.010.2
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- Title
- Washington Parade Belt
- Description
- Firefighter's belt. A 2.5in wide black leather belt, edges bound i white leather with a zig-zag edge on the front. Center cut-out portion reveals a red background with raised white letters: "WASHINGTON" 3.5in wide moveable slide also bound in white on edges with red cut out background with raised "W F Co" in white letters, On the back, a 9" long x .75in wide belt with 10 holes is attached 10 inches from the rounded end with a small buckle at the tapered opposite end..
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 1
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 07
- Storage Shelf
- Shelf 1
- Storage Container
- Box 0163
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Object Name
- Belt
- Oither Names
- Parade Belt
- Length (in)
- 42
- Width (in)
- 2.5
- Condition
- Good
- Object ID
- 1922.010.2
- Accession Number
- 1922.010
Images
- Collection
- Firefighting Collection: Washington Fire Company
- Title
- Washington Parade Belt
- Object ID
- 1922.010.3
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- Title
- Washington Parade Belt
- Description
- Firefighter's belt. A 2.5in wide black leather belt, edges bound in white leather with a zig zag edge on the front. Center cut out portion reveals a red background with raised white letters: "WASHINGTON." A 3.5in wide moveable slide also bound in white on edges with red cut out background with raised "W F Co" in white letters. Belt with holes is detached belt on one end with a small buckle.
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 1
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 07
- Storage Shelf
- Shelf 1
- Storage Container
- Box 0163
- Subcategory
- Need to Classify
- Object Name
- Belt
- Oither Names
- Parade Belt
- Length (in)
- 39
- Width (in)
- 2.5
- Condition
- Good
- Condition Date
- 2015-10-26
- Condition Notes
- partial tear 10 inches from rounded end.
- Object ID
- 1922.010.3
- Accession Number
- 1922.010
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