The American crisis
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16282
- Responsibility
- by the author of Common sense.
- Author
- Paine, Thomas,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Printed and sold by Styner and Cist, in Second-street, six doors above Arch-street. Where also may be had no. I. and II.,
- Date of Publication
- [1777]
- Physical Description
- [25]-56 p. ; 18 cm.
- Notes
- Signed: Common sense; dated: Philadelphia, April 19, 1777.
- On the verso of the t.p. is a proclamatin by General Washington concerning deserters, dated April 6, 1777; also a general order, dated April 8, 1777.
- Summary
- One of Thomas Paine's 16 "American Crisis " patriotic essays written during the American Revolution between 1776 and 1783.
- Subjects
- United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States - History - Revolution - Contemporary opinion.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
- Call Number
- 973.3 P544 1777
Websites
An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the City of London and the dissenters
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22120
- Place of Publication
- America
- Publisher
- Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia,
- Date of Publication
- 1772.
- Physical Description
- [4], iv, [1], 6-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
- Notes
- Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
- Signatures: piⶠB⸠D-Fâ´ [G]â´ H-2Mâ´.
- Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.
- Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
- Yeates's signature at top of title page.
- Book number 950 as assigned by Yeaetes.
- Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
- Eller
- Evans
- Contents
- I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the 4th vol. of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters.--II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks.--III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply.--IV. The case of the late election of the county or Middlesex considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.--V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his exposition of the Act of toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries.--VI. Authentic copies of the Argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of judges delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of lords, in the cause between the city of London and the dissenters.
- Subjects
- Great Britain. - Parliament - Elections.
- Great Britain. - Parliament.
- Dissenters, Religious - England - Early works to 1800.
- Law - Great Britain.
- Dissenters, Religious.
- Elections.
- Law.
- England.
- Great Britain.
- Early works.
- Prospectuses - Great Britain - 18th century.
- Full leather (Binding)
- Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
- Additional Author
- Foster, Michael,
- Mansfield, William Murray,
- Blackstone, William,
- Furneaux, Philip,
- Priestley, Joseph,
- Yeates, Jasper,
- Additional Title
- Case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of the law.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
- Call Number
- Book 950 1772
Anno regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, decimo tertio. : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1772 ... And from thence continued by adjournments to the twenty-sixth day of February, 1773
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21545
- Corporate Author
- Pennsylvania.
- Date of Publication
- MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
- Call Number
- Book 583 1773
- Corporate Author
- Pennsylvania.
- Uniform Title
- Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1773 Feb.)
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, at the new printing-office, near the market.,
- Date of Publication
- MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
- Physical Description
- pages [2], 293-355, [1] ; 34 cm
- Notes
- Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1770 (Evans 11800).
- Pennsylvania arms on title page.
- Eighteen pages of hand-written notes at end of volume.
- Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
- Yeates's signature at top of title page.
- Book number 583 as assigned by Yeates.
- Evans
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
- Contents
- Bound with Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twentieth Day of February 1768, Philadelphia, D. Hall and W. Sellers,1768; - Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjourments to the highteenth# Day of February 1769, Philadelphia: D. Hall, and W. Sellers, 1769 - Anno Regni Georgii II Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twenty-fourthDay of February, 1770, Philadelphhia, D. Hall and W Sellers, 1770 - Anno Regni Gerogii III Regis...And from thence continured by Adjournments to the Twenty-first Day of March 1772, Philadelphia, Hall and Sellers, 1772.
- Subjects
- Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Pennsylvania.
- History.
- Three-quarters leather on printed boards(Binding)
- Title stamped on spine (Binding)
- Additional Author
- Yeates, Jasper,
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
- Call Number
- Book 583 1773
- Collection
- George Steinman Papers, Series 2 Documents, Images, Ephemera
- Title
- Notice for the sheriff's sale of the property of William White
- Object ID
- MG0184_S02_F030_In01_It03
- Date Range
- 1773/03/04
1 document
- Title
- Notice for the sheriff's sale of the property of William White
- Description
- Notice for the sheriff's sale of the house and personal property of William White, innkeeper, in Derry Township, and the real property of John Sample, adjoined by William White, Robert McKee, and Samuel Clark. Peter, an enslaved man, is noted. Frederick Stone, sheriff. Printed by Francis Bailey. Lancaster.
- Date Range
- 1773/03/04
- Creation Date
- 4 March 1773
- Creator
- Lancaster County (Pa.). Sheriff
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 04
- Storage Container
- Series 02, Box 0002
- People
- Bailey, Francis
- Clark, Samuel
- McKee, Robert
- Peter
- Sample, James
- Sample, John
- Stone, Frederick
- White, William
- Subjects
- African Americans--History
- Lancaster County (Pa.). Sheriff
- Real property
- Real property auctions
- Search Terms
- Derry Twp., Lancaster County
- Enslaved persons
- Innkeepers
- Lancaster County Sheriff
- Persons of color
- Real estate
- Sheriff's sales
- Sheriffs
- Extent
- 1 item, 1 page to scan
- Object Name
- Announcement
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0184_S02_F030_In01_It03
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- George Steinman Papers, Series 1 (MG0184_S01) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/786b3ffc-7908-40de-9362-817467455650
- George Steinman Papers, Series 2 (MG0184_S02) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6c7e11c6-f3ca-469c-891a-145832196710
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), George Steinman Papers (MG0184), Series 2, Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
- LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this document reflects the racial prejudices and actions of the era. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
- Copyright
- Images have been provided for research purposes only. Please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.
- LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.
- 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-184, Series 2
- Other Number
- MG-184, Series 2, Folder 30, Insert 1, Item 3
- Classification
- MG0184
- Description Level
- Item
- Custodial History
- Added to database 26 October 2022.
- Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
Documents
- Collection
- Hubley Collection
- Title
- Hubley Collection
- Object ID
- MG0002
- Date Range
- 1741-1864
1 document
- Collection
- Hubley Collection
- Title
- Hubley Collection
- Description
- The Hubley Collection contains legal documents, case papers, family and military papers, wills, deeds, bills and receipts, indentures for servants and enslaved persons, correspondence, petitions, and church-related information.
- Admin/Biographical History
- John Hubley and Joseph Hubley were Lancaster attorneys.
- System of Arrangement
- The legal papers are arranged chronologically. Case papers are arranged
- alphabetically by surname of the plaintiff or defendant. Family papers are grouped by the family member's name and chronologically within that name. Box 6 is arranged chronologically.
- Date Range
- 1741-1864
- Year Range From
- 1741
- Year Range To
- 1864
- Date of Accumulation
- 1741-1864
- Creator
- Hubley family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- App, Michael
- Barr, John
- Deshler, Adam
- Ferree, Polly
- Foulke, Caleb
- Franklin, Thomas
- Fromberger, John
- Hubley, Adam
- Hubley, Frederick
- Hubley, George
- Hubley, John
- Hubley, Joseph
- Hubley, Michael
- Jones, Owen, Jr.
- Lauman, Ludwig
- Musser, John
- Porter, Andrew
- Rieger, Jacob
- Rieger, Catherine
- Thomas, Adam
- Subjects
- Court records
- Deeds
- Depositions
- Family records
- Indentured servants
- Judgments
- Law offices
- Letters
- Promissory notes
- Slavery
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
- Wills
- Search Terms
- Correspondence
- Court records
- Deeds
- Depositions
- Enslaved persons
- Family records
- Finding aids
- Indentured servants
- Judgments
- Law offices
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Military
- Promissory notes
- Revolutionary War
- Slavery
- Warder, Parker and Company
- Wills
- Yeiser & Weaver
- Extent
- 6 boxes, 84 folders, 2.25 cu. ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0002
- Related Item Notes
- Hubley Family File in the library.
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-2
- Classification
- MG0002
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Collection was cataloged prior to July 1997; added to database 1 March 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- Hager Store Collection
- Title
- Hager Store Collection
- Object ID
- MG0104
- Date Range
- 1774-1953
assume
all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use
restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Language: English
Biographical and Historical Note:
Source of Acquisition: Unknown, unless specified at the item level.
Custodial History (Provenance):
Accruals
1 document
- Collection
- Hager Store Collection
- Title
- Hager Store Collection
- Description
- The Hager Store Collection contains anniversary booklets, invoices, advertisements, family papers, and newsletter of the Hager Department Store which was founded in Lancaster. The collection includes a children's book that was distributed by the store and a Christmas catalog. Among the Hager family papers are deeds, land patents, and probate records.
- Date Range
- 1774-1953
- Year Range From
- 1774
- Year Range To
- 1953
- Date of Accumulation
- 1774-1953
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 03
- People
- Arnold, Anna
- Arnold, Frank W.
- Cain, James M.
- Cain, Kathryn
- Conyngham, David H.
- Dehaven, J. Harry
- Demuth, Jacob
- Diller, Isaac
- Dowd, M. Jane
- Dubbs, T. Wilson
- Frey, Caroline
- Frey, Jacob L.
- Frosart, John
- Gast, Emma L.
- Gast, Henry
- Graybill, Daniel
- Hager, Anne Graham
- Hager, Betty Rick
- Hager, Charles F.
- Hager, Christopher
- Hager, Edward T.
- Hager, Frances
- Hager, Helen R.
- Hager, John C.
- Hager, John C., Jr.
- Hager, John J.
- Hager, Katherine
- Hager, Margaret H.
- Hager, Mary W.
- Hager, Nathaniel E.
- Hager, Redmond
- Hager, Sarah Ellen
- Hager, Susan B.
- Hager, William H.
- Hager, William H., Jr.
- Hamilton, Margaret
- Hartman, Annie M.
- Hartman, George H.
- Herr, Alice
- Herr, C. S.
- Herr, Magdalena
- Herr, Rudolph
- Hull, William
- Keller, H.
- Landis, Jacob
- Lefevre, Mrs.
- Miller, Charles
- Randolph, Grace Lee
- Randolph, John H.
- Randolph, Margaret H.
- Reigart, E. L.
- Roy, Sue
- Slaymaker, Henry
- Stark, Martin N.
- Steinman, George Michael
- Stewart, Charles
- Weber, George
- Wentz, Jacob H.
- Zimmerman, Mary Regina Malone
- Zimmerman, Simon Ralph
- Search Terms
- Advertisements
- Anniversaries
- Business Historical Society Bulletin
- Catalogs
- Deeds
- Department stores
- Express (Lititz)
- Financial records
- Finding aids
- Frank T. Riley Publishing Company
- Fulton Theatre
- Hager's Department Store
- Hamilton Watch Company
- Invoices
- Lancaster Agricultural Fair Association
- Lancaster Free Press Weekly
- Lancaster New Era
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Maps
- N. Trotter and Company
- Newsletters
- Newspaper clippings
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Philadelphia Electric Company
- Postcards
- Quarter Century Club
- Receipts
- Stocks
- Stores
- Stores, Retail
- Taxes
- UGI Corporation
- Wills
- Wondertown
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 37 folders, 1 framed document, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0104
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
- Copyright
- Collection 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-104
- Classification
- MG0104
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Recataloged by MM, Summer 2011. Added to database 7 February 2019.
Documents
- Collection
- John Wilson and Samuel Houston Collection
- Title
- John Wilson and Samuel Houston Collection
- Object ID
- MG0093
- Collection
- John Wilson and Samuel Houston Collection
- Title
- John Wilson and Samuel Houston Collection
- Description
- Family and legal papers of the Wilson and Houston families. Includes wills, deeds, legal papers, estate papers, and correspondence. The collection covers the Earl, Salisbury, and Leacock Township area.
- Year Range From
- 1756
- Year Range To
- 1849
- Date of Accumulation
- 1756-1849
- Creator
- Wilson family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 03
- People
- Andress, George
- Burkman, J. John
- Douglas, John
- Douglass, Thomas
- Henderson, Thomas
- Hopkins, James
- Houston, Benjamin F.
- Houston, Samuel
- Job, Jeremiah
- Owen, Archibald
- Searle, James
- Taylor, Isaac
- Weidman, Christopher
- Wilson, John
- Wilson, John, Sr.
- Yoner, Jacob
- Other Creators
- Houston family
- Subjects
- Deeds
- Family records
- Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.)
- Postal service
- Promissory notes
- Wills
- Search Terms
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Family records
- Pequea Meetinghouse
- Philadelphia Turnpike
- United States Postal Service
- Promissory notes
- Subpoenas
- Wills
- Extent
- 1 box, 28 folder, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0093
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please contact Research Staff or Archives Staff with questions.
- Credit
- John Wilson and Samuel Houston Collection (MG-93), Folder #, LancasterHistory.org
- Classification
- MG0093
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Collection
- Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection
- Title
- Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection
- Object ID
- MG0360
- Date Range
- 1774-1916
1 document
- Collection
- Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection
- Title
- Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection
- Description
- The Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection contains a deed for property in Lancaster Borough, an early collection of recipes, a receipt book for the Hamilton Lots, a valentine, stock certificate books for the New Process Steel Corporation, and Civil War letters. The Honorable Paul A. Mueller, Jr. is a descendant of the Zahm, Shreiner, and Cochran families on his mother's side. The items in this collection were passed down through the family for several generations.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Klein, Huffnagle, and Mussertown
- The deed shows the sale of property in Mussertown by innkeepers Leonard and Rosina Klein to Peter Huffnagle. Leonard (1725-1793) married Amalia Rosina Waidlin (1732-1795) at Warwick, Lancaster County in December 1749. At that time he was a saddler in Lancaster. Although they did not have children, they were sponsors at several baptisms at the Moravian Church and Trinity Lutheran Church, both in Lancaster. Peter Huffnagle (1746-1806) and his wife, Charlotte, had their children baptized at the First Reformed Church in Lancaster. They were also buried in that churchyard. Mussertown was laid out in 1760 by John Musser, and was later added onto by Henry Musser. Its original boundaries were the streets now called Church, Strawberry, Locust, and Rockland.
- Hamilton Lots
- In 1730, Andrew Hamilton, a skilled lawyer, purchased a tract of land in the newly incorporated Lancaster County and convinced the commissioners to place the county seat within his holdings. Queen Street and King Street run through that tract. James Hamilton (1710-1783) acquired 500 acres of land from his father in 1734, and started selling lots by 1735. Although Hamilton sold the lots, he imposed ground-rents so tenants had to pay for the right to occupy and improve the land that they owned. Tenants were also required to build dwellings on their property within two years and to meet certain building specifications. He continued to acquire and sell lots until 1773. Ground-rents were still being collected on the Hamilton Lots after World War II.
- Zahm and Shreiner
- Godfried Zahm was a brushmaker in Lancaster. His son, Michael (d.1883), learned the brushmaking business from his father and then learned the watchmaking and jewelry business from his brother-in-law, Martin Shreiner, Jr. (1767-1866). Godfried's daughter, Maria, married Martin Shreiner who is best remembered as a Lancaster clockmaker. Maria kept a trimming shop on North Queen Street in Lancaster.
- Cochran and New Process Steel Corporation
- Harry B. Cochran, great-grandfather of Paul A. Mueller, Jr., was the president of New Process Steel Corporation in 1916. New Process Steel Co. began as New Process Steel Wire Manufacturing Co. and was renamed in 1907. This manufacturer of drill rods and special steel shapes became a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation in 1919. It is significant that Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. owned stock in the New Process Steel Corporation in 1916. Sloan was president of Hyatt Roller Bearing Company when it merged with the United Motors Corporation in 1916. He then became president of United Motors which merged with General Motors Corporation in 1918. Sloan was president and CEO of General Motors from 1923-1946.
- Date Range
- 1774-1916
- Year Range From
- 1774
- Year Range To
- 1916
- Date of Accumulation
- 1774-1916
- Creator
- Mueller, Paul A., b. 1930
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 09
- People
- Albright, F. S.
- Angeoine, Harry W.
- Balsbach, Andrew
- Barrett, Richard L.
- Bough, Mathias
- Bubach, Gerhart
- Buback, Garret
- Bugie, Henry A.
- Burkhart, Samuel H.
- Burkholder, I. Dora
- Burkholder, John D.
- Cochran, Harry B.
- Cochran, John S.
- Cochran, Thomas
- Curtis, John
- Eberman, P. G.
- Eshleman, Benjamin
- Fairer, A.
- Frantz, Carrie B.
- Goble, Jacob
- Godshalk, Earl M.
- Good, Henry
- Hamilton, John
- Hamilton, William
- Harnish, Aaron B.
- Hartman, John K.
- Hinerdeer, Henry G.
- Hite, Edward B.
- Hoofnagle, Peter
- Hostetter, A. H.
- Ingersoll, Charles H.
- Ingersoll, Fred R.
- Keller, A. S.
- Kline, Leonard
- Kline, Rosina
- Knell, Henry
- Kreider, Elizabeth
- Kunkle, Aaron
- Lefever, George D.
- Lenher, Philip
- Leonard, Philip
- Loucks, Aaron
- Lowry, William
- Martin, Samuel O.
- McCleery, Carpenter
- McClure, H. L.
- McClure, Harry L.
- McCoy, Sarah A.
- Messenkop, John A.
- Michenfelder, Caspar
- Moore, John
- Moore, Martin A.
- Mueller, Jane Moffat
- Mueller, Paul A.
- Musselman, Amos
- Musser, Ann
- Musser, Henry
- Nauman, David
- Newman, Charles
- Parry, Vaughn Ingersoll
- Price, John
- Reichenbach, William
- Scott, George A.
- Shertz, Jacob
- Sherwood, Warren A.
- Shreiner, John F.
- Shrum, William
- Sloan, Alfred P. Jr.
- Stoddard, Williston B.
- Stoner, C. L.
- Turbett, Samuel
- Weaver, Henry M.
- Weidler, David
- Weiss, Jay G.
- Wenger, A. D.
- Wenger, D. H.
- Wenger, D. M.
- Wentz, Henry
- Witmer, Amos K.
- Yeates, Jasper
- Zahm, Godfried
- Zantmiller, Kate
- Zercher, Jacob
- Other Creators
- Shreiner family
- Cochran family
- Zahm family
- Subjects
- Cookbooks
- Deeds
- Letters
- Recipes
- Stock certificates
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Valentines
- Search Terms
- Boswell and McCleery
- Civil War
- Cookbooks
- Correspondence
- Finding aids
- General Motors Corporation
- Hamilton lots
- John Meaner and Company
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Mussertown, Lancaster
- New Process Steel Corporation
- New Process Steel Wire Manufacturing Company
- Recipes
- Stock certificates
- Valentines
- Extent
- 1 box, 10 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German
- Object ID
- MG0360
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- Shand, William and Dean Keller. 1965. "Twentieth Century Industrial Development of Lancaster." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 69: 151-162.
- Wood, Stacy B. C. 1994. "Martin Shreiner: from Clocks to Fire Engines." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 96: 114-137.
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection (MG0360), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-360
- Other Number
- MG-360
- Classification
- MG0360
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Folders 1-9 cataloged in 2005. Folder 10 cataloged in 2009. Added to database 7 September 2017.
Documents
- Collection
- Lloyd Mifflin Collection
- Title
- Lloyd Mifflin Collection
- Description
- This collection contains the papers of Lloyd Mifflin, including diaries, his poetry, typescripts, galleys with marginal notes, Mifflin family material, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Lloyd Mifflin was a poet and painter from Columbia, Pa. He is best known as a writer of sonnets, publishing over 500.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Lloyd Mifflin (1846-1921), artist of landscape and portraiture, was also "America's greatest sonneteer." He was born and lived much of his life in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where he was free to wander the banks of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries.
- His father, J. Houston Mifflin, of English Quaker descent, was Lloyd's first teacher in drawing and sketching. His mother, Elizabeth A. Heise, came from German heritage. She was born in Columbia and died when Lloyd was very young. His father, a kind and patient man, noted that Lloyd was a rather weak child and provided equestrian and water sports to improve his health.
- Lloyd was taught in the public schools in Columbia, including the Washington Classical Institute. The Mifflin family supported local education by bequeathing two houses from their estate, the cottage known as "Norwood" and the grand house, "Cloverton," as well as the estate itself. The school district annually planted a flower on his birthday, September 15, and read one of his sonnets, "A Picture of My Mother."
- At the age of 14, Lloyd undertook drawing and sketching with his father. He also had Thomas Moran as an instructor in painting and worked with Isaac Williams of Philadelphia for a short time. In 1869, he traveled to Europe where he studied with Henry Herzog at Dusseldorf, Germany. His adventures also took him to Italy, France, England, and Scotland. He returned to Columbia from Europe and continued painting scenes from along the Susquehanna-from Cooperstown, NY to the Chesapeake Bay. As did most other painters of the time, he earned money from portraiture.
- In his paintings, he captured the natural with refined color and light, which yielded firm and balanced forms. He preferred to capture the peacefulness of a woodland path or other quiet spots, rather than the noise of an industrial area. Later in his life he liked seasonal paintings, since they gave him a chance to probe deeper into a philosophical spirit.
- Mifflin turned to poetry at the age of 51. According to what he wrote in The Hills, his first volume of poetry (1896), he claimed that the fumes of the paint made him sick. In his lifetime he filled twelve books of verse with two hundred poems and more than six hundred sonnets. He wrote more sonnets than William Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Wordworth. John Keats, however, was his favorite. He preferred Keats for his expression regarding the love of beauty, both real and ideal; his forms were always poised and dignified. During this time he also taught himself the art of etching, using this technique to illustrate The Hills.
- Mifflin stressed a strong love of beauty in his poetry as he did in his painting. His imagination and beautiful sense of harmony characterize his verse. The main source of his ambition, inspiration and consolation are clearly seen in The Invocation.
- He devoted his greatest efforts to the category of the sonnet, considering it the most distinguished and exalted of all forms of English poetry. He enjoyed the structure, the metrical and rhythmic beauty, the plan of metrical rhyme and diction. Mifflin found it much like a musical composition.
- Sonnets bipartite in structure usually have a combination of eight lines followed by six. The rhyme schemes and diction include many metaphors and an extensive vocabulary. His one hundred and fifty nature sonnets emphasize the descriptive, not the intuitional. To sample his poetic styles, one should turn to his three hundred and fifty collected sonnets, published in 1905 with a second edition in 1907. A large number came from earlier books.
- As a poet, Mifflin was an idealist and respected the ideal of Greek mythological beauty. In the Echoes of the Greek Idylls and Slopes of Helicon, we find no roughness of spirit. There was a conscience of a spiritual presence. His religious sonnets were grounded in the faith of a personal God which related more to his aesthetic feelings than to traditional Christianity. Themes of life and death occur in many sonnets. His poetry inspired faith, hope and deep emotion. These sonnets were more descriptive than philosophical.
- Mifflin's personal ambition was to excel; he wanted to write the perfect sonnet. Like the classical Greeks, he hoped his poetry would obtain an immortality. Mifflin thought the world had largely ignored him, even though his poetry received high praise. At his life's end he changed his opinion and credited his readers with more accolades than he had earlier thought. Perhaps he was too hard on himself. Lloyd Mifflin carried the name "Hermit of the hills" who walked the 'world as one entranced' and 'in life's turbid wave', dropped ' the crown-jewel of his melody.'"
- E. Hershey Sneath. America's Greatest Sonneteer. The Clover Press (Geo. D. Hall): Columbia, PA.,1928.
- Year Range From
- 1751
- Year Range To
- 1965
- Creator
- Mifflin, Lloyd, 1846-1921
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 02
- Search Terms
- Artists
- Columbia
- Diaries
- Illustrations
- Painters
- Poetry
- Poets
- Press reviews
- Scrapbooks
- Sonnets
- Susquehanna River
- University of Pennsylvania
- Wills
- Extent
- 2 box, 26 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0059
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- J. Houston Mifflin Collection, MG-150
- Lloyd Mifflin paintings and other items in the Curatorial Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please contact Research Staff or Archives Staff with questions.
- Credit
- Lloyd Mifflin Collection (MG-59), Folder #, LancasterHistory.org
- Classification
- MG0059
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Collection
- Eleanor Fulton, Presbyterian Collection
- Title
- Eleanor Fulton, Presbyterian Collection
- Object ID
- MG0050
- Date Range
- 1703-1991
1 document
- Collection
- Eleanor Fulton, Presbyterian Collection
- Title
- Eleanor Fulton, Presbyterian Collection
- Description
- The work of Eleanor Fulton, a professional researcher. Contains information on the Presbyterian Church in Lancaster County, including First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Donegal Presbyterian Church. Also, genealogy notes for local families and St. James Episcopal Church.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by subject, arranged chronologically.
- Date Range
- 1703-1991
- Year Range From
- 1703
- Year Range To
- 1991
- Date of Accumulation
- 1703-1991
- Creator
- Fulton, Eleanor
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 02
- Search Terms
- Booklets
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Donegal Presbytery
- Ephemera
- Genealogy
- Letters
- Newspaper clippings
- Presbyterian Church
- War of 1812
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 56 folders, .75 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0050
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-50
- Classification
- MG0050
- Description Level
- Fonds
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