- Collection
- George Steinman Papers
- Title
- George Steinman Papers, Series 1 and 2
- Object ID
- MG0184
- Date Range
- 1738-1955
2 documents
- Collection
- George Steinman Papers
- Title
- George Steinman Papers, Series 1 and 2
- Description
- The George Steinman Papers, Series 1 contains an album, compiled by George Steinman, with many photographs of buildings, tombstones, monuments and scenes of Lancaster city and county. Ephemera and newspaper articles are among the photographs. Represented in the album are Postlethwaite's Tavern, hotels and taverns, fire houses, the Conestoga massacre, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, Stehli Silk Mill, and schools. The four boxes contain orginal correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera or and pertaining to the same subject matter as the album.
- The George Steinman Papers, Series 2 is a collection of original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera primarily compiled by George Steinman. The contents of Series 2 represent Lancaster city and county events, prominent citizens, buildings, monuments, churches, cemeteries, schools, and businesses. Most of what Steinman collected relates to 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania, highlighting Lancaster and Philadelphia. One of the key events highlighted is the Revolutionary war; with documents and images related to Philadelphia, George Washington, the Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Riot and to various buildings in early Lancaster; including but not limited to the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite's Tavern. Also included in the collection is currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1764, and Confederate States currency and bonds.
- System of Arrangement
- This collection is divided into two series:
- Series 1 The Steinman Album
- Series 2 Documents, Photographs, Ephemera
- Date Range
- 1738-1955
- Year Range From
- 1738
- Year Range To
- 1955
- Date of Accumulation
- ca. 1860-1920
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 04
- People
- Altee, John
- André, John
- Appel, T. Roberts
- Armstrong, Elizabeth
- Atlee, Samuel John
- Atlee, Washington Lemuel
- Atlee, William Augustus
- Atlee, William Pitt
- Baer, John
- Baily, Francis
- Bair, Daniel
- Baker, James G.
- Baldwin, Edith L.
- Barr, Elias
- Barton, Thomas
- Bausman, Elizabeth
- Bausman, William
- Bear, Henry
- Beck, Herbert Huebener
- Beck, Martin
- Beecher, William C.
- Beissel, Conrad
- Beissel, John Conrad
- Bender, Henry
- Bethel, Samuel
- Bezellon, Martha Coombe
- Bezellon, Peter
- Boehm, Henry
- Boyle, Philip
- Breneman, Benjamin Franklin
- Breneman, Gideon
- Breneman, Franklin Henry
- Broll, John
- Brown, J. H.
- Bryan, George
- Buchanan, James
- Buchmiller, Dulon Frank
- Burkhart, Anna Margarita
- Burkhart, George
- Burrowes, Francis Smith
- Burrowes, Thomas Henry
- Burt, Nathaniel
- Calder, George, Jr.
- Cameron, James
- Carpenter, John
- Carpenter, William
- Cheves, Langdon
- Clay, Henry
- Clemson, James
- Coleman, Elizabeth
- Coleman, Robert
- Coleman, William
- Cope, Caleb
- Cope, Thomas P.
- Cox, John
- Crawford, James
- Crowel, Mary R.
- Damant, James
- Davis, Benjamin Franklin
- Dering, Henry
- Detwiler, Thomas Craig
- Diffenbaugh, Henry
- Diffenderfer, Milton Hess
- Diffenderffer, Frank Reid
- Diller, Graybill
- Donnley, Felix
- Downing, Samuel
- Dufresne, Samuel
- Duvel, P. S.
- Eberly, Michael
- Edge, Walter Warren
- Eichholtz, Jacob
- Ellicott, Andrew
- Elliot, Robert
- Ellmaker, Nathaniel
- Eshleman, Frank
- Fahnestock, Samuel
- Ferree, Philip
- Fordney, Melchoir
- Forney, J. A.
- Fox, Cyrus
- Frailey, Jacob
- Franklin, George F.
- Franklin, Walter
- Fraser, Susan
- Frazer, Reah
- Fulton, Robert
- Funck, John
- Funk, John
- Galbreath, John
- Geist, M. W.
- Germon, W. L.
- Gill, William
- Gingrich, Amos
- Graff, Andreas
- Grant, Hamilton
- Graybill, Jacob
- Groff, John M.
- Groff, Sebastian
- Grosh, John
- Grove, Annie C.
- Grubb, Daisy
- Grubb, Peter
- Hager, Walter C.
- Haldeman, Samuel Steman
- Hall, Charles
- Hamilton, Andrew
- Hamilton, James
- Hammond, Frederick W.
- Hamond, E. R.
- Hand, Edward
- Hand, John
- Hand, Mollie
- Harpel, Charlotte
- Hayes, Alexander Laws
- Hazen, Moses
- Heinitsh, August
- Heintzelman, Samuel Peter
- Heister, Joseph
- Henderson, Barton
- Henderson, Thomas G.
- Henry, John Joseph
- Hensel, George Washington, Jr.
- Hensel, William Uhler
- Herr, Christian
- Herr, Hans
- Herr, Rudy
- Hews, George H.
- Hoffnagle, Peter
- Hood, Alexander H.
- Hostetter, Albert Keller
- Hughes, Edward
- Hutter, Christian
- Jacobs, Cyrus
- Jenkins, David
- Jenkins, William
- Kevinski, John B.
- King, George H.
- Kirkpatrick, William
- Konigmacher, Joseph
- Kroome, Hiram
- Krug, George
- Kuhn, Simon
- Kuhn, Simon Adam
- Landis, David Bachman
- Landis, David H.
- Landis, Harry
- Landis, Jacob
- Light, John B.
- Lightner, Michael
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lippold, John W.
- Loeb, Jacob
- Long, Henry Grimler
- Long, Isaac
- Lowery, Alexander
- Lowery, Lazarus
- Ludlow, Robert Fulton
- Magee, David Francis
- Marshall, Christopher
- Marshall, John
- Martin, C. H.
- Mason, S.
- Mathiot, John
- Matlack, Timothy
- Mayer, Christian B.
- McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"
- McClain, Francis Bernard
- McClellan, George Brinton
- McCormick, D. R.
- McFarquahr, Colin
- McGrann, Bernard John
- Melsheimmer, Frederick Valentine
- Metzger, Samuel H.
- Mifflin, Thomas
- Miller, Dave "Devil"
- Miller, John
- Miller, Susanna
- Mishler, Benjamin
- Montgomery, John R.
- Montgomery, William
- Morton, William Augustus
- Mulhatten, Barney
- Musser, Yost
- Myers, Albert
- Mylin, Martin
- Neff, John
- Nevin, John D.
- North, Hugh McAlister
- Old, James
- Parks, Jake
- Pastor, John
- Peiper, William L.
- Penn, William
- Pitt, William
- Porter, Andrew
- Porter, George B.
- Pyle, Howard
- Ramsey, David
- Raub, Galen John Peoples
- Reigart, Adam
- Reigart, Emanuel C.
- Reilly, Mary Gertrude Costigan
- Reinmansnyder, Helen
- Reynolds, George Nelson
- Reynolds, John Fulton
- Reynolds, William
- Rogers, Milton C.
- Rose, Frederick
- Ross, George
- Ross, Patton
- Sauber, Charles Alvin
- Sener, Samuel Miller
- Seyfert, Augustus G.
- Shober, Emanuel
- Shreiner, Philip
- Slaymaker, Henry
- Slaymaker, Henry Edwin
- Slaymaker, L.
- Slaymaker, William
- Sloane, S.
- Slough, Elizabeth
- Smith, Charles
- Snavely, Harry H.
- Stahr, John Summers
- Stambauch, Samuel
- Stauffer, David McNeely
- Stedman, Alexander
- Steinman, George Michael
- Stevens, Thaddeus
- Stiegel, Henry William
- Strong Wolf, Chief
- Summy, Levi
- Sutter, John Augustus
- Tener, John C.
- Thornburg, Robert
- Todd, Charles
- Tomlinson, George
- Urban, John
- Vogan, John
- Washington, George
- Webb, James
- West, Benjamin
- Wharton, Thomas
- Whiteside, John
- Wiley, William
- Williamson, Henry Stackhouse
- Willson, George Bolivar
- Willson, John
- Winover, Peter
- Wise, Charles
- Wise, John
- Witmer, Abraham
- Witmer, David
- Witmer, Esther Elizabeth
- Worner, William Frederic
- Wright, James
- Wright, John
- Yeates, Catharine
- Yeates, Jasper
- Zahm, Godfried
- Zahm, Mathias
- Zahm, Samuel H.
- Zantzinger, Paul
- Zehmer, Anthony
- Zinzendorf, Nicholaus
- Subjects
- Ephemera
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
- Search Terms
- Abbeville (Historic estate)
- Abbeville Mill
- Advent Lutheran Church
- Albright's Transportation Depot
- All Saints Episcopal Church
- American Hose Company
- Balloons
- Bangor Episcopal Church
- Berks County Historical Society
- Binkley's Bridge
- Bird-In-Hand Friends Meetinghouse
- Boehm's Chapel
- Buch Tavern
- Buchanan Park
- Caledonia Furnace
- Carpenter's Union Church
- Cat Tavern
- Cemeteries
- Central Cigar Store
- Chalices
- Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church
- Christ Lutheran Church
- Christian Herr House
- Christiana Resistance
- Churches
- Clare Point Stock Farm
- Columbia - Wrightsville Bridge
- Columbia Friends Meetinghouse
- Conestoga Furnace
- Conestoga Glue Factory
- Conestoga Navigation Company
- Conestoga wagon
- Cosgrove's Tavern
- County House
- Courthouses
- Covered bridges
- Disasters
- Donegal Presbyterian Church
- Downing's Mill
- Eagle Hotel
- Eden Iron Works
- Edge Tool Forge
- Elizabeth Furnace
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church
- Engleside, Lancaster Twp.
- Ephemera
- Ephrata Cloister
- Ephrata Mountain Springs Hotel
- Exchange Hotel
- Feagleyville
- Federal Hall
- Finding aids
- Fire departments
- Fires
- First National Store
- First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster
- First Reformed Church, Lancaster
- Fites Eddy Hotel
- Fountain Inn
- Franklin and Marshall College
- Franklin College
- Franklin House
- Fulton Cotton Mill
- General Sutter Inn
- Golden Swan Hotel
- Grace Lutheran Church
- Graeff's Landing
- Grape Tavern
- Gravestones
- Graveyards
- Green Cottage
- Grubb Mansion
- Halfway House
- Hans Herr House
- Hardwicke
- Harmony Hall
- Heinitsh Drug Store
- Historical markers
- Hope Episcopal Church
- Hopewell Forge
- Hotels
- Humane Fire Company
- Humes Woolen Mill
- Hutter's Folly
- Indian Queen Tavern
- Indigenous peoples
- J. B. Distillery
- Keener's Mill
- Kepler Lodge
- Krug House
- Lafayette Hill
- Lamb Tavern
- Lamparter's Row
- Lancaster Academy
- Lancaster County Courthouse
- Lancaster County Historical Society
- Lancaster County National Bank
- Lancaster County Prison
- Lancaster Curling Club
- Lancaster Fencibles
- Lancaster Moravian Church
- Landisville Mennonite Meetinghouse
- Leacock Presbyterian Church
- Linden Hall
- Lititz Moravian Church
- Manuscript groups
- Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company
- Markets
- Martic Forge, Martic Twp.
- Martin Meylin's Gunshop
- Masonic halls
- Masonic lodges
- Massasoit Hall
- Mechanics Library
- Mellinger Mennonite Church
- Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church
- Millersville Academy
- Millersville State Normal School
- Millersville University
- Mills
- Mischler's Exchange
- Mishler's Beer Garden
- Montgomery House
- Monuments
- Moss Cigar Factory
- Mount Bethel Mansion
- Mount Hope Furnace
- Native Americans
- Odd Fellows Hall
- Old City Hall
- Old Welsh Graveyard
- Paper mills
- Parish houses
- Paxton Boys
- Penn Square
- Pennsbury Manor
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Pequea Presbyterian Church
- Petroglyphs
- Photographs
- Plough Tavern
- Poole Forge
- Postlethwaite's Tavern
- Powder houses
- Practical Farmer Hotel
- Ranck's Mill
- Reigart's Landing
- Reigart's Old Wine Store
- Relay Hotel
- Revolutionary War
- Rock Ford
- Ruth's Fine Groceries
- Sadsbury Friends Meetinghouse
- Safe Harbor Rolling Mill
- Schools
- Scrapbooks
- Shiffler Fire Company
- Ship Tavern
- Shippen School
- Sign of the Bull Tavern
- Sign of the Hat Tavern
- Sorrel Horse Hotel
- St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church
- St. James Episcopal Church
- St. John's Episcopal Church
- St. John's Lutheran Church
- St. John's United Church of Christ
- St. Mary's Catholic Church
- St. Michael's Lutheran Church
- St. Paul's United Church of Christ
- St. Peter's Catholic Church
- Stamps
- Stehli Silk Mill
- Stock certificates
- Strasburg Academy
- Strasburg Mennonite Cemetery
- Strasburg Methodist Episcopal Church
- Sunflower Inn
- Swamp Church
- Swan Hotel
- Tavern signs
- Taverns
- Ten Hour House
- Three Crowns Tavern
- Trinity Lutheran Church
- Union Bethel Church
- Union Fire Company
- Union Hotel
- Valley Forge, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- Vermont Historical Society
- Voganville Hotel
- Wabank House
- Washington Hotel
- Washington Memorial Chapel
- Waterloo Tavern
- Waterworks
- Watt and Shand
- Weaverland Mennonite Church
- Wheatland
- White Horse Hotel
- White Swan Hotel
- William Pitt Tavern
- Windsor Forge
- Witmer's Bridge
- Witness Tree
- Woodward Hill Cemetery
- F. W. Woolworth Co.
- York Furnace
- Young Men's Christian Association
- Zion Lutheran Church
- Extent
- 1 scrapbook, 4 boxes, 112 folders, 3.5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0184
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Copies
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
- "Mr. Geo. Steinman who started this collection of pictures. This book was presented to the Lanc. Co. Historical Society after his death by Mr. Geo. S. Franklin."
- John M. Gibson is recorded as the donor, 1968, in LancasterHistory's accession records.
- 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.
- The use of the original album is restricted. Please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org with questions.
- 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
- Classification
- MG0184
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Series 1 processed and finding aid prepared PK and MSH, 2008. Series 2 finding aid prepared by JE, 2018. Added to database 20 July 2021.
- Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
Documents
- Collection
- John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection
- Title
- John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection
- Object ID
- MG0019
- Date Range
- 1850-1993
. W.
Wilbur, W. H.
Wise, John
Wiseman, Frederick J.
Wolcott, Charles
Wolf, Constance
Woodruff, J. C.
Wright, Wilbur
Young, Pearl
Wise, John
Subject headings:
Balloonists (LHo-LOC sh 85011323)
Ballooning (LHo-LOC sh 90002491)
Hot air balloons (LHo-LOC sh 85062431)
Aeronautics (LHo-LOC sh 85001319
1 document
- Title
- John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection
- Description
- The John Wise and History of Ballooning Collection contains material about John Wise, a pioneering balloonist from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and the history of ballooning. Articles written by and about John Wise provide information about the man and his career. The bulk of Series 1 is correspondence, research notes, and drafts of "The John Wise Story," by John H. Andrews. Series 2 contains material about the ballooning hobby, other early aircraft, and the history of air mail.
- Admin/Biographical History
- As an adventurous and inquisitive young boy, John Wise was drawn to the skies above his native Lancaster County. He was fascinated by aerial pursuits and began to conduct experiments. He tied his cat to his homemade parachute and observed the cat's safe descent from a local church steeple.
- A keen interest in ballooning developed and Wise became a famous aeronaut. Although balloon ascensions were common at county fairs and carnivals he had never observed an ascension before he made his first one in Philadelphia in 1835. John Wise completed 462 balloon ascensions including Lancaster ascensions from Penn Square and the prison yard.
- In the nineteenth century many ascensions were made just for the novelty of the event, but John Wise's approach was from a scientific perspective. Each ascension gave him a chance to conduct scientific investigations of the atmosphere, pneumatics and hydrostatics.
- It also gave him the opportunity to develop a more advanced flying machine. Wise was the first to observe the "great river of air which always blows from west to east" in the higher regions of the atmosphere. Today we call this phenomenon the jet stream. He also developed the ripcord safety mechanism.
- John Wise promoted the advantages of balloon transportation. In 1843 he conceived a project for crossing the Atlantic Ocean and asked Congress to appropriate $15,000 for the project. Congress rejected the appropriation. Wise suggested a plan to bomb the Castle at Vera Cruz during the Mexican War and during the Civil War the Bureau of Topographical Engineers requested his services as a balloonist. He is credited with the first airmail transportation in 1859.
- Detailed descriptions of his ascensions and experiments are found in his book, Through the Air, published in 1873. The last ascent of John Wise took place on September 29, 1879 from St. Louis, Missouri. This flight ended disastrously in Lake Michigan where his balloon fell and his remains lie.
- Prepared by the Lancaster County Historical Society, ca. 1995.
- System of Arrangement
- This collection is arranged into two series.
- Series 1 John Wise
- Series 2 History of Ballooning
- Date Range
- 1850-1993
- Creation Date
- 1850-1993
- Year Range From
- 1850
- Year Range To
- 1993
- Date of Accumulation
- 1850-1993
- Creator
- Andrews, John H.
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- Albertson, Catherine
- Andrews, John Henry
- Atkinson, S. C.
- Bache, Hartman
- Ball, Charles I.
- Bartlett, Mrs. R. A.
- Batchelder, Robert C.
- Beckwith, A.
- Beller, William
- Black, J. W.
- Blanchard, Jean Pierre
- Blitzstein, Madelin
- Bradbury, Ray
- Brown, Elizabeth B.
- Bruce, George
- Burlingame, Roger
- Burr, George
- Byars, W. W.
- Casey, Louis
- Cessna, Clyde
- Coffman, Ramon
- Cornish, Joseph Jenkins, III
- Cox, Palmer
- Douty, Esther
- Douty, Esther M.
- Drepperd, Carl W.
- Edwards, Vincent
- Elvin, Thomas
- Evans, William
- Field, Francis J.
- Fischer, Hans
- Fleck, Glen
- French, Melvin
- Galzer, Emmett J.
- Gambetta, Francis Leon
- Greeley, A. W.
- Grimm, Janet
- Gryzewski, Tad
- Halmi, Robert
- Harrell, D. Tudor
- Hautrive, M.
- Hayden, F. Stansbury
- Hopkins, Philip S.
- Hunt, E. F.
- Ingle, Harold E.
- Kehr, Ernest A.
- Keith, Barbara
- Kessler, F. W.
- Klein, Frederic S.
- Kouwenhoven, John A.
- Kreider, Ira
- Kriebel, Robert C.
- Kriebel, Robert G.
- Lamorisse, Albert
- LaPaz, Lincoln
- Lindbergh, Charles
- Lindquist, H. L.
- Long, Elmer R.
- Lundgren, Laura May Gross
- Madsen, Peter
- Maier, Alfred D.
- Maxwell, George T.
- McCloskey, Lores
- McDevitt, William
- Mills, James
- Myers, Wilfred
- Naves, Glen W.
- Nicklin, John
- Pasquarella, Gus
- Peers, W.
- Prevost, John W.
- Roland, John
- Rosenfeld, Albert
- Sanabria, Nicolas
- Schatvet, H. C.
- Serviss, Garrett P.
- Smith, Philip R., Jr.
- Stehling, Kurt R
- Steinmetz, Rollin
- Stilphen, George F.
- Taylor, Florence
- Thompson, Howard
- Topping, A.D.
- Waitt, Robert
- Warner, B. H.
- Watson, Marion A.
- Wetherill, Richard B.
- Whipple, A. W.
- Wilbur, W. H.
- Wise, John
- Wiseman, Frederick J.
- Wolcott, Charles
- Wolf, Constance
- Woodruff, J. C.
- Wright, Wilbur
- Young, Pearl
- Other Creators
- Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
- Subjects
- Hot air balloons
- Hot air balloons--Launching
- Airships
- Aeronautics
- Letters
- Air mail service
- Hindenburg (Airship)
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Search Terms
- Aeronautics
- Air mail service
- Airships
- Aviation
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence
- Finding aids
- Hindenburg (Airship)
- Hot air balloons
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Newspaper clippings
- Obituaries
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Extent
- 3 boxes, 40 folders, 1 scrapbook, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0019
- 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-19
- Classification
- MG0019
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- This collection was cataloged prior to 1997; added to database on 28 February 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- Red Rose Coin Club Collection
- Title
- Red Rose Coin Club, John Wise
- Object ID
- 2007.500.10
- Date Range
- 1985
- Collection
- Red Rose Coin Club Collection
- Title
- Red Rose Coin Club, John Wise
- Description
- Commemorative Coin Set, "John Wise"
- Metal frame, 2 coins (Bronze & Silver).
- Date Range
- 1985
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Cabinet
- Cabinet 2
- Storage Shelf
- Shelf 1
- Storage Container
- Box 0002
- People
- Wise, John
- Subcategory
- Documentary Artifact
- Object Name
- Coin, Commemorative
- Object ID
- 2007.500.10
- Collection
- Quarter Sessions
- Title
- Quarter Sessions
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
- Arranged by case number within each term.
- Year
- 1870
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- People
- Wise, John
- Search Terms
- Quarter Sessions
- Charge: assault and battery
- Object Name
- Documents
- Language
- English
- Condition
- Fair
- Object ID
- NOV 1870 F038 QS
- Additional Notes
- Assault and battery.
- 1 item, 1 piece
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
- Case Number
- 41.000
- Classification
- RG 02-00 0908
- Description Level
- Item
- Collection
- Quarter Sessions
- Title
- Quarter Sessions
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
- Arranged by case number within each term.
- Year
- 1871
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Search Terms
- Quarter Sessions
- Charge: fornication and bastardy
- Object Name
- Documents
- Language
- English
- Condition
- Fair
- Object ID
- JAN 1871 F008 QS
- Additional Notes
- Fornication and bastardy with Mary Ann Weinhold; Mary Ann Wise.
- Case numbers: 2, 3.
- 2 items, 2 pieces
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
- Classification
- RG 02-00 0908
- Description Level
- Item
- Collection
- Commissioners' Orders for Payment
- Title
- Commissioners' order for payment
- Object ID
- CommOrder 1829 #034
- Collection
- Commissioners' Orders for Payment
- Title
- Commissioners' order for payment
- Description
- This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
- System of Arrangement
- The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
- Date of Accumulation
- 1810-1901
- Creator
- County Commissioners
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Container
- Box 0009
- People
- Barnhart, Adam
- Bear, Abraham
- Frankhouser, Henry
- Harthing, Michael
- Howater, George
- Knopp, John
- Kroft, John
- Leeds, Henry
- Ochs, George
- Poak, John
- Razor. Michael
- Ream, Curtis
- Ream, Richard
- Shabbard, William
- Shaefer, Henry
- Shaeffer, Henry Jr.
- Stehle, Benjamin
- Sweigart, John
- Switzgable, Thomas
- Wise, John
- Zin, Jacob
- Subcategory
- Documentary Artifact
- Search Terms
- Lancaster
- Courthouses
- Commissioners' Orders for Payment
- Place
- Lancaster
- Extent
- 70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)
- Object Name
- Documents
- Language
- English
- Condition
- Fair
- Condition Date
- 2008-03-25
- Object ID
- CommOrder 1829 #034
- Box Number
- 009
- Notes
- Entered into Q&A Jul 17, 2001.
- Additional Notes
- Courthouse.
- Payment to witnesses in the case against Ream, Curtis for official misconduct.
- Dale, Samuel Esq. Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Received payment.
- Stehle, Benjamin.
- Barnhart, Adam.
- Sweigart, John.
- Knopp, John.
- Poak, John.
- Frankhouser, Henry.
- Switzgable, Thomas.
- Razor. Michael.
- Ream, Richard.
- Harthing, Michael.
- Kroft, John.
- Bear, Abraham.
- Shabbard, William.
- Shaefer, Henry.
- Zin, Jacob.
- Wise, John.
- Ochs, George.
- Leeds, Henry.
- Howater, George.
- Shaeffer, Henry Jr.
- 1 item. 1 piece.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
- Classification
- RG 08-01 0510
- Description Level
- Item
Donaldson and Grimwood a true account of their last balloon voyage and tragic death in the boisterous waters of Lake Michigan
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo315
- Author
- Wise, John
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Selheimer and Moore
- Date of Publication
- 1875
- Physical Description
- 23 p. ill. 30 cm.
- Notes
- Copied from Library of Congress microfilm
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Book
- Call Number
- 629.13322 W812d
- Collection
- History Collection
- Title
- John Wise 34 Star American Flag
- Object ID
- 1967.009.1
- Date Range
- 1834
1 image
- Collection
- History Collection
- Title
- John Wise 34 Star American Flag
- Description
- Framed flag of John Wise used on Balloon flights. 13 stars, 7 red stripes, 6 white stripes. Attached note reads, "This flag has accompanied 239 aerial voyages - has travelled in the air over 11,000 miles - has been constantly the harbinger of good fortune and no serious accident ever occurred while it was present. It is a talisman of good luck. It is over 34 years old and was made in 1834." Bdly faded.
- Date Range
- 1834
- Year Range From
- 1834
- Year Range To
- 1834
- Made By
- Wise, Sarah Stock
- Last Owner
- Wise, John
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- DAC
- Storage Wall
- Island 5
- Storage Cabinet
- Unit 42
- Storage Shelf
- Shelf 2
- Storage Drawer
- Bin 2-A
- People
- Wise, John
- Subcategory
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Search Terms
- balloons
- Object Name
- Flag
- Material
- Silk
- Height (in)
- 26.5
- Width (in)
- 43.5
- Condition
- Good
- Condition Notes
- Needs rematted, removal of acidic backing board
- Object ID
- 1967.009.1
- Accession Number
- 1967.009
Images
- Collection
- Indictments
- Title
- Indictments
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
- Arranged by case number within each term.
- Year
- 1872
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Subcategory
- Documentary Artifact
- Object Name
- Indictment
- Language
- English
- Condition
- Fair
- Parent Object ID
- INDICTMENTS
- Object ID
- JAN 1872 F024
- Additional Notes
- Seduction.
- Fornication and bastardy.
- Mother of child: Weinhold, Mary Ann.
- 1 item, 1 piece
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
- Case Number
- 23.000
- Classification
- RG 02-00 0933
- Description Level
- Item
- Collection
- James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 3 James Buchanan Henry
- Title
- Letter from Roland Kinzer to J. B. Henry
- Object ID
- JBFP 3.1.2.026
- Date Range
- 1850/08/10
2 documents
- Title
- Letter from Roland Kinzer to J. B. Henry
- Description
- Letter from Roland Kinzer to J. B. Henry detailing the strange case of Mr. Mackan and the disappearance of his Latin teacher; is sorry James Buchanan Henry was unable to go up in Mr. Wise’s balloon it refused to rise; Soruco will answer James Buchanan Henry’s letter soon; and praises the speech of Mr. Clay made just before the defeat of the Compromise measure, the defeat his blames on “the meeting of extreme opinions. Folded into envelope with postmark and remains of a wax seal addressed to Mr. James B. Henry, Care of Hon. J. Buchanan, Lancaster City, Penna. West Chester, Pa.
- Date Range
- 1850/08/10
- Creator
- Kinzer, Roland
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Container
- JBFP Part 3, Box 2
- People
- Clay, Henry
- Henry, James Buchanan
- Kinzer, Roland
- Soruco, Manuel
- Mackan, Mr.
- Wise, John
- Buchanan, James
- Subjects
- Personal correspondence
- Letters
- Search Terms
- Correspondence
- Correspondence, Personal
- Letters
- Buchanan Collections
- James Buchanan Presidential Library
- Extent
- 1 item, 4 pages to scan, 20 x 25 cm. DO NOT FILM
- Object Name
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Condition Notes
- Water damaged. Paper is discolored and has a small piece missing where the seal was removed.
- Parent Object ID
- JBFP Part 3 Series 1
- Object ID
- JBFP 3.1.2.026
- 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
- Notes
- May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
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- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Accession Number
- JBMS1996.272
- Other Number
- JBFP Part 3, Series 1, Subseries 2, Folder 26
- 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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