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003. Manuscript Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: 003
Manuscript materials.

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

53rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Clothing Issue Ledger for

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 64
Scope and Contents

Consists of an account ledger of clothing issued to soldiers in Company F and Company G of the 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment from 1861 to 1865. Includes the names of soldiers being issued clothing, date of issue, and cost. Soldier discharges and deaths are also mentioned.

Dates: 1861-1865

A. Day Bradley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 338
Abstract

Various materials belonging to A. Day Bradley (MSNS Class of 1922), including manuscripts, publications, books and photographs.

Dates: 1750-1982; Other: Date acquired: 01/10/1975

A. Monroe Aurand Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 422
Abstract

A collection of pamphlets written by A. Monroe Aurand, most were published by Aurand Press.

Dates: Created: 1929-1988

A way of life typescript

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 17
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts. Consists of original typescripts with author's hand written corrections and additions. Includes galley proofs, paste-ups, and editor's transcript.

Dates: 1974

Abraham Peters Receipts

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 70
Scope and Contents

3 receipts for taxes and house repair and a notice of reference for settlement.

Dates: 1795-1818; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1985

Abraham Sollenberger ledger

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 248
Abstract Ledger containing the financial records of a farmer from Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pa. ‡b Includes an alphabetical list of those with whom Sollenberger had business dealings followed by an accounting of the individual transactions with each. Among those with whom Sollenberger traded were numerous families from the Cocalico region of Lancaster County. The last page of the ledger lists four recipes, hand-written in German script. The recipes are for a wine/rum punch, rosemary...
Dates: Created: 1840-1864; Other: Date acquired: 05/02/2006

Advertising Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 425
Abstract Collection contains brochures advertising medicines and remedies, broth, support garments, baby food, and stoves as well as cookbooks advertising and providing recipes using Jello, baking powder, tapioca, and cornstarch and other corn products.  Included are: Hurst's standard remedies;  As I appeared when a child [Shaker extract of roots (Seigel's syrup) manufactured by A.J. White]; Cleveland's superior receipts [Cleveland's Superior Baking Powder]; Medical reports on Valentine's meat-juice...
Dates: 1874-1936; Other: Date acquired: 03/06/2012

Al Albrecht "Dietsch Eck" Columns

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 131
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of the monthly and bi-monthly Pennsylvania German-language newspaper column "Dietsch Eck" (sometimes spelled Deitsch Eck) edited by Al Albrecht and published by the Wakarusa Tribune of Wakarusa, Ind. The bulk of the articles are transcriptions of early Pennsylvania Dutch folk stories and anecdotes originally written by E. H. Good and other writers.

Dates: 1992 Apr. 29-1998 Mar. 11

All Kinds Blintzes Press Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-MS 402
Scope and Contents

Between 1998 and 2008 Bruce Kellner and Joel Farber, under the name of All Kinds Blintzes Press, hand-produced 60 chapbooks on a wide range of topics.  All proceeds from this chapbooks were given entirely to charities and non-profit organizations.  In 10 years, almost $15,000 was raised.

Dates: Created: 1998-2008; Other: Date acquired: 01/06/2008

Ann C. Witmer Home for Widows and Maiden Ladies Records

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 3
Scope and Contents

Annual reports, correspondence and minute book of the Board of Trustees of the Ann C. Witmer Home for Widows and Maiden Ladies of Lancaster, Pa.

Dates: 1909-1927