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Account ledger includes customer names, the cost of services rendered, and other income and expenses accrued at Rutter's mill between Mar. 1844 and Nov. 1852.

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Minutes, constitution, by-laws, programs, correspondence, photographs, and other organizational records. Includes note ledgers and scrapbook on the history of the organization.

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Constitution, by-laws, minutes, committee reports, annual publications, photographs, and miscellaneous ephemera.

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings of columns written in the Pennsylvania-Dutch dialect by C. Richard Beam, entitled "Es Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch Eck", for Die Botschaft, The Shopping News, The Lebanon Daily News, West Berks Crier, The Budget and Lancaster Sunday News from 1976 to 2000. The collection also consists of newspaper clippings of columns by: Earl C. Haag ("Es Neinuhr Schtick"), Dave Hendricks ("Wunnerfritz"), Bill Klouser ("En Kat'z Deisch Schtick"), Ernest W. Bechtel ("Gscheitheide un...

Scope and Contents Practice and recipe book of Frances Snyder, Dayton, Ohio (1857); Kodak book (1900-1910) with 61 photographs taken in Jamaica, at the United Fruit Company in Philadelphia, and on board ship; three practice books of Frances Reinhold (1907-1910); diary of Frances Reinhold for 1919 containing an account of Miss Reinhold's last semester at Beachwood Junior College; autograph album of Adele Downey (1884-1888) with autographs principally from Springfield, Ohio; card album of Adele Downey (1881)...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and autograph book. ‡b The correspondence consists of letters from Sallie E. Bolton to her mother written between 1855 and 1858 while she attended and taught at Lancaster County Normal School (presently Millersville University of Pennsylvania).  It includes comments on her concerns for her family, her feelings about a number of everyday life events, including marriage, illness, and her professional life as a young female faculty member at a new normal school in rural...

Scope and Contents Membership application ledgers, history of organization, correspondence (1957-1965), minutes (1960-1963), programs (1951-1979), photographs, brochures, and a photocopied index to the membership applications from 1891 to 1917. ‡b The records consist primarily of membership applications sent to the Pennsylvania German Society from 1891 to 1966.  Prior to 1966, applications required documentation of Pennsylvania German ancestry from one or both sides of the family.  After 1966, the ancestry...

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Correspondence addressed to Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Gwynedd Valley, Pa. from Oct. 1923 to Mar. 1927.  The bulk of the letters are from recipients of his book, The Strassburger family and allied families of Pennsylvania.

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Official manuscript copies of a Sept. 28, 1789 act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly appropriating funds for the "improvement of roads and inland navigation" and an Apr. 10, 1862 act to improve and grade roads in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. Also includes a list of the original subscribers for the improvements.

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Constitution, bylaws, minutes, correspondence, membership lists, treasury reports, newspaper clippings, oral histories, notes on field trips, and issues of the Community Historians of Lancaster County's journal, Community history are included in the collection.