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003. Manuscript Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: 003
Manuscript materials.

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Josiah E. McElwain Account Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 449
Abstract

Account/Ledger Book of Josiah E. McElwain of Octoraro, Pennsylvania for the McElwain farm and the Benevolent Board of the Middle Octoraro Presbyterian Church. Some of the accounts include the names Washington Carrick, Lemuel Myers, James Markey, Cora Markey and Samuel Swayne. Also payments to serveral accounts including the Foreign Missions, Freedmen and York Colored School.

Dates: 1889-1923; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/2016

Journal records, 1858

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 2
Scope and Contents

Consists of one journal explaining the duties performed by R. Andrews from January 18th to February 22nd 1858. Includes detailed descriptions of canal and communitites along the Susquehanna River. Begins at Columbia, Pa., and ends at "Upper Janiata Division."

Dates: 18 January-22 February 1858

Julius Wallach Imprint Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 152
Scope and Contents

Lithographic images of significant structures, places, and people from the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Images of government buildings, castles, monasteries, well-known landscapes, European royalty, politicians, authors, poets, and philosophers as well as depictions of historic events and imitations of early European paintings are included in the collection.

Dates: 1755-1856; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2001

J.W. Boos account book

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 27
Scope and Contents

Ledger. Consists of four pages of special monetary output by J.W. Boos for his children John, Katy, Jacob, and Friederich, 1795-1808; five pages of receipts mentioning the inheritance of Paul Berlet (1797); six pages of accounting records (1803-1810).

Dates: 1795-1810

Krodel Brothers Orchestra Musical Scores

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 65
Scope and Contents

Consists of popular American and European waltzes and dance music from 1893 to 1923 that the Krodel Bothers acquired for the band's performances in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1893-1923

Ku Klux Klan Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS347
Abstract

Pocket guide (1918), petition for citizenship in the Invisible Empire (1920s), parking tag (1926) and poster (undated)

Dates: Created: 1918-1926; Other: Date acquired: 02/07/2017

Lancaster Literary Guild Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-473

Lancaster Symphony Orchestra 1972/73 season Program for April 29, 1973.

 Collection — Box 1 folder
Identifier: 003-MS 196
Abstract

The program included "Prelude to the Old Maid and the Thief" and "Tiplo Concerto a tre" by Gian-Carlo Menotti, who accepted an award presented by the orchestra association. Autographed by the composer.

Dates: Created: 29 April 1973