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003. Manuscript Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: 003
Manuscript materials.

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association records

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 43
Scope and Contents Records.  Contains correspondence, school records and ephemera sent from teachers of the 7th District of the American Freedmen's Aid Commission and Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association to District Superintendent Jacob W. Shoemaker between Apr. 2 and Sept. 12, 1866.  Includes program and admission ticket to an exhibition of Camp Davis Colored School (2 items), financial statements (16 items), monthly teacher reports (4 items), and a report from all 26 schools, containing name of school,...
Dates: 1866

Pennsylvania German Scraps

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 130
Scope and Contents

A scrapbook containing newspaper clippings pertaining to the Pennsylvania Dutch. ‡b Includes articles by Wendell Kitzmiller, "Der Olt Schulmashter," and other columnists who wrote on Pennsylvania Dutch culture and folklore.  The bulk of the articles were written in the Pennsylvania German dialect.

Dates: 1892-1913

Pennsylvania German Society records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-MS 53
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...
Dates: 1891-1979

Pennsylvania Rifle

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 11
Scope and Contents

Published by the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee in 1974 as part of the series: Lancaster County during the American Revolution.

Dates: 1974

Pequea Works Business Records

 Collection — Box 1 box
Identifier: 003-MS 82
Scope and Contents Ledger (1920-1927), check stubs (1920-1927), correspondence (1941-1952), memos (1952), and receipts (1947-1950). ‡b The ledger provides bank deposit records and receipts and includes the names of sporting good stores and hardware companies that purchased items as well as the check amounts received by the accounting department.  Correspondence and memos relate to the company's dealings with the businesses which sold their products.  Communications between the company's sales force and its...
Dates: Created: 1920-1952

Perils of patriotism, The : John Joseph Henry and the American attack on Quebec

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 41
Scope and Contents

Typescript includes handwritten edits and additions by the author.

Dates: undated

[Petition] of Robert Aitken & son of Philadelphia

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 183
Abstract

Petition of the firm to the Pennsylvania General Assembly for appointment as printer for the bills and laws of the commonwealth. Estimates include the publishing of the bills and laws in a Philadelphia newspaper, the printing of bills of 1, 2, 3, and 4 pages, and the printing of 1500 copies of the laws on good paper, folded and stitched.

Dates: Created: 7 November 1788

Philip Metzgar Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 155
Abstract

Ledger.

Dates: Created: 1843-1849

Pluck

 Collection — Box 1 folder
Identifier: 003-MS 98
Scope and Contents

Advertising flier containing advertisements of local businesses in the City of Lancaster plus brief stories of national interest.

Dates: 1887-1892

[Program] for November 17, 1973 at McCaskey High School, Lancaster, Pa.

 Collection — Box 1 folder
Identifier: 003-MS 197
Abstract

Program contains various operatic arias performed by Sandra Warfield and James McCracken. Autographed by the artists.

Dates: Created: 17 November 1973