Scope and Contents Contains the memoirs of Elizabeth Ashbridge from the days of her youth in Ireland to her life as an indentured servant and Quaker in the United States.  The story begins with her arrival in New York in 1732 and includes her servitude in Pennsylvania, her marriage to a school master, their lives in Rhode Island, and her return to Pennsylvania to visit Quaker relations.  She remarried in 1746 following the death of her abusive husband and returned to Ireland in 1753.  She died there in 1755. ...

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Sheet music.

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Typescript of a speech delivered by former President Theodore Roosevelt on June 10, 1917, in Philadelphia, Pa. Includes handwritten corrections and additions. Not signed.

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Business ledgers. Day books, 1842-1877 contain debit and credit entries by name, merchandise or service performed, and amount. Account book, 1853-1864, with Farm Bank of Lancaster, Pa., shows deposits and withdrawals, reason, and periodic balancing. Record of purchases, 1849-1857 is a daily listing of purchaser, product, and cost.

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Ledger containing financial records of the Board of School Directors. ‡b Includes reports from the treasurer and auditor and records of teacher salaries and miscellaneous expenses.

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Workbook. Includes arithmetic questions and problems related to surveying land.  Entries signed chiefly by David Hottenstein. Signature on front cover of Charles Hottenstein.

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Daybook includes a list of daily expenses plus a listing of the names of men performing labor or services for the company and payment amounts to those individuals.

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

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Personal papers of author T. Everett Harré, includes business correspondence, personal correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, photographs and materials belonging to his brother Ray Caracher.

Scope and Contents Proceedings, programs, song book, manual, registration materials, broadside, and song sheet primarily documenting the activities of the Teachers’ Institute of Lancaster County. The proceedings (1853, 1857, 1868-1880, 1908-1912) include minutes of the Institute’s activities, summaries of lectures, reports of discussions, essays by members of the Institute, selections of songs, and lists of members in attendance. The collection also includes a broadside announcing the 1857 Institute;...