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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

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

Art Class of Lancaster Organization Records

 Collection — Box: 1-8
Identifier: MS-143
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1910-

Dorothy Thompson collection

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 250
Abstract Books, correspondence, and ephemera once owned by journalist Dorothy Thompson. ‡b Among the books included in the collection are several copies of Mein Kampf as well as other works on the political situation in Germany and Europe before, during, and after the Second World War.  Two of the copies of Mein Kampf include notations by Miss Thompson while a number of the works dealing with the political situation in Europe are inscribed to her by their authors.  One book dealing with women's...
Dates: Created: 1913-1953; Other: Date acquired: 01/02/2005

Frantz family letters

 Collection — Box: box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 42
Scope and Contents

Correspondence. Contains letters mailed to Esther C. Frantz and Andrew M. Frantz from their daughter Letitia Frantz and Esther's sister, Elmira Landis, and brother, Henry Landis.  Letters describe their travels and family life at home from June 24 to Oct. 21, 1883.  Includes letters from Philadelphia, Reading, and Bedford, Pa., and from Waynesboro,

Dates: 1883

Franzi Ascher-Nash Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 132
Scope and Contents

Diaries, journals, daybooks, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, sound recordings of radio programs, and miscellaneous ephemera. Includes drafts of essays, short stories and poetry plus the diary of Ms. Ascher-Nash's mother, Luise Frankl (1896-1912) and recordings of compositions by her husband, Edgar Nash.

Dates: 1896-1991

Millersville Book Club records

 Collection — Box: Box 1-3
Identifier: MS-78
Scope and Contents

Constitution and by-laws, correspondence (1950-1978), minutes (1929-2000), membership list (1929-2000), programs (1959-1982), receipts (1950-1987) and a history of the organization from 1929 to 1979.

Dates: 1920-2000

M.J. Scarlett letter to Joseph Pownall Scarlett

 Collection — Box: 1 letter
Identifier: 003-MS 439
Abstract

Manuscript letter from M.J. Scarlett to her brother, Joseph Pownall Scarlett, describing speeches by abolitionist leaders Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. The letter also notes that she had attended a meeting at the Race Street Meetinghouse at which Lucretia Mott was also present. A slip of paper containing Mary J. Scarlett's handwritten name and address accompanies the letter.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 11/06/2015

Mountwaybia Club Organization Records

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 456
Abstract This collection documents the history and activities of the Mountwaybia Club of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, through the group's constitution, by-laws, history, minutes, photographs, membership rolls, scrapbook, yearbooks, publications, and correspondence. ‡b From its founding in 1924, the Mountwaybia Club has maintained records of the group's history and activities. The club history begins with the first meeting in 1924 and continues through 2000. In the early years, the history...
Dates: 1924-; Other: Date acquired: 08/06/2015

Pennsylvania Female Colleges collection

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 452
Abstract

Materials about the different Female Colleges throughout the state of Pennsyvlania.

Dates: 1873-1932; Other: Date acquired: 04/04/2017

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Ann C. Witmer Home for Aged Women (Lancaster, Pa.) 1
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Ascher, Luise Frankl, d. 1972 -- Diaries. 1
Ascher-Nash, Franzi 1