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Manuscripts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

A way of life typescript

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 17
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts. Consists of original typescripts with author's hand written corrections and additions. Includes galley proofs, paste-ups, and editor's transcript.

Dates: 1974

Abraham Carpenter Financial Records

 Collection — Box 3 folders
Identifier: MS-97
Scope and Contents

Legal documents, correspondence and receipts. Consists of receipts written by, or issued to, Abraham Carpenter and/or Henry Carpenter of Lancaster County, Pa., from 1831 to 1836. Includes an 1811 copy of Abraham's last will and testament.

Dates: 1811-1842

Abraham Peters Receipts

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 70
Scope and Contents

3 receipts for taxes and house repair and a notice of reference for settlement.

Dates: 1795-1818; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1985

Al Albrecht "Dietsch Eck" Columns

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 131
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of the monthly and bi-monthly Pennsylvania German-language newspaper column "Dietsch Eck" (sometimes spelled Deitsch Eck) edited by Al Albrecht and published by the Wakarusa Tribune of Wakarusa, Ind. The bulk of the articles are transcriptions of early Pennsylvania Dutch folk stories and anecdotes originally written by E. H. Good and other writers.

Dates: 1992 Apr. 29-1998 Mar. 11

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

Anna H. Taylor Copybook

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 109
Scope and Contents

Copybook of Anna H. Taylor, a student at Westtown Boarding School in Chester County, Pa., during the 1866 school year. Includes poems, descriptions of the campus and the valedictory address of Jessie S. Cheyney to the Westtown Literary Society delivered on Apr. 3, 1866.

Dates: 1866

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-

Autograph albums

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 76
Scope and Contents

Autograph albums produced in the Pennsylvania counties of Lancaster, York, Chester, Berks and Lebanon have been placed in two boxes for storage efficiency.

Dates: 1844-1933

Bechtel & Abernathy Coal Company Daybook

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 122
Scope and Contents

Daybook documenting the daily business activities of the Bechtel & Abernathy Coal Company of Bechtelsville, Pa. The ledger includes the company's sales and delivery records plus a list of customers and a detailed summary of items sold at public auction in 1877. An appraisal of personal property (1877) and records from a dairy believed to have been owned and operated by the Bechtel family is also included.

Dates: 1872-1878

Benjamin B. Eshleman Business Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 75
Scope and Contents

Business ledger contains the accounting records of a mill operated by Benjamin B. Eshleman of Bartville, Pa. Includes the names of customers, the costs and the work completed at Eshleman's mill.

Dates: 1834-1842