Manuscripts
Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:
General pay order for the year 1825 to the return judges of the respective townships in the county o
Record of expenses incurred by Lancaster County during the general election of 1825. Includes names of return judges, district names, signatures of persons who received payment, and payment amounts.
George T. Bassett Letter Book
Letter book of Captain George T. Bassett, an officer in the Commission of Subsistence. The letter book documents correspondence relating to the distribution of rations to troops and destitute citizens in central Virginia from July 24 to Nov. 11, 1865 and in South Carolina from Dec. 26, 1865 to June 19, 1866. Includes correspondence with field officers and local administrators on the provisions being supplied and information on the initial efforts of the Bureau of Freedmen.
Gymnasium and Ladies' Building, Normal School, Millersville, Pa., 1908
Henry Frank Eshleman papers
Notebooks, ledgers, manuscripts, books, scrapbooks, and correspondence. Includes daily research notebooks from 1936 to 1946, notebooks on specific subjects relating to Pennsylvania history, manuscripts of articles, books from 1814-1932, scrapbooks from 1906 to 1909, personal account ledger from 1897 to 1925, the Lancaster County Voting Register from 1911 to 1916, notes on law by Congressman Marriott Brosius, and miscellaneous correspondence from 1909 to 1945.
Henry G. Long account book
Account ledger. Includes a daily account of legal services rendered and the amounts received.
Henry J. Kauffman Papers
Manuscripts, typescripts and photographs of the published works of Henry J. Kauffman of Lancaster, Pa. Includes unedited drafts of "American Copper and Brass," "The American Farmhouse," "Colonial Silversmith," "Machine Shop and Foundry Projects," "The Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle" and "Pennsylvania Dutch Architecture."
Henry W. Cameron Civil War diary
Diary contains daily accounts of the activities of an enlisted soldier serving in the 173rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment from Oct. 23, 1862 to Aug. 18, 1863. Entries include descriptions of camp life, military training, fortifications around Suffolk and Norfolk, Va., surveillance expeditions, forced marches and commentaries on the people and places Cameron encountered while on duty.
Herr family financial records
Inventories of goods and chattels, receipts, security bonds, judgments, last wills and testaments and related documents, surveys, notices of public sales, ledgers, rental records, apprentice indentures, and deeds of the Herr family of Lancaster County, Pa. A folder of biographical information is also included.
History of the First Pennsylvania State Normal School
Educator and historian Lee Graver wrote the history of Millersville Normal School and Millersville State Teachers College as a requirement for a doctorate in education from Rutgers University in 1953. His dissertation was published two years later by Nazareth Publishing Company in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the college.
H.W. Shoemaker Papers
Manuscripts and correspondence. Includes correspondence and drafts of articles written by Henry Wharton Shoemaker from 1941 to 1955.