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Manuscripts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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

 Collection — Box 1 folder
Identifier: MS-103
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1825

George T. Bassett Letter Book

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 105
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1865 July 24 -1866 June 19

Gymnasium and Ladies' Building, Normal School, Millersville, Pa., 1908

 Digital Image
Identifier: MVS_MS234_MS_DU_1908_003_05599_PC_001

Henry Frank Eshleman papers

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 62
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1873-1945

Henry G. Long account book

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 39
Scope and Contents

Account ledger. Includes a daily account of legal services rendered and the amounts received.

Dates: Created: 1836-1842

Henry J. Kauffman Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-150
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 1959-1992

Henry W. Cameron Civil War diary

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 72
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1862-1863

Herr family financial records

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 59
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1750-1864; Other: Date acquired: 12/07/1985

History of the First Pennsylvania State Normal School

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

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.

Dates: 1953

H.W. Shoemaker Papers

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 9
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and correspondence. Includes correspondence and drafts of articles written by Henry Wharton Shoemaker from 1941 to 1955.

Dates: 1941-1955