Lancaster scrapbook: Shippen Home, indians, Steinman store, Hager store, Hamilton Watch, and Barbara Fritchie.

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Lancaster scrapbook: Shippen Home, indians, Steinman store, Hager store, Hamilton Watch, and Barbara Fritchie.

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This scrapbook starts with newspaper clippings pertaining to the excavation done at the Stehman farm. Other sites mentioned in the book include the Shippen Home, Steinman Hardware Company, Hager Store, Ephrata Cloister, Franklin and Marshall College, and the Pennsylvania State Museum. The articles discuss the archaeology involved and the North American Indian artifacts found at the site. Further articles discuss native North American history and different tribes located in the Lancaster area, such as the Algonquin, Iroquois and Susquehannocks. Other articles are concerned with blue- and white-collar occupations, including iron mining, sales, retail, physicians and education. Harrisburg Neffsville, Lititz, Manheim and Lancaster, Pennsylvania were among the locations that were specifically named.

1 volume.

Lancaster County Historical Society

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Lancaster County Historical Society

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Ephrata Cloister

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The Ephrata Cloister, near Lancaster, Pa., was a religious community of German Seventh Day Baptists founded by Johann Conrad Beissel in 1728. Under Beissel's guidance, Ephrata became known for its mystical music, hymn writings, and manuscript illuminations. Two sisters, Anastasia and Iphigenia, were the principal ornamental writers; the artists of the illuminations are unknown. There were three major collections of hymns produced at Ephrata: Zionitischer Weyrauch's Hügel, Turtel Taube, and Para...

State Museum of Pennsylvania

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Franklin and Marshall College

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Nevin, Blanche, 1841-1925

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