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James Lapine Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 072
Dates:
1978-2001,; Majority of material found within 1984-1999
James S. Constantine Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 074
Dates:
ca. 1921-1989 (inclusive),; Majority of material found within 1930-1972
Johannes Schwalm Historical Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 052
Summary
This collection consists of research materials gathered by the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association an organization dedicated to the history of the Hessian soldiers who became citizens of the new United States after the American Revolution and their German-American descendents. Available to interested researchers are mostly secondary materials such as journals, monographs, family histories, articles, dissertations and manuscripts documenting German-American families, history and culture.
Dates:
1776-present,; Majority of material found within 1975-present
John F. Sehner Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 002
Summary
This collection contains the personal and business correspondence of John Frederick Sehner a Lancaster PA businessman in the mid- late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1861-1896,; Majority of material found within 1868-1879
John F. Suter Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 020
Summary
The collection consists of drafts, galley proofs, magazines, and correspondence relating to the work of John F. Suter. These materials cover the span of Mr. Suter's career, including his early attempts at writing radio plays. The earliest item dates from 1945 with the bulk of the material covering the period from 1980 to the present.
Dates:
1945-1995,; Majority of material found within 1980-1995
Jonathan Messersmith Foltz Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 021
Summary
The items in the collection date from 1825 to 1877 and are, for the most part, diaries and journals. There are no childhood records. The materials document Foltz's life from the age of fifteen. It is assumed that the bulk of the collection was assembled by J.M. Foltz. Of particular interest are the contents of Foltz's medical journals: shipboard supplies, pharmaceutical lists, patient and remedy lists, and literature relating to the contemporary practice of medicine. Most of the Civil War...
Dates:
1825-1906,; Majority of material found within 1831-1877
Joseph C. Passmore Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 018
Summary
This collection contains letters between J.C. Passmore and George W. Hunter duing his first year as a lawyer in Lancaster.
Dates:
1841-1842.
Junior League of Lancaster County Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 075
Dates:
1923-2004,; Majority of material found within 1923-1980
Kneedler Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 055
Dates:
1893-2005,; Majority of material found within 1923-1925 .; Majority of material found within 1961-1965
Lancaster County Academy Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 005
Summary
This collection contains records of the Lancaster County Academy a secondary school that operated in Lancaster Pa from 1827 to ca. 1840. Materials include committee reports, trustees minutes, correspondence, receipts, and construction bids.
Dates:
1827-1841,; Majority of material found within 1827-1830
Lancaster County Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 040
Summary
This collection of materials consists mostly of published items relating to tourism, businesses, churches, schools, and social and cultural organizations of Lancaster County.
Dates:
1904-present,; Majority of material found within 1928-1965
Lancaster Day Care Center Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 079
Dates:
1915-2018,; Majority of material found within 1935-1995
Lancaster Farmland Trust Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 067
Dates:
1988-present,; Majority of material found within 1993-present
League of Women Voters of Lancaster County Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 047
Summary
This collection contains by-laws, board meeting minutes, bulletins, publications, unit study reports, historical background information, photographs, and newspaper articles.
Dates:
1947-present,; Majority of material found within 1947-1998
Leinbach Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 025
Summary
The collection consists of letters, legal documents, diaries, clippings, lithographs, engravings, broadsides, photographs, books and frakturs. The items were assembled and held by Bertha K. Leinbach. The earliest item in the collection dates from ca. 1745 with the bulk of the material covering the period from 1830 - 1900.
Dates:
1745-1930,; Majority of material found within 1830-1900
Linnaean Society of Lancaster City and County Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 013
Summary
This collection consists of administrative materials, correspondence, section reports and memorials.
Dates:
1862-1896,; Majority of material found within 1862-1889
Marcialito Cam Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 054
Summary
This collection consists of the typed literary manuscripts of Asian-American author-poet Marcialito Cam, written during the period from 1967-2003. Visually disabled from the age of nine, Mr. Cam is a 1955 graduate of Franklin and Marshall College. Among Mr. Cam's writings are works of fiction, poetry, and essays on social and political issues. Some manuscripts have been published in book form while others remain unpublished. Additional material received in 2004 documents Mr. Cam's...
Dates:
1967- present,; Majority of material found within 1967-2000
Marshall F. L. Zeigler Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 009
Summary
This collection contains coursework and classroom notes created by Marshall F.L. Zeigler (F & M 1908) while a student at Franklin and Marshall College, 1904-1908.
Dates:
1904-1908,; Majority of material found within 1904-1908
Martha Keller Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 063
Summary
This collection consists of the literary papers, drafts, manuscripts, research material, and personal correspondence of poet Martha Keller (1902-1971). Keller's major published works were: "Mirror to Mortality". New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1937; "Brady's Bend, and other Ballads". New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1946; and "The War Whoop of the Wily Iroquois". New York: Coward-McCann, 1954.
Dates:
1910-1972; Majority of material found within 1924-1954
Mifflin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 032
Summary
The collection consists of correspondence, notes, legal documents, poems, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The earliest items in the collection dates from 1714 with the bulk of the material covering the period from 1873 to 1921 and consisting of mostly Lloyd Mifflin, Jr. (b. 1846 - d. 1921) items. The collection also includes a few photos, clippings and memorial program of Thomas Mifflin (b. 1744 - d. 1800), Major, Colonel, Brigadier and Major-General in the Revolutionary War and Governor...
Dates:
1714-1936,; Majority of material found within 1873-1921
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 000
Summary
This collection consists of miscellaneous letters, diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, autographs, drawings, legal papers, deeds, legal papers, invoices, ledgers, advertising materials, promissory notes, mortgages, commissions, playbills, speeches, reports, charters, ephemera, and literary manuscripts of disparate or unknown provenances.
Dates:
1642-2001,; Majority of material found within 1850-1920
Nathan C. Schaeffer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 008
Summary
This collection consist of the personal papers of Rev. Nathan C. Schaeffer. Materials include addresses and lecture notes from 1899 as well as honorary degree certificates received by Schaeffer during his career.
Dates:
1877-1914,; Majority of material found within 1895-1914
Neal and Estella Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 059
Summary
This collection contains personal papers, correspondence, photographs scrapbooks, personal artifacts and sports memorabilia relating to Neal Okleigh Harris (1906-1982), his wife Estella Elizabeth (Cooper) Harris (1908-1990) and their families, the Harris' of Schuykill County Pa and the Coopers of Lancaster County Pa.
Dates:
1898-1989,; Majority of material found within 1926-1978
North Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 035
Summary
The North Family papers contain correspondence, official documents, scrapbooks and genealogical materials documenting the North Family. Hugh North Sr. and Hugh North Jr were both prominent Lancaster lawyers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hugh North Jr. gave the funds to endow a natural history museum at Franklin and Marshall College which now bears his name.
Dates:
c.1830-1927,; Majority of material found within 1868-1919
Oliver T. Everhart Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 051
Summary
This collection consists of two scrapbooks compiled by Oliver T. Everhart, a member of the Class of 1854 at Marshall College in Mercersburg, Pa. The first scrapbook was compiled in 1917 and consists of ephemera, news clippings and other papers dating from the 1850s to 1917 that relate to Mr. Everhart's personal affiliations with various organizations including Franklin and Marshall College, the York County Pomona Grange and Emmanuel Reformed Church of Hanover, Pa. The second scrapbook contains...
Dates:
1852-1917.
Paul Leventhal Memorial Archive, Gloria and Warren Leventhal Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 061
Dates:
1820 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1930-2000
Pennsylvania-German Society Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 003
Summary
This collection contains materials related to the Pennsylvania German Society, a nonprofit, educational organization, founded in 1891 and devoted to the study of Pennsylvania-German culture and history in Pennsylvania. Instrumental in the history of the society were members associated with Franklin and Marshall College such as George Baer, John S Stahr, and Frank Reid Diffenderffer. The society is currently headquartered in Kutztown.
Dates:
1891-1958,; Majority of material found within 1894-1958
Rev. Daniel Berger Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 064
Summary
This collection consists of the personal papers of Daniel Berger (1797-1880) a Pennsylvania-German minister who preached in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York in the mid-nineteenth century. Reverend Berger served in numerous locations including: the Salem Church of the Evangelical Association in Lancaster (1849, 1854-1856) and congregations in Lebanon, Orwigsburg, New York City, and Baltimore. Papers include receipts, sermon notes, notes on personal expenses, and a account ledgers dating from...
Dates:
1826-1871; Majority of material found within 1845-1857
Reynolds Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 006
Summary
This collection consists of letters, diaries, scrapbooks, hand-drawn maps, clippings, photographs, transcripts, war communications and books relating to three generations of the Reynolds family of Lancaster, PA. The collection consists mostly of the papers of William Reynolds (1815 - 1879) and John Fulton Reynolds (1820-1863). Scrapbooks were compiled by Eleanor Reynolds and mostly chronicle the military career of brother John. Books (monographs) that were included in the Reynolds Family Papers...
Dates:
1765-1934,; Majority of material found within 1830-1880
Richard B. Gehman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 045
Summary
This collection contains Gehman's magazine articles from 1942-1969. Also includes research materials, correspondence, notes, drafts, and galley proofs relating to some of his books: A Hell of A Life (with Harry Richman), The Slander of Witches, Sardi's, Driven, and A Murder in Paradise.
Dates:
1942-1970; Majority of material found within 1950-1969
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