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Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Gainer Rodgers Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01027
Scope and Contents

Account book, 1874-1891, of Gainer Rodgers (b. circa 1850), most likely of Collins, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Most entries are for sales of butter, eggs, chicken and meat and customers are listed for the most part by last name only. The majority of the entries is for 1874 and later entries include daily accounts for agricultural and road work of several individuals.

Dates: 1874-1891

Simon Snyder papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00346
Content Description

Family papers of Governor Simon Snyder of Pennsylvania and his grandson, General Simon Snyder, brigadier general in Cuba and the Philippines. 56 items: 13 letters, 7 other manuscripts, 17 photographs, and 19 pieces of ephemera.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1819-2011

Wissler-Mayer Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.223
Scope and Contents

Papers, circa 1830s-1950s, of the Wissler, Mayer, and Erb families of Grottoes and Columbia Furnace, Virginia, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Included are photographs, an autograph album, a manuscript cookbook, receipts, two ledgers, a Bible and hymn book, a Wissler family record for the descendants of William Franklin Wissler and Elizabeth Mayer (m. 1890), and correspondence.

For a more detailed description see finding aid link below.

Dates: 1835-1952