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MG-107     Business and Industry Collection

1 box     16 folders     .25 cubic ft.

Repository:  Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pa.

Description:  Collection of catalogs, newsletters, and other documents and ephemera for businesses in Lancaster County.

Creator:  Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pa.

Conditions for Access:  No restrictions.

Conditions Governing Reproductions:  Collection may not be photocopied. Please contact Research Staff or Archives Staff with questions.

Language:  English

Source of Acquisition:  Unknown, unless specified at the item level.

Folder 1 Resources and Industries of the City of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa. The Lancaster Board of Trade. Lancaster. 1887. (cover is loose) Gift of the Dauphin County Historical Society, December 1990.

Folder 2 Agriculture

Insert 1 Catalog for Whann’s Chester Valley Raw Bone Fertilizers, manufactured W. E. Whann, William Penn and Philadelphia. For sale by Conrad Z. Hess, New Danville. 1899. Gift of Mrs. Anna May Habecker, March 2005.

Insert 2 Price list for Root’s Nurseries, Inc. Manheim. Spring 1923. Gift of Mrs. Anna May Habecker, March 2005.

Insert 3 Catalog for Hoffman’s Farm Seeds. A. H. Hoffman, Inc. Landisville. [1931]; Price list for Hoffman’s Quality Farm Seeds. 4 February 1931; Return envelope for A. H. Hoffman, Inc. Gift of Lebanon County Historical Society, June 2005. Note: A. H. Hoffman, Inc. sold products directly to farmers beginning in 1899, until they went out of business around 2000.

Insert 4  Cover of “The Book of Knox’s Winter Seed Wheat,” printed for Willis R. Knox. Statement by Knox and list of references. Printed by F. A. Erickson & Co., Kennedy, New York. 1904. Gift of M. Duffield Harsh, 10 October 2006.

Insert 5 Premium catalog for Lancaster County Seed Co. Paradise. Catalog of items that may be earned by agents selling a certain amount of seed packets. No date.

Insert 6 Heirloom Seed Catalog for The Landis Valley Museum. Lancaster. 1991.

Folder 3 Florists, Nurseries

Insert 1 Catalog for Schroyer’s Central Floral Depot, located in front of Herr & Schroyer’s Gents’ Furnishing Store, 3 North Queen Street. Printed by Lancaster Steam Print. Lancaster. 1874.

Folder 4 Music Stores

Insert 1 Catalog for Burger’s Music House. “The most complete music house in the city for musical instruments & supplies.” 6 North Prince Street, Lancaster. Lists of sheet music titles. No date. Gift of Karl Moyer, [1997].

Folder 5 Communication

Insert 1  RCA, What It Is—What It Does: Answers to Questions Often Asked. Department of Information, Radio Corporation of America. 1952.

Insert 2  General Instructions of the Independent Telephone Company of Lancaster County. Gives instructions and shows businesses in the Lititz exchange. “List No. 1. Issued Dec. 15th 1898.” written at the top. [1898]. Transferred from the Telephone Information File.

Insert 3  Temporary list of subscribers in Lancaster. The Independent Telephone Co. 252 and 254 North Queen St., Lancaster. No date. Transferred from the Telephone Information File.

Insert 4  Blotter for William O. Garden, magazine sales and subscriptions. 323 Pearl St., Lancaster. 1948.

Folder 6 Machinery

The Innovators. History of Sperry—New Holland (formerly the New Holland Machine Co.; currently known as Case New Holland). No date.

Catalog for Wilson Laundry Machinery Co. for washing machines. Columbia. No date. Gift of Lebanon County Historical Society, June 2005. Note: Wilson Laundry Machinery Co. was established in 1882.

Catalog for Everite pumps and water systems. The Everite Pump and Manufacturing Company. Lancaster. No date. Gift of the Dauphin County Historical Society, December 1990.

Folder 7 Engineers and Contractors

Insert 1 Concepts. Newsletter of Huth Engineers, Inc. Vol. 1, no. 1-3, 1979 and vol. 2, no. 1, 1980.

Folder 8 Insurance

Insert 1 Blotters for Lewis Garman, agent for Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Lancaster. 1952, 1955.

Insert 2 Mural Decors in the Foyer of Lititz Mutual Insurance Company. About the works of Franz de Merlier, muralist. Lititz. No date.

Booklet about the new building and some history of Lititz Mutual Insurance Company. Circa 1941.

Insert 3 Flier for The Co-operative Mutual Life Insurance Co. of the County of Lancaster, Pa. Marietta. 1876.

Insert 4  Blotter for Engle & Hambright, Lancaster agents for The Connecticut Fire Insurance Co., Hartford. No date.

Insert 5  Blotter for The Mount Joy Fleet of Insurance Companies. Carpenters Corner, Mount Joy. No date.

Folder 9  Hides and Furs

Insert 1  Blotter for Keystone Hide Company, S. H. Livingston. Lancaster. "41 st Year in Business." No date.

Folder 10  Manufacturing

Insert 1  Letter to employees of Stehli & Co., Inc. from Eric Burri, manager, regarding plant closing. Lancaster. 13 April 1954. Gift of J. Barclay Frank, 1 October 1954. Transferred from the Stehli Silk Mill Information File, 17 August 2006.

Insert 2 Brochure for New Holland Machine Company, “home of the world’s first automatic hay baler.” Information about the company, the Visitors’ Center, and the celebration of 25 years of “baler leadership.” [1965].

Insert 3 Price list for 1896 catalog. Champion Blower and Forge Co. Lancaster.

Folder 11  Stockyards

Insert 1  History of the Lancaster Stock Yards, 1895-1970: 75th Anniversary. Preface by Isaac M. Groff. [1970].

Insert 2  Gestation chart from the Southeastern Penna. Artificial Breeding Cooperative. Lancaster. Herd of Byron Hoffman, West Chester. [1952-1953]. (This became Atlantic Breeders.) Gift of Ginger Farrow, June 2006.

Folder 12  Art Stores, Supplies, Framing, Photography

Insert 1  Framing sticker from Eichholtz & Bowman’s Art Store. 43 North Queen St., Lancaster. No date. Transferred from the Objects Collection, 12 August 2004.

Folder 13  Utilities

Insert 1  Letters patent for The Columbia Electric Light and Power Company. Issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 6 March 1885. Transferred from MG-84, Hydroelectric Power Collection.

Folder 14 Food and Beverages
Brochure for Hammond’s Pretzel Bakery. 718 S. West End Ave., Lancaster. Contains the history of Hammond’s, the history of the pretzel, and suggestions for pretzel lovers. No date.

Brochure for Nissley Vineyards. Wine produced and bottled by the J. Richard Nissley family. Bainbridge. [1978].

Order form for Kitchen Kettle Foods. Intercourse. No date.

Folder 15 Vehicles
Catalog for A. Buch’s Sons Co. wheelbarrows—steel tray, mining, canal. Elizabethtown. No date.

Oversized Items

Poster for Sensenich Brothers. Propeller manufacturer in Lititz and also in Glendale, California. Was the world’s largest producer of wood propellers. “Right on the nose of the Ryan PT-22.” World War II era poster. No date. Gift of George and Rhonda Andreadis, June 2007.

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