Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1872-1986
Call number: MG-60
18 boxes 81 folders; 83 books 9 cubic ft.
Repository: LancasterHistory.org (Lancaster, Pa.)
Shelving Location: Archives South, Sides 2
Description: Collection consists of meeting minutes, annual meeting notices, annual and financial reports, membership bulletins, Lancaster Airport Project, committee papers and reports, copies of the Lancastrian (a publication of the Lancaster Jaycees), Lancaster Air Force base project, Safe Harbor Dam, Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, Softball Association of America, and Assistance in Downtown Lancaster (the AID Lancaster Project). Includes items from the preceding organizations: the Lancaster Board of Trade, Dry Goods Association, and Retail Merchants Association of Lancaster, as well as Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster and the Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry.
Creators: Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Pa.); Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); LancasterHistory.org (Lancaster, Pa.)
System of Arrangement: Collection is divided into two series:
Series 1 Reports, Projects, and Other Records
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: Items in Series 1 were collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society and LancasterHistory.org. Items in Series 2 were a gift from the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 12 April 2006.
Series 1 Reports, Projects, and Other Records
Series 1, Box 1
Folder 1 Lancaster Board of Trade Banquet Invitations. 1899-1908. (Preceded the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce).
Folder 2 The Lancaster Board of Trade correspondence book containing copies of correspondence in bound form. 1896-1902.
Folder 3 The structure and by-laws of the Chamber of Commerce. No date. Gift of Mrs. William A. Schnader, 7 May 1954.
Folder 4 Board of Directors and Board meetings. 1930-1977.
Folder 5 Annual meeting notices. 1915-1939.
Folder 6 Annual meeting notices. 1940-1949.
Folder 7 Annual meeting notices. 1950-1959.
Folder 8 Annual meeting notices. 1960-1968.
Folder 9 Special meetings. 1921-1958.
Folder 10 Annual reports. 1941-1964. A few are missing.
Folder 11 Financial reports. 1952,1961.
Folder 12 Lancaster County Tax rates. 1968-1969.
Folders 13-17 Membership Bulletins. 1917-1935.
Series 1, Box 2
Folders 18-29 Membership Bulletins. 1936-1943.
Series 1, Box 3
Folders 30-40 Membership Bulletins. 1943-1953.
Series 1, Box 4
Folders 41-45 Membership Bulletins. 1954-1959.
Folder 46 Lancaster Airport Project. 1934-1935.
Folder 47 Lancaster Airport Project. 1945-1952.
Folder 48 Lancaster Air Force Base Project. 1951.
Folder 49 Report of the Lancaster Airport Authority. 1960-1961.
Folder 50 Business and industry promotion. 1919-1967.
Folder 51 Business properties for sale. 1940-1941.
Folder 52 Lancaster City Council Journals. (See also library card catalog). 1927-28. Map for proposed city extension. 1923.
Folder 53 Toll Roads Committees and Reports. 1922.
Folder 54 Reports of Highways and Traffic Committees. Route 30 By-pass, Dillerville Road, and Wrightsville Bridge. 1930-1960.
Folder 55 Traffic and Transportation Committees. 1922-1936, 1961-1962.
Folder 56 Safe Harbor Dam Committee. 1930.
Series 1, Box 5
Folder 57 Water and Sewer Committee Reports. 1927-1929.
Folder 58 Reports of the Adequate Schools Facilities Committee. 1922-1936.
Folder 59 Various other committees. 1922-1978.
Folder 60 Soft Ball Association of America. 1937.
Folder 61 Proposed removal of Penn Square Monument. 1935.
Folder 62 The Lancastrian, publication of the Lancaster Jaycees. 12 January 1977 to 26 April 1977.
Folder 63 The Lancastrian, publication of the Lancaster Jaycees. 24 May 1977 to 21 March 1978.
Folder 64 The Elizabethtown Chamber of Commerce.
Folder 65 Annual Reports, 1985.
Folder 66 Thirteenth annual report of the Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster with a membership directory and list of officers for 1924. January 1925; Program and menu for the thirteenth annual dinner of the Manufacturers’ Association. 26 January 1925. Gift of Charles Kronenberg, 24 January 2007.
Folder 67 Enterprise in Action: The Key to Empowerment. 1993 annual report and 1994 member directory. Transferred from the library, July 2009.
Folder 68 Welcome to Lancaster County. The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Images and information about the people, life, employment and owning a business in Lancaster County. 1982.
Folder 69 Credit Experience Guide of Lancaster. “Published by the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and leased to members on a special bi-yearly contract. … It is compiled from information furnished by about 150 subscribers, whose experience with their credit customers furnishes the basis of the reports.” Some water damage on binding and first few pages. No date.
Folder 70 Parking Survey Data, compiled by the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce General Committee on Parking and Traffic. Survey sheets, maps, correspondence and committee reports. 1951-1952.
Folder 71 The Lancaster Advantage: Doing Business, a Guide for Establishing New Companies in Lancaster, PA. Prepared by the Business Development Department of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 1982.
Folder 72 Report of the Special Committee of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce on Equalization of Property Assessments. 1921. Gift of Reah F. Stauffer, March 1925.
Folder 73 Chamber Publications
Lancaster Pennsylvania, The Red Rose City: County Seat of America’s Garden Spot. Lancaster Chamber of Commerce. No date.
A Few Facts about Lancaster, Pa.: We Invite Correspondence. Lancaster Board of Trade. No date.
A Century Retrospect, by Richard M. Reilly. Paper read at the Charter Centennial Celebration of the City of Lancaster at the Fulton Opera House, 20 March 1918. Published by direction of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce.
Folder 74 Charter and By-laws
Charter and by-laws of the Lancaster Board of Trade. Wickersham Printing Company. 1903.
Charter and by-laws of the Lancaster Board of Trade. Wickersham Printing Company. 1908.
By-laws of the Chamber of Commerce. No date.
Folder 75
Insert 1 Song sheet for the New Pennsylvania Station dinner meeting. (2 copies) 25 February 1929.
Insert 2 Lancaster Today. Published in the interest of the Lancaster of Tomorrow. “Air Derby Thrills Crowd of 40,000.” Vol. 6, no.1. August 1928.
Series 2 Meeting Minutes
Gift of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 12 April 2006. (1973 is missing)
Series 2, Box 1
Book 1 Constitution of the Lancaster Board of Trade. No date.
Book 2 Lancaster Board of Trade minutes. 1872-1877.
Book 3 Lancaster Board of Trade minutes. 1896-1900. (poor condition, very fragile)
Book 4 Lancaster Board of Trade minutes. 1900-1909.
Book 5 United States Department of Internal Revenue documents. 1882-1891.
Series 2, Box 2
Book 6 Dry Goods Association of Lancaster minutes. 1899-1904.
Book 7 Retail Merchants Association of Lancaster minutes. 1906-1910.
Book 8 Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster minutes. 1916-1920.
Book 9 Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster minutes. 1920-1931.
Series 2, Box 3
Book 10 Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster minutes. 1931-1942.
Book 11 Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster minutes. 1942-1949.
Book 12 Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster minutes. 1950-1956.
Book 13 Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster minutes. 1956-1963.
Series 2, Box 4
Book 14 Manufacturers’ Association of Lancaster minutes. 1963-1969.
Book 15 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. July 1910 to October 1915.
Book 16 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1916-1917.
Book 17 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. October 1915 to October 1919.
Book 18 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. October 1919 to April 1921.
Book 19 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1921 to April 1923.
Series 2, Box 5
Book 20 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1923 to April 1925.
Book 21 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1925 to April 1927.
Book 22 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1927 to April 1929.
Book 23 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1929 to April 1930.
Book 24 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1930 to April 1931.
Book 25 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1931 to April 1932.
Book 26 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1932 to April 1933.
Book 27 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1933 to April 1934.
Book 28 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1934 to April 1935.
Series 2, Box 6
Book 29 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1935 to April 1936.
Book 30 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1936 to April 1937.
Book 31 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1937 to April 1938.
Book 32 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1938 to April 1939.
Book 33 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1939 to March 1941. (1940-1941 is in front of 1939-1940)
Book 34 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1941 to March 1943.
Book 35 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1943 to March 1945.
Series 2, Box 7
Book 36 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1945 to March 1947.
Book 37 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1947 to March 1949.
Book 38 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1949 to March 1951.
Book 39 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1951 to March 1953.
Series 2, Box 8
Book 40 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1953 to March 1955.
Book 41 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1955 to March 1957.
Book 42 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1957 to March 1959.
Book 43 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1959 to March 1961.
Series 2, Box 9
Book 44 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1961 to March 1963.
Book 45 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. April 1963 to December 1964.
Book 46 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1965-1966.
Book 47 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1967-1968.
Series 2, Box 10
Book 48 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1969.
Book 49 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1970.
Book 50 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1971.
Book 51 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1972.
Book 52 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1974.
Book 53 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1975.
Book 54 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce minutes. 1976.
Book 55 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. January to June 1977.
Book 56 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. July to December 1977.
Series 2, Box 11
Book 57 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. January to June 1978.
Book 58 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. July to December 1978.
Book 59 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. January to June 1979.
Book 60 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. July to December 1979.
Book 61 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. January to June 1980.
Book 62 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. July to December 1980.
Book 63 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. Executive Committee meeting minutes. 1980.
Book 64 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. January to April 1981.
Book 65 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. May to August 1981.
Book 66 Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry. September to December 1981.
Book 67 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. January to April 1982.
Series 2, Box 12
Book 68 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. May to August 1982.
Book 69 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. September to December 1982.
Book 70 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Loose papers from the 1983 binder.
Book 71 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. January to March 1983.
Book 72 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. April to August 1983.
Book 73 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. September to December 1983.
Book 74 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. January to April 1984.
Book 75 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. May to August 1984.
Book 76 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. September to December 1984.
Book 77 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. January to May 1985.
Book 78 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. June to December 1985.
Series 2, Box 13
Book 79 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Executive Committee meeting minutes. 1985.
Book 80 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. January to April 1986.
Book 81 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. May to August 1986.
Book 82 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. September to December 1986.
Book 83 Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Executive Committee meeting minutes. 1986.
Folder 84 Quarter Sessions petition for the annexation of part of West Lampeter Twp. to the City of Lancaster. November 1923.
Folder 85 Quarter Sessions petition for the annexation of part of Manheim Twp. to the City of Lancaster. November 1923.
Folder 86 Quarter Sessions petition for the annexation of part of Lancaster Twp. to the City of Lancaster. November 1923.
Folder 87 Quarter Sessions petition for the annexation of part of Lancaster Twp. to the City of Lancaster. November 1923.
Folder 88 Quarter Sessions petition for the annexation of part of Lancaster Twp. to the City of Lancaster. July 1924.
Folder 89 Quarter Sessions petition for the annexation of part of Lancaster Twp. to the City of Lancaster. July 1924.