Heiges: George L. Heiges Collection, 1861-1980
Object ID: MG0191
9 boxes 172 folders 4 cubic ft.
Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization)
Shelving Location: Archives South, Sides 4-5
Cope and Content Note: This collection contains the research papers of George L. Heiges and many of his unpublished manuscripts. It also reflects the social history of Manheim from 1880-1980.
Creator: Heiges, George L.
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: Gift of George L. Heiges.
Related Materials: Photographs and negatives are in the George L. Heiges Photograph Collection. Two 48 star U.S. Flags are in the Museum.
Accruals: No further accruals are expected.
Preferred Citation: George L. Heiges Collection (MG-191), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.
Processing History: Processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. This collection has been documented, preserved and managed according to professional museum and archives standards. The finding aid was updated using DACS conventions.
Box 1
Folder 1 Article. “Robert Morris in Manheim,” by George L. Heiges, 1930.
Folder 2 Article and research papers. “Lancaster County and The Swedish Settlement on the Delaware,” 1938 by George L. Heiges.
Folder 3 Article and manuscript. “John Seybert,” by George L. Heiges, 1943.
Folder 4 Article. “National Methodist Camp Meeting,” by George L. Heiges, 1943.
Folder 5 Article. “Mount Joy Soldiers Orphan School,” by George L. Heiges, 1944.
Folder 6 Article. “Apothecaries of Lancaster County, 1760-1900,” by G. L. Heiges, 1946.
Folder 7 Manuscript. “The Lancaster County Pharmaceutical Association.”
Folder 8 Manuscript. “The Heinitsh Apothecary Shop, 1780-1934.”
Folder 9 Three Journal articles by G. L. Heiges, 1948, 1955, 1958.
Papers Read before the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Lancaster County Remembers
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society
Folder 10 Article. “When Lancaster was Pennsylvania Capital,” by G. L. Heiges, 1951-1954.
Folder 11 Articles and Brochures of F & M College and Benjamin Franklin, 1956, 1957.
Article. “Benjamin Franklin in Lancaster County,” by G. L. Heiges.
Folder 12 Minutes of the Benjamin Franklin Committee, 1956.
Folder 13 Correspondence regarding Benjamin Franklin, 1933-1956.
Folder 14 Prints of Benjamin Franklin Letters.
Folder 15 Photostats of “Franklin & the Wagon Affair” of 1755.
Folder 16 Three Journal Articles by G. L. Heiges, 1961, 1963, 1967.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Summer 1963.
Collections of Eichholtz Paintings.
Folder 17 Article and manuscript. “The Political Division of Lancaster County,” by G. L. Heiges, 1964.
Folder 18 Article and manuscripts. “General Samuel Peter Heintzelmans’ Visits to Manheim” and “The Journal of Samuel Peter Heintzelmans,” by G. L. Heiges, 1964.
Folder 19 Article and Manuscript. “Bishop Francis Asbury & Rev. Henry Boehm,” by G. L. Heiges, 1966.
Folder 20 Article and Pictures of Boehm Chapel and Francis Asbury, 1919-1966.
Folder 21 Manuscript. “Lancaster, 1872.”
Article. “Lancaster, 1870,” by G. L. Heiges, 1970.
Folder 22 Four articles. Lancaster in 1876, Observing the Centennial Year, 1976 by G. L. Heiges.
Folder 23 Two Lancaster County Historical Society Journals on the History Of Trinity Lutheran Church of Lancaster by G. L. Heiges, 1979.
Box 2
Folder 24 Manuscript. “Lancaster, 1873.”
Folder 25 Manuscript. “The Organization of Rapho Township.”
Folder 26 Manuscripts on Manheim.
Folder 27 Manuscript. Biography of William John Geis, Letters & newspaper clippings.
Folder 28 Correspondence of George Heiges & William Geis regarding the Manheim High School, 1938, 1939.
Folder 29 Manuscript. Caspipinas Letters.
Folder 30 Scripts for Speeches by G. L. Heiges
Folder 31 Scripts for Speeches by G. L. Heiges
Folder 32 Script for a Speech on Churches of Lancaster County, 1940.
Folder 33 Contact and correspondence for the Henry William Stiegel Book, 1936-1938.
Folder 34 Book. Henry Wm. Stiegel, by G. L. Heiges, 1948
Folder 35 Research Notes on Henry W. Stiegel.
Folder 36 Research Notes on Henry W. Stiegel
Folder 37 Correspondence and Orders for the Henry W. Stiegel Book, 1941-1949.
Folder 38 Articles. “The W.C.T.U. in Lancaster County.”
“The Y.M.C.A.,” 1854-1954, 1870-1910.
Folder 39 Articles. “F. W. Woolworth of Lancaster & New York” and “The Fulton Opera House,” 1917, 1950.
Folder 40 Articles and photographs of the Muhlenburgs, 1905, 1906, 1942. Photograph transferred to the Photograph Collection, 23 October 2017.
Folder 41 Articles on Henry W. Stiegel by Dorthea Malm.
Folder 42 Picture Prints.
Folder 43 Currier & Ives Prints
Box 3
Folder 44 Prints of old cars.
Folder 45 Prints of Lancaster County.
Folder 46 Photographic prints of pioneer writers.
Folder 47 Brochures of painters.
Folder 48 Brochures and Correspondence of the Reading & Columbia Railroads, 1929-1964.
Folder 49 Signatures of Educators and Ministers, 1881-1907.
Folder 50 Benjamin F. Heiges Teachers Certificate and Commencement Addresses, 1892-1909.
Letters, including Civil War letters from John Lehman to Benjamin Heiges, 1861-1920.
Folder 51 B. F. Heiges account books and cancelled checks, 1905-1928.
Folder 52 The David Dissinger Family Papers, 1903-1970.
Folder 53 R. Elam Zug Estate and Legal Papers, 1923-1930.
Folder 54 Signatures and names of Lancaster City and County druggists, 1882, 1892.
Folder 55 Narcotics License and inventories, 1926-1946.
Folder 56 Pharmacy License, 1931-1959.
Permits, 1921-1932.
Professional correspondence, 1933-1947.
A note requesting Love Powder, 1888.
Folder 57 Heiges Drug Store Advertising, 1928-1954.
Folder 58 Drugstore Inventory Notebooks.
Folder 59 War price and rationing books, 1942-1944.
Folder 60 The Shipment of Drugs to Liberia, 1958-1963.
Folder 61 Personal bills and receipts, 1922-1972.
Folder 62 George Heiges Medical Reports, 1961-1963.
Folder 63 Dr. Carl K. Becker, Missionary to the Congo, 1918-1968.
Folder 64 Photocopies of Newspaper, School Children, 1886-1923.
Folder 65 Teacher’s Notebooks of Names of Students, Grades, Examination Questions, 1905-1909.
School Directory, 1914-1915.
Folder 66 Newspaper clippings of Manheim History.
Box 4
Folder 67 Manheim Borough Business Papers, 1871-1965.
Folder 68 Manheim Ground Rents and Town Ordinances, 1881-1930.
Folder 69 Manheim Business Advertisements, 1886-1905.
Folder 70 Manheim High School Commencement Programs, 1892-1898.
Folder 71 Manheim Historical Pageant, July 2-5, 1941.
Folder 72 Letters to George Heiges from Students of Sporting Hill School, 4 May 1956.
Folder 73 Dedication of Manheim Central and Manheim Township High Schools, 1959, 1960.
Folder 74 Manheim Historical Society, 1965.
Manheim Bicentennial, 1962.
Folder 75 Elizabethtown Area High School Dedication Brochure and newspaper clippings, 1952-1958.
Folder 76 Brochure of Lancaster County High Schools.
Folder 77 Histories of Boroughs of Lancaster County, 1947, 1980.
Folder 78 Pictures of Churches of Lancaster City.
Folder 79 History of the Zion Lutheran Church of Manheim, Pa., 1770-1959.
Folder 80 Zion Lutheran Church Records, Baptisms, 1849-1898.
Pastors, 1848-1911.
Burials, 1849-1899.
Marriages, 1872-1922.
Folder 81 Zion Lutheran Church Programs, 1867, 1897-1919.
Folder 82 Programs of the Feast of Roses, 1892-1932.
(Years missing: 1896, 1897, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1915, 1918-1920, 1923-1926, 1931.)
Folder 83 Church newsletter. “Zion Tidings,” 1911-1915.
Folder 84 Zion Lutheran Church Programs, 1920-1949.
Folder 85 Zion Lutheran Church Financial Records, 1931-1958.
Folder 86 Programs of the Feast of Roses, 1933-1982.
Journal Article by George L. Heiges, 1968.
Folder 87 Zion Lutheran Church Programs, 1948-1974.
Folder 88 Zion Lutheran Church Programs, 1950-1975.
Folder 89 Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Yearbooks, 1953-1956.
Box 5
Folder 90 Zion Evangelical Church Yearbooks, 1957, 1958.
Folder 91 Zion Evangelical Church Yearbooks, 1959, 1960.
Folder 92 Zion Evangelical Church Yearbooks, 1962-1963.
Folder 93 Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Yearbooks, 1964-1972.
Folder 94 Grace Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Programs, 1895-1974.
Folder 95 Lutheran Churches of Lancaster County, 1908-1980.
Folder 96 Manuscripts. Lutheran Church History.
Folder 97 Photocopied Articles of Lutheran Church History in America.
Folder 98 Programs of Manheim Churches, 1894-1960.
Folder 99 Manuscripts of Programs of Reformed Churches, 1919, 1936.
Rapho Reformed Congregation & Cemetery.
Rapho Reformed Church.
Inscriptions on Stones in Gantz’s Burying Ground.
First Reformed Church, Lancaster, Historical Tablet Unveiling, 23 June 1929.
Faith of Our Fathers.
Folder 100 History of St. Paul’s Reformed Church, 1919-1957.
Folder 101 Manuscripts. St. Paul’s U.C.C. Church, Pastor & People.
Folder 102 Notes on St. Paul’s U. C. C. Church, 1969.
Folder 103 Lititz Moravian Church Program, 1935-1967.
Folder 104 United Brethren and United Methodist Churches, 1939, 1960.
Folder 105 Scripts on Church History and Programs of Lancaster County Churches, 1941-1980.
Folder 106 Episcopal Church History, 1944, 1961.
Folder 107 Ephrata Cloister Pamphlets, 1961, 1981.
Folder 108 Donegal Springs Presbyterian Church Reunion Programs, 1929-1957.
Folder 109 Poems and song sheets.
Folder 110 Story of the Ephrata Cloister and Lancaster Bell.
Folder 111 Letters to Sally Slaymaker from C. F. Diller, 1877-1879.
Folder 112 Correspondence. 1914-1916.
Folder 113 Letters to George Heiges, 1917-1919 during World War I.
Folder 114 World War I “Sugar Pledge” and French newspaper, 1918.
Folder 115 Correspondence, 1923-1929.
Folder 116 Official correspondence and certificates, 1923-1930.
Box 6
Folder 117 Correspondence, 1930-1933.
Folder 118 Correspondence, 1934-1935.
Folder 119 Correspondence, 1936.
Folder 120 Correspondence, 1937.
Folder 121 Correspondence, 1938.
Folder 122 Correspondence, 1939.
Folder 123 Correspondence, 1940-1941.
Folder 124 Letters and pictures of World War II Service Men, 1941-1949.
Folder 125 Correspondence, 1942-1943.
Folder 126 Letters from Samuel T. Young.
Folder 127 Correspondence, 1944-1945.
Folder 128 Correspondence, 1946-1947.
Folder 129 Correspondence, 1948-1949.
Folder 130 Correspondence, 1950-1959.
Folder 131 Correspondence, 1960-1969.
Box 7
Folder 132 Letters from Manheim Germany to Manheim, Pa., 1960.
Folder 133 Letters from Homer Rosenberger, 1965-1971.
Folder 134 Correspondence, 1970-1979.
Folder 135 Letters to George from Mary, 1977-1981.
Folder 136 Correspondence, 1980-1982, some undated.
Folder 137 Articles by William S. Rice.
Folder 138 Biography of Robert C. Coleman and letter from M. H. Heinriche, 1952.
Folder 139 Souvenir of Hotel Cocalico, Ephrata, Pa.
Folder 140 Historic Pa. Leaflets of Liberty Trail Posters.
Folder 141 Four Booklets. “Milton S. Hershey & The Chocolate Town,” 1915-1959.
Folder 142 Programs and Events, 1875-1909.
Folder 143 Programs and Events, 1912-1919.
Folder 144 Programs and Events, 1926-1939.
Folder 145 Program and Events, 1941-1959.
Folder 146 Programs and Events, 1960-1969.
Folder 147 Programs and Events, 1971-1980.
Folder 148 Programs and Events, no dates.
Folder 149 Bicentennial Program of the First Settlement in Lancaster County, 1910.
Folder 150 Articles on Abraham Lincoln, 1926-1954.
Box 8
Folder 151 Abraham Lincoln Pictures.
Folder 152 Lincoln Herald, February and June, 1945.
Folder 153 Four booklets on Lincoln.
Lincoln of Illinois. The Testimony of the Nations
A French Tribute To Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln From His On Words & Contemporary Accounts.
Lincoln Sesquicentennial, 1809-1959.
Folder 154 Four booklets on Gettysburg.
Folder 155 Gettysburg Articles, 1939-1963.
Folder 156 Gettysburg Address and Programs, 1946-1958.
Folder 157 Civil War booklets, 1961.
Folder 158 Lincoln and Civil War brochures.
Folder 159 Memorial Addresses at Gettysburg.
List, 1868-1943.
Script, 1941, 1943.
Folder 160 Lincoln Museum Pamphlets, 1949.
Folder 161 Ford Theater Articles.
Folder 162 Gettysburg Notebooks.
Folder 163 Lincoln’s Proclamation of Thanksgiving Day.
Folder 164 Abraham Lincoln Scrapbook.
Folder 165 Lincoln newspaper clippings, 1938-1961.
Box 9
Folder 166 Tour and Travel Notes, 1963.
Folder 167 Cemetery Lists.
Folder 168 Cemetery Lists.
Folder 169 Cemetery Lists.
Folder 170 Notes on History.
Folder 171 Notes on History.
Folder 172 Oversized Items.