Heiges: George L. Heiges Collection, 1861-1980

Call number:  MG-191

9 boxes     172 folders     4 cubic ft.

Repository:  LancasterHistory (Organization); PV7

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Cope and Content Note: This collection contains the research papers of George L. Heiges and many of his unpublished manuscripts.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.