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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 10, No. 1, Frances Lichten, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Walter E. Boyer, Earl F. Robacker, Edna Eby Heller, John A. Hostetler, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Jeremiah W. Andreas, Jacob G. Shively, John Butz Bowman, Elsie Smith, Florence Baver

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• "Tramp Work": Penknife Plus Cigar Boxes
• Tramps of My Youth
• The German Broadside Songs of Pennsylvania
• The Rise of Interest in Folk Art
• Dutch Treats for Breakfast
• The Amish, Citizens of Heaven and America
• Collectanea
• My Great-Grandmother
• Old Sweitzer's Ghost
• Pastimes of My Youth
• Battalion Day
• Seven Days Make One Week

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 4, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Don Yoder, Russell S. Baver, Ellen Shaffer, John Cummings, Martha S. Cummings, Earl F. Robacker, Marian Ludwig Wilson, David H. Rapp

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Dry Houses
• Harvest Home
• Golden Fields in the Golden Years
• Illuminators, Scribes and Printers
• John Drissel and His Boxes
• Tick-Tock Time in Old Pennsylvania
• About the Authors
• Present Day Food Habits of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• The Attitude of the Early Reformed Church Fathers Toward Worldly Amusements

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Frances Lichten, William H. Newell, John Cummings, Mary Jane Hershey, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Pennsylvania Chalkware
• John Landis: "Author and Artist and Oriental Tourist"
• Schuylkill Folktales
• Painted Chests from Bucks County
• A Study of the Dress of the (Old) Mennonites of the Franconia Conference 1700-1953
• Research Needs in Pennsylvania Church History
• About the Authors

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 2, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Vincent R. Tortora, John F. Morman, Earl F. Robacker, Howard H. Brinton, John Cummings, Edna Eby Heller, Phil R. Jack, Andrew S. Berky

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Barracks
• The Courtship and Wedding Practices of the Old Order Amish
• Rufus A. Grider
• Knife, Fork and Spoon: A Collector's Problem
• Quaker Meeting-Houses
• The Bannister-back Chair
• Pies in Dutchland
• Amusements in Rural Homes Around the Big and Little Mahoning Creeks, 1870-1912
• About the Authors
• Buckskin or Sackcloth? A Glance at the Clothing Once Worn by the Schwenkfelders in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 1, William J. Murtagh, Don Yoder, John Butz Bowman, Charles E. Welch Jr., Alfred L. Shoemaker, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Jane Keplinger Burris, Earl F. Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Half-Timbering in American Architecture
• The Strouse Dance
• Schuylkill Boatmen and Their Ways
• Some Early Phases of the Philadelphia Mummers' Parade
• Fantasticals
• Joseph Henry Dubbs as a Folklorist
• About the Authors
• Horse Companies in Montgomery County
• Books Not for Burning

The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Joseph T. Kingston, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Evelyn Benson, Thomas R. Brendle, Claude Unger, Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● "Such Fancy Boxes, Yet"
● Dried Corn
● Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking is Corny
● The Amish at Play
● Colonial Button Mold
● Illness and Cure of Domestic Animals Among the Pennsylvania Dutch
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers

The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Jim Butterfield, Don Yoder, Harry Stauffer, Edna Eby Heller, Olive G. Zehner, Fritz Braun, Friedrich Krebs, Victor C. Dieffenbach

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● The Dutch Touch in Iron
● The Pennsylvania Dutch Village
● Five June Days
● On an Amish Farm
● Traveling Pennsylvanians
● The Trail of the Stone Arched Bridges in Berks County
● Displaced Dutchmen Crave Shoo-flies
● Florence Starr Taylor
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● Zinzendorf and Moravian Research
● Sheep in Dutchland

The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Henry J. Kauffman, Walter E. Boyer, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Olive G. Zehner, Don Yoder, Elsie Gehris Cresswell, Edna Eby Heller, Hugo Froehlich

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Pennsylvania Redware
● Philadelphia Butter
● Adam und Eva im Paradies
● The Pretzel Before the Civil War
● Amish Sculpture
● Spirituals from the Pennsylvania Dutch Country
● Aunt Sybilla
● A Dutch Feast
● "Team" Mennonites
● Pioneers from Staudernheim
● Dialect Folksay

The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 1, Henry J. Kauffman, Edna Eby Heller, Andrew S. Berky, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Earl F. Robacker, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Herbert H. Beck, Thomas R. Brendle, Claude Unger, Olive G. Zehner, Don Yoder, Esther Moser, Helen Moser, Friedrich Krebs

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● The Summer House
● Drinks in Dutchland
● Yesteryear in Dutchland
● Moshey and Bellyguts
● Rise of Interest in Dutch Antiques
● Diaper Lore
● Lititz
● Witchcraft in Cow and Horse
● Dorothy Kalbach
● Plain Dutch and Gay Dutch
● Dialect Folksay
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● About the Authors
● What's New in Dutchland

The Dutchman Vol. 7, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Alfred L. Shoemaker, David L. Hunsberger, Ruth M. Home, Frances Lichten, Preston A. Barba, Elmer C. Stauffer, Don Yoder, Friedrich Krebs, Olive G. Zehner

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Pennsylvania Gaudyware
● Pennsylvania Dutch Canada
● Giant Cider Press
● Pennsylvania Dutch Needlework
● The Pennsylvania German in Fiction
● Conewago Chapel
● Love Feasts
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick

The Dutchman Vol. 7, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Evelyn Benson, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Henry J. Kauffman, John A. Hostetler, Olive G. Zehner, Don Yoder, Friedrich Krebs

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Major and Minor in Fractur
● Gilbert and Mason - Pennsylvania Wood Engravers
● Barring Out the Schoolmaster
● The Himmelreich Collection
● A Mennonite Encyclopedia
● Pennsylvania Crafts Event
● Europe Calling
● Book Note
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick

The Dutchman Vol. 7, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Elizabeth Adams Hurwitz, Henry J. Kauffman, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Olive G. Zehner

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Basketry, a Pennsylvania Dutch Art
● Decorative Elements in the Domestic Architecture of Eastern Pennsylvania
● Literature on Log Architecture
● Pennsylvania Tour of Europe
● Matters Genealogical
● Feeding Them by the Hundred
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick

The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 5, Earl F. Robacker, Olive G. Zehner, Cornelius Weygandt, Henry J. Kauffman, Albert I. Drachman, Arthur D. Graeff, Edna Eby Heller

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Antiques for Fancy and for Fun
● Dutch by the Ton
● Beasts in Dutchland
● Church Architecture in Lancaster County
● Tracking the Elusive Distelfink
● Renascence of History
● Dutch Cheeses
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick

The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Olive G. Zehner, Henry J. Kauffman, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Albert I. Drachman, Earl J. Heydinger, Edna Eby Heller, Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Painted Tin or "Tole"
● Embroideries and Cutouts
● Moravian Architecture in Bethlehem
● Scratch-Carved Easter Eggs
● The Conestoga Horse
● The Reading Boat
● Lititz Specialties
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick

The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Edna Eby Heller, Olive G. Zehner, Richard S. Montgomery, Henry J. Kauffman, D. W. Thompson, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Art in Christmas Cookies
● "Cookies, Just for Nice"
● The Trump Collection
● Ohio Fractur
● Houses of the Oley Valley
● The Riddle of the Two Front Doors
● The Oldest American Printing Press
● Belsnickel Lore
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick

The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Edna Eby Heller, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Cornelius Weygandt, William J. Phillips, J. William Stair, Olive G. Zehner, Friedrich Krebs, Henry J. Kauffman

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Spatterware
● "That's a Lot of Boloney"
● A Dutch Touch
● Birds in Dutchland
● Cornelius Weygandt Day
● Brick-end Barns
● Hardly Bigger Than a Peanut
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● Sycamores in Dutchland
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick

The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 1, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Earl F. Robacker, Edna Eby Heller, Frances Lichten, Israel B. Earley, Olive G. Zehner, Martha Ross Swope, Henry J. Kauffman, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, John Lowry Ruth, Friedrich Krebs

The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine

● Editorial
● Somerset County Decorated Barns
● Butter Molds
● Restaurants, too, Go Dutch
● The Hostetter Fractur Collection
● Bindnagle's Church
● The Harry S. High Folk Art Collection
● Lebanon Valley Date Stones
● Of Bells and Bell Towers
● John Durang, the First Native American Dancer
● Stoffel Rilbps' Epistle
● The First Singing of Our National Anthem
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 047 And 048, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Ash Hollow Cave: A Study Of Stratigraphic Sequence In The Central Great Plains, John L. Champe

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

The Great Plains has been an important laboratory for anthropological research since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Much of the early work was ethnological in character, a consequence, perhaps, of the late preservation of tribal life in the area. These early studies, however, cover a wide range and include subjects as diverse as tribal ethnographies, special studies in ethnobotany, and distributional analyses of Sun Dance traits. Although many of the earlier studies stressed historical sequences, a definite swing away from this position soon developed. By the middle of the nineteen-twenties, in fact, investigators became so preoccupied with distributional …

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 023 And 024, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

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Cummings Guest House Register Pages 025 And 026, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

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Cummings Guest House Register Pages 002 And 003, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

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Cummings Guest House Register Pages 004 And 005, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

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Report Of Department Of Archeology, Nebraska State Historical Society, For 1903 And 1904, Elmer Ellsworth Blackman, Jade Robison

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

In this document, E. E. Blackman, the State Archeologist, reports to the Nebraska State Historical Society regarding recently completed work in the field of archeology. Blackman first reports on his 1903 archeological explorations and lecture presentations. Fieldwork emphasized an investigation of flint quarries and geological formations across the central and eastern parts of the state of Nebraska. In the same year, Blackman set out on an expedition along the Blue River, with the hopes of gathering additional relics from previously excavated sites as well as from those yet to be investigated. Of primary importance was artifact collection and interpretation. Although …

Cabinet Photograph Of Millie [And] Christine, "The Two Headed Nightingale," N.D., Ollivier

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Cabinet card is 6.5in (16.5cm) tall and 4.5in (11cm) wide. Millie and Christine are photographed in full portrait, each in fine clothes and shoes, each grasping the curtains that frame them in the photographer's studio. Christine, presumably the figure on the right, hold a fan in her right hand.

Glenn Springs, So. Ca. : Its Location, Discovery, History, Personal Sketches Of Its Habitues, What It Will Cure, &C., Trimmier's Printing Office And Book Store, Simpson & Simpson

Local History

From Introduction:

"[....][Y]ou will find this an interesting little volume, containing a romance of the discovery of Glenn Springs in the time of the Indians; its re-discovery by the white man, and its history, with personal sketches of some of South Carolina's distinguished men, who were constant visitors at this fountain of health; and other description of Glenn Springs as a Summer Resort and accounts of the wonderful results from the use of this water."

Runaway Slave Broadside From Clay County, Missouri, Dated July 14, 1860., Gideon Thompson

Documents Related to Slavery

RANAWAY

FROM the residence of the undersigned, one mile north of Barry, Clay county, Mis- souri, on the night of the 13th inst., a mulatto negro girl named

VERCILLA,

aged about 17 years, weighs about 135 lbs., and has a scar on her left jaw. ..A liberal reward will be given for the delivery of said negro girl to me, or her confinement so that I can get her

GIDEON THOMPSON. Clay Co., Mo., July 14, 1860.

Sworn Oath To Not Provide Liquor To Enslaved Persons; Liquor License., B. H. Teague, Aiken, Barnwell District, South Carolina

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

John F. Cutter attests to not provide or sell liquor to any enslaved persons. Aiken, Barnwell District, South Carolina, 1859.