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Pennsylvania Historical Bibliography Donna Bingham Munger Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission I. Bibliography, Research Aids ButlerJon. "Whitefield in America: A Two Hundred Fiftieth Commemoration." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (October 1989): 515-526. Chan, Sucheng. "Koreans in America, 1902-Present: A Selected Bibliography." Immigration Hist. News, 20 (December 1988): 11-15. Conner, Paul and Jill Roberts. Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Printed Broadsides, A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: Washington, D.C., 1988. Cuff, David J., William J. Young, Edward K. Muller, Wilbur Zelinsky and Ronald F. Abler, eds. The Atlas of Pennsylvania. Temple Univ. Press, 1989. Knapp, Vertie, "Robacker, Earl F. and Ada F.: A Bibliography." Pa. Folklife, 39 (Autumn 1989): 30-36. Munger, Donna Bingham. "Pennsylvania Historical Bibliography." Pa. Hist., (April 1989): 114-134. II. Background Factors II.A.1. Background Factors/Physical Features Custer, Jay F. "Lithic Scatter Sites of the Piedmont Zone of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware." Pa. Archaeologist, 58 (March 1988): 30-42. Strohmeier, William. "The Rich Hill Rockshelter, 36BU35." Pa. Archaeologist, 58 (March 1988): 1-6. II.A.3. Natives CusterJay F. "A New Look at the Petroglyphs of the Lower Susquehanna Valley." Archaeology of East. N.A., 17 (Fall 1989): 79-88. Staats, F. Dayton. "Alternative Uses of the Stone Celt." Pa. Archaeologist, 58 (March 1988): 26-29. Stewart, R. Michael. "Trade and Exchange in Middle Atlantic Prehistory." Archaeology of East. N.A., 17 (Fall 1989): 47-48. Ward, H. Henry. "Prehistoric Utilization of Ironstone in the Central Middle Atlantic." Pa. Archaeologist, 58 (March 1988): 7-25. II.B.1. Colonization/Dutch and Swedes Siokalo, Zoriana E. Before Penn: Swedish Colonists in the Land of the Lenape. Phila: Am. Swedish Hist. Museum, 1988. 165 Young, Dick, prod., New Sweden: An American Portrait. Video tape or film, Irving, TX: Alan Hillburg and Assoc. II.B.2. Holy Experiment Levy, Barry. Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988. II.B.3. Indian Relations Kraft, Herbert C. "Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Indian/White Relations in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast Regions." Archaeology of East. N.A., 17 (Fall 1989): 1-29. II.B.4. Immigrants Burgert, Annette K. Colonial Pennsylvania Immigrants from Freinsheim in the Palatinate. Myerstown, PA: AKB Publications, 1989. Clarke, Jane Adams. "Emigrants From Hesse, Germany Who Left One After Another For Pennsylvania, 1748-1766." Pa. Geneal. Mag., 25 (1988): 329-334. Grubb, Farley. "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820."J. of InterdisciplinaryHist., 20 (Winter 1990): 417-436. III. 1682-1774 III.A.1. Economics/General Bodle, Wayne. "The 'Myth of the Middle Colonies' Reconsidered: The Process of Regionaliza- tion in Early America." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (October 1989): 527-548. Hoffman, Ronald,JohnJ. McCusker, Russell R. Menard, and PeterJ. Albert, eds., The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Periods, 1760-1790. Charlottesville: The Univ. Press of Virginia for the U.S. Capitol Hist. Soc., 1988. Shammas, Carole et al. Inheritance in America from Colonial Times to the Present. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1987. III.A.2. Agriculture Jordan, Terry G. "Some Neglected Swiss Literature of the Firebay Bank Barn." Pa. Folklife, 37 (Winter 1987-8): 75-80. Keyser, Alan G. "Four-Square Garden." Early Am. Life, 20 June 1989): 43-44, 72. III.A.4. Manufacture, Industry McMahonJames D. "An Elizabeth Furnace Tenant House: A Pennsylvania German Structure in Transition." Pa. Folklife, 38 (Winter 1988-9): 69-79. SpillmanJane Shadel, "The Legacy of 'Baron' Stiegel," Early Am. Life, 20 (October 1989): 54-47, 63. Wood, Stacy B.C. "A John Eberman Legacy: Eight Lancaster, PA Clockmakers." J. Lanc. Co. Hist. Soc., 91 (Trinity 1987/88): 90-127. Volume 57, Number 2 a April 1990 166 III.A.5. Transportation Loeb, Betty Irean. "Boyertown Museum Showcases Vehicle History." Pa. Mag., 10 (December 1989): 12-13. III.A.6. Commerce Feeher, Linda and Jeffrey Rollinson. "Peddlers and Indian Traders License Papers, 1722-1866 Chester County, Pennsylvania." Pa. Geneal. Mag., 35 (1988): 283-290. Morgan, Kenneth. "Shipping Patterns and the Atlantic Trade of Bristol, 1749-1770." Wm. and Mary Q., 46 July 1989): 506-538. III.A.7. Finance Hawbaker, Gary T. and Clyde L. Groff. A New Index, Vol. 5, Index to the 1770 Tax Records. Hershey, PA: Author, 1989. III.B.1. Social, Cultural/General Bodle, Wayne. "The 'Myth of the Middle Colonies' Reconsidered: The Process of Regionaliza- tion in Early America." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (October 1989): 527-548. Fogleman, Aaron. "Review Essay: Progress and Possibilities in Migration Studies: The Contribu- tions of Werner Hacker to the Study of Early German Migration to Pennsylvania." Pa. Hist., 56 (October 1989): 318-329. Grubb, Farley. "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820."J. of InterdisciplinaryHist., 20 (Winter 1990): 417-436. Schwartz, Sally. "A Mixed Multitude': The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania. The American Social Experience Series. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1988. Slaughter, Thomas P. "'From Slavery to Freedom': A Review Essay." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (anuary 1989): 89-94. Thompson, Peter." 'The Friendly Glass': Drink and Gentility in Colonial Philadelphia." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (October 1989): 549-573. III.B.2. Religion Balmer, Randall. 'John Henry Goetschius and the Unknown God: Eighteenth-Century Pietism in the Middle Colonies." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (October 1989): 575-608. ButlerJon. "Whitefield in America: A Two Hundred Fiftieth Commemoration." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (October 1989): 515-526. Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven. Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986. Henderson, Rodger C. "Matters of Life and Death: A Demographic Analysis of 18th Century Lancaster Reformed Church Records."J. Lanc. Co. Hist. Soc., 19 (Easter 1987-88): 43-77. Moore, John M. "An English Quaker Minister's Visit to Colonial America, 1773-1775." Quaker Hist., 78 (Fall 1989): 103-113. Reinert, Gertha R. "Some Notes on the Pioneer Years of Smithfield Church in Pittsburgh and Its First Minister, Johann Wilhelm Weber (1735-1816)." Pa. Ethnic Studies Newsletter (Winter 1989): 1-3. Pennsylvania History - : 167 Smith, Debra D. and Frederick S. Weiser, Trinity Lutheran Church Records, Lancaster, Pennsylva- nia, Vol. 1, 1730-1767. Apollo, PA: Authors, 1988. Westerkamp, Marilyn J. Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1625-1760. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988. III.B.3. Education Barone, Dennis. "Hostility and Rapproachment: Formal Rhetoric in Philadelphia Before 1775." Pa. Hist., 56 January 1989): 15-32. Hocker, Ludwig. Tamara S. Groff, trans. EphrataCloister School Booklet. Ephrata: Ephrata Cloister, 1988. Kashatus, William C. "A Reappraisal of Anthony Benezet's Activities in Educational Reform, 1754-1784." Quaker Hist., 78 (Spring 1989): 24-36. Kashatus, William C. "What Love Can Do, William Penn's Holy Experiment in Education." Pa. Her., 15 (Spring 1989): 4-9. Louis, Elan Daniel. "William Shippen's Unsuccessful Attempt to Establish the First 'School for Physick' in the American Colonies in 1762."J. Hist. Med. and Allied Sci., 44 (April 1989): 218-239. Pieper, Monica. "A Tribute to Tradition and Necessity: The Schwenkfelder Schools in America," Pa. Folklife, 38 (Winter 1988-9): 80-87. Winthrop, Grace, Mary Whitworth Barbee,Janet Perry. "Readin', 'Ritin' and 'Rithmetic Schools Before the Public School Law." Tredyfrin Easttown Hist. Club Q., 27 (April 1989): 58-66. I11.B.4. Law, Courts, Crime Horle, Craig W. "Ancient Records of Philadelphia." Pa. Geneal. Mag., 35 (1988): 291-315. III.B.5. Medicine, Health Clark, Philip Michael. "Bedlam in Penn's Woods." Pa. Hist., 15 (Summer 1989): 4-11. Henderson, Rodger C. "Matters of Life and Death: A Demographic Analysis of 18th Century Lancaster Reformed Church Records."J. Lanc. Co. Hist. Soc., 19 (Easter 1987-88): 43-77. Louis, Elan Daniel. "William Shippen's Unsuccessful Attempt to Establish the First 'School for Physick' in the American Colonies in 1762."J. Hist. Med. and Allied Sci., 44 (April 1989): 218-239. III.B.7. Art, Architecture Albertson, Karla Klein. "Fine Art for the Humble Home." Early Amer. Life, 20 (December 1989): 36-41. Pieske, Christa. "The European Origins of Four Pennsylvania German Broadsheets: The New Jerusalem; The Broad and Narrow Way; The Unjust Judgment; The Stages of Life." Der Reggeboge, 23 (1989): 7-32. Conner, Paul and Jill Roberts. Pennsylvania German Fraktur and PrintedBroadsides, A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: Washington, D.C., 1988. Earnest, Corinne P. and Russell D. Papers for Birth Dayes, Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners. Albuquerque: Authors, 1989. Volume 57, Number 2 0 April 1990 168 Eighmy, Jeffrey Lynn, Mennonite Architecture. Diachronic Evidence for Rapid Diffusion in Rural Communities. (Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Minorities in the U.S. and Canada, No. 15), New York: AMS, 1989. Friesen, Steven K. "The Herr Plantation: Its Buildings, Land, and Inhabitants." Pa. Men. Her., 12 (October 1989): 2-11. McMahon,James D. "An Elizabeth Furnace Tenant House: A Pennsylvania German Structure in Transition." Pa. Folklife, 38 (Winter 1988-9): 69-79. III.B.8. Theater, Music Taricani, JoAnn. "Musical Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia: The Letters of Michael Hillegas." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (October 1989): 609-625. III.B.9. Journalism, Publishing Clark, Charles E. and Charles Wetherell. "The Measure of Maturity: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1765." Wm. and Mary Q., 46 (April 1989): 279-303. III.B.11. Welfare, Reform Smith, Billy G., Richard Wojtowicz. "The Precarious Freedom of Blacks in the Mid-Atlantic Region: Excerpts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1776." Pa. Mag. Hist. Biog., 113 (April 1989): 237-264. III.C.1. Politics, Government/General Bodle, Wayne. "The 'Myth of the Middle Colonies' Reconsidered: The Process of Regionaliza- tion in Early America." Pa.
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  • Fall Auction 2017 10/21/2017 LOT # LOT

    Fall Auction 2017 10/21/2017 LOT # LOT

    Fall Auction 2017 10/21/2017 LOT # LOT # 1 2 Confederate & 3 Obsolete Banknotes reverse. 150.00 - 300.00 Two (2) Confederate States of American notes, 2 Group Of Five U.S. Fractional Banknotes three (3) obsolete bank notes, 5 items total. 1st Five (5) US Fractional Currency notes, three item: February 17, 1864 Confederate States of and five cents. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) March 3, America (CSA) $500 Bill from Richmond, 1863 Three Cents Fractional Currency note, Virginia, depicting the portrait of Lieutenant depicting the portrait of George Washington. General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, right, FR # 1226 and FR # 1227. Third Issue. No with a vignette of George Washington on signatures. 3rd item: July 17, 1862 Five Cents horseback against the Confederate flag, left. Fractional Currency note, depicting the portrait Seventh Series. Serial # 32993/ pp B. CS-64. of Thomas Jefferson. FR # 1230. First Issue. No "For Register" and "for Treasurer" signatures. signatures. 4th item: March 3, 1863 Five Cents 2nd item: February 17, 1864 Confederate States Fractional Currency note, depicting the portrait of America (CSA) $10 Bill from Richmond, of George Washington. FR # 1233. Second Virginia, depicting the portrait of Robert M. T. Issue. No signatures. 5th item: March 3, 1863 Hunter, Confederate States Secretary of State Five Cents Fractional Currency note, depicting and Confederate Senator, right, with a vignette the portrait of Spencer M. Clark, first of soldiers and horses pulling a cannon, center. Superintendent of the National Currency Seventh Series. Serial # 55907/ pp F. CS-68. Bureau. FR # 1238. Third Issue. Colby/Spinner "For Register" and "for Treasurer" signatures.