Category: Historical Pamphlets

WHGS Pamphlet – An Address

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Author: Mrs. John Case Phelps Description: Delivered on the Occasion of the Erection of a Monument at Laurel Run, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania on September 12, 1896 to mark the spot where Captain Joseph David and Lieutenant William Jones, of the Pennsylvania Line, were slain by the Indians April 23, 1779. Size: 6 x 9-1/22 Published: 1897

WHGS Pamphlet – German Leaven in a Pennsylvania Loaf

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Author: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, Esq. Description: German emigrants brought change to Pennsylvania. The English live in harmony with the Germans they despised. The Scotch-Irish dwell quietly with German neighbors. The spirit of the Germans is the leaven that altered the nature of Pennsylvania. Size: 6 x 9-1/2 Published: 1897

WHGS Pamphlet – Giant Power

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An Address by F.H. Newell before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, September 29, 1925. Presentation about the growing use of mechanical and electrical power.

WHGS Pamphlet – John and Sebastian Cabot

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Author: Harry Hakes, M.D. Description: A Four Hundredth Anniversary Memorial of the Discovery of America. Read before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, June 24th, 1897. Size: 6 x 9 Published: 1897

WHGS Pamphlet – Local Shell Beds

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Read By: Sheldon Reynolds, A.M., Corresponding Secretary of the Society, September 14, 1883. Description: A scholarly paper regarding archaeological examination of shell-beds left by ancient Native Americans along the Atlantic Coast. Reprinted from Part I, Volume II, of the Proceedings and Collections of the Society. *Please note: This is an original publication – it may have uncut pages and no longer be in “like new” condition. Size: 6 x 9 inches, 8 pages Published: 1886

WHGS Pamphlet – New England Architecture in the Wyoming Valley, 1769 – 1839

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Authors: Alan W. Perkins and Barbara M. Biggs Description: an exhibit of early Wyoming Valley architecture and tools at the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Spring, 1964. Size: 6 x 9 inches

WHGS Pamphlet – Palaeozoic Fossils

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Author: Ralph D. Lacoe, former curator of WHGS Collection of Palaeozoic Fossils Description: Mr. Lacoe’s complete collection of Palaeozic Fossils. Through this addition, the department of palaeontology, already rich in palaeo-botany of the coal measures, is now complete in its records of the flora and fauna as it exited from the Cambrian era to the close of Palaeozoic time. Size: 6 x 9 inches Published: 1900

WHGS Pamphlet – The Origin and Constitution of Coal

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Author: Reinhardt Thiessen Description: Read before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre, PA, March 14, 1924 by Reinhardt Thiessen, Research Chemist, Pittsburgh Experiment Station. Published by permission of the Director, U.S. Bureau of Mines. Size: 6 x 9 inches Published: 1924

WHGS Proceedings and Collections Vol 21

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