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Lansdale Historical Society small collections and scrapbooks

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Held at: Lansdale Historical Society [Contact Us]137 Jenkins Ave., Lansdale, Pa., 19446

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Lansdale Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Once inhabited by Lenni Lenape Indians, the area now called Lansdale became a boom town during the mid-19th century when a junction of the North Pennsylvania Railroad was established where the center of the town is now located.

The railroad brought much needed work into the area, creating the need for housing, businesses and hotels. In 1860, with the influx of people moving into the area, the federal government established Lansdale as a post office village. In less than 20 years, the community "grew from a muddy crossroads to a vibrant town," and became a commercial center in the North Penn section of Montgomery County.

The Borough of Lansdale, named after railroad engineer Philip Lansdale Fox, was incorporated on August 24, 1872.

Bibliography:

Borough of Lansdale. "History of Lansdale." Accessed November 21, 2012.

Lansdale Historical Society. "About the Jenkins Homestead." Accessed November 21, 2012. http://lansdalehistory.org/jenkins_homestead1.htm

This collection consists of various scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, photograph albums, deeds, letters, primary source documents relating to particular organizations, and other miscellaneous materials. As a whole, the collection documents the history of Lansdale, its organizations, and residents. Items of special interest include: original 19th century Jenkins family deeds, photograph albums of The Reporter newspaper staff and facilities, Montgomery County Planning Commission documents, a Lansdale Knights of the Golden Eagle scrapbook, and a Nor-Gwyn Garden Club scrapbook. The collection consist of 32 boxes. A box-level inventory is shown below:

BOX INVENTORY

1-4 SCRAPBOOKS -- NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

5 NOR-GWYN GARDEN CLUB

6 AMERICAN OLEAN

7 SCRAPBOOKS - NEWSPAPER ARTICLES (DML)

8 SCRAPBOOKS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES (DML)

9 HARRY GODSHALL/KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE

10 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

11 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS- NEEDLEWORK GUILD

12 LOCAL COMMUNITY HISTORIES -- JAMES A. WILLIAMS ; LANSDALE- GANSER

13 MONTCO PLANNING COMMISSION; NEWSPAPER ARTICLES; HISTORICAL DATA RELATED TO MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP

14 PHOTO ALBUM - HARRY/RUBY MYERS

15 ORIGINAL JENKINS DEEDS; ALBERTA WERNER COLLECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES

16 COLLECTION OF ARTICLES (MANY OBITS) GOETTER

17 THE OLD TIMER, CLIPPINGS NORTH PENN HOSPITAL

18 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, LOCAL AND WORLD NEWS

19 LONGAKER HOTEL, FRED O. YOUNG

20 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES OBITS - LOCAL/OLD NEWSPAPERS

21 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS- PHOTO ALBUMS- VARIOUS ITEMS

22 LIFE MAG/ HISTORIC VALLEY FORGE/PHILA., PHONE DIRECTORIES

23 NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS - MOSTLY LOCAL

24 AGNES BARTLETT COLLECTION, JUNE KECK COLLECTION

25 1968, 1969 PHONE BOOKS, ""LITTLE PEGGY MARCH"", VARIOUS, blueprint: Bean's Pink Palace

26 NORTH PENN HOSPITAL

27 LANSDALE DIRECTORIES, VARIOUS LOCAL ARTICLES/ITEMS

28 HYSON POSTCARD COLLECTION, NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

29 NOTES AND RESEARCH - DIRKS & MATTHEWS LOCAL HISTORIES, OTHER

30 MORE ED MATTHEWS RESEARCH, COLLECTION OF MARTHA OLANDER

31-32 THE REPORTER

Materials collected by the Lansdale Historical Society over time.

Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2012-2014 as part of a project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.

In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Lansdale Historical Society directly for more information.

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Lansdale Historical Society
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Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Faith Charlton through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
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This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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