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Bucks County Historical Society Makes Its Holdings Accessible
over the Internet Using Cuadra Software


Bucks County Historical Society Makes Its Holdings Accessible
over the Internet Using Cuadra Software
Business Wire Press Release
January 14, 2008 04:00 PM Eastern Time

Users Can Now Retrieve Information about Historically Significant Items
While Searching across Disparate Collections

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Bucks County Historical Society, located
in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, recently released its new Internet-accessible
integrated catalog. The catalog uses Cuadras STAR knowledge management
software, which allows for searching across the four separate catalogs
that the Society maintains.

According to Beth Lander, the Societys Director of Library Services, the
release of the integrated catalog called RolloPAC is the culmination of
a project that has been in the works since 2003. RolloPAC, which is
accessible at


<http://starweb.mercermuseum.org>


provides searchers with a precise method of accessing information in the
Library and Museum collections from a single search page. It uses STARs
ability to retrieve information from the four distinct catalogs archives,
library, museum, and obituaries even though they adhere to different
standards and have significantly different structures.


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The mission of the Society is to cultivate a broad appreciation and
awareness of the past history of the County. Its Spruance Library is the
major research center for local and family history related to Bucks County
and the surrounding region, and its Mercer Museum is recognized as having
one of the most extensive collections of artifacts associated with
pre-1850 American life-ways and technological history. It is especially
renowned for its collections of tools and artifacts associated with
pre-industrial trades, crafts, agriculture and domestic work.


<http://www.mercermuseum.org>


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From bucolic Bucks to Broadway
By JAMES F. DUFFY
Bucks County Courier Times
Philly Burbs.com
<http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/83-12212007-1460071.html>


Take a drive down East Road just outside of Doylestown and you'll see a
perfect example of the dichotomy that is Bucks County.

To one side is the lovingly preserved, historic Highland Farm (now a bed
and breakfast), former home of Oscar Hammerstein II, who, with partners
Jerome Kern (Show Boat) and Richard Rodgers (Carousel, The King and I, The
Sound of Music), created some of the most beloved musicals of all time. On
the other side is a small, modern office park sitting on the hill where it
is said the rolling winds inspired Hammerstein to write Oklahoma!

With the likes of Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim (West Side Story, Sweeney
Todd, Gypsy), Arthur Schwartz (The Band Wagon, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn),
Moss Hart (My Fair Lady, Camelot) and George S. Kaufman (Guys and Dolls,
Of Thee I Sing) all living and working in Bucks County, there are very few
works from the Golden Age of Broadway, and in turn Hollywood, musicals
that didn't filter through Bucks County in some way. During the Golden
Age, all roads led through Bucks.

Many of the most amazing shows and songs in American music have a
connection to Bucks, said performer and lecturer Fred Miller of Fred
Miller Music. Oklahoma!, Show Boat, South Pacific, The King and I, My Fair
Lady, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Camelot, Gypsy all have one thing
in common and, at most, one degree of separation from Bucks County.

Through their collaborations with Bucks residents like Hammerstein,
Kaufman and Moss Hart, in particular, every major composer of Broadway and
Hollywood's Golden Age has a Bucks connection, he said. George and Ira
Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin, Jerome
Kern, Jule Styne, Kurt Weill, Sigmund Romberg, Rudolf Friml, Frank Loesser
a virtual A-list of American songwriting are among a long line of
Bucks-connected composers.

Miller, a vocal performer, writer, actor and classically trained pianist,
has spent the last several decades becoming a veritable lexicon of
American Popular Song. He has developed about 50 Lectures-In-Song a
combination of discussion and musical performance through which he is
able to share his encyclopedic knowledge of a wide variety of musical
topics, including a comprehensive exploration of the Bucks/Broadway
Connection.

I think I became interested in this particular point in history because of
the people involved; it touches on almost every major contributor to
Broadway's Golden Age, he said. This particular program was developed for
the Bucks County Historical Society and once I started, it just kept
rolling; there are so many connections that you could give three or four
lectures on the topic, he said.


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While Hammerstein enjoyed life at Highland Farm (and successful
collaborations with Richard Rodgers), writer and playwright S.J. Perelman
and humorist and screenwriter Dorothy Parker made their homes in Tinicum.
Playwright Moss Hart who in many respects could be considered the hub of
the creative wheel for all of the Broadway-connected artists moved to his
Fairview Farm in the Aquetong section of Solebury and frequent
collaborator George S. Kaufman set up residence in Holicong, a part of
Buckingham.


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According to Beth Lander, director of library services for the Spruance
Library of the Bucks County Historical Society, Bucks County proved to be
an ideal location for the creative elite of the time.

It was close to New York and Philadelphia and far more economical at the
time than Connecticut. It was also still within reasonable driving
distance to the major cities. It was visually very appealing well, except
to Dorothy Parker, she said with a laugh. The county was bucolic, serene
and not nearly as populated as it is now.



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Welcome to RolloPAC
The Online Catalog of the Bucks County Historical Society
<http://starweb.mercermuseum.org/starweb/MercerCollections/
servlet.starweb?path=MercerCollections/STARCollections.web>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/3ca4y5>


Funded through generous grants from the Museums for America program of the
Institute of Museum and Library Services and the
Library Services and Technology Act program of the Institute of Museums
and Library Services.


A search in this catalog for the word theaters produces this result:


SL96-6016-001
List of Fires in Theaters and Amusement Parks, 1672-1943
Thomson, William B. (Artist/Maker) (North America, United States,
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
1943
View Full Report

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Marks, Edward B. 1865-1945.
They all had glamour, from the Swedish Nightingale to the naked lady, by
Edward B. Marks. New York, J. Messner, inc. [1944].
View Full Report

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McNamara, Brooks.
The American playhouse in the eighteenth century. Cambridge, Mass.,
Harvard University Press, 1969.
View Full Report

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Morigi, Gilda.
The difference began at the footlights : a story of Bucks County Playhouse
/ by Gilda Morigi. Carolingian Press, 1973.
View Full Report

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MM2002.03.012
Playsteel "Bucks County" Dollhouse
Playsteel (National Can Corp.) (Artist/Maker) (North America, United
States, New York (state), New York City)
circa 1948
View Full Report

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Rankin, Hugh F.
The theater in colonial America, by Hugh F. Rankin. Chapel Hill,
University of North Carolina Press [1965].
View Full Report

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Sellersville Theater, Blues Weekend (Jan. [2003])
View Full Report

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Spirit in Motion Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania School of the Performing
Arts, 2005
View Full Report

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Ted Ruth (he was manager of Strand Theater, Doylestown), Portrait
Collection Number: SC29:27
Catalog Number: 2351
(Photographer)
2000
View Full Report

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Wood, William B. 1779-1861.
Personal recollections of the stage; embracing notices of actors, authors,
and auditors, during a period of forty years. By William B. Wood ... 3d
thousand. Philadelphia, H.C. Baird, 1855.


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A search of the word literature finds 169 documents including this
complete record:


Author Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816-1889.

Title A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American
authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter
half of the nineteenth century / by [Samuel] Austin Allibone.

Published Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, c1886.

Description 3 v. 27 cm.

Call Number 920 All
General Note Title on spine: Allibone's dictionary of authors.

Subjects American literature -- Bio-bibliography.
Authors, American.
Authors, English.
English literature -- Bio-bibliography.


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The Mercer and Fonthill Museums
<http://www.mercermuseum.org/>


The Bucks County Historical Society /
Mercer & Fonthill Museums
84 South Pine Street, Doylestown, PA 18901-4999 |
215 345 0210 / fax 215 230 0823


Permanent and Long-Term Exhibits
<http://www.mercermuseum.org/permanent_exhibits.htm>


Built to house Henry Mercers extensive collection of objects representing
everyday life in the pre-industrial age, the Mercer Museums permanent
exhibits remain dedicated to this purpose, displaying more than 40,000
tools and artifacts in the Museums original core. Over 60 early American
trades are represented, including woodworking, metalworking, agriculture,
and advertising, plus furnishings and folk art.


Fonthill Museum is Henry Mercers concrete castle house with 44 rooms, 18
fireplaces and over 200 windows of varying size and shape. The interior
walls, floors and ceilings are elaborately adorned with Mercers
handcrafted tiles. Tiles and prints from around the world also show the
collecting interests of this Bucks County native.


Mercer Museum Guide (PDF)
<http://www.mercermuseum.org/cms/files/MM_GUIDE_4_07_web_ID3687.pdf>


Bucks County Historical Society Spruance Library
<http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/in_display.cfm/480894>


Collections

The special research library contains more than 30,000 books pamphlets and
periodicals. The manuscript collections (3,000 lin. ft.) includes diaries,
letters, scrapbooks, account books, business, church, and military
records. The Library is the depository for Bucks County government records
from 1683 (2,500 lin. ft.). It houses the library collections of the Early
American Industries Association, Inc. (3,000 items). There are other
special collections including photographs, prints and drawings, maps and
atlases, newspapers, memorabilia, microfilm, and more.


Historical and Genealogical Societies located in Pennsylvania
<http://www.distantcousin.com/States/PA/Soc.html>


Navigation of the upper Delaware
by John Alexander Anderson; Bucks County Historical Society.
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1967.
Editions: 4 Editions
OCLC: 3342805
Related Subjects: Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Navigation. |
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- History



Hunting, traping [!] and fishing in Bucks County .
by Thaddeus Stevens Kenderdine
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: [Meadville, Pa.], 1926.
OCLC: 81588445


DANIEL B. KLEIN (1990)
THE VOLUNTARY PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS? THE TURNPIKE COMPANIES OF EARLY
AMERICA
Economic Inquiry 28 (4), 788812.

The turnpike companies of early America (roughly 17951840) were very
unprofitable but conferred vast benefits to communities served. Purchasing
stock was like paying for the road since such purchases were necessary to
complete the road and unprofitability was foreseen.
<http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/
10.1111/j.1465-7295.1990.tb00832.x>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/27tw7m>


Famous Fables of Economics: Myths of Market Failures
By Daniel F. Spulber
Published 2001
Blackwell Publishing
Business failures / History
312 pages
ISBN 0631226753
<http://tinyurl.com/2xv6za>


Old methods of taking fish
by Warren Fretz
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: Bucks County, Pa. : Bucks County Historical Society, 1921.
OCLC: 55492384
Related Subjects: Fishing -- Equipment and supplies -- History. | Fishing
-- History.


The dating of old houses
by Henry Chapman Mercer; Bucks County Historical Society.
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: [Doylestown, Pa. : Bucks County Historical Society, 1923]
Editions: 6 Editions
OCLC: 3308255
Related Subjects: Pennsylvania -- Historic houses, etc. | Building --
Pennsylvania. | Ironwork.


A vigorous spirit of enterprise : merchants and economic development in
Revolutionary Philadelphia
by Thomas M Doerflinger; Institute of Early American History and Culture
(Williamsburg, Va.)
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American
History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina
Press, 1986.
Editions: 4 Editions
ISBN: 0807816531 9780807816530
OCLC: 11866678
Related Subjects: Businesspeople -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia --
History -- 18th century. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce -- History --
18th century. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Economic conditions. | More Subjects


Native American: Evidence of an Earlier Use
Sidney I. Landau
American Speech
V. 69 No. 2 Summer, 1994 p. 202-206


The Fence in the Cultural Landscape
H. F. Raup
Western Folklore
V. 6 no. 1 January 1947 p. 1-7+9-12


"Cash for His Turnups": Agricultural Production for Local Markets in
Colonial Pennsylvania, 1725-1783
Michael V. Kennedy
Agricultural History
v. 74 no. 3 Summer 2000 p. 587-608


Bucks County : photographs of early architecture
by Aaron Siskind; William Morgan; Bucks County Historical Society.
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Published for the Bucks County Historical Society by
Horizon Press, [1974]
ISBN: 0818014164 : 9780818014161
OCLC: 1169829
Related Subjects: Architecture -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County.


A new method of discovering primary management history: two examples where
little things mean a lot
Charles D. Wrege, Ronald G. Greenwood, Regina Greenwood
Journal of Management History
ISSN: 1355-252X
1997 v. 3 no. 1 p. 59-92


Pigment Analysis of Early American Watercolors and Fraktur
Janice H. Carlson, John Krill
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation
v. 18 no. 1 Autumn 1978 p. 19-32


Patterns of Slaveholding in Colonial Pennsylvania: Chester and Lancaster
Counties 1729-1758
Alan Tully
Journal of Social History
v. 6 no. 3 Spring 1973 p. 284-305


Inventory of the estate of Caleb N. Taylor, Buck County, Pennsylvania, 10
November 1888
CE Scott - Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA


The Appalachian Dulcimer
Charles Seeger
The Journal of American Folklore
v. 71 no. 279 January / March 1958 p. 40-51


Black Offenders, Criminal Courts, and Philadelphia Society in the Late
Eighteenth-Century
G. S. Rowe
Journal of Social History
v. 22 no. 4 Summer, 1989 p. 685-712


Art Education Ephemera
Diana Korzenik
Art Education
v. 36 no. 5 September 1983 p. 18-21


Living Agricultural Museums
Herbert A. Kellar
Agricultural History
v. 19 no. 3 July 1945 p. 186-190


The Mercer Museum and the Landis Valley Farm Museum : exhibitions of
typology and ethnicity in Pennsylvania
by Ruth Anna Cary
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: Middletown, Pa. : Folklore and American Studies, Pennsylvania
State University, 1989.
Publication: Folklore historian, v.6, no.2 (Fall 1989).
OCLC: 83664346
Related Subjects: Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society. |
Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley. | Ethnological museums and
collections -- Pennsylvania -- History. | More Subjects ...


"Mechanic Geniuses and Duckies," a Revision of New England's Cut Nail
Chronology before 1820
Maureen K. Phillips
APT Bulletin
v. 25 no. 3 / 4 1993 p. 4-16


The voluntary provision of public goods? : the turnpike companies of early
America
by Daniel Klein; University of California (System). Transportation
Center.
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Transportation Center,
University of California, [1990]
Editions: 2 Editions
OCLC: 25633546
Related Subjects: Toll roads -- United States -- History. | Roads --
United States -- History.


Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion
Fred Kniffen
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
v. 55 no. 4 December 1965 p. 549-577


Pennsylvania Dutch American folk art
by Henry J Kauffman
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications [1964]
Edition: [Rev. and enl. ed. | 4 Editions
OCLC: 519268
Related Subjects: Folk art, Pennsylvania Dutch. | Decorative arts,
Pennsylvania Dutch. | Art populaire -- Pennsylvanie. | Arts decoratifs
Pennsylvania Dutch.


An individual and corporate membership plan for the Bucks County
Historical Society
by Laura Louise Swanstrom
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: 2002.
Editions: 2 Editions
Dissertation: Thesis (M.A.) -- American University, 2002.
OCLC: 63261327
Related Subjects: Bucks County Historical Society. | Arts fund raising.


Implements of change Henry Chapman Mercer and the Bucks County Historical
Society
by Kathleen Ryan
Type: Microform
Language: English
Publisher: 2002.
Dissertation: Thesis (M.A.)--Lehigh University, 2002.
OCLC: 50121444
Related Subjects: Bucks County Historical Society -- History. | Mercer,
Henry Chapman,


The Criminal Courts in "Young America": Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
1820-1860, with Some Comparisons to Massachusetts and South Carolina
Craig B. Little
Social Science History
v. 15 no. 4 Winter 1991 p. 457-478


The survival of the medival art of illuminative writing among Pennsylvania
Germans
by Henry Chapman Mercer
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: [Doylestown, Pa. : Bucks County Historical Society, 1897]
OCLC: 3308187
Related Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts. | Pennsylvania
Dutch.


Quaker Pioneers of Shenandoah and Rockingham Counties, Virginia
Henry W. Scarborough
The William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser.
v. 6 no. 1 January 1926 p. 39-46


Restoration of the Concrete Roof of the Mercer Museum in Doylestown,
Pennsylvania
Dale H. Frens
APT Bulletin
v. 33 no. 1
Convergence of Architecture and Craft
(2002) p. 13-19


"Historic Human Tools": Henry Chapman Mercer and his collection,
1897-1930.
by Donna Gail Rosenstein
Type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: [Newark, Del.] 1977.
Dissertation: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware.
OCLC: 3221256
Related Subjects: Mercer, Henry Chapman, | Tools -- Collectors and
collecting -- Pennsylvania. | Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical
Society.


Edward Lamson Henry, 1841-1919
The Peddler, 1879
(Oil on canvas, 13 5/8 X 19 1/2 inches, Inscribed at lower right: E L
Henry / 79, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Gift of Louis Cutler
Hyde in memory of his wife, Marguerite Kirkham Hyde, 1.76.1)
<http://www.tfaoi.org/aa/3aa/3aa167.htm>

Perhaps no artist played so consistently and so durably to the American
cult of nostalgia in the last quarter of the 19th century as Edward Lamson
Henry. Henry devised laboriously researched and detailed images intent
upon preserving appearances and experiences that disappeared in reality
even as they appeared in fiction in his art. He worked to shape a
collective memory for a society anxiously conscious of obsolescence. The
Civil War was past, but the present was in crisis, especially as science
and technology -- the dominant forces at the Centennial Exhibition held in
Philadelphia in 1876 - -remade society.


Cast Iron Stoves of the Pennsylvania Germans
Edwin A. Barber
Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum
v. 13 no. 50 April 1915 p. 19-23


Heat and Style: Eighteenth-Century House Warming by Stoves
Samuel Y. Edgerton
The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
v. 20 no. 1 March 1961 p. 20-26


The "Grasshopper War" Folktale
John Witthoft
The Journal of American Folklore
v. 66 no. 262 October / December 1953 p. 295-301


Cut Nail Manufacture: Southwestern Pennsylvania
Ronald L. Michael
Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology
v. 6 no. 1 1974 p. 99-108


The Appalachian Dulcimer: An Essay and Bibliography
Page Range: 79 - 88
DOI: 10.1300/J116v08n01_06
Copyright Year: 2001
Contributors: Metro Voloshin, Reference Librarian, Music Department,
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Music Reference Services Quarterly
Volume: 8 Issue: 1
ISSN: 1058-8167 Pub Date: 1/1/2001


Strategies for Survival: The Nanticoke Indians in a Hostile World
Frank W. Porter, III
Ethnohistory
v. 26 no. 4 Autumn, 1979 p. 325-345




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