Document Type
Essay
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Date
7-1833
Keywords
Commercial Herald, Lancaster County, Hazard's Register, Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, barns, housing, Pequea Valley, Frederick County, Mennonites, beards
Description
A typed excerpt of an essay entitled "Sketches of Pennsylvania", originally appearing in the Commercial Herald and dated July 1833. Within, the author details the dialect and ways of life of the Pennsylvania Dutch in Lancaster County.
Corresponds to:
Packet 2-7 to 2-8
Language
English
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Recommended Citation
Author, Unknown, "Excerpt of Sketches of Pennsylvania From the Commercial Herald, July 1833" (1833). Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents. 166.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/166
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Comments
The essay was reprinted in Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Volume XII.