Download or read book Preliminary Guide to the Research Materials of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission written by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guide contains the holdings of the Division of Public Records (or State Archives) and the Division of Research and Publications, both making up the Bureau of Research, Publications, and Records of the Commission.

Download or read book Pennsylvania History written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews and Book notices."

Download or read book Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States written by William A. Kretzschmar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.

Download or read book Historical Manuscript Depositories in Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... The present work is limited not only to Pennsylvania institutions but also to manuscripts relating to American history. Public records (municipal, county, or State) are not included, nor are an organization's own institutional records." Foreword.

Download or read book Pennsylvania Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book List of Basic Pennsylvania State Publications for Depository Libraries written by Elizabeth Garrity Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Archivist written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes sections "Reviews of books" and "Abstracts of archive publications" (Western and Eastern Europe)

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Archivist of the Hall of Records written by Maryland. Hall of Records Commission and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Archivist written by Maryland. Hall of Records Commission and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The British Empire Before the American Revolution A guide to manuscripts relating to the history of the British Empire 1748 1776 written by Lawrence Henry Gipson and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Directory of State Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Report written by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual index to the monographs appears early in the following year.