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"Lancaster at Work: Businesses of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania" features the best of the more than 15,000 images in the Lancaster County Historical Society's Photograph Collection. The captivating pictures illustrate the many ways in which Lancastrians have made a living'farming, baking, selling, building, fixing, typing, making, healing. An introduction by Gerald R. Lestz, a longtime chronicler of Lancaster and the former ?Scribbler? for the "Lancaster New Era," provides a brief overview of the county's varied businesses. Short essays by local historians recount interesting stories and place Lancaster's history in a national context.Lestz, Gerald S. is the author of 'Lancaster at Work : Business in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania', published 2006 under ISBN 9780974016238 and ISBN 0974016233.
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