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=== Collection Description  ===
=== Collection Description  ===


Special Collections has personal manuscripts of prominent local individuals; rare books, historic maps, prints, posters, photographs, newspapers; and the German-American Imprint Collection consisting of newspapers, books, almanacs, fraktur and broadsides printed in German in North America.<ref>[http://library.fandm.edu/archives/collections.php Collections] in ''Franklin and Marshall College Library'' (accessed 24 December 2013).</ref> The JSHA is an outstanding collection for "Hessian" soldiers from German principalities who served the British during the American Revolutionary War.<ref>[http://library.fandm.edu/archives/additional.php Additional Resources] in ''Franklin and Marshall College Library'' (accessed 24 December 2013).</ref>  
Special Collections has personal manuscripts of prominent local individuals; rare books, historic maps, prints, posters, photographs, newspapers; and the German-American Imprint Collection consisting of newspapers, books, almanacs, fraktur and broadsides printed in German in North America.<ref>[http://library.fandm.edu/archives/collections.php Collections] in ''Franklin and Marshall College Library'' (accessed 24 December 2013).</ref> The JSHA is an outstanding collection for "Hessian" soldiers from German principalities who served the British army during the American Revolutionary War.<ref>[http://library.fandm.edu/archives/additional.php Additional Resources] in ''Franklin and Marshall College Library'' (accessed 24 December 2013).</ref>  


'''Note:&nbsp;''' All church records and family histories were transferred to the [http://www.erhs.info/index.html Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society (ERHS)] in 1967.
'''Note:&nbsp;''' All church records and family histories were transferred to the [http://www.erhs.info/index.html Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society (ERHS)] at the Lancaster Theological Seminary in 1967.


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