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Sylvia A. Waters

Interview of Sylvia A. Waters for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Waters discusses the history of her families connection to Cumberland County, PA including her father's family in Newville. Waters then talks about growing up on B Street in Carlisle and attending the old Wilson and Lamberton Schools.

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Wilson O'Donnell

Interview of Wilson O'Donnell for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. O'Donnell discusses his role as the first professional curator of the Cumberland County Historical Society including the exhibits he curated.

Glenn Kurzenknabe

Interview of Glenn Kurzenknabe for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Memory Bank. Glenn discusses his time spent in the quartz crystal industry in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania including as a salesman at Greenray Industries and VP of Sales at Piezo Crystal Company.

Barbara Lillich

Interview of Barbara Lillich for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Lillich discusses growing up in Cumberland County, PA, her family's relationship with Frank Masland, and meeting her husband David.

Indentured Servants

1775 advertisement in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Gazette

Indentured servants were men and women who agreed to work for a master without pay for a specified number of years, usually in return for having their passages to America paid. This 1775 advertisement in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Gazette announced that the ship Hawke had just arrived from London and was lying off the Market Street wharf with a shipment of “a few likely healthy servants” of many different trades “whose times are to be disposed of.”

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