Lancaster (Pa.)

Scope and Contents The Denig picture Bible is separated into six sections: a family register, seventeen emblem pictures with accompanying devotional text, an illustration of the martyrdom of John the Baptist with accompanying text, twenty-eight illustrations of scenes from the Passion of Christ, fourteen illustrations of the Martyrdom of the Apostles, and a series of hymns. Denig's illustrations combine Christian religious imagery with elements from his lived experience during the Revolutionary...

Content Description

Notebook kept by Thomas Cookson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1741 to 1773, in which he recorded rents paid to him by tenants.