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Annie Criswell McC
Donald McC
Eliza McC
Henry McC
Henry McC II
Henry B. McC
James McC
James McC, Jr.
James McC, Sr.
Mary McC

Robert McC
Vance McC
William McC

Clara Alricks
Hamilton Alricks
Herman Alricks
Mary Alricks

Simon Cameron


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Social and Cultural Interest


Thank you for visiting our Social and Cultural Interest page. This section will feature topics of special relevance to scholars wishing to zero in on key socio-cultural issues of the eithteenth- and nineteenth- centuries, as they relate to the McCormick family collection.

This page is currently under construction.

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A
Agriculture

B
Banking
Big-city life (see also: small-town life)
Biographies
Boats and Ships
Books and Magazines (see also: recipes and home ec, newspapers and media, politics, occupations)
Bridges and Landmarks
Businesses

C
Children, Childbirth, Childrearing (see women)
Clothing (see also women, men children, daily life, recipes/home ec)
Chores (see also daily life)
Correspondence: Notes, telegrams, cards, letters, calling cards

D
Daily life (see also shopping, foodstuff, chores, gossip, etiquette, women, men, household items)

E
Education
Ethics
Etiquette
Events

F
Famous People
Folklore and Traditions
Foodstuff
France

G
Geography
Gossip (see newspapers and magazines)

H
Harrisburg - History, Events and Landmarks
Health: Medicine, Disease, Hygiene and Hospitals
Holidays (see also Christmas, New Year's Eve, D-Day, birthdays/celebrations)
Household objects, furniture, etc.
Humor

I
Inventories

J

K

L
Land Development

M
Maps
Men
Medicine
Medals and Coins
Military
Money

N
Natural Disasters
Newspapers and Media

O
Occupations
Organizations

P
Photographs
Politics
Poverty

Q

R
Railroads (see transportation) - See also: travel
Recipes, Cookbooks, Home Economics (see foodstuff)
Religion and Churches
Romance (see etiquette, women and men)

S
Sex/ the sexes (see etiquette) - See also: women, men
Shopping (see women, daily life)
Small-town life See also: big-city life
Stevens, Thaddeus See also famous people

T
Technology
Toys (see children)
Transportation - See also travel
Travel - See also transportation

U

V
Victorian clothing: see clothing

W
Women
Wilson, Woodrow (see also famous people)

X,Y,Z

 

Women's fashions/ women's clothing
Men's fashions / men's clothing
Children's fashions children's clothing


Women:





Sex, Marriage, Dating

Men:
Sex, Marriage, Dating
Men's Fashions
Chores
Professions

Children:
Child-rearing and child life

Children's fashions


General:



Small-town life
Big-city life
Dwellings



Geography
Pastimes/Social life
Etiquette
Miscellany

See also: American History


Civil War
Reports from the Home Front
Reports from the Soldiers

Versailles Treaty

 



This site is sponsored by the Center for Pennsylvania Cultural Studies at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, in cooperation with the Historical Society of Dauphin County, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Director of the McCormick Family Papers Project at the Center is Professor Michael Barton.

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