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Henry Chapman Mercer (June 24, 1856 – March 9, 1930) was an American archeologist, artifact collector, tile-maker, and designer of three distinctive poured concrete structures: Fonthill, his home; the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works; and the Mercer Museum. (From Wikipedia) More about Henry C. Mercer:
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| | Books by Henry C. Mercer: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: An Exploration of Durham Cave in 1893 (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1897)- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: Guide Book to the Tiled Pavement in the Capitol of Pennsylvania (Doylestown, PA: B. McGinty, c1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: The Hill-Caves of Yucatan: A Search for Evidence of Man's Antiquity in the Caverns of Central America: Being an Account of the Corwith Expedition of the Department of Archaeology and Palaeontology of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: The Lenape Stone: or, The Indian and the Mammoth (delisted 10 Aug 2023 as redundant; see other listing for same title)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: The Lenape Stone: or, The Indian and the Mammoth (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: On the Track of "The Arkansas Traveler" (extract from the Century magazine, 1896)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: Researches Upon the Antiquity of Man in the Delaware Valley and the Eastern United States (University of Pennsylvania series in Philology, Literature and Archaeology v6; Boston: Ginn and Co.; Halle, Germany: M. Niemeyer, 1897), also by Richard H. Harte and E. D. Cope
Additional books by Henry C. Mercer in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: The Bible in iron ; or, The pictured stoves and stove plates of the Pennsylvania Germans ; with notes on colonial fire-backs in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada (Bucks County Historical Society, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: Fashion's holocaust ([Place of publication not identified], 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: The hill-caves of Yucatan. : A search for evidence of man's antiquity in the caverns of Central America. Being an account of the Corwith expedition of the Department of archæology and palæontology of the University of Pennsylvania (J. M. Lippincott company, 1895), also by University of Pennsylvania. Department of Archaeology (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: The hill-caves of Yucatan. A search for evidence of man's antiquity in the caverns of Central America. Being an account of the Corwith expedition of the Department of archaeology and palaeontology of the University of Pennsylvania (J. B. Lippincott company, 1896), also by Pennsylvania. University. Dept. of archaeology (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: Light and fire making : with forty-five illustrations explaining the rubbing of fire from wood, the striking of flint and steel, and some of the lamps, candles, torches and lanterns of the American pioneer (Press of MacCalla & company, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: The origin of log houses in the United States (Bucks County Historical Society, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: Researches upon the antiquity of man at an Indian stone blade quarry in the Delaware valley, at a mortuary deposit of Indian skeletons in Maryland, in certain shell heaps on the coast of Maine, and at the Durham cave, and Indian house rockshelter in Pennsylvania. (University of Pennsylvania press, 1897), also by Harte, and Cope, (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: The survival of the mediæval art of illuminative writing among Pennsylvania Germans. ([Philadelphia, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930: Tools of the nation maker. A descriptive catalogue of objects in the museum of the Historical Society of Bucks County, Penna. (Printed for the Society at the office of the Bucks County Intelligencer, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
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