Newspaper clipping with pictures, "Scenes taken at the Kiwanis Kite Carnival held on Saturday"
Newspaper article: "Kites sail high in big carnival", August 1927. Picture of Jerry Bowman with his box kite.
Newspaper article: "First Kiwanis Club Kite Carnival a success," Richard Bowman and Robert Bowman
Hobby Show items:
Exhibitor and complimentary tickets for 8th Annual Hobby Show, 1958
Program for the 9th Annual Hobby Show, sponsored by The Optimist Club of Lancaster and The Lancaster Recreation Association. 1959. List of exhibitors, officers and committee members, judges, sponsors, classifications, and ads from local businesses.
Program for the 13th Annual Hobby Show. 1963. Information and classifications. Printed by Feldser, Lancaster.
Newspaper article: "Boy, 10, has marked ability in sketching,"
Newspaper ad for "Richard Bowman Designs Show: There's more to making kites than tying two sticks together," 1976 (2 copies)
Program for a model railroad show at Lancaster Lincoln Mercury Co., N. Prince Street and McGovern Avenue, Lancaster. December 1952 - January 1953.
9 boxes of slides: 2 of downtown Lancaster, 1 of the demolition of the Lancaster County Almshouse, 6 of North Queen Street demolition and reconstruction during late 1960s Urban Renewal. All slides are either Ektachrome or Kodachrome, and in great condition.
1 box of slides of the Flag Day parade in Lancaster in 1947. All Kodakchrome and in great condition.
9 envelopes of photographs of North Queen Street during Urban Renewal phase in the late 1960s, showing demolition of theaters, construction of the New Brunswick Hotel and post-demolition empty lots being prepared for Hess's Department Store or the Prince Street Parking Garage.
1 envelope of color and black and white negatives that may go with some of the photographs in the 9 envelopes mentioned above.
1 photograph of the Lancaster County Prison with old highway mile marker in front, c. 1975-1980
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Long, thin length of octagonal bar with striking head at one end and other end with four-fluted, slightly enlarged tip. Known for making holes in masonry by hand.
Marked "BALTIMORE 3/?". along side.
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Long, thin length of octagonal bar with striking head at one end and other end with four-fluted, slightly enlarged tip. Known for making holes in masonry by hand.
Marked "BALTIMORE 3/?". along side.
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Marking gauge with a large rectangular fence that slides on a rod with a sharpened point on the side of one end. Fence is fitted with a screw to secure it at various positions on rod.
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Marking gauge has two long squared metal rods, each with a pronounced spike end turned to side. Rods fit through two holes in a thin, flat, blade that serves as a spring to secure rods in position as they slide against each other.
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Soldering iron has shaped wooden grip handle at one end and heavy 3 7/8" length of brass at the other. Central shaft of iron or steel is a round rod 7" long and inserted into wood handle as well as brass tip. Brass is square in section with chamfered corners and a tapering blunt tip.
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Iron shaft is worn and pitted; wood handle is splitting on opposite sides, extending halfway through handle from ferrule. Wood is worn and darkened. Brass is dented and worn with signs of filing to shape tip. Shaft is bent, especially near brass end.
Soldering iron. One end is a 5 3/7" long large and very heavy tip of brass, with chamfered corners and tapered pointed tip. Connected with a shaft of iron or steel, a round rod 10 1/4" long. Wooden handle is missing, only a tapering 4-sided tang.
"The Electric Materials Co., North East, PA" is struck on one side of brass tip.
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Soldering iron. One end is a 3 1/2"" long tip of brass, with chamfered corners and tapered, 4-sided, pointed tip. Connected with a shaft of iron or steel that is made of two lengths of joined wrought iron that forks at brass end and inserts into two opposite sides. Fitted with a shaped handle grip with rounded metal ferrule.
Brass is struck one side with "3 1/2".
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Iron shaft is worn, darkened and pitted. Brass is dented and somewhat misshapen. Handle is split at opposite sides, extending out from ferrule. Nail driven into ferrule.Wood has very strong wear with losses next to ferrule.
