Page 42: Central House, John A. Esterly, proprietor; Church and cemetery; People in automobile; Women in automobile; Church; Stone barn.
Provenance
Second of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Page 35: Possibly Leacock Presbyterian Church; Group of people standing on deck with Susquehanna River in background, "Wild Cat Falls Hotel, August 1902"; "Observation Pavilion, Wild Cat, August 1902"; Pieces of interior trim and pews in yard of Leacock Presbyterian Church; Interior of Leacock Presbyterian Church; Glen Orchard, near Wild Cat Falls, August 1902.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Small black album of photographys and cyanotypes of people and scenes around Lancaster County taken between 1900 and 1906. Many of the places are identifiable, but names of people not always included. Several pages at the front of the album are loose. Album belonged to Blanche Hartman.
Thaddeus Stevens' tomb, Shreiner's Cemetery. Stevens epitaph: I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemteries limited as to race, I have chosen this as my last resting place, that I might illustrate in my death the pricnicples I advocated through a long life, "The equality of man before his Creator."
Page 33: Farmhouse; Women on steps of house; Cemetery; Two photos of Rock Ford; Farmhouse.
Provenance
Second of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.