New Danville Boys' Baseball team. Front row, left to right: Ronald Baker, Romanus Scheid, Robert Heisey, Merle Conrad, Jerry Baker and Ronald Shavely. Middle row, left to right: Kenneth Baker, William Rittenhouse, Robert Cummings, Larry Ibach, Richard Scheid, ? Newswanger, ?. Back row, left to right: William Scheid, Robert Hertz, Jerry Baker, Charles Aument, John Ibach, Paul Meckley, James Booth, Ronald Shavely, Gerald Baker.
Provenance
Digital image only. Original owned by Conestoga Area Historical Society.
Small collection of photographs of the family of Mary Brecht, daughter of Milton J. Brecht and Mary Ann Wolf Brecht. Mary Brecht, born in Lancaster County in 1882, married George W. Pulver in 1906. Gift of Pamela Sumner in memory of George W. Pulver. See also MG0284, the Mary Brecht Pulver papers.
Packy O'Gatty, left, and Abe Attell, in front of Abe Attell's bar in New York City.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Billy Angelo, sensational Italian-American lightweight champion of southern Pennsylvania. Four photographs - Starting, Meditating, Getting Ready, In Action. Written on front of one copie: "To Johnny Hauck from Billy Angelo".
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Frank Allnutt, Canadian boxer. Written on front: "To Johnny Hauck, 'Prince' among men, dedicated fighting man and true friend. Sincerely yours, Frank Allnutt, Toronto, Canada, April 1969." Inset photo of boxing pose taken in Poona, India in 1942.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Andy Klinger and Frank Augustine fighting in the ring.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Jack "Spider" Armstrong. Written on front: "Best regards, to my friend Don Smith, Jack "Spider" Armstrong".
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Billy Alger, contender for Welterweight Title. Written on front: "To my Pal Johnny Houck, From Billy Alger".
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
