Photograph- Martin Horting seated with his cat on his lap outside his tarpaper shack. On the shack is a sign that says "God Bless My Home".
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Martin Horting seated with his cat on his lap outside his tarpaper shack. On the shack is a sign that says "God Bless My Home". Real photo postcard. Horting was a blind man who sold almanacs, pencils, and flags in Penn Square. He lived behind the Lancaster County Almshouse. He was born November 5, 1874 and died on December 15, 1941 when he was hit by a car as he was crossing the Lincoln Highway near City Mill Road. He is buried at Voganville Union Cemetery in Earl Township.
Page 4 in Bruce Ryder's "Baby Book" has tfour pictures: (1) Bruce in a carriage with caption "The Guardian Angel" (2) Bruce in a carriage with his mother and caption "A plump help to laughter" (3) Bruce in a carriage with dog by his side and (4) Bruce in carriage with dog by front door with notation "Elinor Sykes takes my picture with Patsy and Mike"
Black paper album in poor condition and several loose photographs of Kneisly family gravestones and family landmarks in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Compiled in the 1910s.
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.
Elizabeth Peale's photo album before her marriage to Paul Ryder. Photo Album #3, page 72, has three pictures on the page, two of them are of kittens in a basket on the grass and third one is of a young girl and her doll sitting by the steps of a home.
