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Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Cataloged by JP, Summer 2013. Add to database 23 October 2023.
View of Lancaster taken from Zion Lutheran Church steeple, by moonlight. Shows Trinity Lutheran Church, the county courthouse and St. James Episcopal Church.
Page 24: Lancaster County Prison, "Only castle in town, May 17, 1902"; Lancaster Cemetery Entrance, May 17, 1902; Advent Lutheran Church, May 17, 1902; Anna Fondersmith with doll in a little stroller, "County Prison Park, May 17, 1902"; Ann Palmer, Mrs. Leon Dodge's niece, May 19, 1902; Anna Fondersmith with unidentified Mennonite woman.
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.
Extension of four inch universal pipe on Lafayette Street looking east from brow of hill to intersection at Strawberry Street showing the lay of the pipe up through a bed of rock.
