View in Long's Park, Lancaster. This vista includes the beautiful artificial lake, a specimen of the carefully selected and highly cultivated floral preserves, and a promenade bordered with trees, that, coparatively still in infancy, give promise of much added beatuty in their maturity. The park was laid out by one of the most eminent landscape gardners of Philadelphia.
Roll of Honor, Dillerville School, 1904 - 1905. W. Eugene Evans, teacher. Students listed: Mabel Baum, Enos Bowman, Pearl Bowman, Elizabeth Brackbill, George Brackbill, Mary Brackbill, John Copeland, Mary Ferguson, Anna Heagy, Mary Haas, Anna Kiehl, Benjamin Kiehl, Walter Kiehl, Chester Lanious, Edgar Lanious, Mary Lanious, Ross Lanious, Gertrude R. Leachey, Anna Marie Leed, Clair Leed, Jacob Leed, Kathryn P. Leed, Bessie Lowery, Hannah Rodman, John Sheaffer, Mary Sheaffer, Susan Sheaffer, Earl Stauffer, Maud Stauffer, John Westman, Harry Westman, Alice Welsh, Anna Welsh, Edna Wissler, Elizabeth Wissler, Jacob Wissler, and Mary Wissler. Real photo postcard.
Page 9: Group of people seated on steps of large home, "Ermosa Vista, July 1903"; Baby in carriage, "Elizabeth Stauffer, July 1903"; Group of people seated on steps of large home; Woman holding baby on porch; Woman seated with baby on lap; Groups of people dining outdoors. Ermosa Vista is now known as the Stauffer Mansion at Stauffer Park in Manheim Township.
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 10: Woman with three children, "Cousin Rosa, Elizabeth, Anna, Frederick"; Mr. J. F. Sener and grandchildren; "Mother and daughter"; Woman holding baby, "Posing"; Groups of people dining outdoors; Aunt Annie and Elizabeth. Ermosa Vista, August 4, 1903. Ermosa Vista is now known as the Stauffer Mansion at Stauffer Park in Manheim Township.
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.
This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
