Committee to choose a site for the new Municipal Airport included members of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, American Business Club and Lancaster Aero Club. Pictured left to right are Jesse P. Jones, Sumner L. Brown, George P. Luckey, A.D. Howry, John H. Carter, Charles B. Weise, F.K. Brinkman, W.S. Raub, H.M. Hersh, William D. Grant, S.R. Slaymaker and G.W. Birrell. Photo take December 7, 1929. William Grant, Christiana businessman and president of Lancaster Airways, Inc. was killed in an auto accident three days later.
Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
Pilot Jesse Jones at the controls of Ryan Brougham B-5 airplane owned by Howard M. Hersh at leased to Lancaster Airways, Inc. under an agreement dated November 8, 1929. This was the first enclosed cabin airplane available for passenger service at the Manheim Pike airport which had been established by Jones in 1927.
Photograph- A group of people gathered at the Heister Monument in Lancaster Cemetery. H. Frank Eshleman is the speaker, J. C. Arnold at post. Also shows John D. and Bertha C. Landis.
Photograph- A group of people gathered at the Heister Monument in Lancaster Cemetery. H. Frank Eshleman is the speaker, J. C. Arnold at post. Also shows John D. and Bertha C. Landis.
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A group of people gathered at the Heister Monument in Lancaster Cemetery. H. Frank Eshleman is the speaker, J. C. Arnold at post. Also shows John D. and Bertha C. Landis.
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.
Two inch extension (N. P. Pipe) off four inche intersection at Laurel and Union Streets looking west on Union toward Love Lane taking care of ten new consumers and covering all near will be here for years to come. Also showing location of drip box at Laurel and Union Streets providing for all the drainage of this end of city.
Four inch universal extension on Pearl Street looking south from Second Street. This run is made in order to take in the new addition at Fourth Street, Prangley Avenue, and a hundred new houses that are being built and will be built on Fifth and Sixth Streets east and west of Pearl Street.
Four inch universal extension on Pearl Street looking south from Fourth Street toward Prangley Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Streets. This will take care of this new addition that is building up very fast.
