View of Lancaster taken from Zion Lutheran Church steeple, by moonlight. Shows Trinity Lutheran Church, the county courthouse and St. James Episcopal Church.
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.
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.
Page 3: Man standing at well, Shank's Ferry, York County, May 15, 1901; Canal, York Furnace, May 15, 1901; Group of people sitting on a large rock, York Furnace, May 15, 1901; Canal and large building, York Furnace, May 15, 1901; Susquehanna River at York Furnace, May 15, 1901; Eurie Hotel, York Furnace, May 15, 1901.
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.
Norman Adam, second from left, Jake Humphreville, third from left, and Isaac Trimble, far right, employees of the Lancaster Gas Co., assemble on Grant Street.
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.
