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.
Real photo postcard of Mabel Alexander. Written on back: "To Ethel Irene & Blanche. I would give you each one but I ain't got enough. How did you get h ome that time? I got your postals they were pretty."
View of Lancaster taken from Zion Lutheran Church steeple, by moonlight. Shows Trinity Lutheran Church, the county courthouse and St. James Episcopal Church.
Unidentified group of people posing for photograph in a back yard
Description
Unidentified group of people posing for photograph in a back yard. Part of a real photo post card. The following names are written on the back, but do not necessarily identify anyone in the photo: Alice, Elsie, John, Harry, Gilpin, Clay.
Page 21: View of Conestoga River; Railroad tracks; Man with two buckets on a yoke; View of countryside; Three women sitting under a tree; Two women by a creek; Lancaster County Almshouse.
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.
Real photo postcard of a woman in a light colored dress and hat with an enormous feather, holding a handbag with the letter K on it.
Provenance
This collection of photographs is from the estate of Esther Etter Rebman, and is mostly of the Etter, Falk and Kriegelstein families. Some of the photographs may have belonged to her aunt, Mary Etter (b. 1897, d. 1960).
