Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
Car test of South Bethlehem and Saucon Street Railway Company
Description
Car test of South Bethlehem and Saucon Street Railway Company by C. J. Umble with C. P. Serfass. View showing exterior of car with a portion of the test crew also motorman and conductor.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-30 Michael Haverstick Collection
Group of men from the Fin and Feather Club gathered with drinks and a dog in front of a brick wall in a wooded area. Date and location not specified. The name John Musser and Lancaster are stamped on the back. The address 40 Green Street is written on the back.
The attached images have been provided for research. The original items are restricted for preservation purposes. The digital images of the manuscript and printed material are 300 dpi JPGs; the photographs are 600 dpi JPGs.
Please contact Moores Memorial Library for a high resolution image and permission to publish:
Moores Memorial Library
9 West Slokom Avenue
Christiana, PA 17509
chrlib@christianalibrary.org
610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687
The digital master files are stored at LancasterHistory.
LancasterHistory
230 N. President Ave
Lancaster, PA 17603
archives@lancasterhistory.org
(717) 392-4633
Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.
Credit
Christiana Resistance Collection, Series 2, Folder 5, Moores Memorial Library
Insert 1 Peter Woods and family, survivor of the Christiana Riot and Treason Trial defendant. 9 September 1911. Front Row, left to right: Mrs. Peter Woods, Peter Woods, Aunt Mary
Back Row, left to right: Howard Woods, Susan Woods, James Woods, Annie Woods, Percy Woods, Harry Woods, Leora Woods, Eugene Woods.
Note: Other children of Peter Woods not shown are: Jacob, Sumner, Ida, Tillie and Peter Woods Jr. (Information by Mrs. Lillian Speed of Parkesburg, Pa.)
Insert 2 Centennial Commemoration Ceremony, 9 September 1951.
The attached images have been provided for research. The original items are restricted for preservation purposes. The digital images of the manuscript and printed material are 300 dpi JPGs; the photographs are 600 dpi JPGs.
Please contact Moores Memorial Library for a high resolution image and permission to publish:
Moores Memorial Library
9 West Slokom Avenue
Christiana, PA 17509
chrlib@christianalibrary.org
610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687
The digital master files are stored at LancasterHistory.
LancasterHistory
230 N. President Ave
Lancaster, PA 17603
archives@lancasterhistory.org
(717) 392-4633
Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.
Credit
Christiana Resistance Collection, Series 2, Folder 12, Moores Memorial Library
Katie M. Falk Etter at convention of The Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf
Description
Katie M. Falk Etter, center, with two unidentified women. Written on back: "Phila. convention Sept. 2, 1940". Stamped on the back: "Sept 13 1940 Capson's Photo Service, Genuine Lustertone prints, Beaver Falls, Penna." Photograph most likely take during The Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf convention in Philadelphia, Both Katie M. Falk Etter and her husband, John Christian Etter, were deaf.
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).
Photograph- Photos of Ella Rohrer Efinger and friends during nurses' training at Episcopal Hospital, Front Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia. Five unidentified women in uniform standing on a footbridge. (Duplicate of #1-05-04-85 and #1-05-04-86)
Photograph- Photos of Ella Rohrer Efinger and friends during nurses' training at Episcopal Hospital, Front Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia. Five unidentified women in uniform standing on a footbridge. (Duplicate of #1-05-04-85 and #1-05-04-86)
Description
Photos of Ella Rohrer Efinger and friends during nurses' training at Episcopal Hospital, Front Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia. Five unidentified women in uniform standing on a footbridge. (Duplicate of #1-05-04-85 and #1-05-04-86)
Ella Rohrer married Philip Charles Efinger circa 1920. Ella attended nursing school at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, c. 1915. Philip served in World War 1 as an 2nd Lt. in Co. D, 56th Infantry, United States Army. Ella was a great-aunt of the donor, Richard Hauck.
Group of men in military uniform. Battery E, 213th Coast Artillery Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard at Camp Pendleton, Accomack County, Viriginia.
