Photograph- Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
Photograph- Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
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Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
East King Street looking east to Duke Street. Signs for Burks, Rhodes Reed Jeweler, George W. Brown's Furniture Warerooms and also shows horse and wagon
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.
Eight Mueller children, names listed on the back of the photo are Minnie, Elizabeth, Helen, Esther, Ruth, Joseph, Henry and Paul. Children are not identified in the photo. Taken March 29, 1889 by Minnie. German writing also on back of photo signed G. P. M.
Photograph of cased image taken at the Addis Gallery in Lancaster, c. 1852, of the Christian Shenk family: Christian, wife Mary Warfel Shenk and children, left to right, Elizabeth Shenk Fahnestock, Anna Shenk Kendig, Abraham Shenk and Rudolph Shenk. The Shenks were proprietors of the Sorrel Horse Hotel on West King Street in Lancaster.
Photograph- Bertha Loeb, born April 28, 1868 and died April 19,1892. Daughter of Jacob and Theresa Loeb. Wife of Isadore Krotosky of Pottsville, PA. They were married February 3, 1891.
Photograph- Bertha Loeb, born April 28, 1868 and died April 19,1892. Daughter of Jacob and Theresa Loeb. Wife of Isadore Krotosky of Pottsville, PA. They were married February 3, 1891.
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Bertha Loeb, born April 28, 1868 and died April 19,1892. Daughter of Jacob and Theresa Loeb. Wife of Isadore Krotosky of Pottsville, PA. They were married February 3, 1891.