Negative of Columbia Bridge Burning from "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" Picture includes troups, horse gathering and the bridge between Wrightsville and Columbia on fire.
Photograph- Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
Photograph- Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
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Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
Photograph- Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
Photograph- Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
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Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
Photograph- Monument said to be the place where Bishop Samuel Bowman of the Protestant Episcopal Church died. Copy of pages 146-147 from a history of St. James Episcopal Church describes his death and is with photo.
Photograph- Monument said to be the place where Bishop Samuel Bowman of the Protestant Episcopal Church died. Copy of pages 146-147 from a history of St. James Episcopal Church describes his death and is with photo.
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Monument said to be the place where Bishop Samuel Bowman of the Protestant Episcopal Church died. Copy of pages 146-147 from a history of St. James Episcopal Church describes his death and is with photo.
Carte de visite. Unidentified Civil War soldier. Written on back: "From others in this series I would say this Jameson photographed before and during the Civil War. George A. Hyers occupied same studio after Jameson, but before 1870. Hyers was followed by W. F. Stein in same location. I have 2 photos printed on back 'Photographed by Geo. A. Hyers, front St. above Locust, Columbia, Pa.' They show the same curtain and decorations as this one, but are the later half of 1860s decade."
Photograph of cased image of man in Civil War military uniform. Slip of paper with image stated "taken before I left for Washington ? June 6, 1861". Possibly a member of the Kendig family.
Photograph- Carte de visite. Andrew Gregg Curtin. Written on back: "Thanks from A. G. Curtin, January 25, 1864" and "Photograph of Gov. of Pa., 1861 - 1867."
Photograph- Carte de visite. Andrew Gregg Curtin. Written on back: "Thanks from A. G. Curtin, January 25, 1864" and "Photograph of Gov. of Pa., 1861 - 1867."
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Carte de visite. Andrew Gregg Curtin. Written on back: "Thanks from A. G. Curtin, January 25, 1864" and "Photograph of Gov. of Pa., 1861 - 1867."
Hong Neok Woo, a young Chinese immigrant who lived in Lancaster from 1855 to 1864. He was brought here by Dr. John S. Messersmith, naval surgeon on the frigate Susquehanna, flagship of the squadron which had opened the ports of Japan to the world's commerce. Commodore Peary's vessels had stopped at Shanghai during their voyage. Woo lived for a time with Dr. Messersmith at his home, 40 North Lime Street. He learned the printing trade at the Lancaster Examiner and Herald office. There he met Walter Kieffer, a reporter on the paper (and later City Editor), and became a friend of him and of the Kieffer family. On Sept. 22, 1860, Woo became an American citizen, the first Asian to be naturalized in Lancaster. He served briefly as a member of Comapny I, 50th Regiment, PA Volunteers. In 1864, Mr. Woo returned to China and was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in China. While in Lancaster he had been a faithful attendant at the sevices of St. James Episcopal Church. He died on August 18, 1919, and was buried in Westgate Cemetery, the oldest Christian burial ground in Shanghai.
