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Collection: Sphinx Club Records

Title: Sphinx Club Records

Object ID: MG0341

Date Range: 1912-2000

. Peter’s Village, Chester County, Pennsylvania Trivia World War II WWII Related Materials: Processing History: Processed by DW. Finding aid prepared by KK, March-April 2014. This collection has been documented, preserved and managed according to professional museum and archives standards. The collection

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Collection: Sphinx Club Records

Title: Sphinx Club Records

Description: This collection contains the official records of the Sphinx Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The minute books date from 1912-1985. Histories of the club were prepared in 1934 and 1962. Dinner programs, membership lists, meeting and speaker schedules, correspondence and speeches make up the bulk of the collection. There are images of some of the earliest members, as well as articles about the statue of the Sphinx.

Date Range: 1912-2000

Year Range From: 1912

Year Range To: 2000

Date of Accumulation: 1912-2000

Creator: Sphinx Club (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Appel, Roberts R.; Browne, George I.; Cooper, John Wallace; Cramer, Margaret Snader; Cramer, William Stuart; Davidson, Paul; Dippell, Marion Fox; Dippell, Victor William; Distler, Theodore A.; Donner, M. M.; Dotterer, Ray H.; Duke, Robert W.; Hager, E. M.; Hager, Nathaniel Ellmaker; Hamblin, Dora Jane; Hartman, Edwin Mitman; Hartman, Mr.; Herman, Emma Garrigan; Herman, Theodore F.; Honig, Margaret; Honig, Stanley; Jefferson, Thomas; Jordan, Paul; Jurgelski, Susan; Kell, R. M.; Kilby, Tom; Kunkel, Arthur King; Lincoln, Abraham; Maugans, David; Mencken, Henry Louis; Michalak, Beverly; Michalak, Stanley; Moore, C. Eugene; Parks, Cynthia; Poole, H. Herbert; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Roy, John; Rudisill, Carl; Rudisill, Flo; Sayres, Alfred Nevin; Schmitchew, Peter; Schwalm, Ted; Smith, Howard P.; Steinmetz, Rollin; Thornley, Richard; Twombly, Clifford Gray

Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.; Business records; Letters; Minutes (Records); Obituaries

Search Terms: Accomac Inn; Alfred's Victorian Restaurant; Associations, institutions, etc.; Business records; Bynden Wood; Conestoga Bridge; Correspondence; Finding aids; Flyers; Franklin and Marshall College; Hamilton Club; Huachung University; Letters; Manuscript groups; Membership; Minutes; Mount Gretna, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Obituaries; Outings; Poetry; Republican Party; Restaurants; Sphinx Club; St. Peter's Village, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Trivia; World War II; WWII

Extent: 1 box, 21 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0341

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2004.MG0341

Other Numbers: MG-341

Classification: MG0341

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed by DW. Finding aid prepared by KK, March-April 2014. Added to database 3 January 2022.

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Collection: Lancaster City and County Scenes Album

Object ID: A-34-01-15

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Lancaster City and County Scenes Album

Description: View on the Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad near Mt. Gretna.

Year Range From: 1898

Year Range To: 1905

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Locomotives; Mount Gretna, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Railroads

Place: Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 5 x 7 inches

Object ID: A-34-01-15

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-15-01-06

Date Range: c. 1906

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Co. K, 4th Regiment, National Guards at Mt. Gretna, Pa. Man marked with X is identified only as "Dad".

Date Range: c. 1906

Creator: Myers, Christian M.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Military; Army National Guard; Mount Gretna, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 8 x 10 inches

Object ID: 2-15-01-06

Images

Print, Photographic

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Collection: Diffenderfer Album 2

Object ID: A-37-01-07

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Diffenderfer Album 2

Description: Page 7: Soldiers at encampment at Mt. Gretna; Viewing soldiers with Gov. Pennypacker. Six photos.

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.

Year Range From: 1900

Year Range To: 1903

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Mount Gretna, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Military; Encampments

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3 x 5 inches

Object ID: A-37-01-07

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Diffenderfer Album 2

Object ID: A-37-01-08

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Diffenderfer Album 2

Description: Page 8: Two photos of soldiers at encampment at Mt. Gretna; Group of people enjoying lunch; Older woman with two children; Group of people on steps of large home; Woman teach dog tricks.

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.