Page 17: Group of women in front of brick building; Trolley; Home for Friendless Children on Ann Street, Lancaster; Group of women in front of brick building. One is holding a camera; Caleb Cope house, Lime and Grant Streets, Lancaster; Couple seated in backyard.
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.
Students and teacher at Spring Garden School, near Paradise. Ruth Haines is fourth from left and her sister, Lida Haines is fifth from left in back row.
Group of young men standing and sitting in front of a large stone building. Written on back: "Mr. Hurd's class". Written along the front left side: "June 1889". John Christian Etter may be the young man standing at right. This may be his class at the Mt. Airy School, now the Pennsylvania School for the 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).
Page 48: Three photos of the Grubb Mansion at Chestnut and Lime Streets, Lancaster, February 5, 1903; "L. K. Fondersmith, Wrightsville, York County, Pa., February 22, 1903", two and a half story brick home; "Northeast corner of library, Lucius & Katherine, February 22, 1903"; Bridge from Wrightsville over the Susquehanna River, February 22, 1903.
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.