Photograph- Fire at Reilly Bros. and Raub Store, 1910. Written on back of photograph: "Fire started in Reilly Bros. and Raub store about 7:00 am was gotten under control about 11:00 am. Several large buildings were burned to the ground, loss about $400,000. The Grand Army Hall and all its valuable war relics including General Reynolds' saddle which was on his horse at Gettysburg when he was shot. This picture was bought at 12:30 on day of fire. Feb. 10, 1910 Kepler Building fire, Lancaster, Pa. Above information courtesy Richard Barr, Sr."
Photograph- Fire at Reilly Bros. and Raub Store, 1910. Written on back of photograph: "Fire started in Reilly Bros. and Raub store about 7:00 am was gotten under control about 11:00 am. Several large buildings were burned to the ground, loss about $400,000. The Grand Army Hall and all its valuable war relics including General Reynolds' saddle which was on his horse at Gettysburg when he was shot. This picture was bought at 12:30 on day of fire. Feb. 10, 1910 Kepler Building fire, Lancaster, Pa. Above information courtesy Richard Barr, Sr."
Description
Fire at Reilly Bros. and Raub Store, 1910. Written on back of photograph: "Fire started in Reilly Bros. and Raub store about 7:00 am was gotten under control about 11:00 am. Several large buildings were burned to the ground, loss about $400,000. The Grand Army Hall and all its valuable war relics including General Reynolds' saddle which was on his horse at Gettysburg when he was shot. This picture was bought at 12:30 on day of fire. Feb. 10, 1910 Kepler Building fire, Lancaster, Pa. Above information courtesy Richard Barr, Sr."
Order of the Buffalo, group of 23 men at camp, identified by last name only: Gunnion, Wentzel, Duttenhofer, Flick, Morris, Ream, Wolf, Knight, Iske, Sweitzer, Brannarth, Bessinger, Rutter, Shroad, Warfel, Gentzenlieter, Faesig, Duttonhofer, Witmer
Salem Church of God, 328 West Orange Street, Lancaster. Built in 1877, congregation dissolved in 1884. Property conveyed to Covenant United Brethren Church, 1884 to 1926. Became First Pentecostal Church, Assembly of God from 1927 to 1959. Theobald School of Ballet from 1959 to 1986. Now Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster.
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).
