Thaddeus Stevens' tomb, Shreiner's Cemetery. Stevens epitaph: I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemteries limited as to race, I have chosen this as my last resting place, that I might illustrate in my death the pricnicples I advocated through a long life, "The equality of man before his Creator."
Small black album of photographys and cyanotypes of people and scenes around Lancaster County taken between 1900 and 1906. Many of the places are identifiable, but names of people not always included. Several pages at the front of the album are loose. Album belonged to Blanche Hartman.
Note on back of photograph: "View looking west from a position on top of the crumbling stone wall of the Bishop Hans Tschantz Graveyard. The "Old Bowman" are buried in the right fore-ground of this print. The stones shown are all of the Kendig family" September 1929, H. H. Bowman, Toledo, O.
Note on back of photograph #1-17-03-95: "View looking west from a position on top of the crumbling stone wall of the Bishop Hans Tschantz Graveyard. The "Old Bowman" are buried in the right fore-ground of this print. The stones shown are all of the Kendig family" September 1929, H. H. Bowman, Toledo, O. This is another view of the graveyard.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Possibly Elizabeth M. Ament with tombstones in background.
Provenance
Gift of Beth Mitten. Photograph album that belonged to Elizabeth M. Ament, mother of Mildred Shopf Smiley. Black paper album, 11 x 7 x 1 in., c. 1920. Includes many photographs of people and places of the Manor Township area.
Page 21: "Ye Village Inn, Ephrata, May 1, 1902"; "D. A. R. (small party) Ephrata Monument unveiling, May 1, 1902" - Anna Fondersmith is the small girl at front; "A group of Cloister houses, May 1, 1902"; "Ephrata Monument unveiled, Zion Cemetery, May 1, 1902" - tombstones of Henry and Catharine Miller in foreground.
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.
Photograph- A group of people gathered at the Heister Monument in Lancaster Cemetery. H. Frank Eshleman is the speaker, J. C. Arnold at post. Also shows John D. and Bertha C. Landis.
Photograph- A group of people gathered at the Heister Monument in Lancaster Cemetery. H. Frank Eshleman is the speaker, J. C. Arnold at post. Also shows John D. and Bertha C. Landis.
Description
A group of people gathered at the Heister Monument in Lancaster Cemetery. H. Frank Eshleman is the speaker, J. C. Arnold at post. Also shows John D. and Bertha C. Landis.
