Page 26: Entrance to Oak Hill; Large mansion, "Oak Hill, R. S. M. McIlwain (now), Judge J. Hay Brown"; View of Oak Hill mansion, "Judge J. Hay Brown, Oak Hill"; Tree lined drive, "Leaving Oak Hill, Paradise Presbyterian Church in distance"; Wild Cat Falls, May 30, 1902; Home of Col. Joel Lightner. Oak Hill, home in Paradise Twp. Wild Cat Falls is in York County.
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.
Pretty Pequea - Looking southeast across the creek. Reverse is ad for Teachers' Vacation Fund Contest for the three most popular teachers, one vote with each pound of coffee from Mack the Coffee Man, contest starts December 1st, 1908, closes June 30 1909.
See Object file 2023.001.163 for more information. Donation by Mrs. Margaret Smith in 1957 includes projector (2023.001.163) and slides 2002.091.38-40, 42, 43 & 2002.095.30,32.
