New Holland Civil Air Patrol, c. 1949. Note from back of photo: First Row: (third from the left) Alfred W. Stover, flight instructor, and later manager of the airport from 1953-1971. Second Row: (from Left to right) H. Herbert Poole, Jr.; two unknown members; H. Herbert Poole, D.D.S.; Milton L. Wasserman; Ellis H. Metford, D.O.; three unknown members; George Roland, later worked for Sikorsky Aircraft; two unknown cadets. The C.A.P. is an Air Force Auxillary formed in 1941 to use civilian aviation in antisubmarine patrol, border patrol and courier work. After the war it turned to more benevolent operations such as search and rescue, and involving young cadets in aviation.
Page 10: Marietta steamer, Wild Cat, August 8, 1901; Wild Cat Hotel, August 8, 1901; View of a road, "From Mountain House", August 1901; Cocalico Hotel, August, 1901, Ephrata; Ephrata Mountain Springs Hotel, August 1901; Cocalico Hotel, August, 1901.
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 1900 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
