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.
Page 34: "Seventh Day Baptist, Sisters House, Ephrata, May 1, 1902"; "Scene near Ephrata, May 1, 1902"; "Last one of the Seventh Day Baptist sisters lived here alone, May 1, 1902"; Mr. Frank Reid Diffenderfer, 540 North Duke Street; "Near Gable's Woods, August 8, 1902".
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.
Michael Ripton, Ephrata Cloister, speaking to group as part of the Rural Development Leadership Conference, mobile workshop "Arts and Rural Development".
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
