Page 5: "Charles & Annie's farm - Marietta Pike, April 18, 1901" - picture of brick farmhouse and Anna Fondersmith on a swing being pushed by her father, Frank; Group of children at play with two teachers - "Kindergarten - June 13, 1901"; Anna Fondersmith and her father, Frank Fondersmith, July 1901; Large house with columns, "Millbank", October 15, 1901; "Ready for church, August 1901" - Anna Fondersmith and her father, Frank.
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.
Intercourse Primary School, Class picture. Students are identified. Back row, left to right: Mary Kling, Lydia Miller, Alice Hershey, Emanuel Lapp, Anna Bower, Herbert Miller, Ada Buckwalter, Oscar Boose, Lydia King, Ada Newswanger. Third row, left to right: Esther Hoover, Jennie Hutchinson, Marian Denlinger, Amelia Lapp, Esther Rogers, Mamie Kellenberger, Mamie Stoltzfus, Bethel Groff, Martin Diller, E. Hostetter, Lloyd Hutchison. Second row, left to right: ?, Becky Stoltzfus, Hilda Burkey, Alta Burkey, Elsie Miller, Annie Esh, Sarah Bower, Walter Stauffer, Lloyd Hershey, Paul Zook, William Miller, Sarah Esh, Edna Axe, Florence Dougherty. Front row, left to right: Emanuel Smoker, ? Stoltzfus, Elias Esh, ? Lapp, Olin Zook, David Bower, Daniel Stoltzfus, ? Dougherty, Lloyd Axe. Teacher is Miss Anna Quigley.
Intercourse Primary School Class. Teacher is Miss Mary Frantz. Identifed are - back row, left to right: Elsie Helm, ? Esbenshade, Anna Buckwalter, Harry Slack, Elsie Patton, Chester Ruth, Mary Harsh, Bud Helm, Dorothy Taggert. Middle row, left to right: Grace Diller, Anna Burkey, Alta Burkey, Ada Buckwalter, Ada Newswanger, Anna Hostetter, Edna Zimmerman, Mary Axe, Lydia Kling, Edith Denlinger, ?, Anna Bower, Edna Martin, Geneva Ruth, Lizzie Smoker, Lydia King, ? Esbenshade. Front row left to right: Irvin Groff, Cheste Diller, ?, ? Rogers, Lloyd Diem, Sam Zook, Harry Diller, Watson Frymyer, George Bower, ? Beam, Willis Kling, David Ranck, Earl Rogers, Herbert Miller.
Spring Grove School (also called Union Grove), class of 1901. The only child identified is Bertha Oberholser Weiler, b. 1892. She is in the second row, sixth from right.
Page 18: Home of Mr. Enfield Walker, Gap, Pa., December 4, 1901; Two women with a bucket, two women and two children on steps to house, "Star Rock, August 1901"; Group of kids in front of Christmas tree, "Miss Musselman's Kindgergarten Xmas 1901 - flashlight"; Group of people with a horse and sleigh, "Philip's birthday party, February 12, 1902"; Farmer's Bank, East King and Duke Streets, October 1901; "Walker sitting hall, Gap, Pa., December 4, 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 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
