Photograph- Lillian Irene Matter. Written on back of photograph: "To Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, As a memorial for the beautiful floral tribute to Lillian Irene Matter, Born Feb. 8, 1890, called to the angels into Glory June 20, 1903. Parents".
Photograph- Lillian Irene Matter. Written on back of photograph: "To Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, As a memorial for the beautiful floral tribute to Lillian Irene Matter, Born Feb. 8, 1890, called to the angels into Glory June 20, 1903. Parents".
Description
Lillian Irene Matter. Written on back of photograph: "To Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, As a memorial for the beautiful floral tribute to Lillian Irene Matter, Born Feb. 8, 1890, called to the angels into Glory June 20, 1903. Parents".
Page 1: Five photographs of Anna Fondersmith, daughter of Frank and Ida Fondersmith, taken at Otto E. Weber's studio, February 19, 1901; group of people on rocks by the Susquehanna River; Anna Fondersmith with group of adults, possibly parents and grandparents; Anna Fondersmith holding a doll; small circular photo of a child, possibly Anna Fondersmith.
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 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.
Page 6: Three women and Anna Fondersmith standing in the yard at 546 North Duke Street, Lancaster, May 23, 1901; Anna Fondersmith and a woman who may be her mother, Ida, in the backyard at 546 North Duke Street, May 23, 1901; "Three old maids" - Ida Fondersmith, left, and two other women; three photographs of Miss Lillie Musselman's Kindergarten School, Y. W. C. A. yard, June 13, 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.
