Active Camping Club, Point Lookout, July 8th, 1907. Group of 24 men posed in wooded area, a building and tents are in the background. John Otto, father of Agnes Reitzel is in middle of group with suspenders and straw hat. Note two groundhogs at feet of front row.
Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
Page 22: "Wednesday, May 21, 1902 - Dining Party" - Windsor Forge, home of Miss Blanche Nevin; Crowd on lawn at Windsor Forge; Windsor Forge built 1735; Windsor forge dining room; Little Conestoga Creek near Windsor Forge; Dining room fireplace at Windsor Forge.
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.