Small black album of photographys and cyanotypes of people and scenes around Lancaster County taken between 1900 and 1906. Many of the places are identifiable, but names of people not always included. Several pages at the front of the album are loose. Album belonged to Blanche Hartman.
Members of the William Penn Camping Club in Kiwanis Park in 1908. The William Penn was a hotel located at 429 North Mulberry Street and owned by the Gerz family. George and Alex Gerz are holding rifles by drum. Their father is at far right rear with cap and mustache. Their uncle Alex, black bow tie, and Aunt Christine, wearing cross, are in back row.
Page 7: "Wednesday June 19, 1901, Lititz and Manheim, Tally Ho Drive"; group of people standing at the springs at Lititz Springs Park, "After a drink"; view of creek at Lititz Springs Park; Group sitting on bridge over creek in Lititz Springs Park; Anna Fondersmith and a boy named Frederick; "After Supper", group of people on a porch; Two men at a bench, "Charles S. and Luther F."
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 20: Mr. Phil Baker; Large group of children seated on steps, "Conestoga Park, May 8, 1902"; View of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the Conestoga River, "Conestoga Park, May 8, 1902"; Miss Ella Musser, Miss Sondau, and Miss Buckius, Conestoga Park, May 8, 1902; Unidentified Mennonite woman; View of Conestoga River, "Off Witmer's Bridge, May 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.
Page 32: Anna Fondersmith and three women, "Corn Roast Drive, Thursday, August 7, 1902"; View of creek, "Near Rock Hill, August 7, 1902"; Group of people having a picnic in the woods, "Mr. John Martin's Picnic hamper, August 7, 1902"; "Getting ready for supper, August 7, 1902"; Rossmere Hotel, Friday, August 1, 1902; Spring Grove Park near Rossmere, August 1, 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.
