Lancaster High School Debating Team, 1917. Back row, left to right: Edwin Weaver, Harry Siegle, Henry Yeager, Charles Carroll, and Paul Gast. Front row, left to right: Earl Helm, Mr. Ober Morning (coach), Herman Slotkin, Harris C. Arnold (captain). Question debated by both teams: Resolved that the government should own an dcontrol the railroads of the United States. Debate held March 23, 1917. Negative team defeated Chester High School at Chester. Affirmative team lost to Reading High School at Lancaster.
Eight year old James Douglas McCaskey, great-grandson of J. P. McCaskey, and Walter Bogardus McCaskey, son of J. P. McCaskey, at unveiling of portrait of J. P. McCaskey at dedication of the new J. P. McCaskey High School in Lancaster.
Provenance
Digital image only. Gift of Margaret McCaskey, via Dolores Parsil. Original image owned by Margaret McCaskey.
The Bowman Technical School was founded by watchmaker Ezra F. Bowman in 1887 to teach the trade of watchmaking and engraving. During World War I, the Bowman Technical School trained soldiers to repair delicate aviation and naval instruments.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.