"Route of Parade and Points of Interest to be Seen by the Guests of the Lancaster Board of Trade and City Officials, on July 17." Booklet of postcards.
Group of men seated in Old Recorder's Office, second floor of the Courthouse. Identified left to right: Wm. Egerty Esq., Paul Mohler, Isaac Bechtel, Jay Caskey, W. Fryberger, Ann E. Davis Esq., Jacob Byrne, Esq., Ezra Brenner, O.P. Bricker, Esq., H. Nissley, Recorder, Geo. Keith, Dep.
The following note is also enclosed with the photo: "D. S. - The "Court House Isalnd patent" is for Bush Island in Manor Twp. The island location, as described in 1811, is: 150 perches from Lancaster shore, opposite the land of Isaac Kaufman and 3 perches below Archibald Hudder's Island. R. G."
Aerial view of downtown Lancaster looking south. Queen Street runs from lower left to upper right of photograph. Shows Penn Square, Griest Building, Central Market, Southern Market, the Courthouse, and the Brunswick Hotel.
"Route of Parade and Points of Interest to be Seen by the Guests of the Lancaster Board of Trade and City Officials, on July 17." Booklet of postcards.
"Route of Parade and Points of Interest to be Seen by the Guests of the Lancaster Board of Trade and City Officials, on July 17." Booklet of postcards.
Possibly road construction of what's now Route 222 - Robert Fulton Highway. "Kirk's Lane South". Kirk's Lane may refer to Black Barren Road which leads east to Kirk's Mills.
Provenance
Photographs taken by Lancaster County during bridge repair work. Gift of Gordon Reed.
Committee to choose a site for the new Municipal Airport included members of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, American Business Club and Lancaster Aero Club. Pictured left to right are Jesse P. Jones, Sumner L. Brown, George P. Luckey, A.D. Howry, John H. Carter, Charles B. Weise, F.K. Brinkman, W.S. Raub, H.M. Hersh, William D. Grant, S.R. Slaymaker and G.W. Birrell. Photo take December 7, 1929. William Grant, Christiana businessman and president of Lancaster Airways, Inc. was killed in an auto accident three days later.
Pilot Jesse Jones at the controls of Ryan Brougham B-5 airplane owned by Howard M. Hersh at leased to Lancaster Airways, Inc. under an agreement dated November 8, 1929. This was the first enclosed cabin airplane available for passenger service at the Manheim Pike airport which had been established by Jones in 1927.
"The Fifth Annual Picnic of the M.T. Garvin & Co at Hersheypark, July 2nd 1920" with women in white garments and several men in suit coats and ties. There are probably over 100 people in the picture with none of them identified.