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Negative, Glass Plate

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Collection: Lancaster Camera Club Collection

Object ID: LC-01-11-35

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Object Name: Negative, Glass Plate

Collection: Lancaster Camera Club Collection

Description: Holtwood Dam

Provenance: Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.

Year Range From: 1910

Year Range To: 1920

Creator: Landis, David Bachman

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Dams; Holtwood Dam; Susquehanna River

Object Name: Negative, Glass Plate

Film Size: 4 x 5 inches

Object ID: LC-01-11-35

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Hydro-electric plant and bridge spanning Susquehanna River three miles below Conowingo

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Author: Magee, Daniel F.

Date of Publication: 1927

HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT AND BRIDGE SPANNING SUSQUEHANNA RIVER 3 MILES BELOW CONOWINGO By D. F. MAGEE Many people know in a general way but few have stopped to consider that, within thirty-two miles as the crow flies and forty-five miles by good, hard, smooth roads, there has been built and now near

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Alternate Title: HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT AND BRIDGESPANNING SUSQUEHANNA RIVER 3 MILES BELOW CONOWINGO

Responsibility: by D. F. Magee.

Author: Magee, Daniel F.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1927

Physical Description: 91-94 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7

Subjects: Hydroelectric power plants - Maryland - Conowingo.; Conowingo Dam (Md.); Susquehanna River.; Conowingo Reservoir (Md. and Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 7 (1927), p. 91-94Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31

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Archive

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

Lancaster Land drafts Lemon Street School Letters Manuscript groups Mortgages New Design, Earl Twp. New Holland Newspaper clippings Programs Real estate Real property surveys Reigart's Landing Susquehanna River Texas Texas Frontier Forces Windsor Forge Related Materials: Processing History: Cataloged by HST

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Description: The Diffenderffer Family Papers collection contains items that have been passed down through generations of the Diffenderffer family. Deeds for tracts of land in New Holland date back to the creation of New Design, the village that preceded New Holland. Correspondence and some manuscripts pertain to J. P. McCaskey's life and accomplishments. F. R. Diffenderffer's manuscripts on Easter Day and Conrad Weiser are preserved with this collection, as well as poems, a program for the C. Elvin Haupt School, and a claim of F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. against the State of Texas.

Date Range: 1691-1963

Year Range From: 1691

Year Range To: 1963

Date of Accumulation: 1691-1963

Creator: Diffenderffer family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

People: Brubaker, John; Brubaker, Margaret; Brubaker, Philip; Davis, Sarah; Diffenderfer, David; Diffenderfer, Elizabeth Shirk; Diffenderfer, John; Diffenderffer, Christina; Diffenderffer, David; Diffenderffer, David, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diffenderffer, Harold F.; Diffenderffer, John, Jr.; Diffenderffer, John, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Margaretta Stein; Diffenderffer, Michael; Freymyer, Jacob; Grim, Henry; Haupt, Charles Elvin; Hoch, Herman E.; Holl, Wendel; Hubley, Bernard; Kennerly, John; Kinzer, John; Kinzer, Magdalena; Koch, Mary; Koch, Melchior; Law, James D.; Markley, Henry; McCaskey, Donald G.; McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"; Nevin, Blanche; Painter, John; Penn, William; Rodman, John H.; Shirk, Henry; Smith, Oliver; Smith, William Evans; Sneider, Christian; Stone, David; Stone, George; Stone, Leonard; Stone, Mary; Sutton, Mary A. Diffenderffer; Thomson, Bill "Tommy"; Winter, John; Young, Matthias

Other Creators: Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz, 1918-2009; Diffenderffer, David

Subjects: Deeds; Letters; Real property

Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Conestoga River; Correspondence; Deeds; Drowning; Earl Twp.; England; Estate settlement; Finding aids; German Reformed Church of New Holland; Haupt Elementary School; Hutchings Printing House; King Street; Lancaster; Land drafts; Lemon Street School; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mortgages; New Design, Earl Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Programs; Real estate; Real property surveys; Reigart's Landing; Susquehanna River; Texas; Texas Frontier Forces; Windsor Forge

Extent: 1 box, 23 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0410

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).; Deeds in folders 1-18 were a gift of Fianna Diffenderffer and the Diffenderffer family, 4 November 2006.; Items in folders 19-23 were a gift from her nephew, David Diffenderffer, 14 August 2006.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2006.MG0410_NOV

Other Numbers: MG-410

Classification: MG0410

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged by HST, November 2008. Added to database 28 July 2021.

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 1-20-04-74

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Slackwater Dam near bridge #23 over the Conestoga River.

Provenance: Photographs taken by Lancaster County during bridge repair work. Gift of Gordon Reed.

Year Range From: 1920

Year Range To: 1929

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Search Terms: Slackwater Dam; Conestoga River

Place: Manor Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3.25 x 5.5 inches

Object ID: 1-20-04-74

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Darmstaetter Collection

Title: Photograph- Couple sitting on a rock with the Susquehanna River in the background.

Object ID: D-05-03-42

Date Range: February 25, 1929

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Darmstaetter Collection

Title: Photograph- Couple sitting on a rock with the Susquehanna River in the background.

Description: Couple sitting on a rock with the Susquehanna River in the background. Woman is wearing trousers. Customer: Elizabeth Grenlick, 104 South 6th Street, Columbia.