Page 95. Left: Helen Getz and Christ on Elizabethtown College grounds, 1915. Top right: Two men driving a car through snow. "Some snow banks". Bottom right: Four men, one identified as Moyer, at Campbelltown.
Provenance
Photograph album assembled by Helen Getz just before her marriage to William J. Buch. Helen Getz was born in Ephrata in 1893. Most photos date to the 1910s. Gift of her son, Stan Buch. See also MG 658 Stan Buch Collection in our archives.
Large black album, string binding, photos pasted to black paper. Compiled by Joseph H. Ganse while he worked for the city of Lancaster during construction of the city water works. Gift of his son, Joseph R. Ganse.
Page 17: Man with snow shovel standing on sidewalk, "Just finished pavement"; First General Hospital on North Queen Street; Second General Hospital on North Lime Street; Rocky Springs "Emma Belle", dashed to pieces at foot of Old Poor house Bridge, wind and rainstorm, Sunday August 10, 1902; Anna Fondersmith at Upland Lawn; Trolley car, "next stop Conestoga Park", 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.
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.
Wenger's Mill covered bridge, also called Rose Hill covered bridge, built in 1849 by Henry Zook. Located on Log Cabin Road, just off of Rose Hill Road. In the snow.
Provenance
Photographs of a 2003 Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society bridge safari.
