Cabinet card of women employed at the Conestoga Cotton Mills
Description
Cabinet card. Young ladies employed by the Conestoga Cotton Mills. Standing from left: L. Mohler, L. Kerchner, and K. Keller. Seated from left: I. Dommel, L. Palmer, I. Swalley.
Provenance
Gift of Lisa Garrett. Original image owned by Lisa Garrett. Digital donation.
Page 74. Top: Woman and two children on flatbed wagon at Campbelltown. Bottom left: Unidentified people standing on sidewalk with fence and houses in background. Bottom right: Group of women at Mt. Gretna.
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.
Page 12: Round Top, Accomac, August 14, 1903; From Round Top, August 14, 1903; Round Top House, August 14, 1903; From Chickies Rock looking toward Marietta, August 14, 1903; Baby in carriage, two older children and an African American woman; From near Chickies Rock looking toward Columbia, August 14, 1903.
Provenance
Second 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, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Page 12: Steamer - "Accomac" on the Susquehanna River; "On the Cuff" - Wild Cat, July 4, 1897; Woman with white dress and large leg-o-mutton sleeves; "Rafts" - Accomac, June 1897.
Provenance
Small album with black composition covers which are no longer attached. Album is in poor conditon. Contains 124 photographs of people, scenes and buildings - few are identified. All taken between 1897 and 1899. Possibly belonged to the family of Edward Reinhold of East Donegal Township. His son, Paul, is the only identified person in the album.
Three young women sitting on a tree stump with a young man looking on. Written on back: "Emily, Daisy, Jesse, and Anna taken at Brownstown Dec. 20, 1897 by J. H. Wolf." and "Emily Roth, Daisy Brown, Anna Hornberger and Jesse Mumma".
