Various County officials lined up to shake hands with a man and woman. Ben Weaver, Commissioner, Brenda Swingler, Clerk of Quarter Sessions, Paul Paes, Register of Wills are the only identifiable officials.
Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
Scene through Penn Square showing modern street lighting, circa 1940s. Note Chritmas decorations on the Watt and Shand building. Old City Hall is to the left.
Provenance
Gift of David Towle. See MG-747 Papers of Mayor Kendig Bare.
Frank Pope, Franklin and Marshall College student, preparing to swallow a goldfish at Hildy's Tavern. Pope graduated in 1940. Hildy's was at the corner of West Lemon and Mary Streets at the time this photo was taken. It later became the Old Town Tavern and is now Brendee's.
Lydia Hamilton Smith, housekeeper for Thaddeus Stevens, original portrait by Charles Bird King, owned by Hager family. Note from Rebecca Beal to Mr. Heiges regarding the portrait is with this photo. Note reads: "Mr. Heiges, Thanks for clipping just another error per picture! The Frick Library agreed that the portrait of Lydia Smith is nothing like the style of Eichholtz. In 1962 they "attributed" it to C. B. King (1785 - 1862). I do not know who attributed it to Eichholtz, probably at the time of the Lancaster Exposition, 1912. Rebecca J. Beal." Note dated February 26, 1969.
Photographed by Ira W. Martin for the Frick Art Reference Library, New York. Image likely obtained by the donor, Fawn M. Brodie, for her book, "Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South".
