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.
Katie M. Falk Etter at convention of The Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf
Description
Katie M. Falk Etter, center, with two unidentified women. Written on back: "Phila. convention Sept. 2, 1940". Stamped on the back: "Sept 13 1940 Capson's Photo Service, Genuine Lustertone prints, Beaver Falls, Penna." Photograph most likely take during The Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf convention in Philadelphia, Both Katie M. Falk Etter and her husband, John Christian Etter, were deaf.
Provenance
This collection of photographs is from the estate of Esther Etter Rebman, and is mostly of the Etter, Falk and Kriegelstein families. Some of the photographs may have belonged to her aunt, Mary Etter (b. 1897, d. 1960).
Petition to the Courts of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions from citizens of Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, to have a new road laid out so that they may get to their post office without having to pay a turnpike toll.
The original of this document is in Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, MG-268, Series 2, Box 3, Folder 46.
