Page 16: "Looking south from Benton Station, Monday October 26, 1903"; "Road to Kato's house (colored musician)"; "Along Glen Benton, October 16, 1903, Mr. Jones, Harrisburg (to right), one of club members"; "Caesar's Glen, October 16, 1903"; "A man wanted this rock for his tombstone, October 16, 1903"; "Mouth of Glen Benton, October 16, 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 30: Group of people at Ferncliff Club House; Ferncliff Club House; Group of people at Ferncliff Club House; Susquehanna River; Two photos of railroad tracks
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.
The Bowman Technical School was founded by watchmaker Ezra F. Bowman in 1887 to teach the trade of watchmaking and engraving. During World War I, the Bowman Technical School trained soldiers to repair delicate aviation and naval instruments.