Group of men - some in uniform, some dressed as Indians, some dressed as Pilgrims, some in religious costumes. Bunting, banners and an American flage in background. Banners read I. U. B. C. , 1896 and 1910.
Provenance
Photographs originally housed in LCHS MG-245 The Albert Glassley Collection. This collection is comprised of photographs of the family of Albert Glassley, Sr. and his wife, Amanda Siegler Glassley. Information regarding the family can be found in the Glassley family file in the library.
Ephrata Cloister - Founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel and a group of German Pietists, who established a Protestant Monestary known as the German Seventh Day Baptist. Buildings shown are the Saron (Sisters' House) and the Saal (Place of Worship). Restoration by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comm.
Historical Mountain Springs Hotel, Ephrata. One of the main stops for the Pony Express and stage coach between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The ground floor was built in 1753, and the last major construction was completed in 1849.
Historic Pennsylvania: Ephrata Cloister, Founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel and a group of German Pietists, who established a Protestant monastery known as the German Seventh Day Baptist. Veiw shows interior of the Saal (Church). The chamfered pilasters are two stories high. The table is pegged pine plank, 16.5" x 21". On the wall, an original Fraktur-Shriften (Biblical sayings and poem) in the early writign school. Restoration by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Ephrata Academy - Built in 1837 by the Religious Society of Seventh Day (German) Baptists. At one time it was a fashionable boarding school. It served to carry on the fine education tradtion of the 18th century Ephrata Religious Community. It was later used by the township school system as late as 1926.
