A group of Lancaster men gather on the frozen waters of the Conestoga Creek at Engleside for a challenging game of curling. Identified from left of the boy with the sled are John Frank, Alfons Ranzinger, Joseph Stoeckl, Michael Brett, Joseph Liebl, Joseph Meier, Conrad Liebl, Louie Edtmiller.
Young man and woman on rocks along the Conestoga River. The city water works is in the background.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Hauck Collection. Hauck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Hauck. The Haucks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
New Danville Boys' Baseball team. Front row, left to right: Ronald Baker, Romanus Scheid, Robert Heisey, Merle Conrad, Jerry Baker and Ronald Shavely. Middle row, left to right: Kenneth Baker, William Rittenhouse, Robert Cummings, Larry Ibach, Richard Scheid, ? Newswanger, ?. Back row, left to right: William Scheid, Robert Hertz, Jerry Baker, Charles Aument, John Ibach, Paul Meckley, James Booth, Ronald Shavely, Gerald Baker.
Provenance
Digital image only. Original owned by Conestoga Area Historical Society.
Small collection of photographs of the family of Mary Brecht, daughter of Milton J. Brecht and Mary Ann Wolf Brecht. Mary Brecht, born in Lancaster County in 1882, married George W. Pulver in 1906. Gift of Pamela Sumner in memory of George W. Pulver. See also MG0284, the Mary Brecht Pulver papers.
Packy O'Gatty, left, and Abe Attell, in front of Abe Attell's bar in New York City.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Billy Angelo, sensational Italian-American lightweight champion of southern Pennsylvania. Four photographs - Starting, Meditating, Getting Ready, In Action. Written on front of one copie: "To Johnny Hauck from Billy Angelo".
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
