Small album with black composition covers which are no longer attached. Album is in poor conditon. Contains 124 photographs of people, scenes and buildings - few are identified. All taken between 1897 and 1899. Possibly belonged to the family of Edward Reinhold of East Donegal Township. His son, Paul, is the only identified person in the album.
Page 7: "Wednesday June 19, 1901, Lititz and Manheim, Tally Ho Drive"; group of people standing at the springs at Lititz Springs Park, "After a drink"; view of creek at Lititz Springs Park; Group sitting on bridge over creek in Lititz Springs Park; Anna Fondersmith and a boy named Frederick; "After Supper", group of people on a porch; Two men at a bench, "Charles S. and Luther F."
Provenance
First 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, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
