Page 74. Top: Woman and two children on flatbed wagon at Campbelltown. Bottom left: Unidentified people standing on sidewalk with fence and houses in background. Bottom right: Group of women at Mt. Gretna.
Provenance
Photograph album assembled by Helen Getz just before her marriage to William J. Buch. Helen Getz was born in Ephrata in 1893. Most photos date to the 1910s. Gift of her son, Stan Buch. See also MG 658 Stan Buch Collection in our archives.
Page 8: Two photos of soldiers at encampment at Mt. Gretna; Group of people enjoying lunch; Older woman with two children; Group of people on steps of large home; Woman teach dog tricks.
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.
Top left: Ida M. Weaver, "Taken Oct. 4th in Calumet School (1927)." Top center: "Miss Anna Hubert with whom i taught at Calumet terms 1926-1927 & 1927-1928". Top right: "Pearl Tinkey, pupil 1926-1972, Calumet #1". Bottom: "Girls of boarding house in State College July and Aug. 1928. Left to right, Margaret Price, Luella Martin, Ethel Young, Mrs. Duck, Laura Rossbach, "Jerry" Thomas, Agnes Bowie, Anna Williams.
This scrapbook consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and other ephemera glued to pages of a 6.5 x 8.25 inch composition notebook with lined pages. Not all pages are used. Cover is grey and is labeled "Roberts & Meck's Seaboard Composition Book, 36 Leaves Writing Paper, Roberts & Meck, Harrisburg, Pa."
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
New Street Public School, 1892, Bertha Cochran Landis, teacher. Written on back: "Paul's class at New Street. Bessie Hohein, H. Ruth, Rudy, Dietrich, Lutz, Aument, Allwein, Moyer, Overly, Leila Martin, Mary Debolt." Group of children posed on steps.
Fruitville School. Christian Hess Martin, Sr. is in back row, left. Teacher was H. E. Freed. Anna Martin is in front of Christian. Elmer Martin is in front of Ada.
Provenance
From MG-440 the Christian Hess Martin, Jr. Collection.
Students and teacher at Spring Garden School, near Paradise. Ruth Haines is fourth from left and her sister, Lida Haines is fifth from left in back row.