Photograph- Carte de visite with tax stamp on back. Written on back: "Dear little Ella Rutter, pretty little soul, Intercourse". Daughter of Jeremiah and Christianna Rutter.
Photograph- Carte de visite with tax stamp on back. Written on back: "Dear little Ella Rutter, pretty little soul, Intercourse". Daughter of Jeremiah and Christianna Rutter.
Description
Carte de visite with tax stamp on back. Written on back: "Dear little Ella Rutter, pretty little soul, Intercourse". Daughter of Jeremiah and Christianna Rutter.
Provenance
From an album of members of his parish at Salem Heller's Reformed Church in Upper Leacock Twp. , Zeltenreich Reformed Church in New Holland, and possibly a parish he served in McConnellsburg, PA.
First Reformed Church, 40 East Orange Street at Christian Street, taken before 1866. St. Paul's Reformed Church at the white steeple in the background was then on the South side of Orange at Duke Street, now the location of the County Court House.
Small brown leather album of cartes de visites, one tintype and a loose cabinet card. Inscription, written twice, on front pages: "Presented to Charles H. Bushong by his grandfather Henry Bushong". This album contains photographs of members of the family of Henry Bushong and his son, Gilbert Bushong, who were devout Quakers and Abolitionists who aided freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad at their farm in Bart Township, Lancaster County, during the Civil War.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
