Written on back: "Old stone house near Lexington (at Snavely's Mill) Lancaster County, Pa. Built by Christian and Elizabeth Ebi [Eby] in 1753. (Stone set in wall) Aug 20, 1932".
Sunday school class from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Penryn camping in Irael Bomberger's meadow along the Hammer Creek near Lexington. Front row: Bobby Frey and Harold Galebach. Second row: Herbert Fry, John Nestleroth, Isaac Long. Teacher Harry Bomberger is standing in back.
This collection contains the family papers of Helen Buckwalter Woerner from 1798-1939 including deeds, farm inventories, public sale posters, estate papers, and contracts. Some items of interest are the deeds, public sale documents, and a Campbell's Soup Company contract for tomato growing. A map shows the site master plan for the Lancaster Airport that was built on this family's farmland.
The George Steinman Papers, Series 1 contains an album, compiled by George Steinman, with many photographs of buildings, tombstones, monuments and scenes of Lancaster city and county. Ephemera and newspaper articles are among the photographs. Represented in the album are Postlethwaite's Tavern, hotels and taverns, fire houses, the Conestoga massacre, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, Stehli Silk Mill, and schools. The four boxes contain orginal correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera or and pertaining to the same subject matter as the album.
The George Steinman Papers, Series 2 is a collection of original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera primarily compiled by George Steinman. The contents of Series 2 represent Lancaster city and county events, prominent citizens, buildings, monuments, churches, cemeteries, schools, and businesses. Most of what Steinman collected relates to 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania, highlighting Lancaster and Philadelphia. One of the key events highlighted is the Revolutionary war; with documents and images related to Philadelphia, George Washington, the Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Riot and to various buildings in early Lancaster; including but not limited to the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite's Tavern. Also included in the collection is currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1764, and Confederate States currency and bonds.
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"Mr. Geo. Steinman who started this collection of pictures. This book was presented to the Lanc. Co. Historical Society after his death by Mr. Geo. S. Franklin."
John M. Gibson is recorded as the donor, 1968, in LancasterHistory's accession records.
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Other Numbers
MG-184
Classification
MG0184
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Series 1 processed and finding aid prepared PK and MSH, 2008. Series 2 finding aid prepared by JE, 2018. Added to database 20 July 2021.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
Photograph- Unidentified family or friends of Ella Rohrer Efinger or her husband Philip Charles Efinger. Two Unidentified women standing in front of a brick farm house. Notation on back says "Aunt Mazie."
Photograph- Unidentified family or friends of Ella Rohrer Efinger or her husband Philip Charles Efinger. Two Unidentified women standing in front of a brick farm house. Notation on back says "Aunt Mazie."
Description
Unidentified family or friends of Ella Rohrer Efinger or her husband Philip Charles Efinger. Two Unidentified women standing in front of a brick farm house. Notation on back says "Aunt Mazie."
Ella Rohrer married Philip Charles Efinger circa 1920. Ella attended nursing school at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, c. 1915. Philip served in World War 1 as an 2nd Lt. in Co. D, 56th Infantry, United States Army. Ella was a great-aunt of the donor, Richard Hauck.
Photograph- Martin Horting seated with his cat on his lap outside his tarpaper shack. On the shack is a sign that says "God Bless My Home".
Description
Martin Horting seated with his cat on his lap outside his tarpaper shack. On the shack is a sign that says "God Bless My Home". Real photo postcard. Horting was a blind man who sold almanacs, pencils, and flags in Penn Square. He lived behind the Lancaster County Almshouse. He was born November 5, 1874 and died on December 15, 1941 when he was hit by a car as he was crossing the Lincoln Highway near City Mill Road. He is buried at Voganville Union Cemetery in Earl Township.
