Katie M. Falk Etter at convention of The Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf
Description
Katie M. Falk Etter, center, with two unidentified women. Written on back: "Phila. convention Sept. 2, 1940". Stamped on the back: "Sept 13 1940 Capson's Photo Service, Genuine Lustertone prints, Beaver Falls, Penna." Photograph most likely take during The Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf convention in Philadelphia, Both Katie M. Falk Etter and her husband, John Christian Etter, were deaf.
Provenance
This collection of photographs is from the estate of Esther Etter Rebman, and is mostly of the Etter, Falk and Kriegelstein families. Some of the photographs may have belonged to her aunt, Mary Etter (b. 1897, d. 1960).
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.
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
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
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
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
