Lancaster High School students. Names listed on back of photo: Arthur H. Bell; Walter E. Barr; Harry C. Bolenius; Ralph W. Coho; George W. Cornelius; Harold F. Diffenderfer; Charles W. Diller; Leon D. Dodge; William W. Eichler; James R. Elliott; Frederick Gasser; Ernest W. Haverstick; Eugene A. Heim; John P. Herr; William Hook; Guy H. Killian; William H. Kready; George E. Kuhlman; Walter S. Mellinger; Peter Mohr; Donald G. McCaskey; Robert Bruce McGaw; Harry P. Nolty; William P. Ostermayer; George K. Reynolds; Oliver J. Smith; Clay Sprecher; Lewis B. Sprecher; Harry A. Stauffer; Charles A. Steckman; and William H. Thompson. A number of female students are shown in the photo but their names are not listed. John P. McCaskey is seated at left in the front row.
East End School, Conestoga. Teacher, George Lawrence. Students are: Front row, left to right: Wesley Warfel, Charles Kneisley, Olive Trissler, Elizabeth Markley, Ruth Martin, Mary Markley, Mary Sickman, Ruth Sickman, Hattie Hallman, Olive Markley, Arthur Mattin, John Trissler, Ira Hallman. Second row, left to right: Clarence Wade, Paul Hollow, William Hallman, Jacob Hallman, Clarence Hollow, Elmer Markley, Lloyd Kline, Ira Markley, Warren Sickman, Harry Kneisley,Maris Warfel, Cyrus Biechler, Paul Biechler. Back row, left to right: Grace Benedict, Edna Kreider, Reba Wade, Martha Trissler, George Lawrence, Margaret Beichler, Camilla Beichler, Emily Biechler, Sara Trissler, Mabel Hallman.
Faculty of Mt. Joy Schools, April 11, 1897. Identified, standing left to right are: Miss Gussie Trexler; Miss Bess Garber, Miss Carrie Druckenmiller, Miss Mame Hoffman, Miss Regina Myers, Miss Belle Leader. Seated, left to right: F. B. N. Hoffer, E. R. Barclay, Anna Walker, and Lou Kuhns.
Lancaster High School class of 1901. List of people attached, but not identified on photograph: Mary Resh; Daisy Greiner; Jennie M. Kieffer; Katharine Brown; Mathilde Globisch; Edna P. Carpenter; Mary M. Book; Alberta W. Paden; Grace R. Hawthorne, Sara D. Lutz, Stella Gingrich, Mary K. Strine, C. Elizabeth Hoyler, Edna A. Miles, Irene F. Haughman, Florentine R. Marx, Mary F. Slaugh. Myrtle Adams, Mary W. Smith, M. Maude Mentzer, Lillian D. Freund, Bertha M. Hostetter, May B. Hawthorne, Lula G. Bausman, Minnie Sulcov, Leila M. Frantz, Mabel Zercher, Amy G. Bartholomew, Minnie R.Wise, Olive J. Bonine, Elsie R. Worrst, Nellie C. Haines, Amelia C. Bertschi, Elsie M. Bauman, Jessie A. Koch, Annie J. Heinitsh, Gertrude L. Siegler, M. Ethel Hurst, Clara Kieffer, Sue F. Fralich, M. Blanche McMichel, Lewis H. Abel, John W. Appel, Leonard J. Bachler, Elwood R. Bucher, John J. Crumbaugh,Daniel M. Dukeman, Ephraim S. Eshleman, Alfred C. Fickes, Charles S. Hoffman, Paul H. Keppel, Kirwin W. Kinard, William E. Zercher, Walter R. Markley, Lewis A. Noll, James I. Pyle, John W. Reith, Roscoe R. Schnader, George A. Schwebel, Frank F. Shue, Bon Smaling, Warren E. Snyder, Andrew K. Stehman, Robert J. Titzel, also John P. McCaskey.
Page 46: "Dr. and Mrs. Shenk's yard, New Year's Day, 1903, 233 North Duke Street"; Group of school students, "Miss Kready's room, December 19, 1902"; "Miss Stahr's School yard - teacher ball, December 19, 1902"; "Miss Stahr's Room, December 19, 1902".
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.
