Maria Hess Burkholder, wife of John H. Burkholder. Written on back: "Maria Burkholder, grandmother Landes' sister". Possibly the sister of Hettie Hess Landes.
Conrad Beissel lectures his sisters and brothers of the Society of Ephrata in this scene from "Vorspiel", a pageant presented each summer at the Ephrata Cloister by the Ephrata Cloister Associates.
Happy sisters see brothers coming in a scene from "Vorspiel", a pageant presented each summer at the Ephrata Cloister by the Ephrata Cloister Associates.
Brothers and sisters of the Society of Ephrata walk again through the darkness in this scene from "Vorspiel", a pageant presented each summer at the Ephrata Cloister by the Ephrata Cloister Associates.
All Photographs courtesy of the High Library, Elizabethtown College.
Brothers House, Ephrata Cloister. This image was used as photograph next to page 327 in the 1915 book, History of the Church of the Brethren of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Provenance
Digital Image only, LCHS Journal, Vol. 109, p. 140 - 151. Original image owned by Elizabethtown College.