Active Camping Club, Point Lookout, July 8th, 1907. Group of 24 men posed in wooded area, a building and tents are in the background. John Otto, father of Agnes Reitzel is in middle of group with suspenders and straw hat. Note two groundhogs at feet of front row.
Page 22: "Wednesday, May 21, 1902 - Dining Party" - Windsor Forge, home of Miss Blanche Nevin; Crowd on lawn at Windsor Forge; Windsor Forge built 1735; Windsor forge dining room; Little Conestoga Creek near Windsor Forge; Dining room fireplace at Windsor Forge.
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.
Page 15: Boyd farm, "A familiar scene, 1823 - 1903"; "Mitchell Rock", Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad; "Mr. Augustus Rhoads and the cow, October 15, 1903"; Two mule team and load of corn on wagon at Boyd farm, October 15, 1903; Glen Benton; Group of people seated on logs in the woods, "Along Glen Benton, October 15, 1903".
Provenance
Second 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, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Page 16: "Looking south from Benton Station, Monday October 26, 1903"; "Road to Kato's house (colored musician)"; "Along Glen Benton, October 16, 1903, Mr. Jones, Harrisburg (to right), one of club members"; "Caesar's Glen, October 16, 1903"; "A man wanted this rock for his tombstone, October 16, 1903"; "Mouth of Glen Benton, October 16, 1903".
Provenance
Second 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, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
Page 5: "Charles & Annie's farm - Marietta Pike, April 18, 1901" - picture of brick farmhouse and Anna Fondersmith on a swing being pushed by her father, Frank; Group of children at play with two teachers - "Kindergarten - June 13, 1901"; Anna Fondersmith and her father, Frank Fondersmith, July 1901; Large house with columns, "Millbank", October 15, 1901; "Ready for church, August 1901" - Anna Fondersmith and her father, Frank.
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.
Page 14: On culvert at Benton Hollow; Boyd Farmhouse, built 1823; Ferncliff Club House, Benton, Pa.; Boyd homestead (in the distance); Man seated, woman standing, "Posing"; Group in front of Ferncliff Club House, "the day about over". Thursday October 15, 1903.
Provenance
Second 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, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
