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.
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Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Brown leather album with "Photographs" printed on the spine. Contains carte de visites, only two of which are identified. Most were taken by local photographers during the 1860s.