This collection contains letters, correspondence, research notes, documents, tourist maps, and other ephemera collected in the course of William Byron Hornberger's research in to his family's genealogy. Includes information about the Hornberger, Weaver, Goldthwait and other allied families compiled during the 1980s and 1990s.
Admin/Biographical History
William Byron Hornberger was born in Lancaster County and lived in Lititz where he was a graduate of the 1961 class of Warwick High School. He was accepted into the Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program and was a graduate of Perdue University's electrical and computer engineering program. He served in the United States Navy for more than 20 years and went on to a post-active duty civilian career with Lockheed-Martin. He was the son of William Buch Hornberger and Charlotte Naomi Weaver, both of Lititz.
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This collection has been given in memory of William Byron Hornberger.
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Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Features full-page drawings of various scenes and people in an early 20th century small town print shop with descriptive text page facing each drawing. Published by Sam'l Bingham's Son Mfg. Co , manufacturer of printers rollers.
Pittsburgh Valley, Manor Township, Student Art Poster
Description
Poster displaying artwork of five eight-grade students who attended the Pittsburg Valley one-room school in Manor Township in 1933. Black and orange colored construction paper airplanes "Spirit of St. Louis" are by Ralph Richter and James Frey. There are three other square paper designs of black, orange, green and blue.
On the back, artwork has been removed, but the following Grade 8 students' names are written: Lottie Ressler, Cleo Sourbeer and Ralph Richter.
Provenance
Note clipped to poster display: "Randy, This is one of the 9 or 10 art work done in one rm school manor twp (Little Pittsburgh 1933) Are you interested? I must find good home for them as I promised the teacher I would. Clyde."
St. Joseph's School of Nursing, class of 1939. Front row, left to right: E. Potke, E. Musser, G. Rose, Frances Miller Funk, J. Gast, R. Stegeman, Sue Orfino, Dolores Fritz. Back row, left to right: W. Shane, E. Shriner M. Larson, C. Haldeman, E. Schiedendorf, D. Longnecker, A. Milanof.
