Appraisements of real estate for inheritance tax. Some personal property appraisals are also included. Appraisals include: name of decedent; location and description of real estate; description of personal property; valuation of real estate and personal property; and assessed tax. May also include names of heirs. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name. Handwritten; from 1886, handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Looking west on Orange Street in Lancaster. St. James Episcopal Church is on the right.
Provenance
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
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.
Fackenthal Library, viewed from the back, at Franklin and Marshall College, and reservoir at Buchanan Park.
Provenance
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
