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Collection
Lancaster City and County Scenes Album
Object ID
A-34-01-62
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
Lancaster City and County Scenes Album
Description
Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad near Fites Eddy.
Year Range From
1898
Year Range To
1905
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Railroads
Susquehanna River
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
5 x 7 inches
Object ID
A-34-01-62
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-04-02-13
Date Range
1901
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Chestnut Level Presbyterian in 1901. Walls are those of third church building erected in 1765.
Date Range
1901
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
6.5 x 4.25 inches
Object ID
2-04-02-13
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-17-08-04
Date Range
July 10, 1907
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
"Big Shot at Fite's Eddy". Blasting for railroad, viewed from the south with the blast wave traveling across the river towards Sicily Island.
Date Range
July 10, 1907
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Railroads
Susquehanna River
Sicily Island
Explosions
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Condition
Not Rated
Object ID
2-17-08-04
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-17-08-05
Date Range
July 10, 1907
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Old railroad cut and tracks at Fite's Eddy.
Date Range
July 10, 1907
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Railroads
Susquehanna River
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Condition
Not Rated
Object ID
2-17-08-05
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-17-08-06
Date Range
July 10, 1907
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Blast wave from explosion at Fite's Eddy.
Date Range
July 10, 1907
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Railroads
Susquehanna River
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Condition
Not Rated
Object ID
2-17-08-06
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-17-08-07
Date Range
July 10, 1907
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Cabin on Baker's Island after the blast wave from explosion at Fite's Eddy.
Date Range
July 10, 1907
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Railroads
Susquehanna River
Baker's Island
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Condition
Not Rated
Object ID
2-17-08-07
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-17-08-08
Date Range
July 10, 1907
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Cabin on Baker's Island before the blast wave from explosion at Fite's Eddy.
Date Range
July 10, 1907
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Railroads
Susquehanna River
Baker's Island
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Condition
Not Rated
Object ID
2-17-08-08
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-17-08-09
Date Range
c. 1907
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Hotel at Fite's Eddy for railroad workers and, possibly, Holtwood Dam construction crews.
Date Range
c. 1907
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Susquehanna River
Hotels
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Condition
Not Rated
Object ID
2-17-08-09
Images
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-17-08-10
Date Range
c. 1907
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Hotel at Fite's Eddy, relocated railroad and drilling rigs on blast site and new culvert for Fite's Eddy stream.
Date Range
c. 1907
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Susquehanna River
Hotels
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Condition
Not Rated
Object ID
2-17-08-10
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Collection
Diffenderfer Album 2
Object ID
A-37-01-14
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
Diffenderfer Album 2
Description
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.
Year Range From
1900
Year Range To
1903
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Benton Hollow
Ferncliff
Farmhouses
Place
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
3 x 5 inches
Object ID
A-37-01-14
Images
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