Ornate chased finial of cane or walking stick. Cane itself is not attached. Foliate and floral motifs. Thin metal filled with heavy-weight, dark substance. Tip engraved with: "Presented/ H L/ to/ Trout/Upon his Retirement/ From Lancaster City Council/ After/ Fifteen Years Service/ April 3 1907".
Commemorative medal, in leather covered case with velvet interior
Face: image of 3 women, one holding a boat in her lap, cityscape in background, 2 columns frame a bust of Robert Fulton. "Robert Fulton 1765 - 1815" and "First use of steam in navigation on the Hudson River 1807"
Reverse: image of 7 men on board a boat "Discovery of Hudson River by Henry Hudson, A.D. MDCIX, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Comm., The American Numismatic Society"
Newspaper sketch: Yankee Schwartz, bantamweight fighter. From the Philadelphia Press, February 21, 1909.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Hauck Collection. Hauck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Hauck. The Haucks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
