Airplanes, Automobiles and Commercial Photography: The Darmstaetter Collection, 1905-1941 By Robert Lowing when I moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, it surprised me to hear people say the American Depression was not bad here. Some people who had lived through the Depression said it was true, and I

pressure toward Anglicization throughout southeastern Pennsylvania) In part, French Huguenots rapidly assimilated into an emerging "Ameri- can" culture during the eighteenth century because they were a cultural minority in nearly every region of colonial America. Despite their relatively early arrival in

The Atglen & Susquehanna: Lancaster County's Low Grade By Frederic H. Abendschein By the beginning of the 20th century the Pennsylvania Railroad's territory, traffic levels, and income had grown substantially from 1854, the company's first year. The traffic was putting severe strains on the system

which provided a peaceful environment within which settlements could be established and flour- ish. The fifth office of Blue Ball National Bank was built in Gap, with hopes of serving customers in the Christiana, Atglen, Parkesburg, Kinzers, and Paradise areas. The former Fisher's Steakhouse, on Route

did entertain the Pennsylvania Association of College Presidents and Professors in the hall dedicated to Diogenes. In 1887 Dr. E. V. Gerhart and the "German Mafia" planned their strategy with the skill of Field Marshal von Moltke. After all the defeats of prior years Clio finally adopted "Modern

attached the prefix "Penn" in honor of Admiral Penn; thus "Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania was chartered in 1681. The following year, the Duke of York, the future King James II, deeded to Penn the claim to the three lower counties on the Delaware River, which is now the state of Delaware. These grants meant

.' When William Penn drafted his "frames of government" for Pennsylvania, the English system was adopted, lock, stock, and barrel. County courts were established with justices of the peace holding sessions quarterly (hence "quarter sessions of the peace court"). Not only summary offenses, misdemeanors

government in the 1730s was quite primitive. The only officials were constables, overseers of the poor, and supervisors of highways. In practice, Lancaster County's magistrates (or lay justices) were the only local government. With Lancaster being chosen for the county seat as anticipated by James Hamilton

economic institutions. Pentecostalism found its way into Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1907 through a seminary student who had rejected its tenets only a year before. In the pages that follow the author will provide a brief recounting of Pentecostalism's historical and theological origins as