Red velvet album in very poor condition. Gift of Susan Carver Buchanan. Album is that of Ellwood Townsend and his wife, Ida Diller, who were from Smyrna, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County. Album contains cabinet cards.
Carte de visite. Asian man in traditional dress. Written on back: "Ah You, Jan. 26, 1885." A newspaper article in the December 23, 1885 Lancaster Intelligencer newspaper identifies him as Der Do You. He was born in Canton, China, in 1857 and first came to the United States in 1876. He returned to China that same year, but came back to the United States in 1877. He arrived in Lancaster in 1882.
Photographs originally housed in LCHS MG-245 The Albert Glassley Collection. This collection is comprised of photographs of the family of Albert Glassley, Sr. and his wife, Amanda Siegler Glassley. Information regarding the family can be found in the Glassley family file in the library.
