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.
Real photo postcard. Interior of bullet riddled house where Mexican bandits attacked U. S. Troops. Written on back: "some closs it wod do some of the old boys good to here some bullets zip zip zing zing over their heads would it kid hay, they had the range". Two men standing in house. One man is identified as B Co., 28th Inf., First Sgt.
Five soldiers in World War I style uniforms posed for a photograph. Real photo postcard. Written at top: "P. B - Bell [Fem] John [Cau] N. J." Written at bottom: "Arthur Smith, Ind - Cy Perkins Kentucky".
