The Lancaster Sketch Club records are comprised of meeting minutes, correspondence, exhibition programs and membership lists. The exhibition programs show the works exhibited and names of the artists. The club had a studio at 106 N. Christian Street, Lancaster. These records were apparently kept by Miss Gertrude Cosgrove, secretary of the organization.
The World War II Collection contains materials pertaining to local defense plans during World War II (1939-1945) including the correspondence of Civil Defense Units, air raid wardens, and police; member lists; an emergency defense plan; newspaper clippings; ephemera such as war ration books, song book, and programs; and records of the Victory Homecoming Parade of 14 June 1946. Local newsletters were sent to soldiers to share the news of Lancaster County communities. Posters convey messages to join the military, buy war bonds, ration food and fuel, recycle, etc. Oral history interviews taken in 2003 provide biographical information and the experiences of four POWs.
Hagers' Quarter Century Club: 132nd Anniversary Sale, May 5, 1953. Small photo of 5 Hager owners in center surrounded by individual photos of 27 employees - all persons are identified: Redmond C. Hager, E. T. Hager, Nathaniel Hager, William Hager, Jr., John C. Hager, Rebecca Stauffer, O. Ruth Good, Bertha Miller, Eleanor McEvoy, Virginia Pool, Lucy Hardy, Charles Kauffman, Ruth Dry, Samuel Booth, Lillian Ebersole, Rowena Kell, Robert Warren, Helen Neuhauser, Maude Frye, Fred Wells, Mary Hohman, Mary LeFever, William Taggart, Miriam Regennas, Margaret Haas, Mary Sommer, Walter Frankford, Ida Haeseler, Lillie Kirk, Reda McQueney, Salinda Meiskey, James Caithness
Pictured from eft to right are Nathaniel Hager, former board member and retired business man,
Mrs. Sherman Hill, wife of State representative and Boys Club director Sherman Hill and Larry Bayman, representing Lancaster Newspapers Inc. receiving Helping Hand Award.
