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

94/3, 1992 77 Appendix SELECT AND COMMON COUNCILS OF LANCASTER (Presidents are denoted by capital letters) Compiled by John W. W. Loose April 1891 - April 1892 Select Council 1st Ward: 2nd Ward: 3rd Ward: 4th Ward: 5th Ward: 6th Ward: 7th Ward: 8th Ward: 9th Ward: William McComsey Adam J. Auxer

Lancaster County Historical Society Volume 65 (1961): p. 93. See also Logan Papers, Volume 11, p. 5 on deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania. 5 Albert G. Zimmerman, "Daniel Coxe and the New Mediterranean Com- pany," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 76 (1952): pp. 86-96. 6

. 26. 3 George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy, Centennial History of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company 1846-1947 (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Railroad, 1949), p. 492. 4 Ibid., p. 492. 5 Lancaster Inquirer,20 December 1902, "Three New Bridges to Cross the River." 6 Ibid., 14 February 1903, "New Railroad

"bursting at the seams," and there would be no lodgings or places to conduct the business of government. The Pennsylvania state government had arrived earlier from Philadelphia, and had established its various offices in Lancaster. The county courthouse had been appropriated for the state legislature, and

that time. In conversation, George K. Diller had commented, "Mr. Brown said that it is not much trouble to start a bank, as he has already started two. I asked him what we would have to do. He said 'raise $50,000 and apply for a charter, that is about all there is to it.'" They approached Martin H

Clio's Century: A History of Lancaster's Cliosophic Society John Ward Willson Loose Few communities in the nation can boast an anomaly quite like the Cliosophic Society. The arts of conversation and genteel discussion, alas, no longer seem to be part of our national culture. Literary societies have

, and closed within a year. This early "nickelodeon" was soon followed by the Dreamland and the Gem in 1906, the Electric Vaudeville Theatre and the Bijou about 1908, and the Hippodrome opened by H.E. Doan (who sold the motion picture house to open the Colonial), in 1910. The Family Theatre had turned

practice until about 1820. However, the Pennsylvania Germans employed irrigation before 1750. Postscript We should be able to learn from history and not repeat past mistakes. Of course, there may be safe satisfaction in judging people remote in time or place for examples of ignorance and avarice. We can be

had enough of Wright, and dropped him as a justice of the peace. The record reveals an interesting sidelight: the term used in the document was "Justices of the Peace and Judges for Lancaster County." Wright apparently sensed his judicial career was about to end, so at the last Grand Inquest he