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.
Photograph album, handmade cover of cardstock and leather bound with two metal tacks, front etched drawing of floral design and word 'Photos". Page 7: Group of women in costumes.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-30 Michael Haverstick Collection
Photograph album, handmade cover of cardstock and leather bound with two metal tacks, front etched drawing of floral design and word 'Photos". Page 8: two photos of possibly dorm rooms at Linden Hall. Two pennants are on the walls - one with Linden Hall on it, the other with the year 1908 on it.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-30 Michael Haverstick Collection
Shad Choir Club. First outing at "Upland Lawn", Tues. June 22, 1909. Two identical photos. Front row, left to right: H. Moyer, Dr. Lincoln, Alfred Moyer, John Hetrick, W. Scott Leinbach, T. Wilson Dubbs, Frank Faesig, Frank W. Fondersmith, Rev. E. E. Meister, A. C. Kepler, George K. Hoffmeier. Middle row, left to right: Godfried Rhoades, William S. Gleim, Charles f. Hoffmeier, Dr. George Rohrer, James Buchanan, John J. Bair, Walter Miller, Rev. Stewart Creamer, Augustus Rhoades, C. H. Metzger. Back row, left to right: Edward Sayres, Hugh Fulton, Charles Schuberth, Dr. Harry Baer, Albert McConomy, Walter A. Heinitsh, W. F. Carey, Rev. Edward Harring, Walter Franklin, L. W. Keplinger, H. S. Williamson, W. Hambright.
Yeates School Theatrical Group of twelve boys in costume. Identified are: (standing, left to right) Bill Gardiner, Morton Rosse, Mr. Barker, Spencer Nauman. Bill Brown, Bob Locher, John Hartman are not clearly identified..
Page 24: Three photos of groups of women in costume at Windsor Forge mansion; Lion sculpture at Windsor Forge mansion; Two photos of people with unhitched wagon at Benton Hollow; Group of women at Benton Hollow; Women playing cards on porch of Ferncliff Club House at Benton Hollow.
Provenance
Second of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Yeates School, group of twelve costumed students. Those identified are: Aubrey Huston, Morton Rosse, Bill Gardiner, and John Hartman. Others in cast list are Robert MacMurdy, Kenneth Morton, Berkeley Reed, Ralston Grant, William Brown, Robert Clay, and John Donaldson.
