"Dear Villa, Just rec yours - sorry indeed to know of Maud's transmission. Mother is looking fine and is so much improved in general health. We are going out to a sauer kraut dinner today. Would so love to see babe. Love to all, Aunt P?"
Page 7: "Wednesday June 19, 1901, Lititz and Manheim, Tally Ho Drive"; group of people standing at the springs at Lititz Springs Park, "After a drink"; view of creek at Lititz Springs Park; Group sitting on bridge over creek in Lititz Springs Park; Anna Fondersmith and a boy named Frederick; "After Supper", group of people on a porch; Two men at a bench, "Charles S. and Luther F."
Provenance
First 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, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Page 13. Top left, man reclining with pipe, Oil City, PA, 1916. Top right, four men sitting beside stone arch bridge over creek in Lititz Springs Park. Bottom left, horse and carriage, Osborn, Missouri, 1913. Bottom center, Helen Getz and unidentified man. Bottom right, Pearl Getz picking daisies.
Provenance
Photograph album assembled by Helen Getz just before her marriage to William J. Buch. Helen Getz was born in Ephrata in 1893. Most photos date to the 1910s. Gift of her son, Stan Buch. See also MG 658 Stan Buch Collection in our archives.