Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
John Kevinski, teacher in Lancaster Public Schools about year 1889, with fishing rod and dog at the weighlock on the canal at York Furnace. George W. Gibbs, the confectioner, was born in this building in 1859. His father was the weighmaster at this lock during the Civil War.
Black Horse School, Paradise Twp., about 1881. B. Frank Book was the teacher. First pupil left, back row, was John K. Ranck, then 18 yrs. old. Girl in front of him was Emma Hostetter, then 18 yrs. old. Later these two married. Mr. Ranck was school director in Paradise for many years.
Photograph- Cabinet card. John P. McCaskey. Written on back: " 'Glorious indeed is the world around us, but more glorious is the world of God within us.' Longfellow 6/20/89 Very truly yours, J. P. McCaskey".
Photograph- Cabinet card. John P. McCaskey. Written on back: " 'Glorious indeed is the world around us, but more glorious is the world of God within us.' Longfellow 6/20/89 Very truly yours, J. P. McCaskey".
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Cabinet card. John P. McCaskey. Written on back: " 'Glorious indeed is the world around us, but more glorious is the world of God within us.' Longfellow 6/20/89 Very truly yours, J. P. McCaskey".
Photograph- Teaching staff of the Lemon Street School, c. 1881-1882. Identified are: Elizabeth Carpenter, Matilda Zug, Clara Spindler (Mrs. Duttenhoffer), Clarence V. Lichty, Sue Holbrook, Kate Clifton (Mrs. Carl Thorbahn), Kate Shirk and Annie Etter.
Photograph- Teaching staff of the Lemon Street School, c. 1881-1882. Identified are: Elizabeth Carpenter, Matilda Zug, Clara Spindler (Mrs. Duttenhoffer), Clarence V. Lichty, Sue Holbrook, Kate Clifton (Mrs. Carl Thorbahn), Kate Shirk and Annie Etter.
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Teaching staff of the Lemon Street School, c. 1881-1882. Identified are: Elizabeth Carpenter, Matilda Zug, Clara Spindler (Mrs. Duttenhoffer), Clarence V. Lichty, Sue Holbrook, Kate Clifton (Mrs. Carl Thorbahn), Kate Shirk and Annie Etter.
Photograph- James Damant's Ladies' Seminary, first girls' high school, c. 1886, and Union Bethel Church at the southeast corner of Prince and Orange Streets. Photograph of a sketch by David McNeely Stauffer.
Photograph- James Damant's Ladies' Seminary, first girls' high school, c. 1886, and Union Bethel Church at the southeast corner of Prince and Orange Streets. Photograph of a sketch by David McNeely Stauffer.
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James Damant's Ladies' Seminary, first girls' high school, c. 1886, and Union Bethel Church at the southeast corner of Prince and Orange Streets. Photograph of a sketch by David McNeely Stauffer.
Photograph- Professor Joseph Landis, superintendent of the Model School at Millersville Normal School and a group of 28 children. Nine are listed on back of the photo: Charles Reese, John Brenner, Anne Reese, Eddie Brooks, Lizzie Weeks, Thad Mellinger, Lizzie Shaub, Jacob Bowman, Nettie Kahler, and ? Baker
Photograph- Professor Joseph Landis, superintendent of the Model School at Millersville Normal School and a group of 28 children. Nine are listed on back of the photo: Charles Reese, John Brenner, Anne Reese, Eddie Brooks, Lizzie Weeks, Thad Mellinger, Lizzie Shaub, Jacob Bowman, Nettie Kahler, and ? Baker
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Professor Joseph Landis, superintendent of the Model School at Millersville Normal School and a group of 28 children. Nine are listed on back of the photo: Charles Reese, John Brenner, Anne Reese, Eddie Brooks, Lizzie Weeks, Thad Mellinger, Lizzie Shaub, Jacob Bowman, Nettie Kahler, and ? Baker
Group of young men standing and sitting in front of a large stone building. Written on back: "Mr. Hurd's class". Written along the front left side: "June 1889". John Christian Etter may be the young man standing at right. This may be his class at the Mt. Airy School, now the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.
Provenance
This collection of photographs is from the estate of Esther Etter Rebman, and is mostly of the Etter, Falk and Kriegelstein families. Some of the photographs may have belonged to her aunt, Mary Etter (b. 1897, d. 1960).
Salem Church of God, 328 West Orange Street, Lancaster. Built in 1877, congregation dissolved in 1884. Property conveyed to Covenant United Brethren Church, 1884 to 1926. Became First Pentecostal Church, Assembly of God from 1927 to 1959. Theobald School of Ballet from 1959 to 1986. Now Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster.
