Extension of four inch universal pipe on Lafayette Street looking east from brow of hill to intersection at Strawberry Street showing the lay of the pipe up through a bed of rock.
Two inch extension (N. P. Pipe) off four inche intersection at Laurel and Union Streets looking west on Union toward Love Lane taking care of ten new consumers and covering all near will be here for years to come. Also showing location of drip box at Laurel and Union Streets providing for all the drainage of this end of city.
Four inch universal extension on Pearl Street looking south from Second Street. This run is made in order to take in the new addition at Fourth Street, Prangley Avenue, and a hundred new houses that are being built and will be built on Fifth and Sixth Streets east and west of Pearl Street.
Four inch universal extension on Pearl Street looking south from Fourth Street toward Prangley Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Streets. This will take care of this new addition that is building up very fast.
Laying of gas lines in the city. Extension of four inch main on Liberty Street looking east from Lititz Pike. Row of houses on other side of street dows not show.
Norman Adam, second from left, Jake Humphreville, third from left, and Isaac Trimble, far right, employees of the Lancaster Gas Co., assemble on Grant Street.
Page 2: Group of people in the woods, "Near Miner's Village, Wednesday April 29, 1903"; "Manheim Station bound for Miner's Village"; Group of people at post and rail fence, "Between Penryn and Lebanon, April 29, 1903"; "Some of party resting - Arbutus, April 29, 1903"; Hiram Croome and his scissors sharpening machine, June 1903; One of old Coleman homes near Miner's village, April 29, 1903.
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.
