"Dear Sister. I will send the Powder tomorrow. Have been quite sick since I saw and was not able to attend to your request sooner it comes in a Package, 25 cents. Mrs. Reeder just has it and I called to her so she will bring it tomorrow hopw you are all well I am very much better With love, your sister A. H. T."
"How do you like this card. Many thanks for my birthday greetings. Received 76 cards all or of town but six. No one else know of it around here. Come and look at them. I may go to Ocean Grove on the 24. Are you folks going anywhere later. - Kate"
Dear Kate - Thank thee ever so much for that cook book - or portfolio - come and see me and I'll give thee something to eat from it. On the other side is a picture of the Long Home - Built with money left by Miss kate Long in memory of her father Henry Long- It is for old women who have no one to look after them.
Kate Lefever Mellinger standing by an automobile at Harry and Elizabeth Lefever's farm below strasburg. Auto is Dr. Enos K. Lefever's 1913 REO touring car.
Cabinet card of women employed at the Conestoga Cotton Mills
Description
Cabinet card. Young ladies employed by the Conestoga Cotton Mills. Standing from left: L. Mohler, L. Kerchner, and K. Keller. Seated from left: I. Dommel, L. Palmer, I. Swalley.
Provenance
Gift of Lisa Garrett. Original image owned by Lisa Garrett. Digital donation.
Brick farmhouse with a woman outside opening shutters. Note on front of picture: "Centerville, Lanc Co. Pa. Rev. Jacob L. Hiestand and wife Annie 1857-1885."
Note on back of picture: Birth place at Centerville, Lanc Co, Pa of Mrs. H.M. Bowman nee (Kate Hiestand) the former home of her parents the late Jacob & Annie Howard Hiestand from about 1857 to 1885. Mrs. Annie Hiestand then a widow (Jacob deceased July 14, 1879) sold this place of about 10 acres and moved with her unmarried children (6) to Lancaster. It passed thru several owners hands and in 1934 was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton. It was built in 1847 by David and Catharine Musselman according to the tablet in the post wall."
