Ink drawing on paper of two Lancaster buildings.On the viewer's left is the Thaddeus Steven's house, a 2-story brick building with dormered windows and a fanlit doorway. The building on the right is "Jacob Effinger's Hotel/ So. Queen & Vine St./ Lancaster Pa." is shown is much less detail, but is also a 2-story brick building with dormered windows. The word "Brick" is penciled onto the front of the hotel and a tilted pole with a sign atop ('Ja..Effinger') stands near the street to the right of the front door.
Brown marks appear in various places on the front, the largest in the leftmost upper story window of the Thaddeus Stevens House. The lower right corner has been creased. There are the remains of a previous backing on the corners of the reverse. (by Scott Sagar, 12/08/2000)
The piece is currently float-mounted in hinged window matting.
Object ID
P.77.31.49
Place of Origin
Lancaster
Role
Artist
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of the James Hale Steinman Foundation, Heritage Center Collection
Sure I would put another wrapper on the seals may come off I forgot to tell you are toset a plate for me when you set yours and don't forget to tell Mother to get a doll for me with dark hair would certainly like to have one.
Thaddeus Stevens' tomb, Shreiner's Cemetery. Stevens epitaph: I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemteries limited as to race, I have chosen this as my last resting place, that I might illustrate in my death the pricnicples I advocated through a long life, "The equality of man before his Creator."
