Black photo album. Inside the front cover is the notation: "S. C. Slaymaker, "White Chimneys". Gap, Lancaster County, Pa.
Page 16 has 3 pictures of the shore. 2 of them are just the beach, 1 has 2 little girls on the beach and 1 has 2 little girls sitting on the porch with a woman of color.
Black photo album. Inside the front cover is the notation: "S.C. Slaymaker, "White Chimneys". Gap, Lancaster County, Pa.
Page 17 has 4 photos: 2 of baby sitting on the lap of an African American woman on porch; 3 young ladies sitting on porch, one with parasol; boy standing on sidewalk with Model A in street.
Black photo album. Inside the front cover is the notation: "S. C. Slaymaker, "White Chimneys". Gap, Lancaster County, Pa.
Page 38 has 6 photos, house, man in chair, 3 women on porch, man in chair with 3 women and 3 children standing by him, 2 women in chairs with another woman standing behind them, 1 African American woman sitting on the lawn, 4 children in yard
African American woman seated in chair reading a book. Formal portrait. From "Captives' Mansion" by S. R. Slaymaker II, page 195: ". . . accompanied by my ninety-year old black nanny, 'Nana,' who was born a slave in the South and had come to Colonel Slaymaker's household as a young woman. She had cared for S. R. I, S. C. II, and me, when I visited the farm."
Page 31: Unidentified older couple; Uncle George S., carte de visite by Tyler, Easton, PA; Uncle John S., carte de visite by W. H. Heiss, Strasburg, 1860; African American men sitting on a porch, Sebring, Florida, 1936; Boat from Baltimore, N. Beach, Chesapeake Bay, 1934.
Provenance
Album thought to belong to the family of Frank McMichael and his wife, Laura Sutter. They were orginally from the Quarryville area, but later moved to the city of Lancaster.
