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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-08-03-05
Date Range
1907
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Description
Potato field at almshouse showing bagged potatoes and workers. Almshouse and barn are in the background.
Provenance
Donated by Kate Keller whose father was a resident farmer and was instrumental in getting authorities to allow inmates to work in the fields.
Date Range
1907
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Almshouses
Farms
Lancaster County Almshouse
Place
Lancaster Twp.
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
13.5 x 6 inches
Condition
Good
Object ID
2-08-03-05
Images
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Collection
Diffenderfer Album 2
Object ID
A-37-01-21
  1 image  
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
Diffenderfer Album 2
Description
Page 21: View of Conestoga River; Railroad tracks; Man with two buckets on a yoke; View of countryside; Three women sitting under a tree; Two women by a creek; Lancaster County Almshouse.
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.
Year Range From
1900
Year Range To
1903
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Conestoga River
Creeks
Railroads
Almshouses
Hospitals
Lancaster County Almshouse
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
3 x 5 inches
Object ID
A-37-01-21
Images
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