Driving the last spike on the low grade freight line, possibly the Susquehanna and Atglen. First row left to right: John Strimmel, Anna Atcheson, John Hendrie, Owen Bremmer - blacksmith who made the hammer and spike, George W. Hensel Jr. - hammering last spike, Alex Hendrie, Leander T. Hensel, Samuel Bair, Ezra B. Fritz, J. R. L. Atcheson, Richard Rohrer, Jerry Regan, John Cassidy, Dean Oatman, A. S. Harkness. Second row: Benjamin Cocharan, Barney Myers, Charlie Timanus, Vernon Harkness. Remainder of the group is Italian or African American railroad laborers.
Group of men who were delegates to Washington, D.C., from the New York Shipbuilding company. Martin Horting, marked in the back row with an x, was from Lancaster. He worked as a blacksmith for the company during World War I and helped to build the U. S. S. Idaho, then the Navy's largest battleship. Photo was taken on the White House lawn and shows Horting with other delegates and government officials. A newspaper article about Horting and the event is taped to the back of the photograph.
Former site of forge, foundry, blacksmith shop, George W. Anne, Jr. ornamental iron works, then Skip Hemperly home repair shop, now PA Parole Office. 635 Union Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Harry Houpt, just one of 200 craftsmen demonstrating their skills at this summer's 41st Annual Kutztown Folk Festival, prepares to teach his grandson about blacksmithing.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Engraving of workers in a blacksmith shop and tools used in the shop. Metalcraft print, courtesy The Winterthur Library, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, No. 90 x 71.3.
