Students of Conestoga School, c. 1891. Possibly near New Holland. Teacher is Martin G. Weaver. Identified from left in first row: Aaron McQuate, Samuel M. Martin, Annie Martin, Harry J. Martin, Ida Fox, Barton Stauffer, Lizzie Beam, Nora Burkey, Cora Fox, and George Hollinger. Second row, from left: William Z. Martin, Horace K. Martin, Lizzie Martin, Lizzie Weaver and Warren Weaver. Third row, from left: Peter J. Martin, Abram Stauffer, Wayne Burkey, George Weaver, Mary Martin and John H. Weaver. Fourth row, from left: Harry Ludwig, Wayne Ammon, Tobias Martin, Annie Weaver, Ida Stauffer, and Mary Ammon. Fifth row, from left: Anna Martin, Lydia Martin, Etta Weaver, Emma Weinhold, Horace Martin, and Walter McQuate. Sixth row, from left: Lydia Ann Hollinger, Scott McQuate, Joseph Burkey, and Amos Weaver.
Top left: Ida M. Weaver, "Taken Oct. 4th in Calumet School (1927)." Top center: "Miss Anna Hubert with whom i taught at Calumet terms 1926-1927 & 1927-1928". Top right: "Pearl Tinkey, pupil 1926-1972, Calumet #1". Bottom: "Girls of boarding house in State College July and Aug. 1928. Left to right, Margaret Price, Luella Martin, Ethel Young, Mrs. Duck, Laura Rossbach, "Jerry" Thomas, Agnes Bowie, Anna Williams.
This scrapbook consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and other ephemera glued to pages of a 6.5 x 8.25 inch composition notebook with lined pages. Not all pages are used. Cover is grey and is labeled "Roberts & Meck's Seaboard Composition Book, 36 Leaves Writing Paper, Roberts & Meck, Harrisburg, Pa."
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Small group of students at the blackboard with their teacher in a classroom. Date on blackboard is Friday March 25, 1898. Written on back: "Compliments of Frank Williamson".
Provenance
Photographs from MG-30 Michael Haverstick Collection
