Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
Photograph- Last train over the Quarryvile branch of the Narrow Gauge Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway which ran in southern Lancaster County. Photo taken at the Quarryville Railroad Station. Railway also called the Little, Old and Slow.
Photograph- Last train over the Quarryvile branch of the Narrow Gauge Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway which ran in southern Lancaster County. Photo taken at the Quarryville Railroad Station. Railway also called the Little, Old and Slow.
Description
Last train over the Quarryvile branch of the Narrow Gauge Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway which ran in southern Lancaster County. Photo taken at the Quarryville Railroad Station. Railway also called the Little, Old and Slow.
Photograph- Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
Photograph- Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
Description
Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
The last train to leave Quarryville, 1917, thus ending an expensive and money losing branch line operation. There was never any freight to speak of and passengers couldn't make the line pay.
Provenance
This album is a compilation of research done by Thomas T. Taber of Muncy, PA, in 2006. It includes information about Strasburg; the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern; Peach Bottom; and mining railroads near Marticville.
The Dorsey engine house in 1912. No equipment was kept at Peach Bottom. The locomotive always ran back to Dorsey for the night.
Provenance
This album is a compilation of research done by Thomas T. Taber of Muncy, PA, in 2006. It includes information about Strasburg; the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern; Peach Bottom; and mining railroads near Marticville.
