A portrait of Rosie [Hoover] Parmer and her husband Charles W. “Darwin” Parmer, taken about 1915. The Parmer’s lived mos of their lives in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Rosie […]
The above photo was found in a box of keepsakes belonging to Hannah [Rickert] Riegle (1847-1919), Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.. While it was identified by several family members […]
A photograph taken about 1929 of the Samuel Jefferson Sitlinger family on the Sitlinger homestead/farm in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Identifications: Front Row (children, standing): Lucy [Sitlinger] Troutman; […]
A photo post card view of Hannah [Rickert] Riegle (1847-1919), a Civil War widow, posing along the east-facing wall of her farmhouse in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, about […]
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, German Lutheran churches in America typically provided elaborately printed and hand-lettered certificates called “frakturs” to commemorate occasions such as births, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, […]
This photo-card was found in box of keepsakes of Hannah [Rickert] Riegle (1847-1919) of Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. On the back of the card is the following message: […]
Leah [Radel] Weaver (1921-2008) was a well-known artist of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Millersburg Art Association. The portrait of her (above) was done by Ethel […]
A photograph from W. J. McNoldy of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken about 1905. The type of photograph shown here was known as a “cabinet card” and measures the typical […]