Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - Historic photos, documents, and people

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. The oldest member of the Moravian sewing circle is in her nineties. Members of the circle quilt for anyone who wants it at the cost of one cent a yard of thread, and the money goe

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Runk, accountant at the Animal Trap Company and fire captain, giving a lecture on German bombs to Boy Scouts who are learning to be messengers. In emergencies, their duty

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Runk, accountant at the Animal Trap Company and fire captain, giving a lecture on German bombs to Boy Scouts who are learning to be messengers. In emergencies, their duty

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. "Frozen" brand new tractors displayed outside Diem's farm machinery store. No more farm machinery can be sold since November 1. They hope for some kind of rationing before spring

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Private first class Fred D. Long, home on leave from Fort Bliss, Texas, goes shopping with his father, Albert K. Long, who works in the animal trap company's machine shop

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mr. O.K. Bushong, express agent. Two trains a day pass through Lititz on the Lancaster-Reading Railroad. He says that passenger trade has increased 100 percent since war

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Girls working at the Animal Trap Company treating themselves to a special lunch to celebrate the departure of one of them to work in a Lancaster department store

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lutz, unmarried son Henry, and granddaughter Roberta Jean at home. Benny is a butcher; he also writes hymns and patriotic songs

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Company dance given in Moose Hall by employees of the Hamilton Watch Company so that new employees could get acquainted. Zoot suits and jitterbugs

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Historic photos, documents, and people