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Photograph collections held in Special Collections include miscellaneous local photographs not directly related to the College. This small collection includes individual or family collections, such as carte-de-visite albums, and photographs documenting American history and life in the United States.
Miscellaneous photographs The following entries are listed by line in this order: Description: Medium: Date: Dimensions:(inches) Photographer: 01 Portrait Mr. John Lye charcoal/pastel ca. 1890 14X18 oval Syracuse Portrait 02 Portrait John Michaels and wife photo of orig. ca. 1900 14x12 orig. by Eichholtz 03 view Schuylkill Haven Coal Storage Yard photo on board ca. 1890 17x21 unknown 04 Teachers of Schuylkill County collage photo on board dated 1872 oval Geo M. Bretz 05 portrait Rev. A. R. Horne D.D. photographic print ca. 1900 7.5 X11 unknown 08 portrait Unknown U.S. Army Officer photo on board dated 1874 20X24 Eshman, Baltimore 09 portrait Two men with shotgun cabinet card ca. 1920 4X6 Shader and Basser, York 10 view Howard Bush and F. Clark skeet shooting photograph ca. 1917 4X4 unknown 11 group portrait Musical Ensemble photo on board ca. 1880-1900 10X12 Knipe Studio's, Lancaster 13 Interior view church sanctuary photo on board ca. 1900 12X14 Penn Park Studio 14 group portrait unknown men and women in front of bldg. photo on board dated 1906 21X27 unknown 15 group portrait unknown men in front of Building photo on board ca. 1915-1930 14X18 unknown 16 group portrait unknown men/women students in front of bldg. photo on board ca. 1920 14X18 unknown unknown 17 view of Yacht, "The Volunteer" photograph ca. 1920 5X7 unknown 18 group portrait with Chas. Steinman Foltz photograph 1890 12X10 L.S. Hazeltine 19 portrait Nancy Keiper photograph 8X10 Ella G. Ball 20a group portrait West Point Cadets photograph 1860-1870 14X11 G.W. Pach 20b group portrait West Point Cadets with cannons photograph 1860-1870 14X11 G.W. Pach 20c group portrait West Point Cadets (2) outside of tent photograph 1860-1870 14X11 unknown 20d group portrait West Point Cadets photograph 1860-1870 12X10 G.W. Pach 20e View from West Point photograph Oct. 1878 14X11 G.W. Pach 20f group portrait West Point Cadets sitting on steps photograph 1860-1870 14X11 G.W. Pach 20g group portrait West Point Cadets in group huddle photograph 1860-1870 14X11 G.W. Pach 20h interior view View of W.P. dorm photograph 1860-1870 14X11 G.W. Pach 20i group portrait West Point Cadets outside tents. photograph 1860-1870 14X11 G.W. Pach 21 portrait Abraham Lincoln reproduction of Daguerreotype ca 1845 11x14 original photographer unknown 22a&b photographs of Dresden Art Gallery portrait paintings carte-de-visites ca. 1871 2.5x4" F&O Brockmann 23 view Miners in camp photograph on board ca.1880 15x20 unknown 24 portrait S.T. Davis photograph ca.1900 6x9 Saylor, Lancaster 25 portrait E.E. Kautz photograph 1891 4x6.5 26 portrait unknown man photograph ca 1920 8x10 unknown 27 view "Roofing the Old Barracks" photograph ca. 1910 12x14 unknown
American Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress Collection (copies) Inventory listed with LC inventory number. LC-B8171-7814 Washington, D.C. 1865 May. "The Long Bridge over the Potomac seen from the city." LC-B8171-7478 Petersburg, VA. 1864 Aug. "Military telegraph operators at headquarters." LC-B8171-7076 Richmond, VA. 1865 Apr. "General view." LC-B8171-265 Gettysburg, PA. 1863 Jul. "Dead Confederate soldiers in the 'slaughter pen' at the foot of Little Round Top." LC-B8171-671 Antietam, MD. 1862 Sep 17. "Battlefield on the day of battle." LC-B8171-2531 "Enbalming surgeon at work on soldier's body." LC-B8171-227 Gettysburg, PA. 1863 Jul. "Soldiers, killed on July 2, in the wheatfield near the Emmettsburg Road." LC-B8171-730 Massaponax Church, VA. 1864 May 21. "'Council of War' Gen. Ulysses S. Grant examining map held by Gen. George G. Meade." LC-B8171-3175 Petersburg, VA. 1865 Apr 3. "Dead Confederate soldier with gun." LC-B8171-2348 Fair Oaks, VA. 1862 May 31. "Prof. Thaddeus S. Lowe observing the battle from his balloon 'Intrepid'." LC-B8171-490 James River, VA. 1862 Jul 9. "Sailors relaxing on deck of U.S.S. Monitor." LC-B8171-3403 Washington, D.C. 1865 Apr. "President Lincoln's box at Ford Theater." LC-B8171-673 Aquia Creek Landing, VA. 1863 Feb. "View of the Federal supply depot." LC-B8171-7716 Washington, D.C. 1865 Apr. "Convalescent soldiers and others outside quarters of the Sanitary Commission Home Lodge." LC-B8171-2700 Fort Brady, VA. 1864. "Battery of Parrott guns manned by Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery." LC-B8171-310 Bull Run, VA. 1862 Mar. "Ruins of the Stone Bridge, looking upstream." LC-B8171-1273 Washington, D.C. 1865 Apr 19. "President Lincoln's funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue." LC-B8171-7927 Fredericksburg, VA. 1863 Mar. "View of town from east bank of the Rappahannock." LC-B8171-3243 Richmond, VA. 1865 Apr. "Chimneys standing in the burned district." LC-B8171-7795 Washington, D.C. 1865 Jul 7. "The four condemned conspirators (Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Herold, Atzerodt) with officers and others on the scaffold; guards on the wall." LC-B8171-367 Atlanta, GA. 1864. "Boxcars with refugees at railroad depot." LC-B8171-7948 Antietam, MD 1862 Oct 3. "President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent." LC-B8171-7907 Washington, D.C. 1865 May. "View of Pennsylvania Avenue from 9th St. with mounted officers, band, and infantry men with fixed bayonets at a halt." (Grand Review) LC-B8171-7930 Antietam, MD 1862 Sep. "Burnside's bridge." LC-B8171-277 Gettysburg, PA. 1863 Jul. "Dead Confederate soldiers in the Devil's Den'."
Family and Individual Photo Collections/Albums H. John Hiemenz (F&M 1904) Collection ( 12 photos)- Larrie Hiemenz in Havanna; Hiemenz Shoe store exterior/interior; St. Anthony's Lyceum, executive council, 1901; St. Anthony's Lyceum baseball team1901, All Lancaster Basketball Team. Carte-de-visite Album belonging to the Cottman Family, including photographs/autographs of Robert E. Lee and John Wilkes Booth. Carte-de-visite Album 5"x6", published by W.S. and A. Martin, Philadelphia. ca. 1860-1880 containing 27 carte-de-visites and tintypes. Dewey Collection of "Kiekegaard Photographs." Photo album Collection of 23 silent movie still photographs of Paramount Pictures films dating from 1923. Includes stills from: Brass Commandments, Truxton King, Rustle of Silk, Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Drums of Fate, Only 38, Glimpses of the Moon, Skid Proof, The Ne'er Do Well, Snow Bride, The Nth Commandment, Sixty-cents an Hour. Photographic scrapbook album compiled by Redmond Conyngham (Jr).? 11x 14 in. with leatherette cover, containing prints and original photographs of prominent 19th and early 20th-century Lancastrians. Carte-de-visite photograph of a woman 4.25" x 2.5", published by Frank Saylor, 45 West King Street Lancaster, PA, ca. 1860-1880. Carte-de-Visite photograph of a man 4.25" x 2.5", published by Jamison & Benson, Lancaster, PA, ca. ca 1860-1880.
Cabinet Card photograph of Oscar Wilde, 1882 by N. Sarony 37 Union Sqr. N.Y.
Photographs and Postcards of Africa 1940s, donated by Ruth B. Piper, Montclair, NJ (3 folders)
Photographs of Traditional Peoples of the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 1940s
Postcards of Traditional Peoples of Central and West Africa 1940s
Photographs and Postcards of Traditional African Peoples 1940s Documentation/ Correspondence