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The visual images of Lancaster County are captured in over 10.000
photographs housed in the photographic collections of the Lancaster
County Historical Society. Included are early tintypes, daguerreotypes,
stereographs, cartes de visite, and cabinet cards taken by local
nineteenth century photographers. Thousands of twentieth century
commercial and amateur photographs depict the cultural and social
landscape of Lancaster County.
Of particular note is the vintage
Darmstaetter Collection making up more than a third of the photographs
in the collection. These
early twentieth century images, taken by a commercial photographer,
document a myriad of subjects including:
- Business and industry
- Residences, both interior and
exterior views
- People at work and at leisure
- Urban and rural landscape
- Automobile and related services
- Aerial photographs
The photographs in our collection can be searched
by a database housed in the library.
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