Name/Title
Strawbridge Home for BoysEntry/Object ID
P 649Description
Print, photographic. B/W photo on the porch of the house on the Manro Farm, Friday, September 29, 1922, when the farm was presented to the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church by Mr. and Mrs. George W. Albaugh, of Westminster, Maryland, for a Boys' School and Home and accepted by Bishop McDowell. Top row. left to right —Revs. E.T. Mowbray, J.M. Gillum, Supt. Baltimore district, J.F. Heisse, Joel Brown, C.W. Baldwin, W.C. Harden and D.E. Moylan, Bishop W.F. McDowell, F. Chipley of Sykesville; Mrs. Harry M. Kimmey, Mrs. Samuel Engleman, Miss Addie Manahan, and Guy W. Steele. Center, left to right—Mr. George W. Albaugh, his granddaughter Margaret Gillelan, Mrs. George W. Albaugh. Bottom row, left to right—Mrs. Wicks, Mrs. Carroll Albaugh, Mr. Carroll Albaugh, Ruth Gillelan, Elizabeth Gillelan, Mrs. Robert K. Billingslea, Mr. Robert K. Billingslea, Mrs. Charles E. Goodwin, Bessie Reay, assistant editor of the Christian Advocate, and Rev. J.G. Field of Wesley Chapel M. E. Church, and “others.” The photograph is mounted and matted and measures 11.4"x 13.5". The image size is 7.5"x 9.5". In the lower proper left corner, the maker's mark reads, "Wilson Studio, Westminster, MD".