Southeast perspective view

Digital image of perspective view from southeast, scanned from a halftone reproduction of a photograph appearing in ”The Passing Scene,” vol. 3, page 194 by George M. Meiser, IX. Details include: altered Dutch door (glazed sash added); gabled hood over granary [attic] door; gable-end chimney; east pent hood outlookers [lacks frame and roofing]; paneled shutters; butt-shingled pent roofs on south gable wall. See notes for additional information supplied by Oley Woman's Club Papers, concerning image origin and identification of men pictured in image. Johann DeTurk [also DeTurck] was born in Oley in 1713 and became part of the local Moravian congregation in 1741, the year before the famous ecumenical conference which was held at his farm, and was baptized in 1743 [see “Genealogical Data From the Registers of the Moravian Congregation in the Oley Valley, Berks County, Pennsylvania” by Rink & Weiser, published in “Der Regebogge/The Rainbow, Quarterly of the Pennsylvania German Society,” Volume 14, Number 1, January, 1980, page 8.] Larry Ward, 2016