Group of brewery workers drinking beer posed around a keg. The year 1885 is written on the keg. Possibly workers at Rieker Star Brewery, West King Street, Lancaster. Frank A. Rieker may be the man seated to the right of the keg.
League of American Wheelmen tour from New York City to Staunton, Virginia with a stop in Lancaster. Seen here in front of the Stevens House Hotel. Digital image only.
Standing: A. B. Hassler. Seated from left to right: Major General Stanton, Walter Herr, and J. W. Brown. Standing outside a camp tent. Digital image only.
East King Street looking east to Duke Street. Signs for Burks, Rhodes Reed Jeweler, George W. Brown's Furniture Warerooms and also shows horse and wagon
Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
Eight Mueller children, names listed on the back of the photo are Minnie, Elizabeth, Helen, Esther, Ruth, Joseph, Henry and Paul. Children are not identified in the photo. Taken March 29, 1889 by Minnie. German writing also on back of photo signed G. P. M.
A writ of habeas corpus is a procedure for obtaining a judicial determination of the legality of an individual's custody. This collection includes petitions for writs of habeas corpus and the writs themselves, showing the names of petitioners, persons to be brought to court, nature of dispute or alleged crime, dates of writs and accompanying documents, names of judges, and names of persons that the writs are filed against. Petitioners include indentured servants, Freedom Seekers, free persons of color, convicted prisoners, those awaiting trial, relatives of prisoners, parties in child custody disputes, and relatives of army recruits and draftees.