Photograph- "Anna and Robert ready to go home" - woman and boy standing on a porch.
Description
"Anna and Robert ready to go home" - woman and boy standing on a porch.
Provenance
From glass plate negatives bought by Kevin Shue at Horst Auction. Photographer unknown, but most images are of the Warwick Township or Safe Harbor areas.
Photograph- "Busser's Home" - people standing in front yard of a house.
Description
"Busser's Home" - people standing in front yard of a house.
Provenance
From glass plate negatives bought by Kevin Shue at Horst Auction. Photographer unknown, but most images are of the Warwick Township or Safe Harbor areas.
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.
Family group of two men, five children and thirteen women, probably the Mylin Family. Postcard addressed to Mrs. I. D. Stehman in Mount Joy and postmarked 9 July 1906.
Family of Mr. Nathan B. Leaman (Leamand?). Children were Barbara, Mary, Edgar, Martha, Katie, Henry, Frank, Grace, Paul, Ruth and Esther. Family may have lived near Lititz.
Two carte de visite images glued to notebook paper. Photo at top is Lillie Moore, at bottom is Julia Moore. The two were sisters and teachers at the Mount Joy Soldiers' Orphans Home in the early 1870's. Their father, John Moore, was steward of the Mount Joy Soldiers' Orphans Home.
Provenance
From the Sixteeners information file in the LCHS Library.
