Photograph- labeled "Compliment of Mayor Musser 1929."
Description
Photograph labeled "Compliment of Mayor Musser 1929." Lancaster Mayor Frank Musser on steps of Lancaster County Courthouse with a group of policemen, and Miss Agnes Ferriter, standing at left, Lancaster's first policewoman. Customer: Conestoga Publishing Co.
Group of men seated in Old Recorder's Office, second floor of the Courthouse. Identified left to right: Wm. Egerty Esq., Paul Mohler, Isaac Bechtel, Jay Caskey, W. Fryberger, Ann E. Davis Esq., Jacob Byrne, Esq., Ezra Brenner, O.P. Bricker, Esq., H. Nissley, Recorder, Geo. Keith, Dep.
The following note is also enclosed with the photo: "D. S. - The "Court House Isalnd patent" is for Bush Island in Manor Twp. The island location, as described in 1811, is: 150 perches from Lancaster shore, opposite the land of Isaac Kaufman and 3 perches below Archibald Hudder's Island. R. G."