Group of people posed in front of large tree and farmhouse. Written on front: "My first garden-party at Knapp's Villa, June 12, 1888 from 2 to 8 1/2 P. M. Present 43." Party given by Charles Fondersmith Stauffer. Attendees listed on back: Mr. and Mrs J. F. Stauffer and family, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Locher and family, Mr. and Mrs. Thoms Pixton and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hohman, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shenk, Dr. and Mrs. Roland, Mr. and Mrs. Foster and family, Mr. and Mrs. D. McMullen and family, Miss Eva Fondersmith, Miss Sue Bursk, Miss Elizabet Railey, Miss Mary Calder, Miss Emily Coho, Miss Clara Coho, Miss Carrie Metzger, Mr. John Hartman, Mr. Harry Boardman, Mr. Keller, Mr. Herbert Coho, Mr. Will Calder, Mr. L. Fondersmith.
First Junior Bal Masque held at the Iris Club, December 23, 1914 or 1916. Names listed on the back of photo are: ? Weaver, Katherine Bidlack; ? Smith, Caroline Steinman; ? Schroeder, Dorothy Miller; ? Slaymaker, Katherine Evans; ? Rohrer, Elizabeth Long; ? Schutte, Laura Watt;? Barry, Mary Brown; Hayward Smith, Alice Barry; William Brown, Levit Wickersham; Donald Brown, Kitty Brown; James Schutte, Rhoda Becker; Eddie Weaver, Margaret Crawford; John Hartman, Loenita Straub; Lewis Hartman, Julia Straub; Bob Rohrer, Dorothy Hartman; Billy Kinzer, Dorothy Livingston; Robert Willer, Margaret Shertzer; Carrel Willer, Deldie Groff; Henry Porterfield, Margaret Sneider; Bill Brown, Max Craymon ? and Rodney Eshelman
Yeates School, group of twelve costumed students. Those identified are: Aubrey Huston, Morton Rosse, Bill Gardiner, and John Hartman. Others in cast list are Robert MacMurdy, Kenneth Morton, Berkeley Reed, Ralston Grant, William Brown, Robert Clay, and John Donaldson.
The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.