Records of an organization founded by business and church leaders to overthrow commercialized vice in Lancaster by sending agents into the community to check for prostitution, obscenity, drinking, and gambling. Collection includes by-laws, minutes, annual reports, treasurers' reports, agents' expenses, reports on findings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, 25 books of agents' on-duty reports, and investigative reports. The Rev. Clifford G. Twombly was identified with this movement, as was the late William H. Hager, department store merchant.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Photograph showing the excavated portion under the Harnish cabin, two sheets of corrugated iron, two picnic table horses, two lawn mowers and two strips of beaver board.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. View of the entrance to the mens' room in the rear of Erb's Service Station, located in East Lampeter Township, where a diamond ring, the property of Marian Louise Baker, had been recovered.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Up-turned ground that was located approximately 75 feet north of the north side of the driveway at a point that was used by the Harnish family as a dump.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. View of the excavated portion under the porch of the Harnish cabin after the body of Marian Louise Baker had been removed.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Edward Lester Gibbs, later convicted of murder, pointing to a spot on the ground at the north side of the north driveway on the Harnish property where he had killed Marian Louise Baker.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Edward Lester Gibbs, later convicted of murder, in the cellar of East Hall with a shovel in his left hand which he described as being the shovel that he used in attempting to bury the body of Marian Louise Baker at the Harnish cottage.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Edward Lester Gibbs, later convicted of murder, pointing ot a spot on the ground approximately 25 feet west of the dump where he had hid the body of Marian Louise Baker.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. View of the dump used by the Harnish family and the path leading south to the direction of the driveway.
