Lancaster Gas Company customer servicemen. Top row, from left: John Graybill, Carl Brinkman, Thomas Hinkle, John Groft Sr., Ray "Hammer" Kendig, Lloyd Garman, Ray "Snakey" Sherbahn, Richard Snyder, Danny Nicholas. Middle row: George Schanerberger, Marlin Oberlin, Bob Heagy, John "Mac" Schweers, Abe Johns. Front row: Ivan Campbell, Teddy Bowman, John Ursprung, Gene Kramer, Sylvan Gochnauer, Byron Weitzel.
Directors and officers of Farmers Bank and Trust Company of Lancaster, identified as: James C. Dunlap, R. S. McClure, Jr., George S. Kurtz, treasurer; John H. Wickersham; Robert Y. Garrett, Jr., vice president & trust officer; E. L. Matterer; Leroy H. Nolt; Albert J. McConomy; F. L. Sutter; Earl M. Godshalk; Wallace L. Robinson, vice president & secretary; Gerald H. Effing, president; Leslie S. Hubbard; William Shand; Robert F. Zahm; Theodore H. Distler; Lewis Levy.
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.
Mayor Thomas J. Monaghan, second from left, accepting a check for $2905.50 on behalf of the Community Chest of Lancaster County from Captain Hamilton Howe, U. S. Navy, Commander of the U. S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, MD. Captain Richard B. Derickson, Commanding Officer, Service School Command and Chairman of the Red Feather Drive at Bainbridge, and Mr. John Reardon, U. S. O. Area Director watch the presentation. The check represents part of the money collected in the Combined Charities Drive at the Center. Captain Howe, in presenting the check, said that it was only a small repayment from the Bainbridge men and women for the fine hospitality and friendship of the people of Lancaster.
100th Anniversary celebration at Wheatland. Identified from left to right: R. E. Fellers, Director, Division of Philately; E. George Siedle, Assistant Postmaster General, Bureau of Transportation; Samuel C. Slaymaker, Buchanan Foundation; Albert J. Robertson, Assistant Postmaster General and Controller, Bureau of Finance; John B. Rengier, President, Buchanan Foundation; Frederic S. Klein, Director of Public Relations, Buchanan Foundation. Taken in Mr. Siedle's office, Washington, D. C., at time of decision to issue Wheatland stamp commemorating a Presidential shrine in Pennylvania, in the 100th anniversary year of the election of James Buchanan to the presidency, 1856. Five copies of photograph. Taken for the Post Office Department of the United States of America.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
