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The City Police Department poses for the photographer. Front row, left to right: Det. Howard Anderson, Chief Guy Eckman, Mayor Frank Musser, Agnes Ferriter, first Lancaster City policewoman, Det. George Parmer, Lieut. Frank Bradycamp. Seated in sidecar behind Det. Howard Anderson is Sgt. Elwood Gainor who was killed in the line of duty in 1927. Man with goggles is Edward Sullenberger. Also pictured are the following:
Shannon Hartley
James Crawford
David Shank
Lewis Matt
Ray Charles
Sgt. Blaine Silvius
John Wilkinson
clerk Albert F. Montgomery
Myron Boettner
Lewis Piersol
Ross Brubaker
Ray Rohrer
William Bitts
David Kauffman
Ivan Eberly
Edward Lapman
Morgan Medlar
John Kauffman
Charles McNutt
F. Reinhart
Walter Yarnall
Joseph Godino
Carl Wenninger
Edward Millen - first African-American police officer on Lancaster's police force
