Name/Title
Fourteenth District Police ForceEntry/Object ID
2010.43.1Description
Sepia photograph of the 14th district police force, arranged in three rows. A paper with photo identifies the officers as follows:
Top row: Samuel Ladley, Thomas Stafford, John Freas, William Sibson, William Guyer, James Gregory, Rittenhouse Fraley, George Trout, James Woodruff, John Reckard, Bateman Saddington, William Wartman.
Middle row: John M. Wright, Edw. Buchanan, Thomas Pullinger, Herbert Currier, Peter Harrington, Lieut. Alex. Buchanan, James Glassey, Matthew Crum, Fergus Elliot, Daniel Boggs, Robert Johnson [note: this may in fact be Robert Johnstone, a private with Company G, 121st Reg. Vol].
Bottom row: Harry Ritter, William Kee, Albert Toon, John Magee, Joseph Maxwell, George Lewellyn, Adam Sanderson, Albanus Kephart, Francis S. Rinker, Harry Morton, Charles Gentry, William M. Wilson.
Verso: written, in carefully-formed words: "Photograph of the Philadelphia Police, 14th District comprising Germantown, Chestnut Hill & Olney taken in 1878." SEE NOTES.