Armstrong Cork Company. Arthur R. Lamparter, 912 North Queen Street, Lancaster, employee of Armstrong's Lancaster Floor Plant, preparing to test chute for Eagle Parachute Corporation.
"Smoke jumper" descends to a forest fire at the rate of about 12 feet per second. He grasps the front risers to slip the 'chute and descend faster, so that he will land closer to his objective. From Eagle Parachute Corporation materials.
First Army Maneuvers in the Carolinas... The air is filled with parachutists in an attack on Pope Field, Fort Bragg, North Carolina In the forgeground, a trooper has already landed, and is running toward a chite which he sees coming down beraing fighting equipment.
Provenance
Gift of Robert Knoll. From Eagle Parachute Corporation materials.
Eagle Parachute Corporation Annual Banquet held at Arcadia Hall, Lancaster,1943. Identified at the head table are, left to right : ?, Rev. Harvey Swanson, Robert E. Knoll, C. J. Follmer, James Van Buskirk and Arthur Lamparter.
108 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), coat of arms, maps ; 28 cm.
Notes
Sequel to: The path of faith, a 300 year heritage, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 108) and index.
Contents
Present-day Shenk heritage listings -- Early history of the Shenk family and name -- The "Shenk" name in early European history before 1500: Religious reform beginnings in Europe, 1450-1550 ; Early Shenk Swiss ancestors -- The Shenks in America: Basis of the research ; The Shenk descendants arrive in American ; The immigrants settle in Pennsylvania ; Life in the new world -- An organized look at Michael Shenk's descendants in America: Christian Shenk's descendants ; Hans Shenk's descendants ; Barbara Shenk's descendants ; Michael Shenk's descendants -- The first four generations in America: location of the Shenk ancestors -- A summary of the Shenk families at the end of the fourth generation -- Display of Shenk homes built or lived in after the first four generations.
Summary
"This book covers the first 4 generations of the Shenk family as it moved out from the Pequea settlement in 1717. It includes pictures of over 20 Shenk historical houses built by their descendants along with present day Shenk families and their stories"--Cover, p. [1].
