Various County officials lined up to shake hands with a man and woman. Ben Weaver, Commissioner, Brenda Swingler, Clerk of Quarter Sessions, Paul Paes, Register of Wills are the only identifiable officials.
Local Chapter of NAACP protest in front of Hager's Department store. Marchers cover entire block carrying signs. Signs include "Segregated Jobs" and "If We Buy Why Not Sell?" Three lanes of traffic with cars such as Corvairs, '60 Chevy Convertible, Ford Station Wagon, '56 Chevy, Nash Rambler and Ford Falcon.
Delegates of the Military Order of the Purple Heart standing in front of the Factory Administration Building of the Lancaster Floor Plant at Armstrong. Letter attached to photograph to Delegates from H. J. Marshall, Plant Manager is dated August 21, 1944, and thanks them for visiting the plant while they were in Lancaster.
Provenance
From MG-32, the Armstrong World Industries Collection.
Donegal Chapter D. A. R. "Third Class", a play about a group of stranded refugees coming to America. Play written and staged by Mrs. Mildred Sutton Breneman. Those listed on paper with photo are: Mildred Sutton Breneman (first right , lower row), Mrs. Forney, Elizabeth Kinzer, Mrs. Bissinger, Mrs. Anthony Gerhard, Annie Lavinia Sutton (fourth from right , lower row), Mrs. Showalter, Kate Shirk, Mrs. Roland Kinzer, Mrs. Strickler, Mrs. Caldren.
