A) Inkwell, square mold-blown leaded glass. Thick walls, sides molded with thick strands lazily undulating in a diagonal direction. Raised neck and deep well.
B) Stand is a cast brass tray shaped like a picture frame without center picture. Two projecting handles. All supported by four scroll-molded feet attached to bottom of tray corners with screws. Entire top surface is decorated profusely with mostly scrolling leafage.
Glass is very good with expected wear on bottom edges. Metal stand has darkened surfaces except for top area where glass inkwell fits. Spotty stains on top.
Brass mechanical pencil on black cord. Pencil terminates in adjustable point on one end and an ornamented cone-shaped mount on the other which holds a yellow cut-glass gem.
This Pencil may be from another collection and not from Willson Rettew Estate.
Raymond W. High, Abram D. Landis, Merle Kolb and Elmer Zimmerman are near and in the truck that carried supplies to their work sites in the Shenandoah National Park. High and Landis were Mennonites from Lancaster County.
Men in Civilian Public Service camp no. 45 near Luray, Virginia, operating from 1942 to 1946, worked in the Shenandoah National Park on a variety of projects including: wildlife surveys, blister rust control, construction of lookout towers, maintenance of National Park Headquarters, emergency farm work, clearing highways of snow, and firefighting. Ernest Ropp, Titus L. Sensenig and Clarence A. Hurst are pictured working next to the road. Sensenig and Hurst were Mennonites from Lancaster County.
John H. Rudy, a Mennonite of Lancaster County, served for about two years with a Civilian Public Service Camp. He is reading papers from a sruveying project.
A crew of three men from Civilian Public Service camp no. 45 near Luray, Virginia - Titus H. Horning, Sanford Headings, and Max Strickler - prepare for their assignment to survey for plant diseases such as bluster rust. Horning was from Lancaster County.
Horses being removed from a ship in Germany. The horses were sent by the Civilian Public Service to Poland after World War II as a war relief project. D. Ernest Weinhold, a Mennonite of Lancaster County, helped with this project.
