Cotton and linen flag. Red with smaller inset rectangle of white cotton with a blue cotton star in the middle. White mounting edge with metal grommets at top and bottom. World War II service flag for the signal corps aviation.
Record of applications for peddlers' licenses showing date of application, name of applicant, type of license, and dates granted and lifted. Many applications for soldiers' licenses; these are peddlers' licenses issued to honorably discharged veterans.
Gordon Winfield Pulver in military uniform during World War II.
Provenance
Small collection of photographs of the family of Mary Brecht, daughter of Milton J. Brecht and Mary Ann Wolf Brecht. Mary Brecht, born in Lancaster County in 1882, married George W. Pulver in 1906. Gift of Pamela Sumner in memory of George W. Pulver. See also MG0284, the Mary Brecht Pulver papers.
Gordon Winfield Pulver in military uniform during World War II.
Provenance
Small collection of photographs of the family of Mary Brecht, daughter of Milton J. Brecht and Mary Ann Wolf Brecht. Mary Brecht, born in Lancaster County in 1882, married George W. Pulver in 1906. Gift of Pamela Sumner in memory of George W. Pulver. See also MG0284, the Mary Brecht Pulver papers.
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.
