Title:
Mayor Branning Presents ACFWHS with Merci Train Gifts
Date:
June 17, 1949
Description:
This photograph was taken when Mayor Branning delivered some of the gifts from the Merci Train to the Allen County - Fort Wayne Historical Society on June 17, 1949. At that time the Society's Museum was still in the Swinney House on Jefferson Blvd. The photograph was printed along with the article "Museum Gets Gift from Merci Train" in the Journal Gazette on June 17, 1949.
Pictured from L to R: Mayor Henry E. Branning Jr., ACFWHS Curator Mrs. Lyman Rawles, ACFWHS President George Hacker, Branning's Secretary Mrs. Alva M. Sauers and Police Chief Lester Eisenhut.
Pictured from L to R: Mayor Henry E. Branning Jr., ACFWHS Curator Mrs. Lyman Rawles, ACFWHS President George Hacker, Branning's Secretary Mrs. Alva M. Sauers and Police Chief Lester Eisenhut.
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Merci Train Artifact Exhibit
Merci Train Artifact Exhibit