The Snapshots in Time Collection
Informal Lakeside Portrait of a Man and Woman, Cottage Community, Early 1950s (Bancroft Collection)
This informal snapshot, preserved in an album associated with a Lieutenant Bancroft of the Korean War era, shows a young couple relaxing at a lakeside cottage community, likely during a period of leave. Personal photographs like this one offer a human counterpoint to official military records, capturing the everyday lives and relationships of service members between periods of duty in the early 1950s. Project: 218201