Filed within the personal papers of Lieutenant Bancroft, a U.S. Navy officer who served during the Korean War, this photograph depicts a modest rural home believed to be connected to his family. A shingled bungalow with a screened porch sits behind a white picket fence, with a large water cistern and a late-1930s automobile in the yard. Likely taken before Bancroft's naval service, the image documents the domestic, small-town or farm setting from which many servicemen of his generation departed for war. Project: 218201