Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Cap that belonged to Orban Wales Peters, Jr
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lynne Sullivan
Physical Details
- Classification
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Dress Accessories
- Category
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Headgear
- Object Type
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Caps (Headgear) (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Light brown cotton cap with chin strap
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cotton, metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The cap was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Lynne Sullivan, daughter of Orban Wales Peters, Jr.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-07-03 11:33:55
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn707847
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Also in Orban Wales Peters, Jr. collection
The collection consists of military items of Orban Wales Peters, Jr. including uniform jacket, two hats, a helmet; “After Action Report” of the 914th artillery; Eighty-Ninth Division album; photographs of his unit on march into Germany and at Camp Phillip Morris; Correspondence; miscellaneous Army passes; selected copies of “The Rolling.” Correspondence from Margarete Lang Schweidler, from Germany, to her daughter Gretel Schweidler Holzer in the U.S. Her daughter, Anna Margarete Holzer married Orban Wales Peters, Jr. They are the parents of the donor.
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Orban Wales Peters, Jr. papers
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The collection includes photographs of Orban Wales Peters, Jr.'s Army unit at Camp Philip Morris and in Germany, correspondence from Orban to his sister, Mary, in 1945, military passes, an After Action Report of the 914th Field Artillery Battalion, and photocopies of his military discharge papers. Also included is correspondence dated 1939-1941 from Margarete Lang Schweidler in Germany to her daughter, Gretel Schweidler Hozler, in the United States. Gretel’s daughter, Anna, later married Orban.
