The Personal Collection of Colonel Claude S. Buchanan
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Postcard Depicting Post Chapel, Orlando Air Base, Orlando, Fla.
Format
Color photograph
Date
c. 1942
Location
McCoy Air Force Base, Orlando, Florida (now Orlando International Airport)
Description
The Post Chapel at Orlando Air Base, situated amidst lush, tropical garden environs, is unique in that it is the only chapel in the entire Army with its steeple rising from the ground up the side of the chapel. The reason for this was due to its proximity to the end of an airfield, where Army planes would routinely soar in the Chapel's direction. The Post Chapel has been moved to Thornton Park Historic District to preserve its legacy. Genuine Curteich-Chicago, a Chicago-based company renowned for advertising city features in the 20th century, originally printed the postcard pictured c. 1942.
Curator
Dianelys Nunez; Elio Singer
Copyright
Sarah Boye
