Cold War Exhibit Grows at History Museum

The North Tonawanda History Museum has been able to expand the new exhibit on the Cold War Era with the addition of some loaned items. 

 

Town of Tonawanda Historian John W. Percy, who is a North Tonawanda History Museum Advisory Committee member, has loaned a dress uniform shirt he wore as a Specialist 3 in the U. S. Army Signal Corps in 1956.  It also has a patch of an Indian head from his service as a reservist with the DeGlopper unit. 

 

Kevin W. Hodgson, Deputy Director, Emergency Management Office of the City of North Tonawanda has loaned a radiological survey meter manufactured by the Victoreen Instrument Company, a Model 107 Professional Geiger Counter, a Rescue Civil Defense  helmet, a copy of the North Tonawanda Civil Defense Manual from the 1950 listing 972 enrolled volunteers participating in the North Tonawanda Civil Defense Commission work in the City, and a copy of the Inter-City Disaster Plan for North Tonawanda from the early 1980s.

 

These items join the previous donations of a quantity of survival food stuffs for those who might have needed to take cover in their fall-out shelters and an oxygen mask distributed to Civil Defense workers, donated by Warren H. Proefrock;  and a radiation detector used by the North Tonawanda School District and later by Walker Bros. & Monroe Jewelers for detecting radium in jewelry, donated by Michael Kalisiak. 

 

Additional memorabilia from that era (1945 - 1991)  are needed as Museum staff continue developing the exhibit.