This photo shows 16 men with their musical instruments and a conductor with his baton. The band consists of 2 clarinet players, 7 cornet players, 4 baritone horn players, 1 trombone player, 1 tuba player and a percussionist (bass drum, cymbal, triangle). Of the 7 cornet players several are B flat horns and others are likely E flat horns.

This photo was taken at a reunion of Mennonite men who did Russian state alternative service in forestry camps at Azov and Anadol. The photo is taken at Camp Assinaboia near Headingly, Manitoba and it shows the men with their wives -- a total of 112 people on the photo.

This photo show a man believed to be the assistant forester (Khaban), sitting on a stump.

This photo shows in the foreground a large clearing with paths and grass, and in the background, a building in the trees. Over 30 people can be seen in the yard, several with bicycles, some on exercise equipment (balance beam, swing and rings), some holding dogs, and others looking on.

This is a photo of approx. 44 men standing in front of and on the steps of a building. This is where David Wiebe served.

This photo shows a group of men who were in the Alternative Service forestry service in northern Russia near St. Petersburg. Many of these men are older men, who needed to leave home and family and serve another 3 or 4 year period, when the war broke out.

This photograph shows a roadway with a building in the background, surrounded by a few trees and a low fence. It is probably the Kaserne in the Azov Forstei in Russia. This photograph can also be found on page 49 of the book Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia. There is a picture of a similar building in the book Onsi Tjedils, p. 37.

This photo is of four young men dressed in alternative service uniforms standing outside a large brick "U" shaped building posing for a photo. Other people can be seen in the background on the porch of the building. A street runs in front of the building in the foreground. There are two [flag poles?] on the yard which is surrounded by a fence.

This is a photo of Bob Burkholder, MCC country representative in Lebanon, talking with Lebanese family members in October 1984 as they put soil into plastic bags in which they will raise pine, cedar and cypress seedlings. These seedlings will be transplanted in late 1985.

This photo shows two men in forestry service in Russia carrying a log on their shoulders, while several other men walk along side.

This photo shows a line of sleds load with logs which a caterpillar would be pulling out of the bush.

This photo shows one man holding a frying pan, another man holding the ladle and pancake batter, a third man standing with a pancake in his plate, and a fourth man sitting at a little table with a tea pot. The men are (l-r): Heinrich Goertz, Peter Neufeld, Julius Kasper and Jacob Lehn.

This photo is of 3 men standing on a hill side holding a saw and axe in the winter time in Banff National Park cutting trees as a part of their Conscientious Objector work. Left to right is Bill Elias, David T. Wall, John Knelsen. In the background is a snow and tree covered mountain. Note: This photo is a reprint.

This is composite includes approximately 60 oval portraits of men in the forestry service at Alt Berdyansk, as well as the administrators and 2 other photos (one a group shot and the other a building). The item is damaged in the top left and bottom right corners and the bottom edge is missing. Identified: Heinrich J. Neufeld (later of Leamington, Ontario), bottom right, just above the house.

This items shows 180 oval portraits of Mennonite men plus 6 officers, who served at Anodol Forestry camp in 1912. One of the 6, the one with the long beard, is D.J. Classen, the president of the Forestry administration. (See <i>Als ihre Zeit erfüllt war,</i> p.168).