Making walls with clay and dung
Teil vonGarden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)
This photo is of a young boy mixing clay and dung with his feet in a wooden conatiner to be used for constructing walls. P. 77.
Negative also. Informal photo. Used in the CM 7-24-7. Rev. J. C. Schmidt is watching as digging begins for water & sewer connections to his home.
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Construction of a building in Volendam
Construction of a church, a school or a house. Duplicate photo in file. Not found in CM.
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Bulldozers, cranes & dump trucks used by Mennonite Disaster Service in Pennsylvania
Used in CM 3-36-3. Bulldozers, cranes & dump trucks being used by the men from Mennonite churches in the East to make a road through the flooded areas of northwestern Pa. & clear away mud & debris. MCC sponsored.
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Oklahoma MCC construction project
Not found in CM. Note on back: Aug. 19, Oklahoma MCC project. 2 men are helping to construct (rebuild?) a house. See CM 3-27-3 where reference is made to tornado victims in Okla. & Ka.
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Gerhard Reimer and George Unger, Goshen College students
Negative also. Used in the CM 4-25-8 (right). Two Canadian students, Gerhard Reimer and George Unger look at the steel pillars which will support the concrete floors of the arts building being constructed. Dated June 1956.
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Barn raising at Mrs. Jonas Bauman's, Elmira,
Teil vonDavid L. Hunsberger collection
Barn raising at Mrs. Jonas Bauman's, Elmira, Ontario in August 1949. Hunsberger photo 45-19
Hunsberger, David L.
Barn raising at Enos Bearinger's in Wallenstein,
Teil vonDavid L. Hunsberger collection
Barn raising at Enos Bearinger's in Wallenstein, Ontario in May 1952. Hunsberger photo 45-62
Hunsberger, David L.
Mennonite men helping to reconstruct a farmer's shed in Elmira, Ontario
Teil vonDavid L. Hunsberger collection
Mennonite men helping to reconstruct a farmer's shed in Elmira, Ontario, during the 1950s. Hunsbeger photo 45-52
Hunsberger, David L.
Farmers shed re- building in Elmira, Ontario.
Teil vonDavid L. Hunsberger collection
Farmers shed re- building in Elmira, Ontario. March 8, 1952. Hunsberger photo 45-48
Hunsberger, David L.
Two men standing in front of a pile of lumber.
Tractor working on leveling the church yard with three male helpers.
Building a latrine in Bangladesh
This is a photo of a mason in Bangladesh building a low-cost latrine for a family in Saidpur. In the background a simple dwellings made of matting with thatch roofs. In 1983 MCC built and converted more than 400 latrines as part of its Saidpur sanitation program.
Schroeder, Don
This is a photo of villagers in West Bengal completing a two-year culvert project for the Lodha people.
MCC