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This photo is of a group of conscientious objectors standing on a pile of logs stacked into a pyramid. The men are all standing on different levels of the log pyramid and posing for the camera at an alternative service camp.

This photo shows "Jakob Dyck lying on the ground" with a group of men in Alternate Service Red Cross uniforms.
Note: there is additional writing on the back.

This is a photo of Jacob Funk in army medic attire with a group of people in front of a Russian field hospital kitchen of which he was manager. He is #6 in the photo and about 21 years old at the time.

Jacob Funk poses for a photo in his medic garb, sometime before he and Anna Janzen married in 1920.

This is a photo of hundreds gathering at the Blaine Lake train station the day the Doukhobor boys from the area were sent off to conscientious objector camp. Some went to prison rather than do alternative service.

This is a photo of hundreds gathering at the Blaine Lake train station the day the Doukhobor boys from the area were sent off to conscientious objector camp. Some went to prison rather than do alternative service. See item #38.

This is a photo of Katie Funk Wiebe's Great-uncle Peter pictured with his orchestral band of army medics. Peter Nickolai Peters, seated, second from the right in the first row, is the younger brother of Katie's Grandmother Susanna Funk (nee Susanna Peters). He and Katie's father, Jacob J. Funk, both served as army medics during World War I. In 1920, Peter, his parents Nickolai and Elizabeth, and Katie's Grandfather Johann all died of typhus.

This photo shows a group of 20 men posing for the camera. Two men on the left are doing some exercises on a gymnastics apparatus. There are tents in the background.

This photo shows a group of five uniformed men in the forest. One of the men is reclining on a bench.

This photo shows a group of men in white uniforms, marching with a hoe over their shoulder.

This photo shows a group of about 20 men at one of the Russian Mennonite Forestry camps, seated outside at a long table, eating their lunch.

This photograph shows left to right, Nikolai Peters and Abram Dick, possibly in alternative medical service in Rusisa. They are posed by a bare tree, wearing their uniforms, including winter coats. The German note on the back of the photograph is: "Sending you a pair of soldier lads, whom you will know, at least one of them. The other is Peters. You can imagine how we dress here. It may not be very impressive, but that's how we look. Am having a birthday today, will be eating "Kalwie" which I have brought." This picture also appears on page 45 of Mennonite Alternatove Service in Russia, and in Nick Peters' collection of photocopied photos.