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Negative also. Alice Snyder, sec. at the MCC Center in Kitchener, Ont. sits at her desk (looking directly at camera). Closer up pose than 1992-14.1568. Cf. 1990-1.12 & others where she is with Harvey Taves & other women workers.

Negatives also (3) & 3 smaller photos (9x9); 3 views of new MCC Center building at 50 Kent Ave., Kitchener, Ont.; 2 show each side & front & 1 mainly the front (with car parked behind sign). Latter used in CM 12-14-6 with article

Hedy Sawadsky (looking directly at camera), assist. in Canadian voluntary service, is typing & Doreen Bell, MCC office sec. is at work at her desk. Taken June 1956; smaller photo (9x9) also. Different pos than 1994-14.842.

Negative also. Used in CM 7-44-8. Women from the churches prepare clothing at MCC offices for shipment overseas. Used with art. on NRRO (Ont.CHPC) Dated Nov. 2. Two copies of photo; 2nd one is 9x9. Cf. CM 6-20-1 re. women.

Second copy, 16x11. Ground-breaking for MCC Centre. To right of sign E.J. Swalm puts the shovel into the ground. Next to him (l-r) Harvey Toews, Fred Nighswander & J.B. Martin. Cf. 1994-14.969 where the whole group is smiling

(Blurred). Officers of the newly organized Waterloo County MCU. l-r: Wally Teichrob, Chair. Supervisory com.; Peter Rempel, chair. credit com.; Howard Snyder, pres.; Ralph Crough, OCU; Fred Pfisterer, treas. Cf. 1992-14.2865.

Negative also. Used in CM 12-14-6. Mrs. Leona Schmitt, manager of the Cutting Room, stands beside shelves of clothing supplies in the Clothing Depot at the new MCC center. Cf. 1994-14.974 & 976.

Negatives also (2). Two similar photos; one was used in CM 12-13-1. Harvey Taves (left) & Alice Snyder (right) examine woodwork from Haiti on display at the new MCC center, Kent St., Kitchener.

Used in CM 13-26-1. Cultivators piled up at MCCO Material Aid Center in Kitchener; ready for shipment to Paraguay for use by the Indian Settlement Board. C.f. 1994-14.1095 which may be cultivators sent from St. Catharines in 1964.

View of the audience from the front, attending the MCCO annual meeting held at RMC. One can see a variety of clothing (costume) among the women & a variation in the age of those in attendance (both young & old).

Close up of two women, Minerva (Snyder) Brubacher, wife of Roy Brubacher, at left & a Markham Mennonite women? at right. They were attending the MCCO annual meeting & both wear prayer caps. Some women in the bkgd. wear hats.

Note on back of photo: "A scene in Kitchener, Ont. showing one of the trucks bringing a load to the station where it is transferred to a refrigerator car." The photo is numbered "2"; 1092 is "4".

Women & 2 men preparing quilts & blankets for shipment overseas in the basement of First Mennonite Church. Barbara Cressman (in foreground) was from a countrychurch See art. in CM 4-47-5. Kitchener was 1 of 3 main centers.

Used in CM 10-31-7. Harold S. Bender, president of the MWC addresses the conference on Sunday night, Aug. 5. In the background is the All-Mennonite Chorus, which served on Sunday.

Negs only, 2, of Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, site of the 7th MWC (seen on the marque in the middle). Top neg gives a broader view of the building than in 1988-8.170 but is further away and taken at an angle. Bottom neg is a closeup of the center of the building, clearly showing some people in front of It and the marque. Both photos were possibly taken by Ben Doell.