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Photographs, ephemera, and other miscellaneous documents pertaining to C. Miford Paul's Civilian Public Service (CPS) work at CPS  Camp No. 45 (Luray, Virginia) and CPS Camp No. 28 (Mederyville, Indiana) and his service to the United Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRA) as a "seagoing cowboy" in 1946.  Although not thoroughly labeled, the photographs are the richest documentation in this collection.  Paul made three voyages with UNRA, sailing on the Henry Dearborn (March, 1946), the Frederick Howe (April, 1946), and the Mount Whitney (August, 1946).  Most photographs of his work as a seagoing cowboy depict his final voyage.  Included among those photographs is a color print depicting a number of volunteers on the ship, including Paul.

An autobiographical manuscript describing Friesen's service as a seagoing cowboy in 1946.

This small set of papers focuses primarily on Weirich's Civilian Public Service (CPS) work building flood control structures in Iowa and serving as a smoke jumper. Materials include an album of photographs and documents, collected articles on smoke jumpers, and newsletters and ephemera from Camp 18 (Denison, Iowa) and Camp 103 (Missoula, Montana). Also included are 26 photographs of First Mennonite Church (Middlebury, Indiana) in the 1950s and 1960s. Subjects include members of the church's baseball team circa 1950.

Photographs taken and collected by Joseph Vale during his trip to Greece aboard the Plymouth Victory in 1947 with the "seagoing cowboys." Also, photographs taken and collected by Joseph Vale documenting subsequent reunions of the Plymouth Victory "cowboys" and wives.

Various subjects and time periods

A small set of papers pertaining primarily to Gingerich's difficulties with the draft board in the 1950s. Gingerich, a conscientious objector, encountered difficulty when he attempted to extend a student deferment. With assistance from MCC, he was granted a Presidential appeal and ultimately reclassified "1 O." Other materials in the collection include a 1999 article about Gingerich's seagoing cowboy experience and a curriculum vitae.

Material in the collection includes records collected by Charles Kocher on his 1946 Seagoing Cowboys trip to Poland and subsequent personal research and reunion activities. Additionally, materials from and about the Seagoing Cowboys experiences by M. Gingerich, Don Klippenstein, William Reams, Harold Thut, Richard Hostetler, Al Meyer, Howard Lord, and Richard Rusch are included.

A small set of research materials collected by Timothy Falb in the course of conducting three research projects -- one on the post World War II volunteers who shipped livestock overseas, one on Mennonite scholar and educator Edward Yoder, and one on the history of two sister congregations in Ohio, Martins Mennonite Church and Pleasant View Mennonite Church. Also included is an interview with Aldis Gerber, a conscientious objector during WWI. The richest sources of material in this collection are the oral histories. Researchers should note that no transcriptions are available for these oral histories.

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