Photographs of camp life and work at Montreal River Alternative Service work camp by conscientious objectors ("COs") during the winter of 1942-1943, a homemade calendar for 1942 featuring a picture of the camp, and a colourized photograph of the camp framed with birch bark.
The album contains photographs of Cressman's time as a conscientious objector in Alternative Service in British Columbia from 1942-1943. Although primarily based at the Goldstream (Langford) camp, Cressman and the other COs sometimes worked in the local community or in other CO camps on Vancouver Island. Most of the men in the photographs are fellow COs from Ontario, along with a few staff of the British Columbia Forestry Service.
A photocopy of the proceedings of a General Court Martial at Camp Dodge, Iowa in World War I. The defendant, George S. Miller, was a Mennonite conscientious objector. This is an incomplete copy that does not contain the judgment. Testimony, however, is present.
A set of research materials assembled by Gordon Oyer to write an article on the history Civilian Public Service in Illinois, including CPS Camp #115, Subunit #30. CPS volunteers at this camp were "guinea pigs" for medical experiments studying the physiological effects of heat and tropical conditions. Camp #115 was a cooperative agency administered the Mennonites, Brethren, and Friends under the direction of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Subunit #30 was administered by Mennonite Central Committee.
Materials in this collection include the diaries of two CPS volunteer participants in these experiments: Duane Hougham (Methodist) and George Nachtigall (Mennonite Brethren). Nachtigall's diary is a photocopy of the original. Also included are letters with CPS volunteers stationed in Illinois, clippings, and a copy of Oyer's article.
Papers of a Harold Wik, a Mennonite service worker who volunteered with Civilian Public Service, Mennonite Central Committee and missionary to China and Malaya (West Malaysia), and his son Philip Wik. Documents include correspondence, photographs, two Wik family histories, and a Wik family anthology. The family histories and anthologies integrate historical family documents or photocopies thereof into the text.
Papers pertaining to a Mennonite conscientious objector's experiences during World War I. Includes correspondence, empemera pertaining to conscientious objection, a transcript of Sommers's court martial proceedings, a parole pass, photographs, and other miscellaneous items. Also includes a brief two page biography of Sommers written by Myron Sommers in 1992.
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.