This collection documents Newcomer's experiences in Civilian Public Service camps as a conscientious objector during World War II. Materials include ration books, camp rosters, photographs, miscellaneous correspondence, and a memoir of his experiences.
The collection also documents Newcomer's interest in the history of Mennonites in northern Indiana, specifically the Yellow Creek Mennonite Church. They include photographs, estate sale bills, and photocopied documents related to Yellow Creek members who were conscientious objectors during World War I.
Men around Christmas tree at conscientious objector work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia. L-R: Irvin Weber, Andy Bowman, Mike Bohonoski, Elias Brubacher, Tobias Bowman, Raymond Good
Two sets of meeting minutes documenting the work of the Mennonite Central Peace Committee, a forerunner to the Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section.
This small set of records consists primarily of completed questinonaires regarding Mennonite congregational contact with drafted Mennonite men (Mennonite Church in World War II, Project #3). Also includes examples of pastoral letters sent to drafted men (a number of them from Waldo Mennonite Church (Flanigan, Ill.) and minutes and other records created by the Virginia Mennonite Conference CPS Support Team.
Records pertaining to Project 24, a survey of World War I Mennonite conscientious objectors. Records include correspondence, lists of conscientious objectors, and questionnaires.
Materials created by a conscientious objector and Civilian Public Service worker during World War II. The collection consists of 132 black and white negatives depicting various Civilian Public Service camps and miscellaneous scenes from Miller's travels, and 1 color print of Sidling Hill Civilian Public Service Camp in Pennsylvania. Also includes a booklet entitled On Sequoia Trails, which depicts live at Civilian Public Service Camp #107 in Three Rivers, California.
Stanley Sauder, Wayne Gingrich (Preston, Ontario), Elmon Lichti (Tavistock, Ontario) outside the blacksmith shop at Montreal River. Date on back of photograph is 1941, but these men are on the camp list for 1942-1943.
A small collection of materials pertaining to Miller's experiences as a conscientious objector in World War I. Materials include transcribed outgoing correspondence, written from Camp Taylor, KY, and France from 1918 to 1919, collected articles on the treatment of conscientious objectors in World War I, and a small set of Guy F. Herschberger's research notes and correspondence regarding the Illinois and Kansas State Councils of Defense.
