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The collection consists of a translation of Hutterite Jacob S. Waldner's World War I diary documenting his experience as a Conscientious Objector.

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.

Two sets of meeting minutes documenting the work of the Mennonite Central Peace Committee, a forerunner to the Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section.

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.

Research files of a Mennonite historian who taught at Illinois State University.  These records are divided into two series:

(1) World War I Research, 1916-1989

(2) Dutch Mennonite Research, 1989-1995

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.

The materials are divided into series by subject.

Personal papers of a conscientious objector during World War I and Mennonite pastor in Ohio. The bulk of the material consists of sermons organized by topic..  Also included are photographs from Camp Sherman, where Frey was stationed during the First World War, and a journal recording the names of other conscientious objectors at Camp Sherman and their visitors.  A small amount of correspondence from the World War I and World War II eras may also be found in these papers.

Most of the papers are photocopies from the National Archives and Library of Congress related to Teichroew’s thesis or dissertation (never completed) about Mennonites in World War I. There is some later material also, World War 2 related.

Photocopies of diaries documenting Ebersole's experiences as a conscientious objector during World War I.  Also includes scattered correspondence and a list of conscientious objectors at Camp Meade (Maryland).

Two typewritten, unpublished manuscripts describing Buchanan's experiences as a conscientious objector in World War I and and his subsequent service work in France.  These memoirs cover the years 1917 to1919.

The chapters of the manuscript are titled as follows:

Manuscript: [World War I Experience, 1917-1918], 125 pages

Preface

Chapter I: How I Became a Mennonite

Chapter II: Going to Camp

Chapter III: First Army Camp Experience

Chapter IV: Transferred to the Remount Depot

Chapter V: Taken to the Guard-House

Chapter VI: Other Guard-House Experiences

Chapter VII: Cooking and Eating Outside

Chapter VIII: The Dark Hour

Chapter IX: Released from the Guard-House

Chapter X:  From the Remount Depot to the 163rd Depot Bridge

Chapter XI: First Experiences in the Depot Brigade

Chapter XII: The Two Spies

Chapter XIII: Second Guard-House Experience

Chapter XIV: Interviewed by the Board of Inquiry

Chapter XV: To Fort Leavenworth

Chapter XVI: To Fort Riley, and Last Days of Army Camp Experiences

Manuscript: “Experience in Relief and Reconstruction Service During and following World War One, 1918-1919.”  149 pages

Chapter I: From a Military Training Camp to a Relief Unit

Chapter II: In Waiting Before Going to France

Chapter III: Trip to France

Chapter IV: Paris, The Hub

Chapter V:  Some Bits of History

Chapter VI: At Ornans

Chapter VII:  A Trip into the Juras

Chapter VIII: Discharged from the Army

Chapter IX: From Ornans to the Verduin Sector

Chapter X: At Grange-Le-Compte

Chapter XI: A Trip to Verdun and Over Battle Fields

Chapter XII:  Little George

Chapter XIII: At Aubreville and Avocourt

Chapter XIV: Diary of One Week

Chapter XV: A Trip to the Alps Mountains

Chapter XVI:  A Trip to Germany and other Places

Chapter XVII:  Last Days in France, and Back to America

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.