Negative also. Three women who worked for the NNRO: (l-r); Cora Cressman, in material aid; Marguerite Rempel, clerical worker; Clara (Snyder) Nafziger, in material aid; at First Mennonite Church, Kitchener, Ont.
Negative also. Marguerite Rempel doing clerical work for the NNRO at First Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ont., the Material Aid Center. A knitted quilt type blanket is in the foreground.
Elva Snider of Waterloo (the Erb Street Mennonite Church), wearing a head covering, is packing Christmas bundles into a box. Boxes already prepared for shipping are piled up to the ceiling behind her.
Several women work in the basement of First Mennonitechurch bndling clothing ready for shipment overseas. See CM 4-47-5; Kitchener, Yarrow & Reedley, Cal. were the 3 North American centers. From Kitchener the clothing went via New York
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.
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.
Three members of the Ont. Mennonite Relief Sale committee. l-r: Margaret (Mrs. Elmer G.) Brubacher, Chair of Women's Work Committee; Ward A. Shantz, chair; Paulene (Mrs. Flyod) Bauman, sec.
Contact print, the size of a neg. Leona Schmitt, manager of the Cutting Room stands in front of the shelves with bolts of cloth. On the table in front of her there are piles of cut material. Cf. 1994-14.974-976.
Four members of the Ont. Mennonite Relief Sale committee. l-r: Margaret (Mrs. Elmer G.) Brubacher, chair of Women's Work Committee; Ward A. Shantz, chair; Paulene Bauman, sec.; Oscar Snyder of Elmira. C.f. 1994-14.1659 & 1650.
Negative also. Used in the CM 10-32-7. Women participants in the audience at one of the "sectional meetings" of the Seventh Mennonite World Cf. See art. by Katie Funk Wiebe (focusing on Mennonite dress) beside the photo. Also, a 2nd neg. taken from the platform shows the audience more fully than in the photo used.