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The barn Stanley Sauder worked on

  • CA MAO 2015-1-63
  • Item
  • [between 1943 and 1946]

Stanley Sauder did carpentry work on this barn on the Reid farm during an Alternative Service assignment

Sauder, Stanley

Irvin Bender and Orval Yantzi

  • CA MAO 2015-1-74
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers Irvin Bender (Baden, Ontario) and Orval Yantzi (New Hamburg, Ontario) with icicles. Date on back of photo is 1941, but they are on the list for the winter camp of 1942-1943.

Sauder, Stanley

Stanley Sauder and friends at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-75
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers, including Stanley Sauder, pose for the camera inside a tent

Unknown

Payson Miller Papers 1918-1919, 1954-1962

  • US MCUSAA HM1/670
  • Collection
  • 1918-1962

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.

Miller, Payson

Gordon Oyer Collection on Civilian Public Service Camp #115 Subunit #30 (Urbana, Ill.)

  • US MCUSAA HM1/944
  • Collection
  • 1943-1991

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.

Oyer, Gordon

Norman R. Landis Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/464SC
  • Collection
  • 1972-1973

The collection includes correspondence and materials regarding World War I Conscientious Objectors.

Landis, Norman R.

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