- CA MHC 280-175.0-002
- Item
- 1985
Botswana baskets on display for sale at the Ephrata, Pa., SELFHELP Crafts store.
Reinheimer, Betty
Botswana baskets on display for sale at the Ephrata, Pa., SELFHELP Crafts store.
Reinheimer, Betty
This is a photo of Donna Snyder standing by the entrance to the Nav Jiwan Tea Room.
Working, Russell
Fairfield Gift Festival founders
This is a photo of Fairfield Gift Festival founders at the 25th Anniversary Sale. Front row(left to right): Lois Wilson and Peg Smith. Back row (left to right): Joyce Shutt, Hazel Dunmire and Ruth Musselman.
Forsman, Donna
This is a photo of MCC U. S. tea room volunteer Goldie Miller preparing food in a kitchen. She says "I used to be a meat and potatoes person with lots of noodles and gravy, but now I'm making peanut soup, curried vegetables, mango mousse and some things so spicy they scare me".
King, Jim
Henry Gerbrandt, volunteer with Self-Help Crafts
This is a photo of Henry Gerbrandt of Winnipeg, MB, a voluntary service worker at SELFHELP Crafts warehouse in Ephtrata, Pa., weighing one of the thousands of boxes sent to retail shops in the United States during the pre-Christmas season.
Beach, Mark
John Kanagy and Esther Hostetter
This is a photo of (left to right): John Kanagy, of Ephrata, Pa., sports a Thai shirt and hat while Esther Hostetter, of Akron, Ohio, models an embroidered dress from West Bank.
King, Jim
Kay Derksen and Margaret Schmidt
This is a photo of Kay Derksen and Margaret Schmidt from Morris MB, showing their Morris Community SELFHELP Centre poster to workshop participants.
Hostetler, Kathy
This is a photo of British Columbia SELFHELP co-director Laura Friesen learning about batik making from two skilled craftswomen in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
King, Jim
Learning good customer service skills
This is a photo of (left to right): Charles Koch of Elmira, N. Y. and Arlene Preheim of Freeman, S. D., learning good customer service skills during a role-playing exercise at the SELFHELP Crafts during the April_May workshops for volunteers at MCC's 110 thrift and gift shops.
King, Jim
This is a photo of (left to right): Marge Pratt and her daughter Darlene Pratt of Elmira, N. Y., arranging a lacquer ware display at the World Treasures shop. They were among the volunteers who transformed empty floor space into a SELFHELP Crafts shop at Arnot Mall in Elmira.
Daley, Doris
This is a photo of Marj Grieser of Archbold, Ohio, sorting through returned items during a week-long working holiday at the SELFHELP Crafts warehouse in Ephrata, Pa.
Daley, Doris
This is a photo of people looking at Self-Help items at the Pennsylvania Relief Sale.
Toews, Reginald, 1941-
This is a photo of Menno Sell and Clara Sell posing with monkey-shaped coconut banks made in the Philippines. They sell more of these banks than any other group or shop. IN the past six years this retired couple has single-handedly sold over $100,000 in SELFHELP Crafts merchandise at a weekly farmers' market stand.
Landis,Marv
This is a photo of Samuel Rolon admiring embroidery done by his mother, one of the first women involved in Edna Ruth Byler's needlework project that later became SELFHELP Crafts.
Daley, Doris
This is a photo of (left to right): Elmer Leaman and Sam Ebersole, both of Landisville, Pa., preparing firring strips for ceiling installation at the new MCC SELFHELP warehouse in Ephrata, Pa.
King, Jim