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CPS Camp # 52
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
(l-r) Hurford Crosman, Edward Ramberg, Keith Billman, John Musgrave, Bob Hustead, Sidney Blatt, Aumund Andre, Con Puller, Powell Lawton.
Digital image from Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Miscellaneous Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
February 1977
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Igal Roodenko
Digital image from the Igal Roodenko Papers (DG 161), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Bayard Rustin speaking at the School of Non-Violence. (l-r) Marsters York, Keith Billman, Charles Rogers; Robert Kirk, David Platt, John Musgrave, Betty Musgrave, Tad Tekla.
Digital image from the Bayard Rustin Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Shelves full of home-canned vegetable and fruits
Digital image from Paul Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Four CPSers sawing trees
Digital image from Paul Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Groups of CPSers waiting near trucks
Digital image from Paul Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Two CPSers in doorway of U.S. Department of Agriculture building
Digital image from Paul Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Two CPSers reading on bench outdoors
Digital image from Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Miscellaneous Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
CPSer fixing sink with wrench
Digital image from Paul Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Two men and one woman on picnic in woods
Digital image from Paul Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Crowd outdoors (possible for wedding)
Digital image from Paul Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp # 52
1942
CPS Camp # 52, Powellville, Maryland
Group of CPSers etc. outdoors (looking at newly married couple)
Digital image from Paul Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
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Technical Agency: 
Soil Conservation Service
Summary: 

CPS Camp No. 52, a Soil Conservation Service base camp located in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp northeast of Powellville, Maryland and operated by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), opened in October 1942. AFSC operated the camp through November 15, 1944 when the Mennonite Central Committee assumed those duties until the camp closed in March 1947. The men performed dangerous work cutting and cleaning drainage channels of the Pokomoke River to limit erosion of low lying farm land.

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  • Unit 1
    Powellsville[Powellville] , Maryland
    October 1942
    March 1947