CPS Camp Number 085

CPS Camp Number 085

Technical Agency: Mental Hospital

Summary:

CPS Unit No. 85, a Mental Hospital unit at Rhode Island State Hospital for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island operated by Mennonite Central Committee, opened in February 1943 and closed in October 1946. Men served as ward attendants.

CPS Camp No. 85
CPS Camp No. 85, Howard, Rhode Island
Civilian Public Service camp 85, Howard, Rhode Island. Caring for patients.
Box 2, Folder 11. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
CPS Camp No. 85
CPS Camp No. 85
Civilian Public Service camp 85, Howard, Rhode Island. Medical building.
Photo 146 Box 2, Folder 11. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
CPS Camp No. 85
CPS Camp No. 85
Civilian Public Service unit #85; on the back is written "Jacobs, female Ward service, 'one of the wives'"; used in Mennonite Life, December 1990, p. 11; used in Perry Bush, Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties (1998), p. 113.
Digital image at Mennonite Church USA Archives, North Newton, Kansas
Date: ca. 1945
Camp # 85 Women's Summer Service Unit, Howard, Rhode Island
Mennonite Central Committee Archival Photo

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  • Location: Howard, Rhode Island | Opened: February 1943 | Closed: October 1946