CPS Unit Number 138-00

CPS Unit Number 138-00

Camp: 138

Unit ID: 0

Opened: unknown

Closed: unknown

Workers

Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 22

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  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 138, subunit 2, Malcolm, Nebraska.
    Henry Hochstedler cultivating. June 1946.
    Digital image, Mennonite Community Photographs, 1947-1953: Service. HM4-134 Box 1 Photo 021.1-13. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
    June 1946.
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 138, subunit 1, Lincoln, Nebraska.
    CPS men surveying on a farm near Lincoln.
    Digital image, Mennonite Community Photographs, 1947-1953: Service. HM4-134 Box 1 Photo 021.1-10. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 138, subunit 2, Malcolm, Nebraska.
    Yost from Denver preaching in 1946.
    Digital image, Mennonite Community Photographs, 1947-1953: Service. HM4-134 Box 1 Photo 021.1-10. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
    1946
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 138, subunit 1, Lincoln, Nebraska.
    View of the camp at Lincoln, May, 1946.
    Digital image, Mennonite Community Photographs, 1947-1953: Service. HM4-134 Box 1 Photo 021.1-5. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
    May 1946
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 138, subunit 2, Malcolm, Nebraska.
    View of the camp at Malcolm June, 1946.
    Digital image, Mennonite Community Photographs, 1947-1953: Service. HM4-134 Box 1 Photo 021.1-5. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
    June 1946.
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 138, subunit 2, Malcolm, Nebraska.
    1946. Scene at Malcolm Nebraska C.P.S. camp.
    Mennonite Community Photographs, 1947-1953: Service. HM4-134 Box 1 Photo 021.1-15. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • Philemon Frey Preaching
    Philemon Frey preaching at a worship service for conscientious objectors, February, 1946, at Civilian Public Service Camp No. 138, Malcolm, Nebraska. Frey was a conscientious objector in World War 1, and was ordained a Mennonite minister at Archbold, Ohio in 1936.
    Mennonite Central Committee Archival Photo
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 2
    June 1946.
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 1
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 2
    1946
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 1
    May 1946
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 2
    June 1946.
  • CPS Camp No. 138 subunit 2
Summary:

CPS Camp No. 138, a Soil Conservation Service camp organized in three smaller units at three different Nebraska sites, and operated by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), opened in October 1944 and closed in December 1946. MCC purchased two eighty-acre farms southeast and northwest of Lincoln.  The third unit was located in a United States Government regional nursery west of Omaha.  

 

Location:

CPS Unit No. 138 subunit is unknown for a number of CPS men due to insufficient information in the directory records. 

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