CPS Camp Number 021

Technical Agency: Forest Service

Summary:

CPS Camp No. 21, a Forest Service base camp located in Cascade Locks, Oregon and operated by the Brethren Service Committee, opened in November 1941 and closed in July 1946. The men fought fires, conducted preventive and fire suppression work, and performed camp maintenance and construction.

CPS Camp No. 21

Wayne Gregory working in the forest at Camp 21.

Lewis and Clark Digital Collection, Special Collections, Julian Schrock Image Collection

Date: ca. 1942

CPS Camp No. 21

Dorms at Camp 21. Left to right: Wilmer Carlsen, Ray Vanniman, Hugh Merrick (later Brian Forsyth) and Henry Dasenbrock.

Lewis and Clark Digital Collection, Special Collections, Julian Schrock Image Collection

Date: ca. 1942

CPS Camp No. 21

At Camp 21. Left to right: Don Baker, George Mauer, Alan B. McRae, Kemper Nomland, and unidentified person.

Lewis and Clark Digital Collection, Special Collections, Kermit Sheets Collection

Date: ca. 1942

CPS Camp No. 21

William F. Toothaker and unidentified CPS worker doing forestry work at Camp 21.

Lewis and Clark Digital Collection, Special Collections, Henry and Mary Blocher Collection of Civilian Public Service Photographs, D65

Date: 1942

CPS Camp No. 21

Kitchen crew at Camp 21. Left to right: George Yamada, unidentified, Alden C. Douglass.

Lewis and Clark Digital Collection, Special Collections, Henry and Mary Blocher Collection of Civilian Public Service Photographs, D12

Date: 1942

CPS Camp No. 21

Mark and Mable Schrock with Albert Bohrer. Schrock and Bohrer were both directors of Camp 21.

Lewis and Clark Digital Collection, Special Collections, Henry and Mary Blocher Collection of Civilian Public Service Photographs D22

Date: 1942

CPS Camp No. 21

Left to right: Mabel Schrock, Mark Schrock, unidentified CPS worker, and Harry Prochaska at Camp 21.

Lewis and Clark Digital Collection, Special Collections, Julian Schrock image collection #31

Date: ca. 1942