Description: Civilian Public Service camp no. 33, Fort Collins, Colorado
Date: ca. 1943
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: Civilian Public Service camp no. 33, Fort Collins, Colorado
Date: ca. 1943
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: Civilian Public Service camp no. 33, Fort Collins, Colorado; Buckingham side camp
Date: ca. 1943
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 13.5 x 9 cm
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Description: "Home-built post hole digger being used whenever possible in order to make best use of manual labor. A digger like this will dig two miles of holes in good digging ground."; used in Albert N. Keim, The CPS Story: An Illustrated History of Civilian Public Service (1990), p. 56
Date: ca. 1945
Location: Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 7 x 10.5 cm
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Description: "Dean Stucky weeding the camp garden (camp visitor looking on)"
Date: ca. 1944
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 13 x 7.5 cm
Source: Harry van Dyck, 1989
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Description: Buckingham side camp
Date: ca. 1944
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 13 x 9.5 cm
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Description: Buckingham side camp
Date: ca. 1944
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 13 x 9.5 cm
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Description: "inside of barracks," calendar on wall looks like it might be May 1942
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5 cm
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Description: dining hall
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5. cm
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Description: library
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
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Description: camp view from southwest
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: camp view
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
Source: Lola Fern (Voth) Schmidt, 2003
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Description: Buckingham side camp, "Drilling water wells to supply water for newly fenced and seeded pastures."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 5.5 x 10 cm
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Description: "Building a small dam for farmer"
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: "Dam project"
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: Buckingham side camp, "Creosoting vat built by the C.P.S. men and then used to creosote the approximately 10,000 posts."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 7 x 10.5 cm
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Description: Buckingham side camp, "Obliterating old fence in preparation for new line fence."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 7 cm
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Description: Buckingham side camp, "Before building the new fences, the old fences of the abandoned farm homes must be obliterated. Miles of fence has been taken down and old posts pulled."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 7 cm
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Description: "College experimental group."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 7.5 x 5.5 cm
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Description: "Rest during noon hour. College experimental crew."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: "farm labor"; the photo has the name Nick Wiens written on the back but we don't know if he is on the photo or was just a recipient of the photo
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 5.5 x 8 cm
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Description: "Beet topping"; used in Mennonite Life, Dec. 1990, p. 6
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: church service, probably Easter, WHO IS THE SPEAKER?
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: group of men in barracks, ANY IDENTIFICATIONS?
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: men playing table tennis
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: church service, maybe Easter, WHO ARE THE SPEAKERS?
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: rug weaving
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: "Extensive seeding of former 'Dust Bowl' areas of N. E. Colorado with crested wheat grass"
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 5.5 cm
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Description: "Harvesting crested wheat grass seed in order to do additional plantings."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 7 cm
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Description: "Completed reservoir and stock tanks. Reservoir will hold 20,000 gals. of water which will supply the smaller stock tank during calm weather when windmill will not run."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 7.5 x 5 cm
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Description: "Completed stock tank and reservoir in one of the pastures ready for use."
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 7 cm
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Description: Buckingham side camp, "Barracks for Buckingham - from Great Divide - Oct '42"
Date: October 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: snow scene at camp
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: snow scene - stream in forest, "First snow - Cameron Pass - Sept 18-42"
Date: September 18, 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: camp director John F. Schmidt with child (maybe son Howard Schmidt)
Date: ca. 1943
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 5.5 x 5.5 cm
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Description: men shoveling dirt into a Greeley Water Department truck
Date: October 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10 x 6 cm
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Description: drainage or irrigation channel
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 11.5 x 9.5 cm
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Description: men gathered by buildings and a truck
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: survey crew; on the back is handwritten "Koehn & Ruben Kliewer", are those the 2 men facing the camera?
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: men carrying log, "Men working on River Project"
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 8 x 5.5 cm
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Description: washing dishes
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: preparing a meal
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
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Description: kitchen workers
Date: ca. 1942
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
MLA filing: Civilian Public Service No. 33
Original size: 6 x 11 cm
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