Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harold Barton Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Barton, Harold
Abstract
In the early 1940s National Mental Health Foundation originated in 1944-1945 when Harold Barton and three associates, serving at Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), announced plans for a national campaign to improve the conditions in mental hospitals. The exposure of these conditions through the efforts of men serving in CPS, and their efforts to be a nonviolent presence in mental institutions, began a new movement in mental health care in the U.S. The National Mental...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1949
Roland F. Smith Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Smith, Roland F.
Overview
Papers of Roland F. Smith documenting his service in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during WWII, as well as family papers.
Dates:
1939-1946, 1981,1987-1990; 1981; 1992
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- Subject: Psychiatric hospitals -- United States X