Summer work camps in Flint, Michigan organized by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). College student volunteers clean in Oak Knoll Park. Two men dig around a tree and uproot it. Man chopping a tree with an axe. Two men reaping tall grass with a scythe. Men uproot and dig out stumps, and carry cut trees and branches to a pile. Black smoke rises from a heap of burning brush. Children play in the park, coordinated by American Friends Service Committee members in Community Planning and City Planning roles. Families with boys and girls attend United Auto Workers (UAW) picnic.
Trip of American Friends Service Committee members (Quakers) to the Saline Valley Farms outside Saline, Michigan, founded by Harold Gray. Sign in parking lot of the cooperative (co-op) farm reads, "Saline Valley Farms. Office. Hostel. Store. Dairy. Recreation Hall. Canning Factory. All visitors please register." View of the main farm house. Panoramic view of the farmland from a high bluff. A boy riding a pony or small horse. View of chickens pecking at feed outside chicken coops. Friends gathered for a picnic near a large shade tree. View of the table preparations and people enjoying the picnic. Man pushes a boy on a tree swing. Man seated on the swing eating watermelon. Men playing horseshoes. View of William Simkin, Director, along with two small children beside him.
Camping weekend of members of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). Man climbs out of canoe bow at a dock on Fenton Lake. Man at stern of canoe remains. A different man climbs back into the bow of the canoe. View of a man throwing large darts at a dart board in a campsite.
College student volunteers of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) work together at a Penn-Craft work camp, building homes and facilities for a coal-mining community in Pennsylvania (possibly Norvelt?). Opening image shows the book "The Plight of the Bituminous Coal Miner" by Homer Lawrence Morris and Joseph H. Willits. View of farmland and a new mining community from a high hill. Craft work Camp in Pennsylvania. View of a community mining area. Coal elevator building and rows of miner's homes close together in the background. Students help miners build new homes. They work on scaffolding, building walls of homes with stone and mortar. View of lumber piled high and a worker sawing a board. Workers move building materials in wheelbarrows. A stone home with a partially framed roof. An African American student volunteer breaks up rock with a sledge hammer. Volunteers load stone from a nearby quarry onto waiting trucks. Workers slide rocks from a quarry to a waiting team below, who loads rock pieces into a mill that pulverizes the rock and turns it into stone dust that is then carried away for use in the building projects. View of Miners simple, temporary houses. A mining family relaxes on a bench swing in front of a house and children of miners play with a dog. Men framing a temporary home. A woman volunteer paints the exterior of a house.
College student volunteers of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) work together at a Penn-Craft work camp, helping mining families to build homes and educate children. Near a coal-mining community in Pennsylvania (possibly Norvelt?). Quaker college student volunteer aiding women in the mining community as they operate a nursery school for children of miners. Children playing in an open field, and in a sandbox, as teachers walk around and sit with them. Children stand at a table and model clay. Teachers serve a snack to the students, seated in a circle outside a school building. A woman mops the front porch of the building, while another woman irons clothes. Young woman volunteer gives a haircut to a little boy.
College student volunteers of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) at a Penn-Craft work camp, building homes and facilities for a coal-mining community in Pennsylvania (possibly Norvelt?) Group of volunteers seated in a field and hearing a lecture on the coal industry during the evening after work. One man is standing, addressing the group. View of college student volunteers performing "KP" kitchen preparations for a meal. They are seated on a porch, cutting vegetables and adding them to pots.
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