Arrival of the "Traveling Library" at a school house in Campbell County, eastern Tennessee. Sponsored by the then newly formed "Committee to Save the Children", two boys carry a large "Traveling Library" box on a road toward a school serving Appalachian mountain children. They set it on the school steps. Children and a teacher gather around the box. Lettering on the box reads, "Traveling Library, Campbell County. Committee to Save the Children fund." A teacher opens the box and takes a book from inside. The children gather around her as she opens the book. She writes inside one of the books and then hands the book to a school boy.
A meal is prepared and served in the southern appalachian mountains near Campbell County, Tennessee. Group of women gathered in a kitchen fill serving plates and bowls with prepared food. Men and women seated at a table are served the food. Possibly a meal involving Presbyterian or Episcopal mission workers involved in providing training and education to Appalachian communities A bouquet of flowers on the table. A console piano behind a woman seated at the table.
Girls learn pickling at a mission-sponsored industrial or training school in the southern appalachian mountains of Tennessee. Girls in uniform cross a wooden bridge and assemble on a front porch of a school building. Several girls practice techniques for pickling foods in large jars, while other girls look on.
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.
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