CPS Unit Number 140-09

CPS Unit Number 140-09

Camp: 140

Unit ID: 9

Title: University of Illinois Research Hospital

Operating agency: AFSC

Opened: 2 1945

Closed: 10 1946

Workers

Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 0

  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    Civilian Public Service, camp 140, Pinehurst, North Carolina. Cpt. Strauss inoculating GP John Troyer; Lt. Robinson observing.
    Photo 125 Box 2, Folder 24. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    Civilian Public Service, camp 140. Pinehurst, North Carolina. A view of what goes on inside the tent. Dr. Ramelkamp with GP Joe Beachy the victim. In order to avoid any possible contamination, the M.C. from Fort Braff did all the inculating.
    Photo 265 Box 2, Folder 24. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Men at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Taking a test at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Enjoying a meal together at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Delbert Blickenstaff running on the treadmill at the University of Chicago.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
    Image of a Personnel News newsletter from Camp 140, subunit 4.
    Digital image from the American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG 002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    Guinea pigs: man [Delmar Martin] receiving injection in jaundice experiment, Phila. State Hospital, Phila., Pa., 1945.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    Injections.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
Summary:

CPS Unit No. 140, subunit 9, located at the University of Illinois Research Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, subjected COs to experiments in physiology.

 

This OSG project on physiological effects of changes in nutrition was sponsored by Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois.  Operating from May 30, 1945 to June 24, 1946, it was designed to utilize up to thirteen men.

Location:
Chicago, Illinois, United States