CPS Camp Number 049

CPS Camp Number 049

Technical Agency: Mental Hospital

Summary:

CPS Unit No. 49, a Mental Hospital unit at Philadelphia State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania operated by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), opened in August 1942. AFSC continued to operate the unit at the hospital, known as Byberry, until it withdrew from CPS in April 1946. Selective Service operated the unit until it closed in October 1946. Most of the men worked as orderlies and ward attendants.

CPS Unit # 49 Philadelphia State Hospital
CPS Unit # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
CPS man bathing arm of patient, 1943. Ministering to the mentally ill. This is one of 1400 CPS men who are serving in 40 different hospitals throughout the country. CPS attendants work at the humblest of tasks--bathing ulcerated limbs of patients, changing soiled linens, feeding, quieting.
Digital Image from American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Date: 1943
CPS Camp # 49
CPS Camp # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phil Steer, Leonard Edelstein, Willard Hetzel, Harold Barton, founders of the Mental Hygiene Program of the Civilian Public Service and the National Mental Health Foundation
Digital image from the Harold Barton Collected Papers (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Unit # 49
Byberry B Building, Violent Ward Day Room
Image by Charles Lord, from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056) Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Unit # 49
CPS Unit # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Restraints
Image by Charles Lord, from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056) Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Unit # 49
CPS Unit # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
CPS Annual Picnic
Digital Image from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Date: 1944
CPS Unit # 49
CPS Unit # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Barbecue
Digital Image from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Date: 1944
CPS Unit # 49
CPS Unit # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mental Health Class
Digital Image from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Unit # 49
CPS Unit # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jaundice Unit, Shot in arm
Digital Image from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Unit # 49
CPS Unit # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chorus, Bob Steele conducting
Digital Image from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Date: 1944
CPS Unit # 49
CPS Unit # 49, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Radio Program WCPS. Cottage 1, Mrs. L Rankin, D. Perrone, R. Lyon, Phil Steer, D. Riggs
Digital Image from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Date: March, 1944

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  • Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Opened: August 1942 | Closed: October 1946