CPS Camp Number 069

Technical Agency: Mental Hospital

Summary:

CPS Unit No. 69, a Mental Hospital unit at Cleveland State Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, was operated by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) from December 1942 through November 1943, when AFSC and Selective Service mutually agreed to close the unit after an expose of conditions at the hospital. Mennonite Central Committee reopened the unit in April 1945 until it closed in October 1946. The majority of the men served as ward attendants.

CPS Camp No. 69, Cleveland State Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

Civilian Public Service workers circa 1945.

Digital image, Photo #2224. Box 2, Folder 7. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive

CPS Camp No. 69, Cleveland State Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

Conscientious objectors (in white) attend top patients at the mental hospital, circa 1945.

Photo #1433. Box 2, Folder 7. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive

CPS Camp No. 69

Cleveland State Mental Hospital attendant with patient.

Photo 21 Box 2, Folder 7. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive

CPS Camp No. 69

Civilian Public Service orderly assisting a patient in taking medicine at the Cleveland State Mental Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

Photo 15 Box 2, Folder 7. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive

CPS Camp No. 69

Shaving a patient.

Photo 670 Box 2, Folder 7. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive

CPS Camp No. 69

Conscientious objector accompanies mental patients on their walk on the grounds at Cleveland State (Mental) Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, 1945-1946.

Photo 1432 Box 2, Folder 7. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive