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Jayne Tuttle Wilhelm and Paul A. Wilhelm Collected Papers

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Call Number:
CDG-A.Wilhelm, Paul and Jane Tuttle Wilhelm
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
1.04 linear ft. (12.5 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Jayne Tuttle Wilhelm and Paul A. Wilhelm Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Date:
1934-1978 (inclusive)
Creator:
Wilhelm, Jayne Tuttle and Wilhelm, Paul A.
Abstract:
Paul A. Wilhelm (1916- ) served in three Civilian Public Service Units: Camp 3, Patapsco, Md.; Camp 52, Powelsville Maryland; and Camp 49, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) State Hospital. He registered as a Baptist conscientious objector but became a Quaker after his marriage to C. Jayne Tuttle in 1943.

Paul Alexander Wilhelm, of St. Louis (Missouri), met C. Jayne Tuttle, of Helena (Montana), at the New York World's Fair in 1940. From that meeting flourished a correspondence and courtship that lasted until and beyond their marriage on April 16, 1943. Paul received his draft notice in 1941, and registered as a conscientious objector. He served in three CPS units from 1942-1944. The wedding took place while he was in service in Powellsville (Maryland); their first home was in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), established while he was still in service at the Philadelphia State [Mental] Hospital. Paul was trained as an architect and took an interest in how CPS camps were built and arranged. His time working at the mental hospital led him to a lifelong interest in improving the care and treatment of mental patients, especially through the National Mental Health Foundation (a direct outgrowth of the CPS mental hygiene program). Paul's career included service on the Philadelphia Human Rights Commission, studying the challenges of racial desegregation in Philadelphia during the 1950s. Janye's career was as an illustrator and an art teacher in Plainfield (New Jersey) and at the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. Paul grew up as a Baptist, and Jayne as an Episcopalian, but they both joined the Religious Society of Friends soon after their marriage. They had two children, Mark and Carolyn.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.

Gift of Paul Wilhelm, 1978-1982

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Processed by SCPC staff; checklist created by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, January 2002

  1. Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials (DG 056)
  2. Fellowship of Reconciliation Records (DG 013)

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

none

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

none

Collection Inventory

Jayne and Paul: biographical information, 1934-1978.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul: biographical information -- children Mark and Carolyn.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul: general correspondence received/sent, 1943-1945.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul: general correspondence received/sent, 1946-1978.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul: attendance at Conference on Education, Quaker Hill, Richmond (Indiana), July 14-15, 1945.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul: correspondence and efforts re: city planning / desegregation.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul (and Mark): correspondence and efforts re: draft resistance / draft counseling, 1969-1970.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul: correspondence and efforts re: peacetime conscription.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul: involvement [professional and parental] with Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia.
Box 1
(Pennsylvania), 1965-1975.
Box 1
Jayne and Paul: miscellaneous writings / notes.
Box 1
Jayne: letters to Paul, 1940 (May-August).
Box 1
Jayne: letters to Paul, 1940 (September-December).
Box 1
Jayne: letters to Paul, 1941.
Box 1
Jayne: letters to Paul.
Box 2
Jayne: letters to Paul, 1943 (January-April 15).
Box 2
Jayne: letters to Paul, April 19-August 25, 1943.
Box 2
Jayne: letters to/from family and friends, 1940-1975.
Box 2
Paul: financial records, 1940-1942.
Box 2
Paul: decision to be a conscientious objector, 1941.
Box 2
Paul: draft classification, 1942.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

includes letter from his father

Paul: CO service at Patapsco CPS unit #3 (Baltimore, Maryland), 1942.
Box 2
Paul: CO service at Powellsville CPS unit #52 (Salisbury, Maryland), 1942-1943.
Box 2
Paul: CO service at CPS unit #49 (Philadelphia State Hospital, Pennsylvania), 1943-1944.
Box 2
Paul: application to relief and reconstruction unit, 1943.
Box 2
Paul: letters to Jayne, 1940-1942, 1948.
Box 2
Paul: letters to/from family and friends, 1940-1943.
Box 2
Paul: letters to/from family and friends, 1944-1976.
Box 2
Paul: interest in the National Mental Health Foundation Inc., 1946-1947.
Box 2
Paul: involvements etc. (post-CPS), 1945 -.
Box 2
Paul: writings -- Mss. re: the CPS Union, 1944.
Box 2
Paul: drawings re: CPS.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

most removed to Oversize Graphics and Oversize Documents collections

Paul and Jayne: reference material -- city planning / desegregation [folder 1].
Box 3
Paul and Jayne: reference material -- city planning / desegregation [folder 2].
Box 3
Paul and Jayne: reference material -- conscription / draft resistance.
Box 3
Paul and Jayne: reference material -- peacetime conscription.
Box 3
Paul and Jayne: reference material -- miscellaneous [folder 1].
Box 3
Paul and Jayne: reference material -- miscellaneous [folder 2].
Box 3

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