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- 1920-1990 (Creation)
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6.60 Cubic Feet
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Biographical history
college professor, Bluffton College and Bethel College
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Contains memorabilia, letters diaries, vitae, photos, negatives, clippings, scrapbooks, and legal papers (passports, deeds, mortgages, bonds, oil and gas leases) of E. G. and Edna Kaufman, photos and clippings on Bluffton College and its Home Economics programs and Women's Association, ca. 1920s and 1930s, AFSC work in France with Spanish refugee children ca. 1940-1942, AFSC work in Mexico ca. 1941-1942, MCC/CPS correspondence ca. 1940-1948, letters and photos on service in India ca. 1965-1968, travel journals of European trips in 1948 and 1957, and an African trip in 1975. Family letters, correspondence, and handwritten newsletters are included. Photographs, color photographs and negatives are found in most parts of the collection. Also included are papers on Anna M. Kaufman.
Box 1: France and India notebooks
Box 2: letters, 1980, Homemakers Notebook column in Mennonite Weekly Review 1981-1990
Box 3: Bluffton College clippings, etc. 1980s mostly
Box 4: clippings, photos, postcard album, wedding items, diaries; E. G. Kaufman hospitalization; mementos of Cuba, clippings, scrapbooks
Box 5: jumble of photos, correspondence, diplomas, teaching notes, travel notes, clippings, autographed book by Albert Schweitzer, diplomas, school materials, dissertation, 1942 AFSC work in France, photo album 1940 with captions in French, passports, travel journals 1948, 1957, 1962 (Gabon), 1975
Box 6: photos, correspondence, travel notes, pamphlets, letters related to India 1965-68, map, calendars
Box 7: photos, clippings, pamphlets, Bluffton College items, correspondence, financial, Bluffton College materials, photos, rolled photos, 50th anniversary class of 1932
Box 8: financial, correspondence, book of menus for guests, pamphlets, clippings, books, history of home economics at Bethel, Bluffton College Women's Association notebooks and cookbooks, Bluffton home economics; James Liu file; book The Schrock-Ramseyer Story
Box 9: items re 1940-42 AFSCrefugee work in Europe, photos, correspondence, clippings
Box 10: financial, Edmund G. Kaufman funeral guestbook, passports, photos, correspondence, Edmund G. Kaufman clippings
Box 11: financial, legal; Anna M. Kaufman papers
Box 12: vitae, clippings, correspondence (some 1940), family letters and newsletters
Box 13: correspondence, MCC work camps 1941-47 scrapbook, miscellaneous notebook, photos, AFSC Mexico journal 1941-1942
Box 14: AFSC Mexico 1942 and CPS - correspondence, photos, clippings
Box 15: framed clippings and photos of her various foreign projects
Box 16: correspondence, photo albums, financial, clippings, 1962 Africa diary, E. G. Kaufman letters, Home Management House at Bluffton, 1940 diary France, book Melting Pot of Mennonite Cookery
Box 17: scrapbooks - India, Bluffton, 1939 work camp, France
Box 18: clippings, photos, scrapbook
Box 19: books, scrapbooks, diaries, guestbooks
Box 20: "sticky" photo album - needs to be disassembled
Box 21: oral history interview, Apr. 29, 1997
"box" 22: map folder of diplomas
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unprocessed
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open for research use
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- Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio) (Subject)
- Bethel College (North Newton, Kansas) (Subject)