Identity area
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Date(s)
- 1872-1924 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
83 photographs or digital reproductions (image 24 is blank).
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
In 2017, James VanDyck deposited a collection of photo albums and documents related to the Fehderau family. He did this on behalf of Lillian L. Fehderau-Dyck, his mother.
Many of these Fehderau photos had already been scanned by Linda Huebert Hecht for the Molotschna Bicentennial Photo Project 2004, which also provided the organizational structure of this CMBS collection (NP164-04). See CA MAO M2004F for scans of many of these same photos.
In cases where the CMBS images are taken from the 2004 Huebert-Hecht scans, they are marked as "digital." All other images in this collection are scans from original photographs now in the CMBS collection, thanks to the James VanDyck deposition (Acc. No. 2017-21).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The collection contains photographs depicting aspects of Nicholas J. Fehderau's family's life in the city of Halbstadt (Ukraine) and on his family's farming estate up to 1924, when he immigrated to Canada.
The Nicholas J. Fehderau photo collection includes more than the 83 scanned images in this collection (see also NP152 for more photographs).
The collection documents the assumptions, motivation, vision, and everyday life of one Mennonite estate family, the Fehderau family.
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
For the story behind these photos, see Nicholas J. Fehderau's published memoir, "A Mennonite Estate Family in Southern Ukraine, 1904-1924," translated by Margaret Harder and Elenore Fehderau-Fast, and edited by Anne Konrad (Pandora Press, 2013). Many of these photos appear in this book.
Note
See also NP152, the Nicholas J. Fehderau Photo Collection, which contains the remainder of the 2017 deposition of Lillian L. Fehderau-Dyck's photos (Acc. No. 2017-21), those not part of the Molotschna Bicentennial Photo Project 2004. Lillian is Nicholas's daughter (see Note #1). https://archives.mhsc.ca/nicholas-j-fehderau-photograph-collection
Note
See also Nicholas J. Fehderau Personal Papers collection. The file list itemizes the Fehderau documents held at the CMBS archives.
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Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Fehderau, Nicholas J., 1904-1989 (Subject)