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42 Chulupie baptismal candidates

CA CMBS NP149-1-6001
Item
19 June 1960

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is a group shot of 42 Chulupie baptismal candidates standing in front of the Chulupie Chapel.

A colony member back from delivering milk to the Filadelfia creamery

US MCC IX-13-02.4 box 6 folder 4-77
Item
1960

Unruh, Robert G., 1921-1998

A prize winning horse at the Filadelfia fair

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-120
Item
1963

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

A prize winning horse being displayed at the agricultural fair in Filadelphia, Paraguay. Used in CM 11-40-2.

Unknown

A prize winning horse being lead through the parade

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-119
Item
1963

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

A prize winning horse being lead through the parade at the first agricultural fair in 33 years of Mennonite history in Paraguay. Used in CM 11-40-2.

Unknown

A school comrade from Russia

CA MHC PP-676-133.0
Item
1966

Part of Heidi Koop fonds

This photo shows a school comrade from Russia, ___ Wall and his wife Lena (nee Wall) and the Canadian tourist presumably Peter Koop. This friend was a large influence on Peter Koop's personal religious commitment in 1923.

Note: This photo was removed from the South American Trip Report by Peter Koop, in German, filed in Vol. 5489 File 49.

A twisted foot

CA CMBS NP149-1-6218
Item
1964

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of nurse Hiedrich Siemens [an MCC worker?] showing care to a Chulupi Indian woman that has twisted her ankle. Siemens works at a mission clinic near Filadelfia, Fernheim Colony.

Standard Oil Company

A view of the newly built sanatorium

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-162
Item
1959

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

A view of the newly built sanatorium in the Paraguayan Chaco which houses curable patients. Used in CM 7-40-7.

Unknown

A worker in the small shoe factory in Filadelfia

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-153
Item
1965

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

A worker in the small shoe factory in Filadelphia. Most of the industries in the colonies are communal enterprises operated by the co-operatives, but this is a privately-owned industry. Used in CM 13-43-8.

Flowers, Nancy

Aboriginal children's choir

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

This photo is of a group of Aboriginal children led by two adults with guitars performing a song in front of an audience in the Aboriginal community of Filadelfia, Fernheim Colony, Paraguay. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 152.

Beach, Mark

Aboriginal Dance ChacoTypical Aboriginal Dance Paraguayan Chaco

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

This photo is of a group of Chulupi or Nivacle women performing a typical dance on the Aboriginal day in Filadelfia, Fernheim Colony. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 204.

Peters, Jakob Unger

Aboriginal shoemaker in Paraguayan Chaco

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

This photo is of Cornelius, a shoemaker at the Fortuna Shoe Factory in Filadelfia, Fernheim Colony. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 83.

Beach, Mark

Accepting new members

CA CMBS NP149-1-6054
Item
19 June 1960

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of ministers praying with outstretched arms as newly baptized Chulupi Indians are received into the Chulupi Chapel at Filadelfia. Walter Rennert (left) and J. Schellenberg (right) are at the front of the church.