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Abram A. Friesen

This photo is a portrait of Abram A. Friesen (A. A. Friesen). He is wearing a suit jacket, vest polka-dot tie and a high color shirt. He has glasses, long moustache and small goatee.

Directors and teachers of the Halbstadt Commerce School

This photo is of (Die Lehrer und das Directorium der Halbstädter Kommerzschule) the directors and teachers of the Halbstadt Commerce School in the Molotschna Colony. The 18 men are posing for a photo outside of a brick building. The men in the directors are seated in the front row and the teachers are standing in the back row. Front row (l-r) Heinrich Schroeder, B. Neufeld, D. Dück, Jacob Sudermann, Director Ziegler, Joahnn Willms, Klassen, Jacob Willms, Heinrich Franz. Back row: Herman Dyck, Peter Letkemann, Kulisenin, Abraham A. Friesen, Kritzkij, Russian orthodox priest, Benjamin H. Unruh, Ostrow, Furnier. This photo with the cardboard frame is 42 x 31 cm and will be placed in the oversized collection. This photo is identified in "Als Ihre Zeit Erfüllt War", p. 71.

Family photo in Henderson, Nebraska

This photo is of 11 members of a family sitting in front of a palm tree posing for a photograph with their house in the background. It is unclear who the people in the photo are. -- Note: this photo is mounted on a cardboard which is 30 x 25 cm and will be placed in the oversized area.

Family photo of the Jacob Johann Goossen family

This photo is of the Jacob and Aganetha Goossen family. The family members are posing in the garden on the Wintergruen estate in South Russia. All but the youngest 2 children are wearing black. The photo was taken on the occasion of the death of the [children's] aunt Maria Wall. Back row (left to right): Maria, Aganetha, Katharina. Parents middle row: Aganetha (Kaethler) Goossen, Jacob Johann Goossen. Front row: Anna, Hans, Helene, Eliese. This photo is on a card board backing which is 36 x 27.5 cm and will be placed in the oversized area. -- Note: It is unclear which Maria Wall this was. One Maria Wall (Jacob's sister) appears in photos dated 1906 and 1909, after when this photo was taken. [HR 116]

Family portrait

This is a photo of a [family] in Russia. The identification is poor. The man back row: second from left is also on the photo 578:8 and therefore the photo does relate to the Goossen family. One way of reading the identification on the back is: back row (left to right): ?, Peter Neufeld, Aganetha (Neufeld) Janzen, Wilhelm Janzen. Front row: Anna Neufeld, Marichen Janzen, Frau Sperling, Anna Janzen. The people in the photo are very well dressed with three of the women wearing large hats.

Farming operation at the Wintergruen estate

This photo is of 21 teams of oxen and horses seeding and ploughing the land on the Wintergruen estate owned by Jacob Goossen. Goossen is sitting in his buggy with his matching team of horses on the far right hand side of the photo. The teams are lined up in four rows and have stopped to pose for a photo. With each working team is a man guiding the team. The land is flat with a clump of trees in the distance on the right hand side. This photo is in a cardboard frame which is 43 x 31 cm and will be placed in the oversized area. This photo was used in the book "Daydreams & Nightmares", p. 18.

Girls posing for a photo

This photo is of five girls [teenagers?] posing for a photo. They are all wearing dark dresses, some with collars and their hair done. Back row far right is Helena Goossen who later married A.A. Friesen.

Goossen family gathering photo

This photo is of a family gathering of the Goossen family with the tree siblings of Johann, Jacob and Maria. Second row sitting is (l-r) Maria (Goossen) Wall, Gerhard P. Wall, Johann Goossen, Jacob Goossen, Aganetha (Kaethler) Goossen. The other people are presumably children of these three siblings. The photo may have been taken in Henderson, Nebraska. This photo is a color photocopy on regular paper and will be placed in the oversized section.

Goossen siblings visiting

This is a photo of Goossen siblings (two men and one woman) seated at a cloth covered small table on the porch of a Russian Mennonite home. From left to right is Gerhard P. Wall, Maria (Goossen) Wall, and Johann Johann Goossen. The Walls lived in Tokmak, Molotschna, south Russia. This photo is on a cardboard backing which is 34 x 25 cm and will be placed in the oversized section.

Helena (Goossen) Friesen

This photo is of Helena Friesen who is looking at a book. Helena was the second wife of Abraham A. Friesen (A.A. Friesen). They got married in 1935 after Friesen's first wife, Helena's sister Maria, died in 1934. The photo is a bit faded and yellowed.

Interior of the Schönsee Mennonite Church in the Molotschna Col.

This is a photo of the interior of the Schönsee (Schoensee) Mennonite Church in the Molotschna Colony, South Russia. The photo is taken facing the pulpit. There are two chairs behind the pulpit and a banner in the background. There is a [Thanksgiving?] display at the foot of the pulpit. Also visible is the balcony on the right hand side. This photo is on a cardboard backing which is 25 x 20 cm.

Jacob Goossen family fonds

  • CA MHC 578
  • Collection
  • 1890-1972

This fonds consists of 35 photographs, mostly taken in Russia, of the extended Goossen family that lived on the Wintergruen estate, founded by Jacob Goossen (1858-1920). The photos are of high quality and show a wealthy Mennonite family in Russia. Included is a rare photograph of the interior of the Schoensee Mennonite Church.

Goossen family (Descendants of Jacob *1858)

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