Formal pose of Queen Divara of Muenster, 1535 or '36, photo of woodcut by Heinrich Aldegrever from Westfaelisches Landesmuseum. Plate 8 in book: Profiles of Anabaptist Women Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers.
Negative also. Maria of Monjou moments before being drowned in the Netherlands. Taken by WLU from Martyrs' Mirror, 1685 ed. (from CGC). Plate 10 in book: Profiles of Anabaptist Women Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers.
Negative also. Members of Anabaptist congregation in the Netherlands being arrested; child in cradle at right. Taken by WLU from Martyrs' Mirror, 1685 ed. (from CGC). Plate 9 in book: Profiles of Anabaptist Women, Sixteenth C....
Negative also. Arrest of Catherine Mueller from the Knonau district near Zurich. Taken by WLU from Martyrs' Mirror, 1685 ed. (from CGC Archives) for bookcover: Profiles of Anabaptist Women, Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers.
Women in the audience at MCCO annual meeting; good example of the variety of head coverings (& lack thereof) worn by women at the time. The 2 women at right have prayer caps, the one to their left a hat, the one at left none.
Used in CM 6-21-5 regarding 50th anniversary of MPH. John F. Funk, leader in publishing until the Mennonite Publication Board was formed in 1908. Taken sometime in the late 1800s?
Negative also, for this photo & 3 following ones. Used in CM 6-21-7. Frame building of the Gospel Witness Company in Scottdale in which printing began in 1905. It developed into MPH.
Information on back: Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King. From a photograph in the Public Archives of Canada. Photo itself measures 14.5x20. He looks younger here than in 2001-14.92. Perhaps Frank Epp planned to use it in one of his books. It was not used in Mennonites in Canada Vols. 1 & 2.
New-style Elemetary School in Margenau, Ukraine. A copy of it was used in the display for the newly discoverd Braun Archive. It represents some of the educational reforms instituted among Mennonite in southern Russia by Cornies.
Used in the CM 6-21-5 with feature art. on the Mennonite Publishing House in Scottdale, Pennsylvania. He had been active in publishing for 44 years until the Mennonite Publication Board was formed in 1908.
Typical house-barn combination continues as the home setting for many Mennonite families in the village of Reinland in Manitoba's West Reserve. Photo taken in 1918. Used in CM 5-28-11.
The first train. Among this large gathering of people are Reinland villagers awaiting the first train into Haskett (an important trading centre to early Reinlanders) in 1920. Used in CM 5-28-11.
Information on the back: Wm. Lyon Mackenzie King in 1920. Photograph in the Public Archives of Canada. Small note in pencil refers to Ch 7. Perhaps Frank Epp planned to used it in one of his books. It was not used in Mennonites in Canada Vols. 1 & 2.
Two Reinlanders with a tractor and threshing machine(?) (likely of 1920 vintage but not sure) in a field. Not found in CM. Related photos and article in CM 5-28-11.