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This photo is portrait of Anna Thiessen. Anna was an early city missionary in Winnipeg. Working out of the North End Chapel, she did home visits, hospital visits, Sunday School, sewing classes, and became the matron of the Mary Martha Home in Winnipeg.

This photo is of Anna Thiessen sitting with a group of young girls posing for a photo in front of a backdrop. This photo is an original of NP045-01-21and NP066-03-07. Anna Thiessen is seated front and centre.

This photo is a portrait of a group of eleven girls with Anna Thiessen (centre)

This photo is of Anna Thiessen (l) with Helen Neufeld (r) standing outside a building with a young girl posing for a photo. They have heavy coats on. -- Note: this is an original of 66-03-3.

This photo is a portrait of Anna Thiessen and six girls she worked with before Anna was involved with the Mary Martha Home.

This photo is of a large group of children outside the North End Chapel, Winnipeg (on Burrows Ave.) with Anna Thiessen (l) and Helena P. Neufeld (r). 2 copies.

This photo is of a large group of adults standing inside a building. [Possibly the North End Mennonite Brethren Church] Anna Thiessen front row, second from right.

This photo is of a large group (56) of Sunday School children and Anna Thiessen, who is in the back, far left.

This photo is a portrait of the first Mennonite Brethren choir in Winnipeg at the church on 652 Manitoba and McKenzie street - the German Baptist Mission Chapel, which the Mennonite Brethren group rented.
Back row: Gottlieb Wensel, Schulz, William Bestvater, Janke.
Middle row: Oehme, Lina's Mutter, Anna Thiessen, Anna (Bestvater) Redecopp.
Front row: Olga Klee, Lina Oehme, Tina Loewen, Adela Rosen, Philip Hamburger.

This photo is of a group of adult men and women in the basement of the North End Mennonite Brethren Church basement who passed the 1921 Bible course given by Rev. William Bestvater.
Back row, left to right, is Abe Sawatzky (Aberdeen, SK), John P. Siemens (Dinuba, CA), Henry von Niessen, Henry Sawatzky, David Berg (Waldheim, SK), Jacob Schroeder (Vancouver, BC).
Seated, left to right, is Miss Anna Froese (Main Centre, SK), Miss A. Unger (now Mrs. J. Wiebe of Herbert, SK), Miss Mary Schroeder, Anna Bestvater (now Mrs. B. Redekopp, Herbert, SK), Miss Helen Neufeld (Vancouver , BC), Miss Anna Thiessen (Winnipeg).
William Bestvater is standing in the back.
Photo identification based on a similar photo that was published in the Mennonite Brethren Herald March 30, 1962, p. 6.
Heavy winter coats can be seen in the background hanging on the wall.

This photo is of a group of former "domestics" associated with the "Mary Martha Home," Winnipeg, which Mrs. Anna Thiessen supervised for many years (1925-1959). Taken at her funeral in the Elmwood Mennonite Brethren church.

This photo is of five young "Hamburger children." [Anna Thiessen did home visitations as part of her mission work in Winnipeg in the early 1900s. These could be children from a home she visited. CDS]

This photo is a portrait of Helena Neufeld, Mary Schroeder, and Anna Thiessen who worked together in Winnipeg.