Mennonite Archival Information Database

Puerto Casado, the court of the hotel.

CA MHC 713-BK1-001
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

This photo is of two men standing in front of a doorway in the courtyard of the brick Puerto Casado, Paraguay hotel.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

edited "Railroad from Puerto Casado to the colony, turn at Km 104."

CA MHC 713-BK1-002
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows a railroad line coming from Puerto Casado and going to the colony through the Chaco bush at Km 104.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Edited "Hoffnungsfeld, the future nursery garden, view to the west."

CA MHC 713-BK1-008 copy
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows the westward view of the future nursery garden at Hoffnungsfeld. A row of fenceposts give evidence a fence surrounded the area and two people are working in front of the fence. A building and the Chaco bush are in the background.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Edited "Hoffnungsfeld, Indians cutting poles."

CA MHC 713-BK1-010 copy
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows five indigenous workers chopping a tree trunk into poles at Hoffnungsfeld. In the foreground is grassland with the Chaco bush in the background.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Hoffnungsfeld, a field trial of "Elephant" grass.

CA MHC 713-BK1-016
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows a field trial of "Elephant" grass in Hoffnungsfeld. The soil on the right has been worked for a year producing greater growth in the grass; the soil on the left is new land, having been plowed only once and producing grass with less growth. The field is surrounded by a barbed wire fence beyond which are trees and bush.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Hoffnungsfeld, a peanut dryer.

CA MHC 713-BK1-019
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows a man in Hoffnungsfeld standing beside a tent-like frame made of tree branches over which the peanut plants are hung until the peanuts are dry. There is a second frame behind the first and the Chaco bush is seen in the distance.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Hoffnungsfeld, cotton (B/II) 1928/29.

CA MHC 713-BK1-020
Item
[between 1928-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows a man standing in the middle of a cotton field in Hoffnungsfeld. In the distance is the Chaco bush.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Hoffnungsfeld, the warehouse after the fire.

CA MHC 713-BK1-022
Item
Jan 1929

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows seven men sifting through the smoldering ruins of the warehouse fire in Hoffnungsfeld in January 1929. There are sheets of corrugated tin lying in the foreground. The Chaco bush surrounds the area.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Hoffnungsfeld, obstacles.

CA MHC 713-BK1-023
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows three men clearing fallen tree trunks and branches from an area of land at Hoffnungsfeld. The area is surrounded by a barbed wire fence beyond which is the Chaco bush.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Hoffnungsfeld, the caterpillar of the company.

CA MHC 713-BK1-031
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows a man standing in front of the company caterpillar in Hoffnungsfeld. A second man is standing near a small building under the trees and a third on the wagon that is being pulled by the caterpillar.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Hoffnungsfeld, partially cleared undeveloped land

CA MHC 713-BK1-033
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows partially cleared land at Hoffnungsfeld. Two children are sitting on a pile of what appears to be clay bricks and beside them is a mechanical device which may have been used to make these bricks.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

View of the road from Laubenheim to Waldheim.

CA MHC 713-BK1-035
Item
[between1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows the crudely cleared road from Laubenheim to Waldheim. The Chaco bush vegetation, including cacti, is seen at the side of the road.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Bergthal, Johann J. Wall cutting planks.

CA MHC 713-BK2-038
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows Johann Wall standing [on top?] and another man in a pit below and the two together are cutting planks in Bergthal, Menno Colony. The work area has some protection from the sun from a rectangular frame with tree branches at the top providing shade. Finished planks are standing just outside the work area.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Bergthal, the small experimental plantation of C.H. Wiebe

CA MHC 713-BK2-039
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows C.H. Wiebe's experimental plantation crops of beans, cotton and "Escobar" sorghum in Bergthal. Three men are standing in front of the sorghum.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Bergthal, Abraham R. Bergen, sorghum and peanuts.

CA MHC 713-BK2-040
Item
[between 1926-1929]

Part of Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

The photo shows Abraham Bergen standing in his field of sorghum and peanuts in Bergthal.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

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