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This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.

includes correspondence, diaries, academic papers, sermons, financial papers, biographical material

Box 1: notebook (record of weddings performed, etc.), diplomas, photos, printed matter, books, birthday book (Vergissmeinnicht), correspondence, C. E. Krehbiel diaries, other C. E. Krehbiel items

Box 2: subject files, correspondence

Box 3: index book (to files or articles?), subject files, sermon index, diaries (brought in March 1984 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 4: subject files

Box 5: sermons (brought in 31 Dec 1986 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 6: reel-to-reel tapes, C. E. Witness periodical (from Grace church in Pennsylvania?) (brought in 31 Oct 1994 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 7: slides, 16mm film

box 8: audio cassette, biographical interview by Jim Juhnke

The collection contains biographical and personal materials related to Anna Gertrude Penner’s extended career as a deaconess nurse, including a set of diaries spanning over fifty years. Perhaps most unique are papers related to her training as a public health worker and two years of work as a public school nurse in Newton (the first school nurse in Newton?), 1916-21.

Consists almost entirely of his diaries 1956-1985. The diaries are somewhat in the  format of scientific lab notebooks, with numerous little drawings.

Also includes some funeral papers, wills, land records, military discharge, clippings, photos, death certificates.

Includes:

• campaign flyer (he ran for county superintendent of public instruction at some point)

• pamphlets, brochures

• correspondence

• family history scrapbook (this comes from Lena Fast whose daughter Linda was Gustav Frey’s second wife, so not a Frey family scrapbook)

• music book, other books

• Wünsche

• biology lab book from Bethel College

• syllabus from Witmarsum seminary 1922-1923

• notebook/diary

Correspondence, sermons, diaries, and other documents, mostly related to their mission work in Montana.

Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps

diaries 1917-79 with gaps

autograph books

clippings

Includes a wide variety of correspondence, financial, legal, and family history materials. The focus is more on personal and family life rather than professional, except for some documentation related to his work as pastor of various churches.

Diaries, Wünsche, David Unrau family photo

Diary begun in 1839 and continued by descendants.
Also English translation of 1976.

Papers collected by Jeff A. Steely, for a Bethel College history seminary paper in spring 1988. Includes sermons, correspondence, diary (photocopy), and a cassette tape of an interview with Loris Habegger.

Wall's diary 1824-1860 of events in his region. Also a listing of births, deaths, etc. mentioned in the diary, compiled by Glenn Penner. The title "Record Book of the Chortitza Mennonite Settlement 1824-1860" also seems to have been used for this document, although it isn't really an accurate description.

Diaries ranging from 1909 to 1951. Not clear which volumes belonged to the father and which to the son.
Bethesda Hospital membership certificates 1920-1927.
Woelk family history info.

diaries and account books