55 Treffer anzeigen

Personal papers of a bishop of the (old) Mennonite Church and administrator of La Junta Mennonite Hospital and Sanatarium (La Junta, Colorado).  Series include:

(1) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1928-1975

(2) Diaries, 1921, 1961-1963, 1966

(3) Miscellaneous, 1925-1969

Personal papers of a prominent administrator who held leadership positions in multiple Mennonite-related organizations over a career spanning four decades between 1953 and 1993. Kraybill also served as a board member and organizational consultant for a variety of institutions, including the American Leprosy Mission, Lancaster Mennonite School, and Lombard Mennonite Church. Materials consist of daily calendars, administrative trip reports, writings and manuscripts, photographs, scattered correspondence, committee minutes, and organizational working files. The papers are divided into the following series and subseries:

(1) Day Timers and Calendars, 1956-1992

(2) Manuscripts, Notes, and Talks, 1950-1991

(3) Organizational Working Files, 1956-1992

A. Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities

B. Mennonite Church General Board

C. Mennonite Christian Leadership Foundation

D. Mennonite Housing Aid, Inc.

E. Mennonite World Conference

F. Mennonite Health Association

(4) General Subject Files, 1942-1991

(5) Photographs and Miscellaneous, 1942-1991

Personal papers of a lifelong peace activist from the Mennonite / Anabaptist tradition.  Materials include journals, personal and professional correspondence, reports and articles associated with his work for International Voluntary Services (IVS) and Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), lectures and speeches, photographs, and remembrance books compiled after his death.  These papers also include Synapses: Messages, newsletters of a grass-roots human rights and spirituality organization based in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s.

Photocopy of a typed transcript of the German-language diary of an Old Order Amish man in Middlebury, Indiana.  The author also went buy the name "Hansi Borntrager."  Entries are generally one sentence long, and the the diary documents only the "most important and most unusual events."

Personal papers of an educator and editor who served the (old) Mennonite Church.  Series include:

(1) Diaries, 1908-1921

(2) Sermons and Sermon Notes, 1924-1974

(3) Notes for Orie O. Miller Biography, circa 1960-1968

(4) Correspondence, 1936-1982

(5) Subject Files, 1916-1984

The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II.  Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work.  Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Correspondence, 1921-1923 (2) Speeches and Articles, undated, 1982 (3) Photographs, circa 1921-1923

Photocopies of diaries and correspondence created during Yoder's period of service in post World War I France with the American Friends Service Committee.

The papers and photographs in this collection include Lois Gunden Clemen's relief work in France under Mennonite Central Committee from 1941 to 1944. They also document her work as an educator and author, her Conrad Grebel Lectures, her work with Women's Missionary and Service Commission and other Mennonite-related organizations, her involvement with American Association Of University Women, and correspondence with her future husband Ernest Clemens.

A small set of personal papers documenting the work of this Mennonite missionary couple in India at the turn of the century.  The papers consist primarily of Jacob Burkhard's outgoing correspondence, but also include incoming correspondence to Jacob Burkhold, the memoirs and diary of Jacob Burkhard, letters and notes written by Mary Burkhard, scrapbooks of clippings regarding Mennonite missionary work in India, and Mary Burkhard's Bibles.

This collection about an early relief organization of the (old) Mennonite Church is divided into six series:

(1) William A. Derstine Papers, 1912-1927; (2) Financial Records, 1917-1925; (3) Levi Mumaw Papers, 1918-1925; (4) Silas Hertzler Diary (Transcription), 1919-1920; (5) Stanley Kerr Diary, 1920; (6) John Warye Diary, 1919-1920

A short autobiograpy and lengthy diary (in German script) of an Amish Mennonite who immigrated to the United States with his family in 1857 to Granville, Ill.  and taught in Amish Mennonite Schools in various Illinois communities.  The diary contains a good deal of information about Erismann's religious and spiritual life, recording his prayers, uinderstanding of Christian behavior, and attendance of worhsip services and Sunday schools.  Over time, the diary becomes a journal of devotions on special religious days.

Only the first 44 pages of the diary have been translated into English

The collection includes travel diaries and postcards from visits to Oregon and Mexico.

The collection includes diaries 1908-1970; Diary Transcripts; Family Correspondence; Miscellaneous Correspondence; Data Files; Sermon Notes and Articles; and Writings by J. W. Shank.

Photographs, correspondence, diaries,  sermons, and other material documenting the Brunks' mission work in India.  The most unusual item in the papers is Eva Brunk's essay, "My First O.B. Case in Dondi," which provides a first hand account of childbirth and post-natal care and customs in a "High Caste Brohmin's home" in the early 20th century.