- US MCUSAA HM1/962
- Collection
- 1991
A 118 page unpublished poem entitled "Who?", which deals with nuclear weapons. Also includes a notebook containing drafts of the poem.
Hartzler, Emma Blosser, 1904-
A 118 page unpublished poem entitled "Who?", which deals with nuclear weapons. Also includes a notebook containing drafts of the poem.
Hartzler, Emma Blosser, 1904-
The collection consists of some correspondence, a notebook of copied poems, a scrapbook of collected poems, and miscellaneous writing.
Zook, Mary
The richest materials in the collection are Tillie Yoder Nauraine's writings, including poetry, essays, articles, diaries, and an autobiography. In them, she documents her personal experiences, domestic life, professional interests, travels, relationships with family members, and her religious beliefs. She writes openly about her abuse as a child and her difficult marriage.
Also of particular note is a scrapbook of photographs of her family and her work at Camp Ebenezer and the Peurto Rican home for boys.
Other material in the collection includes incoming personal correspondence, information about her doll shop and patterns, and photos of her hand-made dolls.
Nauraine, Tillie Yoder, 1920-2010
A collection of papers including correspondence reflecting Wilmer's interest in local history, Mennonite Church history and Christian hymnology. He wrote many hymn texts which are included.
Swope, Wilmer D., 1925-2010
The collection includes a poem written by Joseph D. Smith on the occasion of his 60th wedding anniversary to his wife Anna S. (Belsly).
Smith, Joseph D.
Personal papers of a Mennonite poet and writer who spent her first 18 years living among the Southern Cheyenne Indians of Oklahoma. The papers include correspondence and poetry.
Baehr, Anna Ruth Ediger, 1916-1998
Oswald H. and Elaine Goering Papers
Box 1 and 2: Farm account books and poetry manuscripts of Henry J. Goering.
Box 3: actually a map folder. WW2 atlas
Box 4 and 5: mix of Rotary, camping, etc. reports and correspondence.
Box 6 is a jumble, completely random
Box 7: some family correspondence, other misc.
Box 8: jumble
Box 9: diaries (whose?), CPS and Puerto Rico correspondence
Box 10: 1940s correspondence
Box 11: CPS newsletters
Box 12: film "Just Beyond the Chalkboard", wire recording
Box 13: relief file, correspondence, Bethel College files, retirement
Box 14: correspondence, subject files
Goering, Oswald H., 1923-2008
Adam, Helen, and Amelia Mueller Papers
The collection contains personal materials from all three creators, including school transcripts and diplomas, school papers, baptismal certificates and other documentation of their early family life. However, the most extensive personal materials are the writings of Helen and Amelia and the correspondence of Amelia and her family.
The other major category of materials in the collection is family history. This includes several generations of correspondence of Amelia’s family, especially of her many relatives in Germany who wrote to Amelia’s mother Elizabeth Ellenberger, her Aunt Selma Ellenberger, and to Amelia herself, covering a period of over a century. The family history materials, in addition to these primary source documents, includes extensive genealogical research materials. Published genealogies, primarily collected by Adam, relate to many branches of his ancestors, especially on his maternal, Becker, side. He and Amelia both compiled numerous family charts and histories.
Mueller, Adam Theodore, 1904-2004
Herman H. Enns and Margaret Reimer Enns Papers
Includes her autobiography, list of books donated (most not retained), John H. Enns memoir 1985, Herman Enns autobiography, Russian language document (passport?), correspondence, poetry by her. All are photocopies.
Enns, Herman H., 1897-1996
Helena Graewe Warkentin Papers
Diaries covering roughly 1917-1940.
Autobiography
clippings
book of handwritten poems or songs
photocopy of typed account of Central Asia trek
Warkentin, Helena Graewe, 1865-1942
Clippings, poetry (mostly German), Bible (English)
Goertz, Anna Marie, 1900-1989
Hillegonda van der Smissen Papers
Box 1: speeches, talks, poetry, birthday greetings for 100th birthday, correspondence, clippings, printed matter, books
Box 2: autograph book (whose? not hers), printed matter, correspondence, books, clippings
van der Smissen, Hillegonda, 1848-1949
Writings, publications, and notes by Cora Nicodemus. Also some materials from other members of the Newton Area Creative Writers Fellowship.
Nicodemus, Cora M., 1888-1987
The papers are all hand-written German in the old script. There are a few items of correspondence, several sermons, poetry, and other documents.
Wiebe, Aron J., 1845-1922
Box 1: scrapbook containing school compositions, articles by him, peace pamphlets and clippings, transcript of court case, letters re the case, other letters and poems by him, photos, clippings re India and marriage
Box 2: Kansas Academy of Science Conservation Committee, Save the Tallgrass Prairie Inc
Box 3-5: course notes and files
Box 6: grade books and sheets; a few photocopies from Kauffman Museum civil rights exhibit Aug. 2010
Box 7: tapes of a summer 1964 biology class (digitized at elecrec/acc914), donated by Janet Klaassen Voth who was a student in the class, 22 May 2018
Platt, Dwight, 1931-