- US BCMLA 00/MS.194
- Collection
- 1883-1935
Includes diaries, autobiography, translations, and a very small amount of correspondence.
Ratzlaff, Abraham, 1850-1939
Includes diaries, autobiography, translations, and a very small amount of correspondence.
Ratzlaff, Abraham, 1850-1939
The collection contains Abram Penner’s personal diaries from 1904 to 1940, the time of his death. Entries are mostly daily events and weather data. Other records include his travel diary from his trip to Russia, family records, and letters. There is also an account ledger from the general store in Mountain Lake.
Penner, Abram, 1849-1940
Articles/publications, research notes, physics notebooks, Goede family VHS tape, correspondence, photos, physics PhD and masters dissertations, audio cassette of lecture
Goertz, Adalbert, 1928-2011
box 1: autobiography, financial notebooks, school composition notebooks, diaries (his?), clippings, correspondence, Low German readings, translation projects, family history material
box 2: negatives used to print Andreas and Eva Schmidt Genealogy 1640-1966
Thiesen, Daniel Samuel, 1899-1988
Box 1: earliest items donated July 1987; clippings, etc. related to Bethel College history and C. H. Wedel; 1971 file on Bethel College and Western District; James Juhnke interview with D. C. Wedel (transcript) (donated 19 October 2000); autobiography; CPS #8 Marietta, Ohio, reunion materials (donated 27 January 1998); books; 2 8mm films about Marietta CPS by Hubert C. Overmyer and VHS copy of films (donated April 1991)
Box 2: Bethlehem 1983 General Conference session packet; clippings and notes re CPS Marietta (donated 12 August 2003)
Box 3: church directories, clippings, printed matter, sermons
Box 4-6: sermons
Box 7: oral history interview, spring 1971, about Bethel College during the 1930s
Wedel, David C., 1908-2010
Frank and Agatha Balzer Papers
Includes correspondence between Agatha Hiebert and David Goerz; other correspondence, David Hiebert correspondence and business records, scattered photos, family history information (Hiebert, Balzer), school papers, Christmas Wünsche, autobiographical material (Frank), financial records books from lumber business. clippings
Balzer, Frank, 1859-1944
The Garber Family Reunion records consist of annual meeting ledgers, recording the date, location, officers elected, treasurer's statement, and record of births, deaths, and marriages during the year (1923-2007); attendee registers (1950-2007); miscellaneous lists of attendees and invitees (1944-2003); invitations (1950-2007), and genealogy of the Hittle Family, and a photocopy of an autobiography by Henry H. Garber.
Garber, Henry H.
A small set of personal papers belonging to a country singing school teacher and voluntary service worker of the (old) Mennonite Church. Materials include a brief autobiography, a photograph of Mumaw at age 17, and information about song books used in country singing schools in Indiana.
Mumaw, George S., b. 1877
Guy F. Hershberger Papers 1925-1989
Hershberger, Guy F. (Guy Franklin), 1896-1989
Harold Ratzlaff and Ruth Regier Ratzlaff Papers
box 1: slides, photo albums (disassembled)
box 2: slides, guest books, mission files, autobiography (his)
box 3: diaries (hers)
box 4: diaries (hers), photo album, slides
box 5-7: 16mm films
box 8: additional copy of Harold autobiography brought in by anonymous donor 12 May 2015
Ratzlaff, Harold, 1911-2006
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
Henry A. Toews and Mary Wiens Toews Papers
box 1: Bible study outlines, correspondence, legal documents, photo album, print ephemera, periodicals, autobiography, music translations, scrapbook of color pencil drawings (by her?), books
box 2: sermons, Bibles in Pende and Luba-Lulua, the "hairy Bible" (Pende New Testament), small artifacts
Toews, Henry A., 1900-1954
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
James Liu and Stephen Wang Papers
Box 1: correspondence, speeches, autobiographies
Box 2: audio cassettes and CD copies, book in Chinese, video tape and DVD copy
Liu, James, 1904-1991
John F. (John Fretz) Funk Papers 1852-1929
FINDING AID IN PROGRESS
Funk, John F., 1835-1930