- US BCMLA 00/MS.194
- Sammlung
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Box 1-5: hymn books and song books
Box 6: autobiography and audio cassette of 1980 interview
Hostetler, Lester, 1892-1989
Marie J. Regier Frantz Janzen Papers
The papers consist mostly of correspondence and articles relating to the various mission fields. Most important would be the materials on the General Conference Mennonite mission in China. Especially interesting is the material on the Japanese internment, including a large group of sketches of camp life, and items relating to the changes in China after the war.
The family history materials in the collection are also significant. They shed light on the early Bethel College (Halstead Seminary) and on Emmaus Mennonite Church near Whitewater, Kansas.
See box list for contents of unprocessed boxes.
Janzen, Marie J. Regier Frantz, 1897-1994
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
The Scratching River Post clipping regarding Gerhard Goosen. April 17. German.
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
The Scratching River Post clippings featuring the autobiography of Peter J. B. Reimer. April 10. German.