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A hodgepodge of materials pertaining to the family of Jacob Christophel, a Mennonite immigrant to Elkhart County Indiana in 1818 and one of the founders of Yellow Creek Mennonite Church.

The collection includes a miscellaneous assortment of funeral announcements, Sunday School materials, a musical score and a photograph collected for scrapbooks by Perry T. Yoder who was a resident of the Rittman Old People's Home in Rittman, Ohio.

The collection consists of some correspondence, a notebook of copied poems, a scrapbook of collected poems, and miscellaneous writing.

Papers of a Goshen Academy alumna (1922), long-time member of the Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Ind.), and missionary to Dhamtari, India later in life.  Contains a remarkable run of diaries, nearly unbroken, from 1910 to 1989, in which Smucker provides brief descriptions of her daily activities.  Also includes scrapbooks, postcard albums, her father's autograph book, and miscellaneous materials.

Personal and family papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor and bishop who served a congregation in Sweet Home, Oregon and was active in the Pacific Coast Mennonite Conference and national church.

These papers are divided into series:

(1) Autobiographical and Genealogical Materials, 1929-2006

(2) Pastoral Records, 1903-1958

(3) Photographs, 1900-1957, undated

Personal and family papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor and bishop who served a congregation in Sweet Home, Oregon and was active in the Pacific Coast Mennonite Conference and national church.

These papers are divided into series:

(1) Autobiographical and Genealogical Materials, 1929-2006

(2) Pastoral Records, 1903-1958

(3) Photographs, 1900-1957, undated

Personal and pastoral papers of a pastor and bishop in the (old) Mennonite Church in Ohio.  Materials include sermons, correspondence, materials on the Canton Mennonite Mission and the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, and assorted clippings, certificates, and ephemera.

Governing documents, minutes, reports, correspondence, and curricular materials from the La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing, a nurses training school operated by the Mennonite Board of Education.

The professional, pastoral, and personal papers of Nelson E. Kauffman, a long-time Mennonite church missionary and administrator, are divided into five series:

(1) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1911-1981

(2) Radio Ministry, 1948-1958

(3) Prison Ministry, 1940-1968

(4) Photographs and Scrapbooks, 1937-1967

(5) Christmas Carol Kauffman, 1951-1976

A nurse's photograph album (with captions) depicting life and work at the La Junta Mennonite Hospital and Sanatarium (La Junta, Colo.).

Esther Oyer Smith's school scrapbook documents her education at Metamora High School (Metamora, Illinois), Hesston College and Bible School (Hesston, Kansas), Clinton County Normal School (St. Johns, Michigan), and Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana). The scrapbook includes photographs, clippings, commencement announcements, invitations, and other ephemora. Her time at Hesston College and Goshen College is particulary is well represented.

One scrapbook of photographs documenting Fred E. Swatzendruber's travel and work with Near East Relief from 1920 to 1921. Swartzendruber's assignment was at an orphanage in Beirut, Syria, sheltering children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide. Contains photographs documenting the travel by ship and locations around the region including trips to the Holy Land and other pilgrimage sites.

The collection includes diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered correspondence from friends and family, mostly from Dorothy Smith Shank's years as a Goshen College Academy and Goshen College student from 1924 to 1932.

Personal papers created by Lydia Oyer, an early leader in Mennonite nursing education. The collection consists primarily of diaries Oyer kept throughout her years as a nurse practitioner, with very brief records on patients, personal activities, and the weather. The scrapbook contains photos, news clippings, and notes from friends, classmates, and teachers from her time at the Mennonite Hospital School of Nursing in La Junta, Colorado. Other writings include essays on religious topics and a poem.

Two scrapbooks documenting the education and social life of a young Mennonite woman from Elkhart who attended Elkhart High School and the La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing in the 1920s. Contains photographs of fellow students and staff, newspaper clippings, graduation announcements and cards. The La Junta scrapbook also includes photographs after her graduation depicting travels and friends at home.