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This scrapbook thoroughly documents the academic and social aspects of Kanagy's nursing course at La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing.  Materials in the scrapbook include poems, photographs (labelled), diary entries, handbooks, church bulletins, cartoons, class schedules, party invitations, revival services, concert programs, and wedding invitations.

Also with the scrapbook are three class reunion photographs from 1992, 1994, and 1998.

The scrapbook was made for Brenneman by members of the Central Mennonite Church, Elida Ohio, in the mid 1960s, when Brenneman was bed ridden due to illness at age 90.  Accompanying the scrapbook are scattered letters to, from, and about Brenneman, as well as an obituary and some newspaper clippings.

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, wedding announcements, anniversary announcements, and assorted programs and bulletins pertaining to members of Central Mennonite Church (Elida, Ohio) and other Mennonites in the community.

Personal papers of Christian L. Graber and Mina Roth Graber, consisting of correspondence, diaries, sermons, scrapbooks, geneological records, and information about Christian L. Graber's time as a conscientious objector during World War I, his stint as a relief worker, and his service to Mennonite Central Committee.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Correspondence

(2) Sermons and Writings

(3) Personal and Family Records

(4) War, Peace, and Relief Work

(5) Business, Legal, and Estate Files

(6) Subject Files and Miscellaneous

(7) Mina Roth Graber Diaries

(8) Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Miscellaneous

This collection documents the activities of members of the Civilian Public Service (CPS) Camp #58 in Farnhurst, Delaware from 1942 through 1946. Camp reunion files give insight into how the CPS experience affected the lives of those who served. Included are D. Paul Miller's personal scrapbook during his time of service, materials related to the camp's softball team (the Red Comb Arrows), The Crusaders Quartet, and later circle letters and reunion documents.

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 and genealogical research files created by a Goshen College alumnus and Civilian Public Service volunteer who served as a professor at Kent State University and the University of Michigan.  Materials include a scrapbook containing color photographs of Civilian Public Service Camp #141, Gulfport, Mississippi (Camp Barnard),  photographs and information about Goshen College's Class of 1938, scrapbooks on Andrei Sakharov and war and peace issues, and correspondence and photocopied primary sources pertaining to Hertzler's 1995 genealogy monograph, The Other Hertzler-Hartzlers.

A small set of personal papers created by a secretary employed by the Mennonite Board of Missions from 1950 to 1978.  Materials include scattered correspondence and autobiographical essays, photographs of the Graber siblings, Graber family obituaries, information on Lloyd O. Rupe, and a scrapbook of photographs and correspondence presented to her by missionaries and mission board staff upon her retirement.

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.

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.

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.

This collection contains photographs, correspondence, administrative records, and other historical materials from the former First Mennonite Church in Fort Wayne, IN. First Mennonite Church began as a mission upon the authorization of the Ohio Mennonite Conference in 1902, after the repeated requests of John B. Federspiel and wife, Mennonite residents of the city. M. S. Steiner was appointed to open the work, which began at 1921 South Hauna Street, in 1903. In 1904 the mission was moved to 2237 Oliver Street and from there to St. Mary's Avenue. Two years later a church was constructed at 1209 St. Mary's Avenue. In 1915 the present chapel was built on the adjoining lot. The following pastors were in charge of the work at Fort Wayne up to 1955: J. F. Bressler 1903-1905, Ben B. King 1905-1930, Frank Martin 1930-1934, Newton Weber 1934-1941, Allen Ebersole 1941-1952, Rudy Bontrager, beginning service in 1952. Others have served for shorter periods of time. In the early 1920s the Fort Wayne Mission became an organized self-governing congregation, but with limited support from the mission board, which was continued until September 1953, when the congregation became entirely independent of the mission board and called itself First Mennonite Church. The membership in 1955 was 136. As an urban congregation, First Mennonite was one of the first in the conference to allow wedding rings. The congregation closed in 2015; it held its last service on 22 November 2015.

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.

Campaign flyer (he ran for county superintendent of public instruction at some point), pamphlets, brochures, correspondence, family history scrapbook (this comes from Lena Fast whose daughter Linda was Gustav Frey’s second wife, so not a Frey family scrapbook), music book, other books, Wünsche, biology lab book from Bethel College, syllabus from Witmarsum seminary 1922-1923, notebook/diary

Collection consists primarily of photographs documenting Oregonian Mennonite Harry Artemus Mishler's time as a Civilian Public Service (CPS) Smoke Jumper from 1943 to 1945. Photographs sublects include: the Smoke Jumpers, training, airplanes, the parachuting process, home life at Camp Paxson (Missoula, MT) and the regional outposts of Big Prairie and Camp Menard. Parachute instuction manuals, a master loft log (recording Mishler's jumps), and publications concerning the Smoke Jumpers are also included.

Further contents include documents and pictures from Smoke Jumper reunions held in 1973 and 1978.