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Records consisting largely of yearbooks, class photographs, and bulletins.  Also include financial records, student records, and reunion information.

This account book documents debts to and work performed by Andrew Stemen, a Mennonite farmer and cobbler in Ohio.  It also includes congregational accounts for building maintenance and the purchase of wine, Bibles, tubs, and other church supplies.

The collection consists of an account book listing expenses, estate information and other financial items.

A notebook in German script that served as both an account book and a record of deaths.  Inside the notebook is a partially-completed birth certificate for a Rebecca König born in Fairfield County, Ohio, and an 1886 letter discussing financial matters.

This small collection was created by Peter Yoder, the grandfather or Walter E. Yoder,  THe account book provides a record of the settling of family estates, sales of goods, loans, and monetary transactions performed on behalf of others.  The remedy book contains instructions for treating various human and animal maladies as well as recipes for tanning leather, making cement, etc.

Mostly correspondence. Some financial items and other materials.

Box 3: family history materials

Correspondence, financial records, Vergissmeinnicht book, photos, postcards, greeting cards, wedding invitations, clippings, school notebook, Uncle Abe Becker papers, books, diplomas, grade reports for various family members; Danzig "Predigtentwürfe" book

Consists of Cornelius Voth's "Ein Schreibe Buch" which was continued by his son-in-law Peter Balzer.

The first two pages have recipes for remedies for stomach ache, the plague, etc. written by Peter Balzer.

Next is a 17 page family history section.

Pages 1, 2, and 3 are more remedies for illneses.

Up to p. 203 is miscellaneous poems, songs, speeches, sermons, etc.

Then several blank pages.

Page 233 starts a diary followed by accounts of what he borrowed from various people.

238-242: weather chart

258-266: remedies for horse diseases

272: recipes for gilding glass and leather

283: diary notes

288-291: remedies for human and animal illnesses

292 to end: financial notes, blacksmithing work, etc.

Consists mostly of financial papers, with some correspondence, school papers, family history papers, Leonhard's passport and naturalization papers.

Farm account book 1921-1931 plus some additional financial records.

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

diaries and account books

Series consists of the following files:
1) Mennonite Brethren Conference reports, 1957, 1961 - (1 file) Box 258
2) Mennonite Brethren Bible College, Mennonite Bethren Biblical Seminary pamplets, Gospel Light Hour - (1 file) Box 258
3) Clippings - Articles from "Neues Leben" on Mennonite origins and "Freundschaft" on Patriotism - (1 file) Box 258
4) Clippings - Mennonite Brethren Missions booklets, 1948-1950, posters of missionaries to Congo, India and Colombia and an article "A Mennonite Hospital in India" by Virginia B. Rodamor about missionary nurse Margaret Willems. California Mennonite, 2013, Elsie Ann Kroker in Shamshabad, India, Box 258
5) Death of Joseph Stalin, March 5, 1953, Time Magazine clipping, 1953 from The Year in Review, 1953, pp 18 - 21. - (1 file) Box 258
6) Torgsin Stores, Torgsin Certificates were rare vouchers which citizens could use to buy goods in Russian stores. A.A. Toews sent these to his brother in Russia in the 1930's - (1 file) Box 258
7) Unruh, Nic. , A play written for 11 actors and several farmers and soldiers, . "Uht Biwejdi Tiet" ( Aus bewegter Zeit) , has 4 acts; written in Low German dialect, 20 pages. It takes place in 1923 in Russia and describes the memories of the good days and the dark days the family is currently experiencing. - (1 file) Box 258
8) Canadian Citizen Certificate for Sarah Huebert, 1895, issued on October 26, 1926, 3 pages. - (1 file) Box 258