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Four photos from different angles of the quilt auction with young women holding up the quilts & the auctioneer at work selling them. The audience is visible in one of the photos.

Photographs of the school and travel buses which had brought people to the relief sale.

Photographs of Carl Reesor and Simeon Reesor, 2nd cousins from the Markham, Ontario area at the Niagara-on-the-Lake military training camp. They were required to attend camp until their conscientious objector status was confirmed.

Six photos; people buying at the food booths inside the arena where cakes, cookies, cheese, apple butter, pie, cookbooks & summer sausage were sold. Two photos show closeups of the women selling cookies & jars of apple butter

Jake Unrau is laying out fish while brothers Lloyd Brandt and Tim Brandt look on. Smaller one also (6.5x9) stamped: Rev. & Mrs. E. C. Brandt, Loon Straits, Man. See the CM 7-16-5 for a group photo including Brandts & Unraus. C.f. CM 1-9-1 re. mission church build

Four photos from the Anzac Berry Co-op showing various stages of preparation of the berries. The co-op was established to provide markets for berries picked by the local Cree population. Fresh berries, jams and jellies were shipped from the co-op to markets within Alberta. Local people and Mennonite Voluntary Service workers were involved in the project. See article in Canadian Mennonite (12-44-1&12).

Photographs of the Katharina (Klassen) and Peter Penner family

Janz family genealogy, ca. 1734-1899: a family register starting with Peter Janz (ca. 1744) and Anna Wedel ca. 1834. Old German handwritten script.

"The Chronology of the Toews Family". (Includes CT Loewen, Steinbach): descendents of Peter and -?- Toews geneaolgy, history and account of Toews-fest, Steinbach, MB, 1961.

"Confession oder kurzer und einfaeltiger Glaubens-Bericht";added by hand: "von Hans von Stein 1768".

Bergthal Census, 1850 and 1858 for the villages of Heuboden and Friedrichstal. Russian Cyrillic and English translation.

Various documents and first-hand accounts of settling Gnadenau, Kansas. Included are US naturalization records for 28 men, obituaries from the The Hillsboro Star; farm census record (1885), excerpts of an MA thesis by Cornelius Cicero Janzen (Chicago, 1926), correspondence between J.G. Barkman (Hillsboro) and Alberta Pante (Topeka, Kansas), list of 1874 settlers, an excerpt from the Kansas Historical Quarterly (Vol. XIII, 1944) about Krimmer MB church at Gnadenau, early settlement, social mores, maps of land ownership (Marion County, Kansas), an excerpt from C.C. Janzen's thesis (?) about pioneer life of Gnadenau, a fictional account of early days in Gnadenau, and a list of church-community practices (acceptable or rejected, and changes, 1882-1926).

Family records of Heinrich Reimer (1850-1929), 1772-1988.

1880 Census records for Marion County (Kansas) and Cub Creek (Nebraska). Includes copies of original census requested by Dorothy Wiens, Lincoln, 1989, and 1 letter to Delbert.