Mennonite Archival Information Database

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

This photo is of a young Mennonite woman attending a telephone switchboard in a Mennonite Colony in Paraguay, likely Fernheim. A local phone-system was established in the 1940s in Fernheim Colony, and for about 50 years this system was the only communication the settlers had to their neighbours and other villages. In the year 2000, this old system was ultimately replaced by fixed land lines and cell phones, which were introduced into the Mennonite settlements in the Paraguayan Chaco in the 1990s.

Aboriginal school students in Paraguay

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

Mennonite missionary David Hein and a group of Aboriginal school students in the Paraguayan Chaco.

Plowing with oxen

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

This photo is of a Mennonite farmer plowing the field with oxen in an early Mennonite settlement in the Paraguayan Chaco.

Early meeting with Aboriginal people

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

This photo is of an early meeting between white settlers and Aboriginal people in the Paraguayan Chaco.

Jose Casado

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

This photo is of Jose Casado, son of Carlos Casado del Alisal. From 1929 to 1945 he lived at Puerto Casado to manage the site.

David K. Kroeker family before immigration in 1903

CA MHC 529-5.0
Item
1901

Part of Klaas Kroeker family photograph collection

This photo is of the David K. Kroeker family in Russia before they immigrate to Canada. From left to right, Maria Kroeker (nee Marria Braun), [Maria Kroeker, later Maria Unruh], [Margaretha Kroeker, later Margaretha Dyck], David Kroeker.

Unknown

Klaas Kroeker posing for a photo

CA MHC 529-7.0
Item
1893

Part of Klaas Kroeker family photograph collection

This photo is a portrait of Klaas Kroeker (1860-) who owned a store in Reinland, Manitoba. He is wearing a 3 piece suit and pocket watch.

Voigt, John, Christian, 1866-1896

Unidentified man and two woman posing for a photo

CA MHC 529-9.0
Item
[189-?]

Part of Klaas Kroeker family photograph collection

This photo is of three unidentified people, 1 man and 2 women, posing for a photo beside a bike.

Walter Unger

CA MHC 530-2.0
Item
Aptil 27, 2001

Part of Mennonite Heritage Centre Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Walter Unger.

Froese, Frank (photographer)

Harvey Dyck and Lawrence Klippenstein

CA MHC 530-5.0
Item
Aptil 27, 2001

Part of Mennonite Heritage Centre Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Harvey Dyck presenting Lawrence Klippenstein with the 109 reels of microfilm from the Zaporozhy archives at the Mennonite Heritage Centre.

Froese, Frank (photographer)