Box 1: books, pamphlets (farm machinery), slides, cassette tape
Box 2: books. clippings, Boese family letters, Boese family information
Box 3: agriculture and machinery periodicals and brochures
Box 4: family history information
Boese, Ben, 1910-1996
Box 1 is books of aunt Mrs. P. R. (Louise) Schmidt. Boxes 2 and 3 are a wide variety of documents from his ancestors and relatives, mostly of the Alexanderwohl community, dating back at least to the early 19th century.
Schmidt, Hartzel, 1925-
Heinrich Richert and Anna Schmidt Richert Papers
box 1: 5 folders from Ilona Abrahams of land and financial records and family history records
numerous folders from Esther McDonald about family reunions and published family histories, donated 13 September 1995
box 2: VHS video of 1995 family reunion and accompanying brochure, donated by Melvern Schroeder, September 1997
Richert, Heinrich, 1831-1895
box 1-2: Peter W. Funk family history, and 3 inches of family group sheets updating that history; one volume of Peter Balzer correspondence copies ca. 1898-1907 (elder of Alexanderwohl church); one volume of Henry Boese family history, poetry, etc.; photos--Rempel, Funk, Bartel, Herrfort, Penner; also wedding announcements, death notices from those families of the Hillsboro, Kansas, area
box 3: photos used in various family history books she published; Bible, Gesangbuch mit Noten, school souvenirs, other pamphlets
box 4: Epp, Dalke, Penner family history items; Vergissmeinnicht book
Shaw, LaVerna Penner, 1942-