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Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps

diaries 1917-79 with gaps

autograph books

clippings

Consists of printed indexes to B. H. Unruh's Die niederländisch-niederdeutschen Hintergründe der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (1959), derived from a database compiled by Peters.

Consists mostly of Hopi-related photographs. Some of them are photos taken by his father, others by various photographers. Probably some were taken by him.

Also one folder of postcards and poorly identified photos from his wife's family (Margaret Unruh).

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

bulletins, newsletters, yearbooks, reports, etc.
church membership records and some other materials have been digitized http://mla.bethelks.edu/metadata/cong_15.php

Correspondence, sermons, diaries, and other documents, mostly related to their mission work in Montana.

Consists almost entirely of his diaries 1956-1985. The diaries are somewhat in the  format of scientific lab notebooks, with numerous little drawings.

Also includes some funeral papers, wills, land records, military discharge, clippings, photos, death certificates.

Most of the papers are photocopies from the National Archives and Library of Congress related to Teichroew’s thesis or dissertation (never completed) about Mennonites in World War I. There is some later material also, World War 2 related.

The bulk of the collection consists of sermons Alvin preached at the various congregations he served. While some are typed and some handwritten, almost all are verbatim manuscripts, not outlines or notes. Almost all clearly identify when and where the sermon was preached. He also saved some of his class notes from Hartford and Harvard, but very little from Bluffton and nothing from Messiah.

The collection contains no family or personal materials other than a couple folders of correspondence, mostly related to the Vietnam War. Nothing was found related to his experience growing up Old Order Amish or the family’s transition to Beachy Amish; unless he mentions this during oral history interviews in box 8.

Correspondence from the 1890s to 1930s. The Riesen correspondents were his mother's relatives.

includes correspondence, diaries, academic papers, sermons, financial papers, biographical material

Handwritten original autobiography, book 1, ca. 230pp. (pagination is inconsistent)

Book 2, ca. 110pp.

Photocopy of typed Gustav Enss autobiography, apparently from Jacob Sudermann collection at Goshen, with notes/corres. by Menno Schrag and Jim Juhnke

Photocopy of typed 18p. autobiography of Amy(?), photocopy of rough inventory of Gustav Enss papers (at Goshen?), photocopy of Enss genealogical data from Joanna Andres

Re-typed, laser-printed autobiography texts from David P. Sudermann 1996 – labeled Hist. Mss. 1-605

The papers consist of photocopies of Anna Andres’ handwritten genealogical compilations. These are more than just notes; rather, they are well-organized and lineage-linked compilations of genealogical and biographical information. Folders A-K are all concerned with the descendants of a Hans Woelcke who lived in Freienhuben in the mid-1700s. Other folders are concerned with a variety of other Prussian Mennonite families. Many of the photocopies are very poor quality. The original documents are apparently still in private hands in Germany.
Digitized at http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_488/

Consists entirely of photocopies of her diaries.

See Diary of Anna Baerg 1916-1924, trans. and ed. Gerhard Peters (Winnipeg: CMBC Publications, 1985).

3 hand written music books (numerical notation). One hand written recipe book.