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This fonds consists of eleven thin notebooks containing dried wild plants collected from the Molotschna area, South Russia, current day Ukraine, north west of Berdyansk. The area was a large grassland agricultural plain with a moderate climate. The plants are mounted on scrap pages that have a mixture of German and Russian handwriting and print on both sides that include correspondence, mathematical and chemistry equations and financial accounting from ca. 1914-1920. Along with each specimen is its name. Many also include location and date obtained. With each notebook there is a separate listing of the Latin, German and English names of the plants, possibly prepared by faculty at the University of Manitoba.

This fonds is very unique and the only one of its kind in this archive. This fonds provides a snap shot into the native vegetation of the area and can give suggestions as to accompanying animals found in the area and what inhabitants used for everyday living including food and medicine. It has not been determined if the scrap paper the plants are mounted on have any significance.

Photographs were taken of the collection and saved on compact disk.

Johann P. Klassen fonds contains documents related to the organizing of the move out of Russia organized by Johann P. Klassen and Abram Vogt (1887-1968). Includes meeting minutes, travel documents, health records, citizenship guarantee records, and correspondence. Also includes some transliteration organized by Margaret Kroeker as well as transliterations and translations done by Peter H. Rempel.

This collection consists of copies of the photos collected by Cornelius Krause from a Mexican land agent that traveled with Krause and other Mennonite delegates from Manitoba and Saskatchewan who were investigating the possibility of the migration of a group of Mennonites from Canada to Mexico and photos taken by Cornelius Krause himself while investigating Mexico as a possible country to which a group of Manitoba and Saskatchewan Mennonites could move. The photos which Krause took himself show people and places visited on the trip in Mexico (Collection 592). The photos by the land agent (Collection 590) taken before the arrival of the Mennonite delegation and during their visit to Mexico. The photos were taken to encourage the Mennonites to move to Mexico. They show road and railway construction, wide open wild areas, places where there was water, villages, homes, and fields successfully developed by the Old Colony and Sommerfeld Mennonites who had moved to Mexico in 1922.

This fonds contains 276 photographs taken and received by Arthur W. Slagel during his 3-year assignment with Mennonite Central Committee from 1920-1923. The collection has photos of the relief work in Russia showing various aspects of the work including workers, headquarters, storage, distribution, seeded and distributed crops, transportation, buildings and homes. The photos were taken in locations such as Chortitza, Alexandrosk, Schoenwiese, Rosenthal, Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld, Ohrloff, Nicopol, and Sagradowka. There are images of the 1923 emigration group from Schoenwiese leaving for Canada. There are general scenic photos of the Dnieper rapids, the Kremlin and other sites in Moscow. Some photographs were likely given to Slagel from Mennonite workers in Russia, such as the Solomon Ediger family, the Peter Nikkel family, the Johann Janzen family, the Ohrloff teachers and others. And, finally there are photos of travels taken in England, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, Egypt, Palestine and Syria.

This collection of material consists of financial records from 1879-1880 and 1889-1890, two church or village registers and a fire insurance register. The first village register contains entries up to 1890 and the other up to 1925.

The paintings in this collection are by Jacob Sudermann, and they show opulent homes and landscapes from the Chortiza settlement. The sketches are by students of Sudermann, and are contained in a large format sketch book entitled "Pläne und Zeichnungen des ältesten Hauses 1796 in Rosenthal. Ausgeführt vom 1sten Kursus der Chortitzer Tächkurse 1925.” Located in Textual Volume 2206.

This fonds includes the mayor's records for the civic administration of the village of Rosenort. There are reserve-wide directives that related to all 37 villages of the Reinländer Mennonite church. Also included are the financial records for each family such as the Brotschuld, agreements with teachers and shepherds, the original by-law of the Municipality of Rhineland, school records, and the record of assistance given to widows.

This material shows the organization of the pioneering Reinländer Mennonite church that contributed to their success of establishing thriving communities on the open prairies. It documents the growth and development of the Rosenort area as well as the larger Mennonite community of the Manitoba Mennonite West Reserve.