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Lydia Ann Eby as a teenager (seated) with friend. Photo located in Gordon C. Eby fonds.

Portrait of Susie and N.N. Hiebert

The Brodsky estate with the grandparents of Nicholas J. Fehderau, Peter and Marie Bahnmann in the foreground to the right and workers from the estate behind them. This photograph was published in: John D. Rempel and Paul Tiessen, eds., Forever Summer, Forever Sunday, Peter Gerhard Rempel’s Photographs of Mennonites in Russia, 1890-1917 (St. Jacobs, (Ontario): Sand Hills Books, Inc., 1981), plate 10.

Grandfather Peter Bahnmann’s Brodsky estate showing the main gate. Workers are shown in the foreground. In 1904, Nicholas J. Fehderau was born in the house to the right.

The grandfather of Nicholas J. Fehderau, Peter Bahnmann, standing to the right with his breeding stallion.

Alex. Millar's home, Queen St. North, in the 1890's; later St. Peter's church parsonage. The building was demolished in 1938. Used in Hannes Schneider, p. 323.

Poole Amish Mennonite Church in 1890. (3 copies)

Joseph B. Snyder pulling stumps on Lot 63. Dated probably circa 1890s.

Now the Walper Terrace hotel, this photo shows the then Commercial Hotel being demolished in the early 1890's. Used in Hannes Schneider, p. 214A.

Leah Shantz Bergey (16 May 1852-13 December 1926); second wife of Nathaniel E. Bergey (12 May 1847-23 February 1929).

Formal. Group photo at a camp meeting. Some of the people are numbered and listed on the back of the photo. 1. Solomon Eby; 2. Peter Cober; 3. S.S. Stauffer; 4. S. Goudie.... Used in Hannes Schneider, p. 159.

Portrait of Isaak & Susanna Loewen

Wedding invitation of Maria Bahnmann and Jakob Fehderau, parents of Nicholas J. Fehderau: "Peter Petrovitsch BAHNMANN in the matter of the wedding of his daughter MARIA PETROVNA To Jakob Jakovlevitch FEHDERAU
requests the honor of your presence at the marriage ceremony of the young couple
which will take place on the 26th of April at 2:00 p.m. at the Mennonite House of
Prayer immediately followed by an evening wedding program at the house
of the widow Fehderau.

Berdjansk
April 1890

Formal portrait of Anna and David Penner, a wealthy couple of Lindenau, Molotschna Colony, Ukraine. In 1891 they took Alida’s grandfather, Heinrich Unruh of Gnadental into their home as a foster child who could work for them. Heinrich was 11 years old at the time. His father had died two years earlier. His mother (Alida’s great-grandmother) and the three younger of Heinrich’s 10 siblings remained in Gnadental, some distance away. Heinrich probably did not see them often after coming to live with Anna and David Penner.

Formal photo of Mannasseh Hallman.