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Personnel files with some anomalies: there are probably some files from persons who applied to voluntary service but never took an assignment, and some files for persons who applied for other General Conference positions but not voluntary service.

letters 1786-1787 relating to the settlement of Chortitza colony; letters from Bartsch and Johann Epp to David Epp 1788-1811
Digitized from microfilm MF. MSS 16 http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_16%20(bartsch)/

financial papers, autobiography and journal, autograph books (one from Darlington, Oklahoma), manuscript music book, some correspondence

Box 1-2: P. U. Schmidt correspondence

box 3: correspondence-friends, Duerksen cousins, uncles and aunts

Box 4-8: family correspondence

box 9: correspondence-mostly Christmas cards

box 10: correspondence-Schmidt relatives

box 11: correspondence-friends, neighbors, cousins

box 12-13: family correspondence

box 14: correspondence

box 15: correspondence-mostly greeting cards

box 16-18: correspondence

box 19-20: files in folders

box 21: files in folders, miscellaneous

box 22: files in folders, books

box 23: "retired files 1969"

box 24: card files, miscellaneous

box 25: periodicals, miscellaneous

box 26-27: passenger lists

box 28: church-related pamphlets, etc.

box 29: Sylvia Duerksen items

box 30-40: books

box 41-43: miscellaneous

Scrapbook of Wiens' writings.

Box 1 and 2: Farm account books and poetry manuscripts of Henry J. Goering.

Box 3: actually a map folder. WW2 atlas

Box 4 and 5: mix of Rotary, camping, etc. reports and correspondence.

Box 6 is a jumble, completely random

Box 7: some family correspondence, other misc.

Box 8: jumble

Box 9: diaries (whose?), CPS and Puerto Rico correspondence

Box 10: 1940s correspondence

Box 11: CPS newsletters

Box 12: film "Just Beyond the Chalkboard", wire recording

Box 13: relief file, correspondence, Bethel College files, retirement

Box 14: correspondence, subject files

Diary begun in 1839 and continued by descendants.
Also English translation of 1976.

correspondence, financial papers, autobiographical notes, Wünsche, 78 rpm phonograph records

The papers consist mostly of correspondence and articles relating to the various mission fields. Most important would be the materials on the General Conference Mennonite mission in China. Especially interesting is the material on the Japanese internment, including a large group of sketches of camp life, and items relating to the changes in China after the war.

The family history materials in the collection are also significant. They shed light on the early Bethel College (Halstead Seminary) and on Emmaus Mennonite Church near Whitewater, Kansas.

See box list for contents of unprocessed boxes.

files from his service on the Deaconess Study Committee 1954-1956 and the Committee on Higher Education 1960-1968

consists entirely of research materials for The Vision and the Reality: The Story of Home Missions in the General Conference Mennonite Church (Newton, KS: Faith and Life Press, 1983.

includes correspondence, photos, family history materials, Civilian Public Service correspondence from her brother Herman