82669 Treffer anzeigen

Records documenting the annual food and crafts sale and auction in Goshen, Ind. held as a fundraiser for Mennonite Central Committee. These records are divided into three series:

(1) Annual Reports and Governing Documents, 1968-1991

(2) Photographs, 1969-1983

(3) General Records, 1968-2005

These records are divided into eight series:

Series 1: Governing Documents, circa 1945-2005

Series 2: Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1945-2010

Series 3: Publications, 1945-2010

Series 4: Financial Records, 1949-2009

Series 5: Correspondence, 1949-2001

Series 6: Membership Records, 1943-2004

Series 7: Local Chapter Records, 1950-1989

Series 8: Miscellaneous Materials, 1945-2011

This collection about an early relief organization of the (old) Mennonite Church is divided into six series:

(1) William A. Derstine Papers, 1912-1927; (2) Financial Records, 1917-1925; (3) Levi Mumaw Papers, 1918-1925; (4) Silas Hertzler Diary (Transcription), 1919-1920; (5) Stanley Kerr Diary, 1920; (6) John Warye Diary, 1919-1920

Records of the Home and Foreign Relief Commission, an early organization aiming to respond to the famine in India. Records from the organization's founding and operation are included, as is the correspondence of relief worker George Lambert. Photographs that chronicle the process of sending and delivering aid to India can also be found in this collection.

This collection has been arranged into the following series:

(1) Commission Records, 1892-1951

(2) George Lambert Correspondence and Materials, 1896-1897

(3) Photographs, circa 1897

A small set of annual reports documenting the number of personnel in the division, production statistics, inventory, and sales.

Scattered material pertaining to the publishing house's book stores.

A small set of materials documenting the evolution and administration of the publishing house's book review service.  Originally intended to screen literature for Mennonite congregational and Sunday school librarians, the service transformed into a periodical for Mennonite audiences, first titled Book Review Service, then Provident Book Reviews, and finally Provident Book Finder.

Researchers seeking the publications listed above should contact  the Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen, Ind.).

This small set of records consists primarily of customer survey reports conducted in 1983 at the bookstores in Lancaster, Pa., Ephrata, Pa., New Holland, Pa., and Iowa City, Iowa.  Other material includes a set of "philosophy statements" indicating the bookstores' mission statements as well as their positions on the kind of literature they carried, marketing practices, etc.

A small set of scattered financial reports pertaining to the Mennonite Publishing House's Provident Bookstores.  Reports include profit and loss statements, weekly comparison reports, and a report generated in 2001 evaluating the financial health of the bookstores.

Minutes and financial information from Provident Bookstores (the Mennonite Publishing House Bookstores) annual managers' meetings. Subjects covered in the meetings include: annual sales, employee productivity, inventory lists, company goals, and reports from individual bookstores in Scottdale, Goshen, Iowa City, Bloomington, Sauderton, Lancaster County, and southern Ontario, Canada.

Researchers should note that records from the following years are missing: 1980, 1995-1996.

This series contains materials collected and created in the Mennonite Publishing House's efforts to document its own history.  It consists of two subseries:

(1) General Historical Files, 1948-2003

(2) Historical Monograph Files, 1970-1991

Within this collection, researchers can find photographs of Mennonite Publishing House employees and photographs that were used in their publications, including The Gospel Herald. Other photographic subjects include the Mennonite World Conferences and Mennonite General Assemblies.

Minutes, reports, and other documents pertaining to a committee of Mennonite Publishing House employees charged with "fostering and maintaining Christian fellowship and relationships among the Workers of Mennonite Publishing House."  The records document the committee's activities in planning social events and chapel services and in acknowledging employees personal celebrations (marriages, births) and sorrows (illnesses, deaths).

Records documenting hours worked and wages paid to Mennonite Publishing House office and printing staff.  The bulk of the records are weekly time books, documenting the hours employees worked and the wages they were paid.  Time books were used from the publishing house's founding in 1908 through January 1940.

A more modern payroll system was implemented in 1940.  The records from 1940 document hours worked and wages by employee name rather than by date.  There are some gaps in payroll records kept between 1940 and 1951.

Later payroll records were not permanently retained by Mennonite Publishing House.

The Mennonite Publishing House Publisher's Management Team minutes and documents provide documentation of the Mennonite Publishing House's managerial team's decisions and actions under the leadership of J. Robert Ramer.