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Photographs associated with a regional conference of the (old) Mennonite Church. Comprises images of conference leaders, conference events, ministers credentialed by the conference, and church buildings of congregations belonging to the conference.  Materials include photographic prints, slides, and negatives. Researchers should note that the collection contains the prints of images published in the conference newsletterThe Gospel Evangel.

This is a fairly large collection of photographs, mainly negatives, on Mennonite life taken across the United States and Canada over a seven year period. The photographs were taken by John E. Harshberger and others, and the photographs were taken for use in the periodical, Mennonite Community 1947-1953. The periodical merged with Christian Monitor to become Christian Living in 1954. The Mennonite Community was a 36-page periodical published by the Mennonite Community Association at Scottdale, PA, January 1947 to October 1949. At first a bimonthly, in January 1948 it became a monthly. In November 1949 responsibility for its publication was assumed by the Mennonite Publishing House. Stressing the social implications of the Gospel, the journal conceived of the Christian community as church-centered and was concerned that its economic, social, educational, and cultural life should be a true expression of the Gospel to which the church adheres. Emphasis was placed on social ethics, stewardship, brotherhood, Christian education, and health practices. In January 1954 the Mennonite Community and the Christian Monitor were discontinued and replaced by a new periodical, Christian Living, combining the interests of both, and described as "A Magazine for Home and Community." The editor of the Mennonite Community was Grant Stoltzfus to August 1952, after which an editorial committee with Ralph Hernley as chairman had charge of the journal. Hershberger, Guy F. "Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 08 November 2010. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/M46616.html.

These papers are divided into 4 series.

(1) Correspondence

(2) Diaries

(3) Personal and Organizational Files

(4) Miscellaneous

Materials created by a conscientious objector and Civilian Public Service worker during World War II.  The collection consists of 132 black and white negatives depicting various Civilian Public Service camps and miscellaneous scenes from Miller's travels, and 1 color print of Sidling Hill Civilian Public Service Camp in Pennsylvania.  Also includes a booklet entitled On Sequoia Trails, which depicts live at Civilian Public Service Camp #107 in Three Rivers, California.

A small set of personal papers documenting the education and work of an editor and photojournalist for the Mennonite Publishing House (Scottdale, Penn.).  The bulk of the materials consist of completed surveys about the Mennonite Publishing House's Words of Cheer children's magazine.  The surveys report the opinions of elementary school readers in the United States and Canada.  Other materials include an autobiographical essay, correspondence, materials pertaining to his undergraduate and graduate degrees, and photographic negatives depicting a Sunday School Convention at Eastern Mennonite College (1965), Mennonite General Conference (1965 and 1967), the Sunday School Centennial at West Liberty, Ohio (1963), the Sunday School Centennial at Masontown, Penn. (1963), and a "Russian visit" (1965).