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The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II.  Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work.  Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.

A small set of photocopied records from the U.S. National Archives (State Department) and the Mennonite Central Committee Archives pertaining to suspected Nazi sympathies and / or political support within Germans Mennonite colonies in Paraguay.  Includes the 1940 Edwin Schoenrich report "The Mennonite Colonies in the Paraguayan Chaco."

21 photographs taken at a family reunion

Annual reports, 1980-1982; Policies and mission, undated; State requirements, 1974, 1979; Admittance and patient form blanks, undated; Correspondence, 1959-1996; Board minutes, 1956-1987

The MB Herald photograph collection is the single largest photo collection at the CMBS, consisting of over 10,000 images selected for archival storage.

This slide show was produced by Women in Mission and the Commission on Home Ministries of the General Conference Mennonite Church. The Women in Mission provided funding so that 10 women could travel North America to see the involvements of the General Conference's work through Commission on Home Ministries. The photos for this presentation were provided by these ten women on the trip: Evaleen Bertsche, Earlene Clark, Norma Duerksen, Mary Litwiller, Nettie Neufeld, Holly Olfert, Evelyn Rempel, Shirley Ries, Jan Lisa Wilhelm, Martha Zimmerman. Script was written by Ardie S. Goering. CHM (Commission on Home Ministries) works with the Mennonite churches in North America in overcoming racial and cultural prejudices. It seeks to bring the vision of Christ's ministry to the people of the United States and Canada. CHM works to plant churches in specific cultural groups cross cultural fellowship women in mission Chicago, Washington, Arizona, Toronto, Winnipeg. The photos are illustrative in nature and show people of many different races in daycares, schools, churches, interacting with one another indoors and outdoors. -- Note: with this is a script and a audio cassette #2358.

Personal papers of a Mennonite missionary and president of Goshen College and his wife.  Papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Biographical and Family Materials, 1911-1992

(2) Correspondence, 1919-1977

(3) Articles, Addresses, and Sermons, circa 1929-1968

(4) Education and Teaching Materials, 1921-1965

(5) Commissioned Trips, 1946-1964

(6) Photographs, circa 1880-1963

(7) Miscellaneous, 1912-1961

Miscellaneous church records from Menominee River Fellowship. The most extensive records detail the MRF Retreat Day in January 1997, in which participants were asked to give their ideas for where they want to see the church grow in the future.

Minutes (1948-2014), reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials created by a body of the Mennonite Board of Education composed of administrators at Mennonite high schools.

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

Comprehensive collection of Krahn's correspondence, research notes, lecture notes, etc. from his student days up to his death.

See also elecrec/acc276 for items on Krahn’s student days at the university of Heidelberg.