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The Garber Family Reunion records consist of annual meeting ledgers, recording the date, location, officers elected, treasurer's statement, and record of births, deaths, and marriages during the year (1923-2007); attendee registers (1950-2007); miscellaneous lists of attendees and invitees (1944-2003); invitations (1950-2007), and genealogy of the Hittle Family, and a photocopy of an autobiography by Henry H. Garber.

This small collection consists of materials collected about the Burkhart family:  a family genealogy from a Bible belonging to Isaac Burkhart, an account of a dream in 1893 (in German, and translated into English), a notice for the Rev. Isaac Burkhart's funeral, an obituary of Mary Ann Burkhart, and miscellaneous material.

Includes the 1953 Phares D. and Magdalena Martin scrapbook of a trip across Illinois, Iowa, South and North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, and Kansas. The scrapbook documents their trip with various postcards, clippings, maps and photographs.  Also includes a folder of information about Phares Martin's work with the Eastern Ohio Division of Mennonite Disaster Service.

The Emma Richards papers are divided into two series:  Series 1, Correspondence and Subject Files, and Series 2, Sermons. The first series contains substantial information on Emma Richard's ordination process.

Personal papers of a Mennonite pastor and church planter who worked primarily in the development of African American Mennonite congregations.

The papers are divided into three series:

(1) Correspondence, 1950-2009

(2) Sermons, circa 1970-2000

(3) Miscellaneous, 1980-1992

These papers consist primarily of correspondence from Ezra and Daniel S. Deter during their period of custody in Camp Grant, Camp Dodge, and Fort Riley.  Also included are letters from Daniel S. Deter during his studies at Goshen College, biographical sketches, and miscellaneous documents.  Photocopies of all of the letters are also included in the papers.

Material in the collection includes records collected by Charles Kocher on his 1946 Seagoing Cowboys trip to Poland and subsequent personal research and reunion activities. Additionally, materials from and about the Seagoing Cowboys experiences by M. Gingerich, Don Klippenstein, William Reams, Harold Thut, Richard Hostetler, Al Meyer, Howard Lord, and Richard Rusch are included.

Slides and one large photogographic print depicting Mennonite mission and service worksites in Brazil, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, and Vietnam.  Many of the images are artistic shots and therefore not well-labeled.  However, as Kaufman was a volunteer photographer for Mennonite mission and service organizations, the photos can be identified through comparison to other holdings in the archives.

These materials were assembled under the title "The Complete Writings of Harold F. Miller."  They consist of published and unpublished works by Miller.  Most works address development and NGOs in Africa.

A small set of personal papers, including correspondence to and from J. D. Graber / Mennonite Board of Missions from 1957 to 1966, a curriculum vitae dated 1998, and four manuscripts: "The Christian Missionary, Agent of Secularlization" (1970), Pentacostalist Contributions to the Proletarianization of the Argentine Toba" (1980), "Mennonite Mission to the Argentine Chaco and La Iglesia Evangelica Unida (undated), and "Secularization Reconsidered: Perspectives from Argentina's Eastern Toba" (undated).

The collection primarily includes diaries and scrapbooks. The scrapbooks consist largely of photos, obituaries and various news clippings. Her diaries include comments about the weather, domestic chores and her husband's outings.

Two scrapbooks documenting Hostetler's experiences as a student at Goshen College Academy (1926-1930) and Goshen College (1930-1934).  The scrapbooks contain photographs, invitations, notes and letters from friends, and ephemera.

The scrapbook was made for Brenneman by members of the Central Mennonite Church, Elida Ohio, in the mid 1960s, when Brenneman was bed ridden due to illness at age 90.  Accompanying the scrapbook are scattered letters to, from, and about Brenneman, as well as an obituary and some newspaper clippings.

These papers include Mildred Schrock Mumaw's 6 page memoir, funeral service programs for Mildred, Ralph, and R. Wayne Mumow, obituaries of R. Wayne Mimow, and a family group photograph that includes MIldred Mumaw as a child.

Written narratives summarized from oral history interviews Pratt conducted with 13 Amish and Mennonite men regarding their experiences as conscientious objectors in World War II. These interviews were used in Pratt's dissertation, "A Study in Cultural Persistence: The Amish in LaGrange County, Indiana, 1841 - 1945" (Notre Dame, 1997).