This fonds contains a composite photograph consisting of 167 individual portraits of Mennonite men that served in the Imperial Russia's Forestry service at Razin, a photograph of teacher Heinrich Johan Dueck (1862-1922) with students of school(Dueck was a teacher in Kleefeld, Gnadental and Klippenstal, Molotschna), and a 1903 funeral photo of 18 year-old Heinrich Albrecht of Prangenau (South Russia) showing the coffin being transported with a horse drawn carriage. This fonds also includes background information on the Razin Forestei where members of the Warkentin and Albrecht family served plus genealogical information on the Albrecht, Peters, von Kampen, and Warkentin families. Some of the data is an update for the published family history book entitled, "John Warkentin and his Descendants 1820-1990".
This photo is of a smock style windmill. The cloth is no longer on the sails. Trees and buildings surround the mill. A person [woman in a skirt?] stands in front of the mill.
This photo shows a man posing in a studio wearing leather boots and a fur hat. The gothic German on the back reads, "Auf Lebens Zeiten zur Erinnerung von deinen Lieben Jakob Harder". Could he be the father or brother of Olga Albrecht (nee Harder) (1899-1992)?
This is a photo of men doing construction work in a street in Russia. Trucks and equipment sit in the background and foreground, one man leans against a fence while others work behind him.
This is a photo of MCC delegates with Russian Baptists in Russia. LaVerna Klippenstein back row third from left, Peter Dyck fourth from left, John A. Lapp fifth from left.
This series consists of correspondence related to reunions of men who were in the forestry service in Russia, as well as the Alternative service rendered by conscientious objectors (C.O.'s) in Canada. There are 196 slides pertaining to Forstei workers in Russia and the Alternative Service of C.O.'s in Canada with an accompanying sound recording. There is also a manuscript written by a young American Mennonite soldier of World War I.
This fonds consists of 35 photographs, mostly taken in Russia, of the extended Goossen family that lived on the Wintergruen estate, founded by Jacob Goossen (1858-1920). The photos are of high quality and show a wealthy Mennonite family in Russia. Included is a rare photograph of the interior of the Schoensee Mennonite Church.
