Mennonite Archival Information Database

Wounded man being loaded onto Red Cross train

CA MHC PP-4-044-780.0
Item

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This is a photo of people loading the wounded onto a train. [HR 237]

Wiebe and Unrau from the medical corp

CA MHC PP-4-098-416
Item
1917

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo show two Mennonite men who served as medic during World War I in Russia. It has the inscription "S. Wiebe + Mart. Unrau -- Sanitaeter -- 1917."

Water supply system at Razyn Forestry service camp, Russia

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-173.0
Item
[between 1900-1918]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows a man hand pumping water from a well into a barrel on a wagon that is hitched to a horse.

Visitors at a forestry service in Russia

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-128.0
Item
[between 1900-1918]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo was taken when G.G. Dueck received company in camp. Shown on the photo are (r-l): G.G. Dueck (later, a resident of Springstein, Manitoba), his visiting cousin Peter Dueck, Heinrich Wiens, ? Hamm, Nicolai Rempel, Heinrich Dueck (G.G.'s brother), and David Friesen.

Unidentified young man in alternative service uniform

CA MHC PP-Photo 679-2.0
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Johann Kroeker fonds

This photo is of a young man wearing the alternative service uniform posing for a photo inside a photo studio. He is wearing a hat and has his arm on a tree (prop). There is Russian handwriting on the back.

Unidentified young man in alternative service uniform

CA MHC PP-Photo 679-1.0
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Johann Kroeker fonds

This photo is of a young man wearing the alternative service uniform posing for a photo inside a photo studio. He has no hat and has his arm on a high pedestal.

Unidentified young man in alternative service uniform

CA MHC PP-Photo 679-3.0
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Johann Kroeker fonds

This photo is of a young man wearing the alternative service uniform posing for a photo leaning against a tree in the outdoors.

Unidentified men

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-205.0
Item
[between 1914-1917]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

Unidentified men

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-212.0
Item
[between 1914-1923]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows six young men -- all neatly dressed in black pants and shirts, and shiny boots. J.P. Dyck, narrator of the slide presentation used this photo to speak about the experience of non-resistant Mennonite boys during the implementation of communism in Russia. All boys born in 1901 were first called for 1 1/2 years of service [at age 21] and then those born in 1902. They were assigned hard labour or prison sentences.

Unidentified building at a forestry camp

CA MHC 629-F-53.0-s
Part
[between 1900-1918]

Part of Mennonite Genealogy Inc. Photograph Collection

Two unidentified men

CA MHC 629-F-53.0-p
Part
[between 1900-1918]

Part of Mennonite Genealogy Inc. Photograph Collection

The inscription on the reverse reads "Mit Aekonom Abram Klassen."

Two pots of soup for 12 men

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-208.0
Item
[between 1914-1917]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo includes (l-r): Dietrich Rempel (Gnadenfeld), J. Fransen, ? Unruh, three Russians, Corporal Ries, J. Wall (Sparrau), Postman Daust, 2 Russians, and ? Thiessen.

Two men in forestry service

CA MHC 629-F-53.0-a
Part
[between 1900-1918]

Part of Mennonite Genealogy Inc. Photograph Collection

The inscription on the reverse reads "A. Vogt w[ith] friend Hamm"

Two men in Forestry service

CA MHC 629-F-53.0-d
Part
[between 1900-1918]

Part of Mennonite Genealogy Inc. Photograph Collection

The inscription on the reverse reads "Zur Erinnerung an deine Kollegen & Mitarbeitern" (in memory of your colleague and co-worker).

Two Driedger brothers in Alternative Service in Russia

CA MHC 686-47.0
Item
[between 1914-1918]

Part of Jacob Dick Alternative Service in Russia Photo Collection

This is a full-length portrait of Nikolai and Abram Driedger, brothers, in their outerwear uniform while they were in Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia. The cloth backdrop is the scene of an ornamental wooden fence with trees behind it. This photograph also appears in Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia by Lawrence Klippenstein and Jacob Dick on page 116.

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