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Business correspondence from 1909, addressed to Abram Koop, factory owner in Schönwiese, Alexandrovsk.

a few photos, several books

This is an artificial collection that includes notes and research from: Cornelius Krahn while researching 1969 Mennonite Life article; James C. Juhnke while researching People of Two Kingdoms; a letter in 1873 from ? to Bernhard Warkentin about Thiessen; documents on Abraham Thiessen collected by David G. Rempel (photostatic copies); and some notes sent by James Urry in 2015.

The collection contains Abram Penner’s personal diaries from 1904 to 1940, the time of his death.  Entries are mostly daily events and weather data.  Other records include his travel diary from his trip to Russia, family records, and letters.  There is also an account ledger from the general store in Mountain Lake.

Consists of printed indexes to B. H. Unruh's Die niederländisch-niederdeutschen Hintergründe der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (1959), derived from a database compiled by Peters.

bulletins, newsletters, yearbooks, reports, etc.
church membership records and some other materials have been digitized http://mla.bethelks.edu/metadata/cong_15.php

Handwritten original autobiography, book 1, ca. 230pp. (pagination is inconsistent)

Book 2, ca. 110pp.

Photocopy of typed Gustav Enss autobiography, apparently from Jacob Sudermann collection at Goshen, with notes/corres. by Menno Schrag and Jim Juhnke

Photocopy of typed 18p. autobiography of Amy(?), photocopy of rough inventory of Gustav Enss papers (at Goshen?), photocopy of Enss genealogical data from Joanna Andres

Re-typed, laser-printed autobiography texts from David P. Sudermann 1996 – labeled Hist. Mss. 1-605

Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, genealogical information, photos, in a complete jumble.

Most of the material seems to relate to Anna Peters' extended family, more so than Arthur's.

Box 1 includes a note about Arthur Peters' military service, and a cassette tape. Also a Confederate $50 bill in poor condition. And some pencil drawings. Cassette tape in box 1 digitized as elecrec/acc915, June 2018.

Box 4 contains diaries of Mrs. Peter Regier nee Wiens, some German sermons.

Boxes 5 and 6 are mostly photos.

"Box" 7 is a map folder containing genealogy charts.

"Box" 8 is a map folder containing an oversize newspaper item.

Box 1: books, pamphlets (farm machinery), slides, cassette tape

Box 2: books. clippings, Boese family letters, Boese family information

Box 3: agriculture and machinery periodicals and brochures

Box 4: family history information

Box 1: photocopies of the Unruh material at the Hoover Institution, much of it notes for what became his Fügung und Führung book

Box 2: more Hoover photocopies; folder of typed obituaries and tributes, probably collected by Cornelius Krahn; other miscellaneous photocopies

Consists of Cornelius Voth's "Ein Schreibe Buch" which was continued by his son-in-law Peter Balzer.

The first two pages have recipes for remedies for stomach ache, the plague, etc. written by Peter Balzer.

Next is a 17 page family history section.

Pages 1, 2, and 3 are more remedies for illneses.

Up to p. 203 is miscellaneous poems, songs, speeches, sermons, etc.

Then several blank pages.

Page 233 starts a diary followed by accounts of what he borrowed from various people.

238-242: weather chart

258-266: remedies for horse diseases

272: recipes for gilding glass and leather

283: diary notes

288-291: remedies for human and animal illnesses

292 to end: financial notes, blacksmithing work, etc.

Box 1: reviews of books, notes, correspondence (1930s), clippings, book typescripts: Der Steppenhengst, Stromaufwärts, Der Bote, Licht wider Irrlicht, Der rote Tulipan, In die andere Welt, Beata, Ketzer würden die Mauer sprengen

Box 2: reviews, notes, clippings, book typescripts: Der Rohrsänger, In die andere Welt, Die Rose von Wüstenfelde, Der rote Tulipan, Der Bote, Stromaufwärts

Box 3: Behrends material pulled from Krahn papers 9 Jan 1991: photos, correspondence, clippings, book typescripts: Der Steppenhengst, Menno

Includes correspondence between Agatha Hiebert and David Goerz; other correspondence, David Hiebert correspondence and business records, scattered photos, family history information (Hiebert, Balzer), school papers, Christmas Wünsche, autobiographical material (Frank), financial records books from lumber business. clippings

Correspondence from Susanna to her brother Gerhard. All photocopies of typed transcriptions. These letters were translated and published by John B. Toews, Letters from Susan: A Woman's View of the Russian Mennonite Experience (1928-1941) (North Newton, KS: Bethel College, 1988) (Cornelius H. Wedel Series #4)

Box 1: Book list G. Friesen American Dialect Society Class notes Garden 1972 Low German play by J. J. Enns Mennonitische Lehranstalt A. Kroeker Language teaching materials Misc. printed matter Russian book (on Gogol?) Correspondence Other misc. files

box 2: Misc. printed matter Frank H. Epp Correspondence FL Newsletter, Dept. Of Modern Languages, Univ. of Oklahoma

box 3: Alexander Petzholdt material old Life magazines

box 4: Astude (University of Idaho) FL Newsletter Clippings Class handouts Printed matter articles by Wiens book list

box 5: [not used]

box 6-8: books (books checked in Dec. 2011; most kept because of annotations and underlining by Wiens)

box 9: Petzholdt photocopies