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Box 1 is books of aunt Mrs. P. R. (Louise) Schmidt. Boxes 2 and 3 are a wide variety of documents from his ancestors and relatives, mostly of the Alexanderwohl community, dating back at least to the early 19th century.

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

letters 1786-1787 relating to the settlement of Chortitza colony; letters from Bartsch and Johann Epp to David Epp 1788-1811
Digitized from microfilm MF. MSS 16 http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_16%20(bartsch)/

a few photos, several books

Microfilmed letters from Lange to Peter Wedel. Location of some originals unknown.

Digitized at http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_139/lange/

Dates of letters:

12 April 1815

5 June 1815

1 September 1816

11 March 1818

25 February 1819

one undated

30 July 1819

6 February 1820

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.

Contains only a birthday book and a German Bible which was a wedding gift from Katherine's parents.

Consists of an arithmetic exercise book begun in 1830.

Abraham Toews will?, 1877

Hutterite historical account of the group at Vishenka by a Peter Neufeld, 1866

financial record books, possibly of Bethel church, 1909-1925

poems by Peter T. Neufeld

German sermons 1850s-1890s and undated, authors not given, but some probably by Heinrich Neufeld and Heinrich Toews

catechism booklet 1880

Isaac Peters "Vortrag bei einer Lehrerwahl" Marienthal, no date

Isaac Peters, "Etwas über den Zweck der Form u. die Bedeutung der christlichen Wassertaufe," no date

Heinrich Toews diary

Bethel Jugend-Verein speeches and correspondence by Peter T. Neufeld

Correspondence from relatives in Russia and Canada, 1930s.

School souvenir, 1911, Emmethal Dist. 30, Marion County, Kansas

Receipt for sending aid package to Russia, 1933

Diaries, music book, small amount of correspondence

Music book has been digitized: http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_273/

Mostly correspondence among Goertzen relatives. Most of the letters were translated by Hilda Ediger Voth in the early 1990s. A few other items include a Hamilton County, Kansas, map and a folder of photos from Donovan and Helen Bachman (some identified). Additional (untranslated) letters and photos donated by Helen Bachman in Apr. 2013.

http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_283

letters from family in Russia (1920s-30s), clippings, print ephemera

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.

Quite a few items revolving around Peter Wedel, Alexanderwohl elder. A Heinrich Balzer poem dedicated to him. An 1815 letter to him from Wilhelm Lange. His diary from 1834?-1838. Some poems and writing exercises possibly by him.

Also, Wilhelm Lange's ordination sermon. And sermons by Peter Unrau.

And Henry S. Goertzen school exercises.