Edwin and Irene Weaver served the Mennonite Church as long-time missionaries in India, 1935-56, and Nigeria, 1959-67, and Ghana, 1969-71. Most of the records in this personal collection deal with West Africa, although there are some friendship letters to those Edwin and Irene Weaver were with in India. They retired to Hesston, Kansas, in 1989. Box 8 contains memoirs written by Irene Weaver, primarily about her childhood in India, and her time working aboard for Mennonite Board of Missions. Additionally, some of the memoirs deal with her time at Goshen College.
Correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous materials associated with Blanche Sell's 35 years of missionary service in India with the Mennonite Board of Missions. While outgoing correspondence relating the daily work and spiritual life of Mennonite missionaries in Dhamtari will be of most interest to researchers, this collection also holds substantial incoming correspondence from Sell's mother, Elizabeth Sell, and sister, Doris Shenk. Most of the photographs are snapshots with fair to excellent captioning. They include images of Indian spiritual and medical leaders, including P. J. Malagar and Dr. Martin. Miscellaneous materials include a Mennonite Board of Missions India calendar (1952), texts of missionary messages Sell delivered to various Mennonite congregations in the 1980s, and autograph books.
This photo is of the new girl's dormitory made out of bricks. There's a group of girls standing in front of this building. There is another brick building to the right of the photo.
This photo is of the girl's house in Deverakonda. It's made of bricks. There is a smaller brick building and a large shade tree to the left of the photo.
This photo is of two houses in Deverakonda. The one on the left is the sisters' house, the one on the right is the girls' house. there are low shrubs and trees separating the houses.