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This collection chronicles the early life of Elizabeth M. Yoder Woodiwiss (1889-1986), who homesteaded in North Dakota from 1907-1910. Her diaries (photocopies of originals) record her experiences as a homesteader, as well as a few years after she returned to Pennsylvania.  Articles about Elizabeth are also in the collection, alongside her own recollections. There are also photographs depicting her as a homesteader and later in life, as well as photographs of the homesteading community.

A small set of personal papers documenting the education and work of an editor and photojournalist for the Mennonite Publishing House (Scottdale, Penn.).  The bulk of the materials consist of completed surveys about the Mennonite Publishing House's Words of Cheer children's magazine.  The surveys report the opinions of elementary school readers in the United States and Canada.  Other materials include an autobiographical essay, correspondence, materials pertaining to his undergraduate and graduate degrees, and photographic negatives depicting a Sunday School Convention at Eastern Mennonite College (1965), Mennonite General Conference (1965 and 1967), the Sunday School Centennial at West Liberty, Ohio (1963), the Sunday School Centennial at Masontown, Penn. (1963), and a "Russian visit" (1965).