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This photo is a reproduction of MCC worker Peter J. Dyck in Ulm Germany standing with 2 women outside, on a street next to a car and a building is in the background. This item was donated by Walter Bergen to MMHS in connection with the Oral History project. See audio cassettes 2651-2652 and volume 5242:2.

This photo is of MCC worker C.F. Klassen getting into (or out of) a car in Backnang, Germany with a women and three men at his side watching. This item was donated by Walter Bergen to MMHS in connection with the Oral History project. See audio cassettes 2651-2652 and volume 5242:2.

This photo is of MCC workers C.F. Klassen [Cornelius F. Klassen] and Siegfred Janzen [Siegfried Janzen?] in Germany, standing beside a car with bags in hand. This item was donated by Walter Bergen to MMHS in connection with the Oral History project. See audio cassettes 2651-2652 and volume 5242:2.

This photo is of the June 1973 delegates safari at the old fort Garry wall and entrance, on Main street near the Forks, Winnipeg. Through the entrance there are people sitting and listening to a man talking into a microphone. The microphones are from radio station CFAM and CHSM. On the fort wall the inscription reads: "Near this site stood the following Forts: Fort Rouge, under La Verendrye, 1738; Fort Gibraltar, of the North West Company, 1810 became Fort Garry of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1822; replaced by Upper Fort Garry, of stone begun 1835, extended in 1850's when this gateway was erected, demolished 1882."

This photo is of two women sitting at the Mennonite Historical Society's display during one of the Manitoba Mennonite Centennial events. One man is talking to one of the women.

This photo is of the grand opening of the windmill at the Mennonite Village Museum in Steinbach, Manitoba. In the foreground there are cars parked and people gathered around the windmill.

This photo is of the monument erected in 1951 at the corner of highway 30 and provincial road number 243 to commemorate the Mennonites who settled the West Reserve, Manitoba in the 1870s. The inscription says: "This monument was erected on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the arrival of the Mennonite pioneers west of the Red River. It commemorates the faith and sacrifices of the early settlers who braved the wild treeless plains shunned by earlier immigrants. The peace and prosperity that these pioneers and their descendants have enjoyed here and the Post Road which marked by stakes started at Emerson passed this site at that time a stopping place and ran westward through the settlement." The monument was erected on the Schellenberg property which was in the village of Neuanlage. This site has been known as cairn corner.

This photo is of the Heinrich Wiebe headstone locate at the corner of highway 30 and provincial road number 243 near Gretna, Manitoba. Wiebe was a delegate who came to North America in 1873 to scout out land for the Mennonites to settle. He was the brother to Aeltester Gerhard Wiebe and settled in the Edenberg area along the Post Road. The headstone was repaired and a new base with inscription was added. It was then moved to its present location with the 75th anniversary cairn at the former Schellenberg yard which was a part of the village of Neuanlage, Manitoba near Gretna.

This photo is of the congregation filling the Winnipeg Centennial Concert hall. This event was one of the events planned for the Manitoba Mennonite Centennial celebrations held 1974-1975.

This photo is of Alvin Pauls standing beside his prize winning art entitled "Confrontation Realization, Vision, Hope". The piece was displayed in conjunction with the Manitoba Mennonite Centennial.

This photo is of film maker Otto Klassen standing outside and talking to Jake Epp (Member of Parliament) and Jake's wife.

This photo is of a group of people standing on the deck of the windmill at the Mennonite Village Museum in Steinbach Manitoba.

This photo is of a cloth banner made by Menno Wiebe and Gerry Loewen for the [Mennonite Centennial in 1974?]. The words are "With one hand in the soil, the other in the sky, my people, committed to the maker, of earth and air, maintain the balance of bread and belief".

This photo is of the Heinrich Wiebe headstone and 75th anniversary cairn at "cairn corner" on the former David Schellenberg yard in the former village of Neuanlage near present day Gretna, Manitoba on the corner of Highway 30 and provincial road number 243.

This photo is of an unidentified man [Bob Loewen?] standing with a display celebrating Steinbach's 100th birthday.