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These personal papers include autobiographical writing, photographs, slides, and ephemera pertaining to Nafziger's work as a Mennonite medical missionary in India.  They also contain some Nafziger family records, specifically a farm journal created by Christian Nafziger II.

Personal papers of early Mennonite mission workers in India.  Materials are divided into five series:

Series 1: Correspondence, 1888-1937

Series 2: Diaries and Notebooks, 1892-1935

Series 3: Writings and Educational Records, circa 1897-1930

Series 4: Miscellaneous Materials, circa 1890-1948

Series 5: Photographs, circa 1890-1948

This small set of personal papers is divided into three series:

(1) Sermons, 1934-1966

(2) Miscellaneous Materials, 1897-1966

(3) Writings and Manuscripts, 1917-1966

These papers are organized into four series:

(1) Correspondence, 1907-1951

(2) Articles, Manuscripts, and Sermons, 1926-1951, undated

(3) Miscellaneous, 1898-1950

(4) Photographs, circa 1893 -1950

A small set of personal papers created by a  Mennonite medical missionary couple in India at the turn of the 20th century.  Materials include William Page's diary (1899), outgoing correspondence by Alice and William Page, assorted travel documents (passports, tickets, etc.), clippings, and photographs.

A small set of personal papers documenting the work of this Mennonite missionary couple in India at the turn of the century.  The papers consist primarily of Jacob Burkhard's outgoing correspondence, but also include incoming correspondence to Jacob Burkhold, the memoirs and diary of Jacob Burkhard, letters and notes written by Mary Burkhard, scrapbooks of clippings regarding Mennonite missionary work in India, and Mary Burkhard's Bibles.

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.

Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials.  These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.

Assorted records pertaining to the mission industrial schools, industrial workshop, orphanage, and primary, middle, and high schools.  Records include correspondence, reports, attendee lists, and miscellaneous materials.

Papers of a female missionary worker (nurse) in India (1931-1939).  Includes diaries, extensive correspondence with family and friends in the United States, and with Indian friends and colleagues she met in the course of her mission work.  Also includes elementary school, Sunday school, and college notes, diplomas, a scrapbook made by Prairie Street Mennonite Church for her time in India, Christmas letters from missionaries and missionary families, and miscellaneous annotated publications and clippings.

A hodgepodge of letters that includes correspondence regarding missionaries' passport and residency issues, correspondence with Indian college students sponsored by the mission, letters from mission staff in Elkhart, Ind. circulated among the missionaries, and correspondence pertaining to clothing and bedding orders filled by various Mennonite sewing circles.

Photographs, correspondence, diaries,  sermons, and other material documenting the Brunks' mission work in India.  The most unusual item in the papers is Eva Brunk's essay, "My First O.B. Case in Dondi," which provides a first hand account of childbirth and post-natal care and customs in a "High Caste Brohmin's home" in the early 20th century.

Personal papers of a Mennonite missionary to India, divided into the following series:

(1) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1940-2005

(2) Music, 1928-1999

(3) Art, 1938-2001

(4) Family Papers, 1910-2009

(5) Sermons, 1943-1993

Personal papers of a Mennonite missionary and president of Goshen College and his wife.  Papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Biographical and Family Materials, 1911-1992

(2) Correspondence, 1919-1977

(3) Articles, Addresses, and Sermons, circa 1929-1968

(4) Education and Teaching Materials, 1921-1965

(5) Commissioned Trips, 1946-1964

(6) Photographs, circa 1880-1963

(7) Miscellaneous, 1912-1961

A small set of personal papers consisting of outgoing correspondence during her missionary service in India as a physician, an autobiography, published and unpublished essays, and other miscellaneous materials.