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Most of the papers are photocopies from the National Archives and Library of Congress related to Teichroew’s thesis or dissertation (never completed) about Mennonites in World War I. There is some later material also, World War 2 related.

The collection consists of the following series:

1) Russia/Ukraine maps
2) West Prussia/Polish/Netherlands maps
3) Paraguay maps
4) USA/ Mexico maps
5) Canada maps

Five missionary progress letters to friends and family describing Detweiler's work as a Mennonite missionary in Puebla, Mexico.  Of particular interest are her observations about Mexican evangelicals

This collection consists of copies of the photos collected by Cornelius Krause from a Mexican land agent that traveled with Krause and other Mennonite delegates from Manitoba and Saskatchewan who were investigating the possibility of the migration of a group of Mennonites from Canada to Mexico and photos taken by Cornelius Krause himself while investigating Mexico as a possible country to which a group of Manitoba and Saskatchewan Mennonites could move. The photos which Krause took himself show people and places visited on the trip in Mexico (Collection 592). The photos by the land agent (Collection 590) taken before the arrival of the Mennonite delegation and during their visit to Mexico. The photos were taken to encourage the Mennonites to move to Mexico. They show road and railway construction, wide open wild areas, places where there was water, villages, homes, and fields successfully developed by the Old Colony and Sommerfeld Mennonites who had moved to Mexico in 1922.

The fonds consists of the following files:
1) Letter from Peter P. Giesbrecht to Rev. David Wiebe of Hillsboro, KS in 1954 describing the Giesbrecht family's three-year journey from Russia to Yarrow BC in 1924-1927. German with English translation. Grandma and Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization information included. - (1 file) Box 442

Research notes by Marianne Janzen of Winnipeg about Mennonites who migrated directly from Russia to Mexico in the 1920s. Also some correspondence between Janzen and the MLA.

Includes a copy of "As It Was: Experiences in the family of Henry and Katie Regehr as told to the children and grandchildren".