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Personal papers of A. J. (Abram Jacob)  Metzler, consisting of sermon outlines, correspondence, subject files, and audio recordings. Records of Metzler's travels and work abroad are included, as are his published articles, his files on congregations he pastored, and a biography of him along with family records.

This collection is divided into the following series:

(1) Sermon Outlines, 1927-1983

(2) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1826, 1919-1993

(3) Audio Recordings, 1956-1996

(4) Photographs and Video Recordings, 1882-1991

Cassette tapes of oral history interviews conducted in the late 1980s and early 1990s on the "H. S. Bender Era," roughly defined as 1920 to 1960.  The project was sponsored by the Mennonite HIstorical Society, with Al Keim as director.  Accompany the cassette tapes on which the interviews were recorded are indexes to the interviews, background information about interviewees, and some consent forms. No full transcripts of the interviews are available.

This collection is divided into two series:  (1) Research Files, 1950-1982, and (2) James and Rowena Lark Materials, 1949-2007.

32 cassette tapes containing oral history interviews with 31 individuals or couples: Royal and Evelyn Bauer, Ruth Bauman, Esther Bigler and Leroy Hostetler, Albert and Lois Buckwalter, Joe and Nellie Buzzard, Frank and Anna Byler, John and Bonnie Driver, Minnie Graber, Erma Grove, Ralph and Elizabeth Hernley, Ezra and and Orpha Hershberger, Eunice Histand, Orvin Hooley, Jonathan Hostetler, Ann Kauffman, J. Howard Kauffman, Howard Kaufman, Carl Kreider, Lloyd R. Miller, Mildred Mullet, Glenn Mussleman, Evangeline Neuschwander, Florence Nofziger, Nancy Nussbaum, Clara Raber, Paul Schank, Tilman Smith, Silas J. Smucker, Nelson and Betty Springer, and Alice Yoder. One cassette holds an interview with four Mennonite women - Pauline Yoder Kaufman, Edith Reimer, Gladys Mast, and Hazel Hostetler - about bonnets and prayer coverings, dress codes, women preachers, and MennoHof. Transcripts are not available, but there are brief abstracts of each interview. All interviews were conducted by Floyd L. Rheinheimer.

Researchers should note that the interview with Eunice Histand was recorded on an 8mm video cassette.

These records are divided into eight series:

Series 1: Governing Documents, circa 1945-2005

Series 2: Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1945-2010

Series 3: Publications, 1945-2010

Series 4: Financial Records, 1949-2009

Series 5: Correspondence, 1949-2001

Series 6: Membership Records, 1943-2004

Series 7: Local Chapter Records, 1950-1989

Series 8: Miscellaneous Materials, 1945-2011

This series contains materials collected and created in the Mennonite Publishing House's efforts to document its own history.  It consists of two subseries:

(1) General Historical Files, 1948-2003

(2) Historical Monograph Files, 1970-1991

Begun in January 2001, the Mennonite Women of Color Oral History Project aims to gather and publish faith and life stories of older women of color across the Mennonite Church in North America and worldwide. This collection consists of oral history interviews conducted with Mennonite women from North America, Africa, Asia, Central America, and South America.

Transcripts of the interviews are not available.

25 cassette tapes containing interviews with 19 Mennonites who served in the military from World War II to the Vietnam War:  Brian Arbuckle, Dan Bontrager, James Christophel, Chris Culp, Chuck Hoover, Alvin Hostetler, Stan Liechty, Glenn Mast, Kenneth Miller, Paul Pletcher, Don Reber, Allen Schrock, Levi Slabaugh, Wayne Stopher, Larry Vardaman, Floyd J. Yoder, Gordon Yoder, Herb L. Yoder, and Rick Yoder.  Floyd L. Rheinheimer interviewed all of the subjects.  Brief abstracts of the interviews are available, but no transcriptions have been made.  Also included in this collection is a set of articles and pamphlets from the Mennonoite press regarding military service.

24 cassette tapes containing interviews with 24 elderly Mennonites, most of whom lived in northern Indiana or were prominent in the broader Mennonite community: Abram Hallman, Ruth (Mast) Roth, Irene Witmer, Noah Good, Martha (Eby) Yake, Tilman Smith, Paul Mininger, Mary (Erb) Mininger, Ollie (Shank) Grabill, A.J. Metzler, Lester Hostetler, John Mosemann, Ruth (Histand) Mosemann, Sanford Eash, Orpha (Kauffman) Eash, Elizabeth (Horsch) Bender, Minnie (Swartzendruber) Graber, J.C. Wenger, Howard Yoder, Laura (Weaver) Troyer, Nora (Miller) Kauffman, Nelson Litwiller, Milo Kauffman, and Irene (Lehman) Weaver. Dwight E. Roth, a professor of sociology at Hesston College, interviewed all of the subjects. Transcripts of the interviews are not available. Roth analyzed and reflected upon these interviews in his self-published book, Reflections of Elderly Mennonites [Hesston, Kan.] : [Roth], 1982. Also contains two floppy disks with chapter drafts from this book.

A small set of research materials collected by Timothy Falb in the course of conducting three research projects -- one on the post World War II volunteers who shipped livestock overseas, one on Mennonite scholar and educator Edward Yoder, and one on the history of two sister congregations in Ohio, Martins Mennonite Church and Pleasant View Mennonite Church. Also included is an interview with Aldis Gerber, a conscientious objector during WWI. The richest sources of material in this collection are the oral histories. Researchers should note that no transcriptions are available for these oral histories.

The materials are divided into series by subject.