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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.

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.