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This scrapbook thoroughly documents the academic and social aspects of Kanagy's nursing course at La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing.  Materials in the scrapbook include poems, photographs (labelled), diary entries, handbooks, church bulletins, cartoons, class schedules, party invitations, revival services, concert programs, and wedding invitations.

Also with the scrapbook are three class reunion photographs from 1992, 1994, and 1998.

Alma Slagel Eigsti "adopted" a Russian Mennonite refugee named Margareta Unruh through her Sunday school class at Waldo Mennonite Church in Illinois. Unruh and her family were forced to flee Russia in 1943, first staying in Holland and later immigrating to Paraguay. Eigsti and Unruh corresponded with each other from 1946-1981. In this collection are the letters that Eigsti received from Unruh. The letters describe Unruh's domestic life and her personal needs. There is also a small amount of correspondence from Tina Boschmann.

The personal papers of Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, consisting of creative and academic writings, correspondence, photographs, recordings, and miscellaneous subject files related to her research into Old Order life and her time as a professor at Elizabethtown College. Materials from her family members, particularly her father Ezra Stauffer, are also included.

These papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Essays and Writings, 1942-2003

(2) Correspondence, 1944-2005

(3) Family History and Geneology, 1866-2005

(4) Subject Files and Miscellaneous, 1944-2004

(5) Photographs, 1890-1992

(6) Audiovisual Materials, 1980-2005

Personal papers of Christian L. Graber and Mina Roth Graber, consisting of correspondence, diaries, sermons, scrapbooks, geneological records, and information about Christian L. Graber's time as a conscientious objector during World War I, his stint as a relief worker, and his service to Mennonite Central Committee.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Correspondence

(2) Sermons and Writings

(3) Personal and Family Records

(4) War, Peace, and Relief Work

(5) Business, Legal, and Estate Files

(6) Subject Files and Miscellaneous

(7) Mina Roth Graber Diaries

(8) Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Miscellaneous

These papers documeting the life of a Mennonite woman author are divided into three series:

(1) Publishing Files, 1928-1976

(2) Personal and Family Correspondence and Writing, 1912-2006

(3) Miscellaneous, 1926-1990

The collection includes diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered correspondence from friends and family, mostly from Dorothy Smith Shank's years as a Goshen College Academy and Goshen College student from 1924 to 1932.

A small set of personal papers created by a secretary employed by the Mennonite Board of Missions from 1950 to 1978.  Materials include scattered correspondence and autobiographical essays, photographs of the Graber siblings, Graber family obituaries, information on Lloyd O. Rupe, and a scrapbook of photographs and correspondence presented to her by missionaries and mission board staff upon her retirement.

Two scrapbooks documenting the education and social life of a young Mennonite woman from Elkhart who attended Elkhart High School and the La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing in the 1920s. Contains photographs of fellow students and staff, newspaper clippings, graduation announcements and cards. The La Junta scrapbook also includes photographs after her graduation depicting travels and friends at home.

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 a Mennonite missionary to Puerto Rico and advocate for Hispanic Mennonite Congregations in the United States.  The papers are divided into four series:

(1) Biographical Information and Family Papers, 1909-2006

(2) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1949-2006

(3) Photographs and Plaques, 1915-2004

(4) Puerto Rican Mennonite Records, 1967-2003

Two scrapbooks documenting Hostetler's experiences as a student at Goshen College Academy (1926-1930) and Goshen College (1930-1934).  The scrapbooks contain photographs, invitations, notes and letters from friends, and ephemera.

A nurse's photograph album (with captions) depicting life and work at the La Junta Mennonite Hospital and Sanatarium (La Junta, Colo.).

Lillie Shenk Kaufman's papers document her missionary work primarily through her outgoing correspondence.  The papers also include outgoing stateside correspondence, photographs, school records, articles, postcards, and information about her husband, James Norman Kaufman.

The papers and photographs in this collection include Lois Gunden Clemen's relief work in France under Mennonite Central Committee from 1941 to 1944. They also document her work as an educator and author, her Conrad Grebel Lectures, her work with Women's Missionary and Service Commission and other Mennonite-related organizations, her involvement with American Association Of University Women, and correspondence with her future husband Ernest Clemens.

Papers of a Mennonite women who began her career as a secretary in Mennonite organizations and transitioned into ministry in the 1970s and 1980s.  Fisher served on the pastoral team of College Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.) and as an overseer of Waterford Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.).  Her papers include correspondence, sermons and presentations, worship materials, photographs, audiotapes of sermons preached at College Mennonite Church, and miscellaneous materials.