This is a photo of a group of men and women from Schoenwiese sitting in a boat on the shores of the Dnieper River. They were on an outing on the first of May with Arthur Slagel, the American Mennonite Relief Worker. On the photograph are the Thiessens, Miss Hamm and Arthur Slagel. Possibly Mr. Suderman took the picture. See Nos. 665-78 & 665-79 for more details.
This is a photo of a number of rowboats at the harbor in Palermo, Sicily. The buildings are shown in the background. There is a reference to C. Kratz, who was travelling with Slagel, on the back of the photograph.
This photo is of immigrants on the river boat Toro going from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Puerto Casado, Paragauy. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 27.
Used in CM 13-44-8 with article by Sara Lehn Harder. Boat called the "Jack Sullivan Scow" propelled by a motor boat. It went up & down the Peace River bringing supplies to the settlers. Taken Feb. 1964.
Used in CM 13-45-8 with article by Sara Lehn Harder on Mennonite history along the Peace River. The Hudson Bay river boat which transported many a Mennonite family to their new near Fort Vermilion.
This is a photo of a small boat measuring 4 feet by 36 feet which landed on Thai shores on January 4, 1985, with 35 Vietnamese aboard. Posing with the boat are (left to right): MCCer Victor Neumann, himself a World War II refugee; boat children and the Vietnamese chief of the Songkhla Camp.
This is a photo of a re-enactment of the Mennonite landing at The Forks on the Paddlewheel Queen, which took place as part of the Ecofestival at the Forks in Winnipeg.
Group of ladies boarding Riverboat on Red River in Kildonan Park, Helen Froese, Mrs. Jake Warkentin can be recognized with her floral dress and white shoes, 2 copies. Location Winnipeg.