This photo showing a group of 55 women was mostly taken at the reunion of former workers in the Russian State forestry service. (See Photo 659:2 for all the men.)
Negative also. Margaret Hamm and children stand in front of mission home with six Cross Lake children and Helen Willms. They began Sunday School Nov. 1956 when the Hamm family came to Cross Lake. See 14.4252 f., CM 7-16-6.
Negative also. Used in CM 3-22-1. Five young women are walking down the road (main street?) in the village of Blumenort, located 4 miles west of Gretna.
Negatives (3) for photo & 2 of the play. Used in CM 6-33-5. Drama "Am Jakobsbrunnen" ("At Jacob's Well") was performed by 6 women & directed by Mrs. Werner Neufeld; sponsored by the Whitewater Nahverein (Sewing Circle).
Great Trek, Mennonite leaving Russia WWII. The woman driving the first wagon is probably Susanne (Penner) Stelzig, Her son Arthur is believed to be behind her in the wagon. Two women are walking beside the wagon, one leading a cow. One of the women is believed to be Maria (Wiens) Penner, sister-in-law to Susanne Stelzig.
Negative also. Banquet of the MDS Clinic, held at the Ft. Garry MB Church. A woman is serving the head table. Eddie Bearinger, Canadian Chairman of MDS is speaking. See CM 17-9-1 & 2 & 1994-14.600 & 602 f.
Used in CM 1-8-1. Women & children congregate at front entrance of Sommerfelder Mennonite Church Located at Braeside, 15 miles north of Vanderhoof. Infor. on back states the men are still inside in discussion. Taken in 1950?
This is a photo of a Salvadoran grandmother and child, victims of the civil war, making tortillas in camp for displaced persons near Guazapa, El Salvador.
This is a photo of women refugees in Somalian camps meeting together to discuss common problems and attend classes on nutrition, sewing, simple math and literacy. They are sitting on the floor and there are four sewing machines against one wall.
This is a photo of a Salvadoran refugee mother standing by a counter stacked with canned food.She is preparing food for malnourished children in a feeding centre near San Salvador. An inter-church food aid program, which has distributed MCC beef and other donated food, is helping 60,000 refugees.
This is a photo of a Guatemalan Kekchi Indian mother helping to weigh an infant in a hanging scale while the brother and sister watch. There are some women and children in the background watching as well.