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File consists of the following maps:

1) Karte von Hessen mit den Orten aus denen die Wolgadeutschen ausgewandert sind (1763-69), by K. Stumpp. 67x49 cm. (Map of Hessen with the areas from which the Germans originated who resettled to the Volga region.)
2) Sonderkarte aus der Auswanderungskarte Wuerttemberg und Kreisen: Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg, Heilbronn, Vaihingen, Leonberg, Boeblingen, Esslingen, Waiblingen, Backnang, Oehringen, Nuertingen, Tuebingen u. Reutlingen. Auswanderung in den Jahren 1804-1842 nach Suedrussland, by K. Stumpp. 56x38 cm. (Detail map of the emigration of Wuerttemberg and area. Emigration 1804-1842 to south Russia.)
3) Karte von Wuerttemberg, Baden, Pflaz und Elsass mit den Orten,aus denen die Schwarzmeerdeutschen ausgewandert sind, (1804-1842), by K. Stumpp. 48x45 cm. (Map of Wuerttemberg, Baden, Pflaz and Elsass with the areas from which the Germans originated who emigrated to the Black Sea region.)
4) Orte in Elsass-Lothringen, aus denen Auswanderungen nach Russland stattgefunden haben. (1803-1817), by K. Stumpp, 1969. 66x50 cm. (Areas in Elsass-Lothringen from which emigrants originated who relocated to Russia.)
5) Karte der Orte in Rheinland Pfalz aus denen Auswanderungen nach Suedrussland in den Jahren 1808/1810 stattgefunden haben, by K. Stumpp, 48x66 cm. (Areas of Rhineland from which emigrants originated who relocated to south Russia in 1808/1810.)
6) Orte aus denen im Jahre 1814 Auswanderungen nach Russland, insbesondere nach Bessarabien stattgefunden haben, by K. Stumpp, 1972. 50x88 cm. (Areas from which emigrants who relocated to Russia originated, specifically Bessarabia, in 1814.)

Collections consists of the following series:
1) Ukraine/Russia Maps
2) Europe Maps
3) USA/Mexico Maps
4) Charts of Statistsics

Series consists of the following maps:

1) Karte der Russlanddeutschen Siedlungen in den USA und Mexiko. 36x54 cm

This fonds contains documents pertaining to the life of William Hespeler, such as confirmation of attending the Polytechnic Institute in Karlsruhe (1847-1849), of deferment from military service in 1850, of immigration to Canada, and of naturalization as a British subject. The fonds includes the items taken to Russia in 1872 (i.e. responses from Ottawa to the Russian Mennonite inquiries about priveledges been sought such as exemption from military service). The fonds also contains various items with the autographs of individuals such as Otto von Bismark, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia, and the British monarch, Queen Victoria. The documents pertain to Hespeler's service to Canada or Germany.

File consists of the following:
1) "He Has Qualified Us: Memories of our parents Henry and Sara Kornelsen", autobiography of Henry Kornelsen, 1890-1974 and Sara Reimer Kornelsen, 1897-2003. Translated into English by daughter Elvira Dueck in 1995.
2) Kornelsen family register beginning in 1858.
3) How Small Events and Happenings Contributed to a Large Mennonite Emigration in 1923 by H.H. Kornelsen, translated by John B. Toews. 12 pages.
-- All documents contained in one file, Box 233

This file consists of the following:
1) Nicholas Fehderau, Aus der Hoehe in die Tiefen: Erinnerungen aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendjahren in Sued Russlaand"; 866 pages. Book 1: 1904-1924 Meine Lebensgeschichte ;
Book 2: 1908-1914, Neu Halbstadt- Mein Heimort;
Book 3: 1914-1917, Der erste Weltkrieg;
Book 4: 1917,1918, Revolution und Beurgerkrieg;
Book 5 & 6: Im Schatten des Todes 1919-1920; Es geht immer tiefer hinab,1921-1922;
Book 7 & 8: Ein schwerer Kampf um's Dasein; 1922-1923;
Book 8: Im Zeichen der Auswanderung, mein letztes Jahr in der alten Heimet, 1923-1924. - (6 files) Box 241

Documents from 1919-1924 related to Orie O. Miller and immigration.

This series contains the following:
1) Correspondence and documents, February to December 1921
2) Correspondence and documents, January to March 1922
3) Correspondence and documents, April to May 1922
4) Correspondence and documents, June to July 1922
5) Correspondence and documents, August to September, 1922
6) Correspondence and documents, October, November, December, 1922
7) Correspondence and documents, January, February, 1923
8) Correspondence and documents, March, April, May, 1923
9) Correspondence and documents, June, July, August, 1923
10) Correspondence and documents, September to December, 1923
11) Correspondence and documents, January, February, 1924
12) Correspondence and documents, March, April, May, 1924
13) Correspondence and documents, June, July, August, 1924
14) Correspondence and documents, September, October, 1924
15) Correspondence and documents, November, December, 1924
16) Correspondence and documents, January to May, 1925
17) Correspondence and documents, June to December, 1925 - (17 files) Box 257

Maxwell H. Kratz was one of three men elected to the first Mennonite Central Committee on 27 September 1920. He was active in the leadership of MCC during its first projects of Russian relief, the purchase of land in Paraguay, and its incorporation. IX-02 includes Maxwell H. Kratz's MCC correspondence 1921-1934 related to 62 Russian refugees immigrating to the U.S. from Constantinople (present Istanbul, Turkey) and refugee immigration to Paraguay.