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Bethel College Mennonite Library and Archives Mennonites -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Region
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Alan F. Peters Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.316
  • Collection
  • 1988

Consists of printed indexes to B. H. Unruh's Die niederländisch-niederdeutschen Hintergründe der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (1959), derived from a database compiled by Peters.

Peters, Alan F., 1939-

Anna Baerg Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.204
  • Collection
  • 1916-1924

Consists entirely of photocopies of her diaries.

See Diary of Anna Baerg 1916-1924, trans. and ed. Gerhard Peters (Winnipeg: CMBC Publications, 1985).

Baerg, Anna, 1897-1972

Aron J. Wiebe Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.201
  • Collection
  • 1879-1902

The papers are all hand-written German in the old script. There are a few items of correspondence, several sermons, poetry, and other documents.

Wiebe, Aron J., 1845-1922

Benjamin H. Unruh Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.295
  • Collection
  • 1920-1959

Box 1: photocopies of the Unruh material at the Hoover Institution, much of it notes for what became his Fügung und Führung book

Box 2: more Hoover photocopies; folder of typed obituaries and tributes, probably collected by Cornelius Krahn; other miscellaneous photocopies

Unruh, Benjamin Heinrich, 1881-1959

Gerhard Nickel Arithmetic Book

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.368
  • Collection
  • 1762

Consists of an arithmetic exercise book begun 18 August 1762. Book also includes other material, such as Nickel genealogical data. Also a photocopy of the book.

Nickel, Gerhard, 1759-1845

Helena Graewe Warkentin Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.255
  • Collection
  • 1917-1940

Diaries covering roughly 1917-1940.

Autobiography

clippings

book of handwritten poems or songs

photocopy of typed account of Central Asia trek

Warkentin, Helena Graewe, 1865-1942

Jacob H. Quiring Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.203
  • Collection
  • 1890-1940

A rich collection of correspondence for Mennonites in Russia and Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Box 1 - correspondence, passport, file on Bluffton controversy, diploma from Berlin, manuscripts related to ancient languages and texts (not by Quiring), Protestant Weekly Letter, class notes - Old Testament, Assyrian, etc.

Box 2 - Evangelische Wochenbriefe

Box 3- consolidated into box 1

Box 4-7 - books

box 8 - map folder of diplomas found in MS.76, S. S. Haury papers, Aug. 2014

Quiring, Jacob H., 1875-1942

Willi B. Matthies Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.212
  • Collection
  • 1945-1955

Appears to be mostly sermons, mostly post-1945. Some class notes from seminary or Bible school

Matthies, Wilhelm B., 1903-1995