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Collection Mennonite women -- Diaries
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Martha Ewy Berger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.461
  • Collection
  • 1901-1990

box 1: Bethel diploma 1949, travel diaries 1977-1988, miscellaneous notebooks, photos, correspondence Amalia Ewy to Emma Ewy 1925-1935, clippings, yearbooks from various schools (where she taught?) 1940s-60s, photos, print ephemera-1960s-travel, notebook, slides
box 2: photos, diaries, college transcripts, teaching certificate, family history material, books
box 3-4: correspondence 1950-1981, photos, print ephemera, books, travel diaries, correspondence 1950s-1960s, family history material, passports, photos, Arlington church construction, school papers, legal and financial papers back to 1901
Box 5: scrapbook-travel-1950s

Berger, Martha Ewy, 1906-2003

Harold Ratzlaff and Ruth Regier Ratzlaff Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.302
  • Collection
  • 1930-1980

box 1: slides, photo albums (disassembled)

box 2: slides, guest books, mission files, autobiography (his)

box 3: diaries (hers)

box 4: diaries (hers), photo album, slides

box 5-7: 16mm films

box 8: additional copy of Harold autobiography brought in by anonymous donor 12 May 2015

Ratzlaff, Harold, 1911-2006

Mary Lou Rich Goertzen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.494
  • Collection
  • 1941

reproduction of her diary of January-May 1941 when she was living as a child on the Bethel College campus
was made for an art exhibit at Kauffman Museum May-October 2001

Goertzen, Mary Lou Rich, 1929-

Helena Duerksen Warkentin Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.328
  • Collection
  • 1947-1951

Consists of 2 diaries, 1947 and 1951.

Warkentin, Helena Duerksen, 1890-1960

Virginia Claassen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.503
  • Collection
  • 1960-2010

box 1: Mennonite World Conference 1962 scrapbook brought in by Esther Wenger 6 Aug 2002; Mennonite World Conference India 1997 scrapbooks brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 2: correspondence, photos, print items, brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 3: photos, correspondence, diplomas, passports, plaques, master's thesis, scrapbook

box 4: framed diploma - University of Kansas master's; photo album of Japan school work

box 5: photo albums, scrapbooks

box 6-8: correspondence

box 9-10: diaries and other notebooks

Claassen, Virginia, 1933-2011

Anna V. Lehman Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.189
  • Collection
  • 1864-1949

Johann Lehmann diaries 1864-1879. Anna Lehman diaries 1945-1949. Anna Lehman correspondence, a few financial papers, "Familien-Chronik" (probably removed from a Bible)

Lehman, Anna V., 1874-1968

Janet Soldner Nussbaum Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.192
  • Collection
  • 1945-1970

Diaries, correspondence, photos, slides, scrapbook, clippings. Most or all relating to Colombia mission work.

Nussbaum, Janet Soldner, 1918-

Ferdinand J. Isaac and Anna (Penner) Isaac Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.196
  • Collection
  • 1921-1947

Box 1: her diaries 1943-44, 1946; talks, speeches by her; correspondence 1920s-30s; slides

Box 2: German New Testament

Box 3: his(?) diaries 1935-42

Box 4: her diaries 1921, 1931-33, unknown year; his diaries 1927-1930, 1936, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947; Donald's(?) diary 1942; photo album; slides

"Box"5: actually a map folder, contains village statistics charts from India mission

Isaac, Ferdinand J., 1888-1946

Selma Ellenberger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.384
  • Collection
  • 1900-1964

Box 1-2: correspondence, diaries

box 3: correspondence, books

box 4: funeral guest book, Adolf Ellenberger writings, music books (one handwritten), books (don't know the identity of this Adolf Ellenberger; maybe her father?)

Ellenberger, Selma Emilie, 1885-1964

Maria Becker Warkentin and Anna Warkentin Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.285
  • Collection
  • 1905-1977

This collection consists of diaries written by Maria (Becker) Warkentin, starting January 1, 1905, and continuing until her death, June 29, 1943.  The diaries were then continued by her daughter Anna Warkentin until March 24, 1977, shortly before her death on June 2, 1977.  All entries are written in German through 1955, and in English from 1956 through 1977.

Warkentin, Maria Becker, 1867-1943

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

Hilda C. Mueller Shaum Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.390
  • Collection
  • 1935-1982

box 1: correspondence, diaries, papers related to 1950 trip to Europe
box 2: scrapbook (all text, no pasted-in items)
box 3: mostly papers related to 1950 trip to Europe

Shaum, Hilda C. Mueller, 1913-1988

Emma Ruth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.236
  • Collection
  • 1900-1960

Box 1: correspondence, diaries, teaching certificates, clippings, notes

Box 2: correspondence, photos, school materials, slides, diaries, creative writing materials

Box 3: photos, clippings, family history info, video copy of movies in box 4

Box 4: 8mm home movies

Box 5: framed photo of Jakob Haury (1839-1929) family

"Box" 6 (map folder): diplomas, certificates

box 7: photos removed from photo processing area 8 Sept 2011

Ruth, Emma, 1891-1965

Arthur and Anna Peters Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.239
  • Collection
  • 1930-1980

Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, genealogical information, photos, in a complete jumble.

Most of the material seems to relate to Anna Peters' extended family, more so than Arthur's.

Box 1 includes a note about Arthur Peters' military service, and a cassette tape. Also a Confederate $50 bill in poor condition. And some pencil drawings. Cassette tape in box 1 digitized as elecrec/acc915, June 2018.

Box 4 contains diaries of Mrs. Peter Regier nee Wiens, some German sermons.

Boxes 5 and 6 are mostly photos.

"Box" 7 is a map folder containing genealogy charts.

"Box" 8 is a map folder containing an oversize newspaper item.

Peters, Arthur H., 1908-1980

Joanna Sudermann Andres Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.422
  • Collection
  • 1912-1993

box 1: subject files, writings, teaching notes, as late as 1993

box 2: subject files, writings, diaries and notes from trips 1972, 1980; poetry notebooks 1912, 1934

box 3: diaries 1982-1990, correspondence, children's book in Russian, teaching notes, writings

box 4: teaching notes, scrapbooks, financial records, photos 1908-1970s

box 5: H. J. Andres travel notes - South America; biographical info; speeches; Schowalter Foundation files

box 6: H. J. Andres plaques 1952-1975

box 7: scrapbook - autobiographical

box 8: scrapbook - 1957 Europe trip

box 9: two poetry scrapbooks 1934; H. J. Andres certificate from Prairie View; Golden Agers Christmas Celebration poster

Andres, Joanna Sudermann, 1903-1998

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