Assorted records created by the American Mennonite Mission in India, including membership and marriage registers for Indian churches, maps, pamphlets, furniture inventories, hospital records, articles and leaflets, and other miscellaneous materials.  This series includes the statement of comity agreed to by the various denominational mission organizations in India, which stated mission workers' commitment to corking cooperatively rather than competitively.

Scattered records documenting the American Mennonite Mission's teacher training program, which seems to have trained Indian teachers and other workers in Christian education.

Consists primarily of miscellaneous pre-1930  photographic prints documenting the Dhamtari mission, its workers, and those served by the mission.  Also includes a scrapbook of the Bihar mission created by Esther and Milton Vogt.

Records of the committee charged with educating the public about the work of the American Mennonite Mission in India through print media.  Materials include an account book (1924-1929), meeting minutes (1922-1937, undated), and miscellaneous materials, including statistical reports about Mennonites in India and the beginnings of the Mennonite Church in India (1949-1952).

This series consists primarily of Incoming and outgoing correspondence to and from the office of the secretary, which appears to have replaced the office of the superintendent as the director of the mission's affairs.  Researchers will find in this series correspondence between the secretary and leaders of the Mennonite Board of Missions, Indian government officials, and non-Mennonite mission organizations.  Also present here are the secretary's record book (1905-1915), which contains the earliest executive committee and business meeting minutes as well as a number of subject files.

Secretaries of the American Mennonite Mission include J. N. Kauffman, Aldine Carpenter Brunk, and J. D. Graber (1937-1944).

Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials.  These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.

These records document the work of an organization of missionary women that guided the work of the Indian Bible Women and the sewing circles in India.  Meeting minutes comprise the bulk of the records.

papers related to an effort by the Christian Endeavor Society of First Mennonite Church, Newton, Kansas, to raise money for building a new mission station in India in the 1920s

Correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous materials associated with Blanche Sell's 35 years of missionary service in India with the Mennonite Board of Missions.  While outgoing correspondence relating the daily work and spiritual life of Mennonite missionaries in Dhamtari will be of most interest to researchers, this collection also holds substantial incoming correspondence from Sell's mother, Elizabeth Sell, and sister, Doris Shenk.  Most of the photographs are snapshots with fair to excellent captioning.  They include images of Indian spiritual and medical leaders, including P. J. Malagar and Dr. Martin.  Miscellaneous materials include a Mennonite Board of Missions India calendar (1952), texts of missionary messages Sell delivered to various Mennonite congregations in the 1980s, and autograph books.

Transcription of the diary of a Mennonite medical missionary who served in India from 1910 until his death in 1931.  The diary includes very brief activites of Esch's activities, ranging from prayer to medical duties and from administrative mission work to menial labor.

Papers of a female missionary worker (nurse) in India (1931-1939).  Includes diaries, extensive correspondence with family and friends in the United States, and with Indian friends and colleagues she met in the course of her mission work.  Also includes elementary school, Sunday school, and college notes, diplomas, a scrapbook made by Prairie Street Mennonite Church for her time in India, Christmas letters from missionaries and missionary families, and miscellaneous annotated publications and clippings.

These papers consist primarily of Elizabeth "Betty" Erb's outgoing correspondence, describing her life and work as a missionary nurse in India.  Also included among the papers are Erb's journals, a small number of photographs, and miscellaneous materials, including poems, compositions, and essays by Erb.

Personal papers of a Mennonite missionary and president of Goshen College and his wife.  Papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Biographical and Family Materials, 1911-1992

(2) Correspondence, 1919-1977

(3) Articles, Addresses, and Sermons, circa 1929-1968

(4) Education and Teaching Materials, 1921-1965

(5) Commissioned Trips, 1946-1964

(6) Photographs, circa 1880-1963

(7) Miscellaneous, 1912-1961

These papers are organized into four series:

(1) Correspondence, 1907-1951

(2) Articles, Manuscripts, and Sermons, 1926-1951, undated

(3) Miscellaneous, 1898-1950

(4) Photographs, circa 1893 -1950

Records of the Home and Foreign Relief Commission, an early organization aiming to respond to the famine in India. Records from the organization's founding and operation are included, as is the correspondence of relief worker George Lambert. Photographs that chronicle the process of sending and delivering aid to India can also be found in this collection.

This collection has been arranged into the following series:

(1) Commission Records, 1892-1951

(2) George Lambert Correspondence and Materials, 1896-1897

(3) Photographs, circa 1897