This fonds contains oral interviews gathered on the subject of labour history from the view of Mennonite business owners and Mennonite employees and well as the history of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate in Winnipeg. The workers were selected from different gender and social classes. The content formed the basis for Thiessen's thesis on labour history of Russian Mennonites, a book on unions, and history of the private Mennonite high school, Westgate.

includes correspondence, diaries, academic papers, sermons, financial papers, biographical material

sermons 1964-1983
a few articles from the AIMM Messenger
biographical sketch

This collection includes personal papers, correspondence, draft materials, Mennonite Youth Conference materials, and Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference materials.

A small collection of poems, sermons and devotional writings,and reminiscences authored by a Mennonite dairy farmer in the Wooster, Ohio area near the end of his life.  These papers provide a good example of lay spirituality in themid-century (old) Mennonite Church.  Mumaw wrote about a number of topics, including suicide, lending money, and leisure time.  His reminiscences include an account of his expoeriences as a conscientious objector in World War I.  Information about the Jonas Smucker homestead may also be found in these papers. This collection also includes materials by and about Mumaw's wife, Clara Zook Mumaw.  These include a poem, home remedies, miscellaneous writings, and genealogical information about the David S. Zook family.

Collection consists of a letter written by Peter Oswald to Christian Nafziger on December 20, 1874 requesting financial assistance to travel back to Ohio from New Orleans.

A small set of personal papers found in an old Mennonite home near Kolb Mennonite Church (Holmes County, Ohio) in 1940.  Materials include early congregational records (1838-1855),scattered correspondence, A Fraktur and a Fraktur fragment, genealogical records, and miscellaneous materials.

The collection consists of a letter dated March 27, 1924 written by R. R. Brenneman of Lima, Ohio to E. M. Detwiler of Columbiana, Ohio. The letter is written in response to a letter R. R. Brenneman received from E. M. Detwiler regarding a specific conflict within the conference.

A letter addressed to a friend dated June 21, 1872 by Otto Hasenclever of Maximo, Stark County in Ohio. The letter describes his interest in teaching German and notes serious weather that struck Logan County.

Correspondence between John M.T. Miller and his father, Moses D. Miller. John was born and raised in Holmes County, Ohio, and moved to Bloomington, Illinois, in 1869 with his wife Gerta (Troyer) Miller. In 1877, they moved to Seward County, Nebraska, where they purchased land and helped to establish the East Fairview Amish Mennonite Church.

Made up of sixteen letters, the collection includes details about land sales and prices and the activities of Amish Mennonites from Holmes County, Ohio, and elsewhere who sought to profit from the acquisition and sale of land in Nebraska.

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, wedding announcements, anniversary announcements, and assorted programs and bulletins pertaining to members of Central Mennonite Church (Elida, Ohio) and other Mennonites in the community.

These papers primarily document the life and work of Isaiah W. Royer, but includes some material pertinent to his wife, Christina Neuhauser Rohrer. The papers are divided into three series:

(1) Biographical Information and Correspondence
(2) Sermon Notes and Orrville Mennonite Church
(3) Sunday School and Commission for Christian Education

A small, fragmentary collection of personal papers consisting of photographs, programs from various mission meetings and church programs in or near Elida, Ohio, a land deed between the Swartz and Snell families, and biographical information about Bishop Samuel Coffman.

Sermon notes and outlines created by a minister of the (old) Mennonite Church who served Bethel Mennonite Church in Wadsworth, Ohio.  Rohrer was ordained in 1917.