Handwritten original autobiography, book 1, ca. 230pp. (pagination is inconsistent)

Book 2, ca. 110pp.

Photocopy of typed Gustav Enss autobiography, apparently from Jacob Sudermann collection at Goshen, with notes/corres. by Menno Schrag and Jim Juhnke

Photocopy of typed 18p. autobiography of Amy(?), photocopy of rough inventory of Gustav Enss papers (at Goshen?), photocopy of Enss genealogical data from Joanna Andres

Re-typed, laser-printed autobiography texts from David P. Sudermann 1996 – labeled Hist. Mss. 1-605

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.

This fonds contains 276 photographs taken and received by Arthur W. Slagel during his 3-year assignment with Mennonite Central Committee from 1920-1923. The collection has photos of the relief work in Russia showing various aspects of the work including workers, headquarters, storage, distribution, seeded and distributed crops, transportation, buildings and homes. The photos were taken in locations such as Chortitza, Alexandrosk, Schoenwiese, Rosenthal, Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld, Ohrloff, Nicopol, and Sagradowka. There are images of the 1923 emigration group from Schoenwiese leaving for Canada. There are general scenic photos of the Dnieper rapids, the Kremlin and other sites in Moscow. Some photographs were likely given to Slagel from Mennonite workers in Russia, such as the Solomon Ediger family, the Peter Nikkel family, the Johann Janzen family, the Ohrloff teachers and others. And, finally there are photos of travels taken in England, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, Egypt, Palestine and Syria.

This file consists of the following:
H.H. Kornelsen "Wie kleine Begegenheiten und Ereignisse mitwirken, dass es ano 1923 zu einer grossen Auswanderung der Mennoniten kam". German, 18 pages - (1 file) Box 241

Box 1: books, pamphlets (farm machinery), slides, cassette tape

Box 2: books. clippings, Boese family letters, Boese family information

Box 3: agriculture and machinery periodicals and brochures

Box 4: family history information

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

Choir of the Schoensee Mennonite Brethren Church. In second row from the bottom, 4th from the left (sitting) is Johann Bartels, leader of the choir and lay minister. To his right, 5th from the left is Jakob Brauer, a minister. Four of Anna Wall’s siblings, a brother-in-law and two cousins are on this photo. They are identified as follows:

Greta Bartels, daughter of Johann Bartels is 3rd from left in the front row.
Tina Wall, sister to Anna is 2nd from left in the 2nd row, up from the bottom of the photo. (Tina lives in St. Catharines as well and at present is 95 years of age.)
Lena Wall, sister to Anna is 1st at the left in the 3rd row, up from the bottom of the photo.
Sara Hamm, the oldest sister of Anna is the 6th from the left, in the 3rd row, up from the bottom of the photo.
Nicolas Hamm, husband of Sara is the 5th from the left in the 4th (top) row.
Abram Wall (Jr.), brother of Anna, is 7th from the left in the 4th (top) row.
Kornelius Bartels, son of Johann Bartels, the choir leader is the 8th from the left in the 4th (top) row.

Consists of Cornelius Voth's "Ein Schreibe Buch" which was continued by his son-in-law Peter Balzer.

The first two pages have recipes for remedies for stomach ache, the plague, etc. written by Peter Balzer.

Next is a 17 page family history section.

Pages 1, 2, and 3 are more remedies for illneses.

Up to p. 203 is miscellaneous poems, songs, speeches, sermons, etc.

Then several blank pages.

Page 233 starts a diary followed by accounts of what he borrowed from various people.

238-242: weather chart

258-266: remedies for horse diseases

272: recipes for gilding glass and leather

283: diary notes

288-291: remedies for human and animal illnesses

292 to end: financial notes, blacksmithing work, etc.