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This series contains materials collected and created in the Mennonite Publishing House's efforts to document its own history.  It consists of two subseries:

(1) General Historical Files, 1948-2003

(2) Historical Monograph Files, 1970-1991

Minutes and financial information from Provident Bookstores (the Mennonite Publishing House Bookstores) annual managers' meetings. Subjects covered in the meetings include: annual sales, employee productivity, inventory lists, company goals, and reports from individual bookstores in Scottdale, Goshen, Iowa City, Bloomington, Sauderton, Lancaster County, and southern Ontario, Canada.

Researchers should note that records from the following years are missing: 1980, 1995-1996.

A small set of scattered financial reports pertaining to the Mennonite Publishing House's Provident Bookstores.  Reports include profit and loss statements, weekly comparison reports, and a report generated in 2001 evaluating the financial health of the bookstores.

This small set of records consists primarily of customer survey reports conducted in 1983 at the bookstores in Lancaster, Pa., Ephrata, Pa., New Holland, Pa., and Iowa City, Iowa.  Other material includes a set of "philosophy statements" indicating the bookstores' mission statements as well as their positions on the kind of literature they carried, marketing practices, etc.

A small set of materials documenting the evolution and administration of the publishing house's book review service.  Originally intended to screen literature for Mennonite congregational and Sunday school librarians, the service transformed into a periodical for Mennonite audiences, first titled Book Review Service, then Provident Book Reviews, and finally Provident Book Finder.

Researchers seeking the publications listed above should contact  the Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen, Ind.).

Scattered material pertaining to the publishing house's book stores.

A small set of annual reports documenting the number of personnel in the division, production statistics, inventory, and sales.

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

This collection about an early relief organization of the (old) Mennonite Church is divided into six series:

(1) William A. Derstine Papers, 1912-1927; (2) Financial Records, 1917-1925; (3) Levi Mumaw Papers, 1918-1925; (4) Silas Hertzler Diary (Transcription), 1919-1920; (5) Stanley Kerr Diary, 1920; (6) John Warye Diary, 1919-1920

These records are divided into eight series:

Series 1: Governing Documents, circa 1945-2005

Series 2: Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1945-2010

Series 3: Publications, 1945-2010

Series 4: Financial Records, 1949-2009

Series 5: Correspondence, 1949-2001

Series 6: Membership Records, 1943-2004

Series 7: Local Chapter Records, 1950-1989

Series 8: Miscellaneous Materials, 1945-2011

Records documenting the annual food and crafts sale and auction in Goshen, Ind. held as a fundraiser for Mennonite Central Committee. These records are divided into three series:

(1) Annual Reports and Governing Documents, 1968-1991

(2) Photographs, 1969-1983

(3) General Records, 1968-2005

The records are divided into three series:

(1) Administrative Files, 1947-2004

(2) Curricular Materials, 1956-1996

(3) Camper and Correspondence Records, 1953-2009

Records created by the Mennonite Conscientious Resisters (formerly known as the Mennonite Conscientious Non-Cooperators) which was primarily operated from the campuses of Bethel, Goshen, and Eastern Mennonite Colleges.    Records consist predominantly of newsletters compiled by the organization for the purpose of spreading information about draft registration issues in the early to mid 1980s. Correspondence, anti-registration newsletters, pamphlets on the registration process, drafts of newsletter articles, and a survey on the Mennonite response to conscription are also included.

Meeting minutes taken at the semi-annual meetings of several Mennonite Church USA conferences in geographic proximity.  Issues discussed include opportunities for collaboration, creating a common vision, church planting, and notable happenings in each of the conferences represented.

A small set of materials collected by Goshen College Good Library documenting the history of deafness in the Mennonite tradition and the work of Anabaptist Deaf Ministries.