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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Miscellaneous Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/018
  • Collection
  • 1904-1951

A hodgepodge of letters that includes correspondence regarding missionaries' passport and residency issues, correspondence with Indian college students sponsored by the mission, letters from mission staff in Elkhart, Ind. circulated among the missionaries, and correspondence pertaining to clothing and bedding orders filled by various Mennonite sewing circles.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Miscellaneous Materials

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/019
  • Collection
  • 1900-1960

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.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Normal Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/008
  • Collection
  • 1922-1949

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

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Photographs

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/023
  • Collection
  • 1899-1968

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.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Publicity Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/013
  • Collection
  • 1922-1952

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).

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Secretary's Correspondence and Subject Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/004
  • Collection
  • 1917-1952

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).

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Superintendent's Correspondence and Ledger Books

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/003
  • Collection
  • 1900-1921

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.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

Beulah Litwiller Gonzales Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/104SC
  • Collection
  • 1948-1950

The collection consists of three letters written by then Beulah Litwiller from Puerto Rico to her friends from 1948 to 1950.

Gonzales, Beulah Litwiller

Blanche Sell Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/183
  • Collection
  • circa 1900-2001

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.

Sell, Blanche

C. D. (Christian David) Esch Diary

  • US MCUSAA HM1/314SC
  • Collection
  • 1928

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.

Esch, C. D. (Christian David), 1883-1931

Charles and Ruth Shenk Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/205SC
  • Collection
  • 1958-1967

Outgoing form letters to friends and family updating them on the Shenks' mission work in Hokkaido, Japan

Shenk, Charles

Council of International Anabaptist Ministries Records

  • US MCUSAA X/016
  • Collection
  • 1958-2004

The organizational records of the Council of International Anabaptist Ministries, formerly titled Council of Mission Board Secretaries and Council of International Ministries. This organization serves as a coordinating body for a number of participating agencies such as Brethren in Christ World Missions, Mennonite Central Committee, Mennonite Mission Network, Virginia Mennonite Missions, Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission, Mennonite Brethren Mission, Eastern Mennonite Missions, and others. The records are divided into three series: 1) Minutes, 1958-2004; 2) Consultation Papers, 1973-1993; 3) Subject Files, 1962-2004.

Council of International Anabaptist Ministries

Earl and Genny Schwartzentruber Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/269SC
  • Collection
  • 1968-1972

Three "update" letters discussing the Schwartzentrubers' mission work in Bragado, Argentina. Also includes two photographs of the Schwartzentrubers with their children printed on missionary leaflets.

Schwartzentruber, Earl, 1928-2014

Elmer S. Miller Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/976
  • Collection
  • 1957-1998

A small set of personal papers, including correspondence to and from J. D. Graber / Mennonite Board of Missions from 1957 to 1966, a curriculum vitae dated 1998, and four manuscripts: "The Christian Missionary, Agent of Secularlization" (1970), Pentacostalist Contributions to the Proletarianization of the Argentine Toba" (1980), "Mennonite Mission to the Argentine Chaco and La Iglesia Evangelica Unida (undated), and "Secularization Reconsidered: Perspectives from Argentina's Eastern Toba" (undated).

Miller, Elmer S., 1931-

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