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BYYSU group at camp with fifteen campers and three teachers gathered outside the camp ready for departure.

This photo is of a children's choir performing at a General MB Conference convention. The children sing with raised hands.

This is a photo of some adults and children sitting around a table set for a meal. Mary Koop (Dyck) is standing in the background.

The missionaries who worked with migrant families in the labour camps near Eloy, Arizona. They sit on the steps of a house and are likely the same people named in the photo caption in the CM 4-9-7, namely, Rev. and Mrs. Glen Habegger (and their young boy), Rebecca Nickel and Elsie Heppner. A second photo (13x9), dated Jan 21, 1956, shows another group of children from the migrant camps, some of whom were likely African American children. Both photos were not used in the CM.

Seven children seated on the grass

This photo is of a group of 5 orphan children. Three children stand in the back, with two children sitting in the front. They are dressed in traditional dress.

Two women are standing outside, each holding a child and one woman is seated on a chair, also holding a child.. Two women are wearing checked dresses with a lower belt and the other with wide stripes. A bush is behind them. The inscription says ' von Herbert Sask."
This photo was featured in the March 30, 2020 edition of the Canadian Mennonite, asking for help identifying the women in the photo. Dave Bukholder of Stouffville, ON has identified the adult women as Meyer sisters, "sisters of my paternal grandmother Emma (Meyer) Burkholder. (Mrs. L.J. Burkholder." left to right, Eva Williamson (Meyer) married to Orm Williamson who farmed in the Pamburn, SK area. Mary Strong (Meyer) who lived in the Gravenhurst, ON area. Sarah Gamble (Meyer) married to Glen Gamble who worked with the Bible School in Pamburn. Dave speculates that in the early 1930s the Williamsons returned to Ontario.

Used in the CM 14-10-3. Three African American children, a girl and 2 younger boys. Used with article about a new service ministry to the poor launched in Fort Wayne, Ind. Paul and Pauline Holsopple of

3 children of various ages sitting on an animal hide blanket in front of a fence. One has a doll on her lap. Farm building and equipment in the background.

A boy is sitting in an arm chair and 2 girls are sitting beside him. One on the arm of the chair, the other on the arm of the next chair. The boy is wearing a dark jacket and short pants.. The girl at the left is wearing a light coloured dress, the other one a dark dress.

This is a photo of Tina Goertzen (Dyck) sitting on a tricycle, Mary Koop (Dyck) standing on the ground and holding a doll and Abram Dyck sitting on a hobby horse. Same as 676-135. 2 copies

This photo is of Tina, Liese, and Manja (older sisters of Nicholas J. Fehderau) in their playhouse with their dolls at the Brodsky estate. Their grandfather, Peter Bahnmann, teased them by calling them the "troika"

This item contains a toddler standing posing in front of some foliage

Two photos on negative. Left: unknown. Right: Horse and rider. Nikolai Fehderau, grandson of Peter Bahnmann, was photographed while visiting relatives living in the Russian sea-port city of Berdjansk in 1909. Description from Forever Summer, Forever Sunday - Plate 18. Hunsberger photo. The photographer was S. la. Berman of Berdjansk.

This is a photo of a woman and a number of children outside in the shade of a tree. Women and children comprise a large segment of the population in South African homelands.