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Photographs, correspondence, diaries,  sermons, and other material documenting the Brunks' mission work in India.  The most unusual item in the papers is Eva Brunk's essay, "My First O.B. Case in Dondi," which provides a first hand account of childbirth and post-natal care and customs in a "High Caste Brohmin's home" in the early 20th century.

Two "update" letters from the Shirks describing their missionary work in India and Hong Kong.

This photo is of the A.M.B. Mission Hospital in Deverakonda.

The American Mennonite Association was formed in 1939 to support the financial, educational, travel, and housing needs of missionaries appointed by the Menonite Board of Missions to serve in India.    The association continued to coordinate and oversee the work of  (old) Mennonite Church missionaries who remained in India after the dissolution of the American Mennonite Mission in 1952.  This series contains the association's constitution, meeting minutes, and administrative correspondence, as well as less formal correspondence and telegrams.

The core records of the American Mennonite Mission, India are divided into three series:

(1) Annual Reports, 1902-1929

(2) Business Meeting Minutes, 1910-1952

(3) Constitution and By-Laws, 1908-1909, 1920

Researchers should note that the only minutes included in these records are the business meeting minutes.  Other meeting minutes may be found elsewhere in the records of the American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India), IV-17.

Records of the various mission outposts operated by the American Mennonite Mission, including Baloghahan, Dondi, Ghatula, Mohadi, and Sankra.  Also includes records pertaining to the girls' orphanage and the leper asylum.  Materials include reports, correspondence, and ledger books containing records of activities at the various stations.

Assorted records pertaining to the mission industrial schools, industrial workshop, orphanage, and primary, middle, and high schools.  Records include correspondence, reports, attendee lists, and miscellaneous materials.

Meeting minutes documenting the work of the committee charged with managing the finances, property, and human resources of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  It appears that executive committee and the managing committee are two names for the same body.  This series also includes an index to the meeting minutes (1939-1945, 1949-1950) and scattered correspondence and miscellaneous records.

Researchers should note that earlier minutes for the executive committee may be found in the American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Secretary Correspondence and Subject Files (IV-17-004).

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.

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.

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).

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.