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Two scrapbooks documenting Hostetler's experiences as a student at Goshen College Academy (1926-1930) and Goshen College (1930-1934).  The scrapbooks contain photographs, invitations, notes and letters from friends, and ephemera.

The scrapbook was made for Brenneman by members of the Central Mennonite Church, Elida Ohio, in the mid 1960s, when Brenneman was bed ridden due to illness at age 90.  Accompanying the scrapbook are scattered letters to, from, and about Brenneman, as well as an obituary and some newspaper clippings.

These papers include Mildred Schrock Mumaw's 6 page memoir, funeral service programs for Mildred, Ralph, and R. Wayne Mumow, obituaries of R. Wayne Mimow, and a family group photograph that includes MIldred Mumaw as a child.

Written narratives summarized from oral history interviews Pratt conducted with 13 Amish and Mennonite men regarding their experiences as conscientious objectors in World War II. These interviews were used in Pratt's dissertation, "A Study in Cultural Persistence: The Amish in LaGrange County, Indiana, 1841 - 1945" (Notre Dame, 1997).

Cassette tapes of oral history interviews conducted in the late 1980s and early 1990s on the "H. S. Bender Era," roughly defined as 1920 to 1960.  The project was sponsored by the Mennonite HIstorical Society, with Al Keim as director.  Accompany the cassette tapes on which the interviews were recorded are indexes to the interviews, background information about interviewees, and some consent forms. No full transcripts of the interviews are available.

This memoir, entitled "Like Jacob, I Waited Seven Years, or Faint Heart Did Win Fair Lady," recounts Hostetler's courtship of Ida (Yoder) Nussbaum.  Hostetler's daughter, Dora Miller, recorded Hostetler's memoir in writing, as Hostetler himself frequently recited it as a story.

A notebook of historical sketches written by Stineman, including essays on the settlement, natural history, and development of Miami County, Indiana.  Also includes Stineman's reminiscences of Indians (Native Americans) in the area and his family farm.  The papers also include genealogical information, some of which appears to have been copied by Stineman's son, Ira, from the Early Mennonite Correspondence and Papers, 1708-1910.  HM1-10.  Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen.  Goshen, Indiana.

A 12 page autobiographical manuscript entitled "Recollections of a Mennonite Boyhood" that describes Slagel's childhood from 1930 to 1942 in Chicago and Topeka, Indiana.

Records of an organization dedicated to preserving the Deitsch (Dietsch, Deutsch, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German) language.  Materials include documents of governance and membership, newsletters, and programs, sound recordings, video recordings, and photographs of the organization's annual meeting and dinner.  The annual meetings include skits, songs, and recitations in the Deitsch language.

These papers consist primarily of Elizabeth "Betty" Erb's outgoing correspondence, describing her life and work as a missionary nurse in India.  Also included among the papers are Erb's journals, a small number of photographs, and miscellaneous materials, including poems, compositions, and essays by Erb.

These papers, documenting the life and work of a Mennonite missionary couple who served in India for 43 years, are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, 1945-1991

(2) Bihar Mission Records, 1955-1993

Papers of a Harold Wik, a Mennonite service worker who volunteered with Civilian Public Service, Mennonite Central Committee and missionary to China and Malaya (West Malaysia), and his son Philip Wik.  Documents include correspondence, photographs, two Wik family histories, and a Wik family anthology.  The family histories and anthologies integrate historical family documents or photocopies thereof into the text.

A small set of materials about the life and work of Dorothy S. McCammon, a teacher who was active in Mennonite ministry and women's organizations.  Materials include essays and poems about McCammon written at the time of her death, a brief history of the Elkhard County Jail ministry to women, and a copy of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission Bible Study Guide, "From Monologue to Dialogue" (1978), which McCannon coauthored.

Personal papers documenting debates in the Mennonite Church regarding the position of  homosexuals in congregations and ministry.  Includes personal and professional correspondence and records pertaining to the Welcome Committee, Connecting Families, and other Anabaptist and Christian organizations supporting the inclusion of gays and lesbians in Christian communities.

Esther Oyer Smith's school scrapbook documents her education at Metamora High School (Metamora, Illinois), Hesston College and Bible School (Hesston, Kansas), Clinton County Normal School (St. Johns, Michigan), and Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana). The scrapbook includes photographs, clippings, commencement announcements, invitations, and other ephemora. Her time at Hesston College and Goshen College is particulary is well represented.