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Box 1: books, pamphlets (farm machinery), slides, cassette tape

Box 2: books. clippings, Boese family letters, Boese family information

Box 3: agriculture and machinery periodicals and brochures

Box 4: family history information

These photos are known as the Ben Sawatzky collection.

A photocopy of a document signed by five heirs of Benedict Miller outlining arrangements for financial support of Benedict Miller's widow, Barbara Miller.

A small set of governing documents and minutes from a predecessor organization to the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities.  This organization appears to have been managed from the Chicago Home Mission by M. S. Steiner.

A small set of family papers consisting primarily of correspondence from Benjamin Byler Stoltzfus (a farmer in West Liberty, Ohio and preacher at the Lima Rescue Mission of the (old) Mennonite Church) and his children B. Frank Stoltzfus (documenting his studies at Goshen College and his Mennonite Central Committee service in Constantinople, Turkey in 1917), Will A. Stoltzfus (including letters from New York Biblical Seminary and Beiruit, Lebanon, where he engaged in education and mission work in 1920-1921), Lena Stoltzfus, and Eli Stoltzfus.  Also includes poetry written by his daughter Rosie Stoltzfus Byler.

Included is a photocopy of a letter by Benjamin Eby dated October 17, 1849 and 4 transcripts and translations of additional letters by Benjamin Eby from 1851 to 1858 as used in the October, 1967 issue of the Mennonite Historical Bulletin.

This fonds consists of six categories of material. 1) World War One and World War Two Materials 2) Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC) Material 3) Mennonite History 4) Church Related Material 5) Mennonitische Schulkommission 6) Foreign Bible Society Records. The physical arrangement does not allow following these categories sequentially.

The World War materials record Ewert's efforts to ensure the government would grant military exemption. The materials include petitions, records of financial gifts, articles and correspondence with such leaders as Abraham Doerksen, David Toews, Jacob Hoeppner and B.B. Janz. Ewert also kept a list of Mennonite men from Conference churches who were in the military during the wars. There is also a some correspondence of Julius Toews with Prime Minster Neville Camberlain of England.

The CMC materials newspaper clippings, notes, articles by Ewert and others, and correspondence. There are files on topics such as marriage licensing; articles on the German hymnal, conference statistics, program bulletins for teachers and ministers, the Canadian Mennonite, Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC) conferences, new Mennonite immigrants to Canada and notes on annual conference session notes.

The Mennonite History materials include numerous newspaper clippings from Die Steinbach Post, Die Mennonitische Rundschau, The Winnipeg Free Press, Carillon News, and Der Nordwester regarding Mennonites in Canada, Paraguay, Mexico, and Brazil. There are also files dealing with the publication of Wohin? Woher? Mennoniten, and articles written by Ewert and others dealing with Mennonite history.

The church related material consists of things that Ewert collected through his work in specific congregations, namely the congregations at Edenburg and Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnipeg. Items such as a minister's manual, German New Testament, sermons, and newspaper clippings can be found in this section.

The Mennonitische Schulkommission materials consist of the records of an organizaiton that met with politian Valentine Winkler about the governments interference in the operation of Mennonite schools. There is also a 1892 attendance record for the Edenburg school where Ewert taught.

The Foreign Bible Society records include materials which Ewert collected while involved with this organization from 1952 to 1955.

Box 1: photocopies of the Unruh material at the Hoover Institution, much of it notes for what became his Fügung und Führung book

Box 2: more Hoover photocopies; folder of typed obituaries and tributes, probably collected by Cornelius Krahn; other miscellaneous photocopies