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box 1 - student notebooks from Bethel College, some correspondence 1913, 1948

box 2 - diaries 1925-1928, sermon notebooks, birthday book

box 3-4 - books

box 5 - photos

diaries 1897-1956 (may have been continued after his death by wife or children), financial record book 1890s?, small amount of family history material

Abraham Toews will?, 1877

Hutterite historical account of the group at Vishenka by a Peter Neufeld, 1866

financial record books, possibly of Bethel church, 1909-1925

poems by Peter T. Neufeld

German sermons 1850s-1890s and undated, authors not given, but some probably by Heinrich Neufeld and Heinrich Toews

catechism booklet 1880

Isaac Peters "Vortrag bei einer Lehrerwahl" Marienthal, no date

Isaac Peters, "Etwas über den Zweck der Form u. die Bedeutung der christlichen Wassertaufe," no date

Heinrich Toews diary

Bethel Jugend-Verein speeches and correspondence by Peter T. Neufeld

The collection provides extensive documentation of the personal lives and careers of the Rein and Hilda through a broad range of documents. This includes official documents such as birth certificates, baptismal certificates, diplomas, teaching certificates, a draft card, and so forth. Limited correspondence provides some insights into their lives, but more detail is found in extensive clippings, and in Hilda’s case reminiscences and presentations, especially related to growing up on the mission field in Oklahoma. Rein collected historical advertisements and pamphlets related to his interest and work with road maintenance.

diaries and account books

"His papers include personal certificates of birth, marriage, and death and also military papers of World War I. Included is the correspondence with the Home Mission Board of the General Conference from June 30, 1926 to June 13, 1960, his sermons...

also diaries 1926-1952

Personal papers of a Mennonite Church pastor and administrator in the Indiana- Michigan Conference.  The papers are divided up into the following series:

These papers consist of six series:

(1) Diaries

(2) Correspondence

(3) Business and Financial Records

(4) Educational Records

(5) Publishing Interests and Manuscripts

(6) Miscellaneous

These papers primarily document the life and work of Silas Hertzler, but includes some material pertinent to his wife, Anna Weaver Hertzler.  The papers are divided into seven series:

(1) Diaries, 1904-1974

(2) American Committee for Relief in the Near East Materials, 1919

(3) Correspondence, 1909-1975

(4) Articles and Writing, 1917-1967

(5) Photographs, 1909-1970

(6) Miscellaneous, 1905-1975

(7) Genealogical Research Files, 1813-1988

Family papers of a Mennonite agriculturalist and soil conservationist.  These materials provide information about the Schmucker, Smucker, Smoker family reunions as well as correspondence, photographs, and diaries of various members of the Smucker family.

Photocopies of diaries and correspondence created during Yoder's period of service in post World War I France with the American Friends Service Committee.

correspondence, sermons, subject files

Personal papers of missionaries of the (old) Mennonite Church who served in Argentina from 1917 to 1948.  Divided into six series:

(1) Diaries, 1918-1956

(2) Correspondence

(3) Articles and Talks

(4) Argentine Mission Records

(5) Deputation Trips

(6) Miscellaneous

These personal papers consist primarily of diaries kept by a minister, bishop, and school administrator of the (old) Mennonite Church in Kansas.  Erb's began keeping a diary at age 14 and continued the practice almost continuously until his death 50 years later.  Erb's diary entries are usually brief and discuss the weather, work, social gatherings, and events of note, such as the 1912 accident in which he was burned and one of his daughters was killed.  Other materials in these papers include scattered correspondence, materials pertaining to his pastoral work, and a 1991 paper about T. M. Erb.

The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II.  Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work.  Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.