This photo is of a group of 13 men, women, and children posing for a photo in tall grass and next to a tree in Lockwisch, Germany. In the group is the Nickolai Klassen family. See "From the Steppes to the Prairies" by Paul Klassen, p. 71ff. See also NS17-01-3.
This photo is of a group of 13 men, women, and children posing for a photo in tall grass and next to a tree in Lockwisch, Germany. In the group is the Nickolai Klassen family. See "From the Steppes to the Prairies" by Paul Klassen, p. 71ff. See also NP160-01-3.
Used in CM 7-12-7 by the GCMC, B. of Christian Service to promote mission work. This series continues to 1998-14.266. A broad street in Germany filled with debris & buildings in ruins. To promote paxmen overseas.
Standing in front of a doorway, a woman holds a container while a Red Cross worker ladles soup into another container from a big pot. Taken in Germany? In the early 1950s? An MCC Food relief project? Written on back of photo by someone in Europe, the # 1182.
A 2 or 3 year-old girl wearing a knit suit with an embroidered pattern across the front. Inscription at the back is "Das Mädchen von unseren Bauern….." (daughter of our farming [landlord])
Collection is made up of his handwritten German translation of C. Henry Smith, which resulted in the book Die Geschichte der Mennoniten Europas (Newton, KS: Faith and Life Press, 1964).