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Autograph on a fragment of a document found in a copy of Gerhard Roosen's Christliches Gemüths-Gespräch, printed in Lancaster in 1836.

A letter and newspaper clippings regarding the practice of saluting the American flag in the Newport News, Virginia school system.

An 'update" letter to friends and family written by a Mennonite missionary in Nigeria, describing her work at a girls' school.

Program, 24 photographs (JPEG), and five sound recordings (MP3) documenting the 100th anniversary of an Indian hospital founded by Mennonite missionaries.

Eight page biographical sketch of Solomon B. Wenger, an Iowa Mennonite farmer. The manuscript discusses Wenger's role in the creation of Liberty Mennonite Church (South English, Iowa) and his temperance work. Also includes a photograph printed on newsprint.

A letter addressed to a friend dated June 21, 1872 by Otto Hasenclever of Maximo, Stark County in Ohio. The letter describes his interest in teaching German and notes serious weather that struck Logan County.

Christmas letter written by a missionary family serving in Argentina.

Letter written by a missionary serving Russian Mission, Alaska; describes his trip to the Moravian mission in Bethel, Alaska.  Also includes his impressions of the local Russian Orthodox church, priest, and congregation.

Two letters written by a Mennonite missionary family serving in Tres Lomas, Argentina.  In one letter, they express their frustrations and discouragement with the local Catholic priest, their "small weak congregation," and the local "spiritual coldness."  The other letter is more upbeat in tone and recounts both their successes and failures in Tres Lomas.

A typed transcription of a letter describing the Baumans' trip from Ontario, Canada to their home in Breckneck Township, Pennsylvania in 1846 and the condition of their crops and the weather upon their arrival.  Five different copies of the transcript are present.

The collection consists of the marriage license of Jonathan Kurtz and Lizzie L. Byler dated March 18, 1878 in Noble County, Indiana.

The collection includes a 6 page reflection on Valentine Kratz, the first Mennonite preacher in Vineland, Ontario, written by his great granddaughter Mrs. Simeon Kratz, and several pieces from an old family bible dated before 1799.

Handwritten and typed sermon texts and outlines written by a bivocational Mennonite minister in Nebraska.  The sermons are organized by topics, which include:  Bible Study, Christian Life and Church, Communion, Ordinances / Prayer Veil / Non-resistance, Parables, Regeneration / Heaven, Sanctification / Fellowship, the Seven Churches of Revelation, and Sin / Hell.

This collection includes three generations of family records, stories, genealogy, correspondence, publications related to the Pacific Coast District edited by Miller, and miscellaneous other materials.