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Group photos of OMBS faculty & students, 1946. Three different photos; two are very similar except for the arrangement at far right. The 3rd photo has a different grouping at both left & right ends. The photographer is possibly Ernest Denton.

"First attempt at photography" by Joseph M. Snyder. "Taken from left hand side window of Albert M. Snyder's home as you look at it." Numbers correspond objects identified on back of photo.

Maple syrup shack west of Martin's school in Waterloo, 1968

Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, poses, a book on her lap, surrounded by palm-leaf and myrtle plants. An exact date for this picture is not available. We do know that Anna was married at 18 years of age in 1901.

Jakob Enns family in an outdoor setting. Jakob was likely a paternal uncle of Olga Enns. Again, the label of the photo is “Cabinet Portrait” indicating the photographer could have been Mennonite or German.

A social outing at the mill.

Jakob Bergen, Elvera (Bergen) Goerz’s father, worked as bookkeeper, buyer and sales clerk at the Blumenort General Store. The store was owned by Gerhard Klassen and managed by Jakob’s brother-in-law, Martin Duerksen. In this photo Jakob Bergen is on a business trip for the store. He stands at the front of the sleigh, holding the horses’ reins and behind him sit two of his colleagues. The sleigh stands in front of a Russian style wooden house with a woman looking out of the window. A man in uniform stands beside the sleigh and salutes. The words on the back of the photo: “Gruss aus Gostovskaya” (Greetings from Gostovskaya) indicate that Jakob Bergen sent it to his family in Blumenort.

Family of the parents of Rev. J. S. Woods, not Mennonite.

Not Mennonite.

12 x 10 cm. (3 copies); 10 x 8 cm. (2 copies).

Negative: Yes.

(Brubacher collection) - 3 copies. Henrietta Brubacher

Daughter of David Brubacher. (Brubacher collection).