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box 1: Bethel diploma 1949, travel diaries 1977-1988, miscellaneous notebooks, photos, correspondence Amalia Ewy to Emma Ewy 1925-1935, clippings, yearbooks from various schools (where she taught?) 1940s-60s, photos, print ephemera-1960s-travel, notebook, slides
box 2: photos, diaries, college transcripts, teaching certificate, family history material, books
box 3-4: correspondence 1950-1981, photos, print ephemera, books, travel diaries, correspondence 1950s-1960s, family history material, passports, photos, Arlington church construction, school papers, legal and financial papers back to 1901
Box 5: scrapbook-travel-1950s

Box 1: mostly sermons (removed from an old accordion file)

Box 2: more sermons (removed from three small binders), books

Farm account book 1921-1931 plus some additional financial records.

Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps

diaries 1917-79 with gaps

autograph books

clippings

Tapes of interview with Helen Janzen Hirschler conducted by Leland and Bertha Harder and Mariam Penner Schmidt, Aug. 21, 1985, about her early life in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, her student years at Bethel College, and later life in Emporia. (Not clear if there was just one interview or a series of them. There are 3 tapes. All have been copied to DVD.)

The collection contains personal materials from all three creators, including school transcripts and diplomas, school papers, baptismal certificates and other documentation of their early family life. However, the most extensive personal materials are the writings of Helen and Amelia and the correspondence of Amelia and her family.

The other major category of materials in the collection is family history. This includes several generations of correspondence of Amelia’s family, especially of her many relatives in Germany who wrote to Amelia’s mother Elizabeth Ellenberger, her Aunt Selma Ellenberger, and to Amelia herself, covering a period of over a century. The family history materials, in addition to these primary source documents, includes extensive genealogical research materials. Published genealogies, primarily collected by Adam, relate to many branches of his ancestors, especially on his maternal, Becker, side. He and Amelia both compiled numerous family charts and histories.

Family history materials, correspondence, school records (his), handwritten music score "Eventide" by Sara Glick, book Elsie Helen Friesen, From the Roots of Jacob Peters (1978) with annotations and inclusions, and Elsie Helen Epp, Episodes of the Prairie Pioneers: Five Branches from the Family Tree of Heinrich Epp (1991) with annotations and inclusions

Consists mostly of financial papers, with some correspondence, school papers, family history papers, Leonhard's passport and naturalization papers.

box 1: college or grad school files

box 2: talks, correspondence, miscellaneous files

box 3: study conferences, miscellaneous

box 4: study conferences, miscellaneous, pamphlets

box 5: tapes and CDs of 1978 interviews (Roger Juhnke, interviewer)

box 6: slides and photo album, much of it CPS-related

box 7: 1940s notebooks/diaries, photos, CPS material

Includes two Bibles, one German and one English. Both in poor condition. The German one contains family information. Also several photographs, some related to Bethel College and Tabor Mennonite Church.

Box 1: early quilting research

Box 2-3: quilting research and genealogy notebook

Correspondence from relatives in Russia and Canada, 1930s.

School souvenir, 1911, Emmethal Dist. 30, Marion County, Kansas

Receipt for sending aid package to Russia, 1933

This small set of papers consists of a notebook and a copy of Heatwole's book, Gems of Thought for Memory's Casket.  The notebook appears to have served a number of purposes, containing what appears to be information about financial accounts, anecdotes and scriptures, addresses, and miscellaneous notes.  The book is notable because the text block was inserted upside-down when bound.

Johann Lehmann diaries 1864-1879. Anna Lehman diaries 1945-1949. Anna Lehman correspondence, a few financial papers, "Familien-Chronik" (probably removed from a Bible)