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box 1: photos 1880-1990, scrapbook 1930s?, blueprints of Toevs residence and other houses 1950s

box 2: framed Toevs family photos

box 3: Frankie Toevs mental health advocacy files, Harvey County Mental Health Services 1963-65, Prairie View 1960s

box 4: print ephemera 1920-1970s, real estate licenses 1947-48, Crandall family history, account book 1908-1919, photos, obituaries

box 5: real estate sales notebook (whose?) 1910-12, 1920s; account books 1897-1914, 1916-1925, 1925-1933, 1933-1940; Mennonite Mutual Fire Insurance ledgers 1910-1920, 1921-1932

box 6: photos and other family memorabilia - mostly Toevs

"box" 7: Jacob R. Toevs genealogy chart

The papers also include some material that Dudley Dodgion Toevs (adopted son) collected concerning the history of Newton. It wasn’t always possible to separate this material from the original Toevs family papers. Many photographs have been transferred to the MLA photograph collection. Many photos are from Dudley’s book Newton: Remembering Yesterday Today (1994). In addition, quite a few are related to Bernhard Warkentin and the Warkentin House.

This fonds consists of research files and primary material collected by Abraham D. Stoesz for the purpose of publishing a Stoesz book. There are letters, documents inherited from his father and other ancestors, birth and marriage certificates, citizenship records, photographs and other family records. In addition to the Stoesz family materials, there is also some Harder genealogical information including excerpts from a Jacob Harder (1789-1857) diary.

Box 1: speeches, talks, poetry, birthday greetings for 100th birthday, correspondence, clippings, printed matter, books

Box 2: autograph book (whose? not hers), printed matter, correspondence, books, clippings

The papers were in jumbled condition when they came to the MLA.  Some items were in a self-adhesive photo album dating possibly from the early 1970s.  These items were removed and the album discarded.  The papers are divided into several series: business papers, personal financial papers, community organizations, school papers, miscellaneous.  Unfortunately there is little correspondence.  The business papers are very fragmentary but could shed some light on Rapp’s business activities and on early Hesston businesses.  The personal financial papers are also fragmentary but offer a little information on the family’s business in Hesston and Tuleta.  The community organizations series relates to the beginnings of the Hesston Cemetery Association and the school that became Hesston College.  The school papers offer some insight into classroom life at Hesston College in its early years.  The miscellaneous series includes a Maple Grove Sunday School record book 1883-1886 and unidentified photos among its more interesting holdings.

Includes portraits and candid shots of the Penner and Hiebert families and their extended families in Mountain Lake, Minnesota and Gretna, Manitoba.

Fonds consists of letters sent from family and friends in South Russia to Peter Priess in Manitoba in the late 1920s and early 1930s. and photographs. The letters are mostly concerned with the day-to-day activities of the writers, as well as events that might hold personal significance for them or for Peter; they mention everything from daily work and birthdays or funerals, to mass travel to Moscow or passports and the arrests of male family members by Russian authorities. Also included are a number of postcards that were sent to Peter in the 1930s, and a songbook belonging to Anna Janzen, Peter’s maternal aunt.

Mostly letters, sent by Herman and Anna Janzen, Justine Janzen Penner, and Johann and Maria Janzen back to relatives in West Prussia.

These were translated by Louis A. Janzen and published as:

Letters written by Johann and Maria Janzen and Herman and Anna Janzen of Butler County Kansas to the Jacob Dyck family of Laakendorf, West Prussia, Germany during the years of 1880-1893 (North Newton, Kan. : L. Janzen, 1979)

and

Liebe Geschwister II : 1880-1893 (North Newton, Kan. : [author], [198-?])