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Mennonite Archives of Ontario Unknown Portraits
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Portrait of Maria Kroeger

Black and white photo. Older woman seated in chair. Left hand resting on lap and right hand is resting on chair arm. Her hair is pulled back from her face and her dress is a dark colour, with three rows of frills on each shoulder and three buttons down the front of the dress. There is a group of pearls above the top button. Back of photo reads in part: Maria Kroeger in Jahre 1945.

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Hilkia Bowman

  • CA MAO 2015-1.32
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  • [between 1900 and 1926]

A portrait of Hilkia Bowman, 1883-1926. Born in Port Elgin, Ontario, and died in Vancover, British Columbia. Married in 1906 in Didsbury, Alberta to Celena Miller.

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Portrait of David D. and Margareta (Krahn) Kroeger

Black and white. Man is seated on left, with woman standing beside him to right. Man is wearing dark suit, with dark tie and light coloured shirt. Woman is wearing dark dress with stripes in fabric. Her hair is pulled back. Handwritten on back of photograph: "Vater und Mutter. David D. und Margareta Kroeger, Rosental. Mrs. A. P. Regier Virgil, Ont."

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Abram Kroeger and friends holding musical instruments

Black and white. Three men. Two on left are holding Russian guitars and the man on the right is holding violin. Abram Kroeger (Margarethe Regier's brother) is on the right,. He was a specialist in factory in the northern Russian forest during the First World War. In the middle is his brother-in-law (Regehr), possibly married to a Schroeder woman.

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Gordon C. Eby, 1918

Caption by Anne Eby Millar: "Gordon Christian Eby: taken in Aberdeen, Scotland in November, 1918, this pensive pose shows a young man who has seen the horrors of war."

Unknown

Two young Russian Mennonite men

Black and white. Two young men wearing dark clothing, both have hands folded in front of them. Man on left is looking up at ceiling. Man on right is looking off camera to left. Framed pictures are on wall behind them. Abraham P. Regier and Nikolai Epp (from Kuban) - later lived in New York U.S.A. He and his brother were very musical. Abraham Regier visited him in New York. As students they rented 3 rooms in a widow's house. Epp brothers in one room, Abraham Regier and 2 Thiessens (from Kherson?) in second room, and a Swiss student in third room.

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Portrait of Dietrich Regier as Red Cross orderly

Black and white. Man is standing with right hand resting on back of chair, left hand by side. Wearing knee high boots and dark uniform. Hat with visor; on visor is oval, light coloured badge with cross on it. Dietrich Regier (1914-15) Abraham P. Regier's brother as Red Cross Sanitater [orderly] in Moscow.

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Portrait of young Russian Mennonite couple

Man is wearing dark-coloured suit and resting his right hand on the woman's right hip. Her head is tilted back towards him and she is wearing light-coloured dress. In the background to the right is a Christmas tree with lit candles. At the base of the tree is a bouquet of flowers. Post card possibly sent to Gerhard Martens.

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