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Collection Mennonite women -- Diaries
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William C. Voth and Matilda Kliewer Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.179
  • Collection
  • 1890-1986

This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.

Voth, William C., 1888-1962

Anna V. Lehman Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.189
  • Collection
  • 1864-1949

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

Lehman, Anna V., 1874-1968

Janet Soldner Nussbaum Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.192
  • Collection
  • 1945-1970

Diaries, correspondence, photos, slides, scrapbook, clippings. Most or all relating to Colombia mission work.

Nussbaum, Janet Soldner, 1918-

Ferdinand J. Isaac and Anna (Penner) Isaac Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.196
  • Collection
  • 1921-1947

Box 1: her diaries 1943-44, 1946; talks, speeches by her; correspondence 1920s-30s; slides

Box 2: German New Testament

Box 3: his(?) diaries 1935-42

Box 4: her diaries 1921, 1931-33, unknown year; his diaries 1927-1930, 1936, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947; Donald's(?) diary 1942; photo album; slides

"Box"5: actually a map folder, contains village statistics charts from India mission

Isaac, Ferdinand J., 1888-1946

Anna Baerg Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.204
  • Collection
  • 1916-1924

Consists entirely of photocopies of her diaries.

See Diary of Anna Baerg 1916-1924, trans. and ed. Gerhard Peters (Winnipeg: CMBC Publications, 1985).

Baerg, Anna, 1897-1972

Emma Ruth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.236
  • Collection
  • 1900-1960

Box 1: correspondence, diaries, teaching certificates, clippings, notes

Box 2: correspondence, photos, school materials, slides, diaries, creative writing materials

Box 3: photos, clippings, family history info, video copy of movies in box 4

Box 4: 8mm home movies

Box 5: framed photo of Jakob Haury (1839-1929) family

"Box" 6 (map folder): diplomas, certificates

box 7: photos removed from photo processing area 8 Sept 2011

Ruth, Emma, 1891-1965

Arthur and Anna Peters Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.239
  • Collection
  • 1930-1980

Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, genealogical information, photos, in a complete jumble.

Most of the material seems to relate to Anna Peters' extended family, more so than Arthur's.

Box 1 includes a note about Arthur Peters' military service, and a cassette tape. Also a Confederate $50 bill in poor condition. And some pencil drawings. Cassette tape in box 1 digitized as elecrec/acc915, June 2018.

Box 4 contains diaries of Mrs. Peter Regier nee Wiens, some German sermons.

Boxes 5 and 6 are mostly photos.

"Box" 7 is a map folder containing genealogy charts.

"Box" 8 is a map folder containing an oversize newspaper item.

Peters, Arthur H., 1908-1980

Helena Graewe Warkentin Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.255
  • Collection
  • 1917-1940

Diaries covering roughly 1917-1940.

Autobiography

clippings

book of handwritten poems or songs

photocopy of typed account of Central Asia trek

Warkentin, Helena Graewe, 1865-1942

Ernst A. Peters Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.257
  • Collection
  • 1920-1950

Box 1: correspondence, diary (hers?)

Box 2: clippings, correspondence, photo album, financial records, printed matter

Box 3: clippings

Peters, Ernst A., 1892-1959

Maria Becker Warkentin and Anna Warkentin Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.285
  • Collection
  • 1905-1977

This collection consists of diaries written by Maria (Becker) Warkentin, starting January 1, 1905, and continuing until her death, June 29, 1943.  The diaries were then continued by her daughter Anna Warkentin until March 24, 1977, shortly before her death on June 2, 1977.  All entries are written in German through 1955, and in English from 1956 through 1977.

Warkentin, Maria Becker, 1867-1943

Harold Ratzlaff and Ruth Regier Ratzlaff Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.302
  • Collection
  • 1930-1980

box 1: slides, photo albums (disassembled)

box 2: slides, guest books, mission files, autobiography (his)

box 3: diaries (hers)

box 4: diaries (hers), photo album, slides

box 5-7: 16mm films

box 8: additional copy of Harold autobiography brought in by anonymous donor 12 May 2015

Ratzlaff, Harold, 1911-2006

Helena Duerksen Warkentin Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.328
  • Collection
  • 1947-1951

Consists of 2 diaries, 1947 and 1951.

Warkentin, Helena Duerksen, 1890-1960

Anna Kreider Juhnke Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.337
  • Collection
  • 1966-1993

box 1: files from Baptist-Mennonite dialogue 1989-1993

box 2: Honora Becker letters, file of clippings, etc. on Mennonite homosexuality discussion

box 3-4: Mennonite women 1971-1997 (clippings, minutes and correspondence of MCC Women's Concerns Committee, lecture notes)

box 5: Bethel teaching files

box 6-8: British Literature teaching files

box 9-10: Nonwestern Literature class

box 11: Africa and China files

box 12: Claudia Limbert file

box 13: Bethel files

box 14: notes on Mennonite literature

box 15: Milton and Arthurian files

box 16: "lit. articles to file"

box 17: folder on Bethel songs brought in by Jim Juhnke 30 Nov 2011

boxes 18-19: diaries

Juhnke, Anna Kreider, 1940-2005

Selma Ellenberger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.384
  • Collection
  • 1900-1964

Box 1-2: correspondence, diaries

box 3: correspondence, books

box 4: funeral guest book, Adolf Ellenberger writings, music books (one handwritten), books (don't know the identity of this Adolf Ellenberger; maybe her father?)

Ellenberger, Selma Emilie, 1885-1964

Hilda C. Mueller Shaum Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.390
  • Collection
  • 1935-1982

box 1: correspondence, diaries, papers related to 1950 trip to Europe
box 2: scrapbook (all text, no pasted-in items)
box 3: mostly papers related to 1950 trip to Europe

Shaum, Hilda C. Mueller, 1913-1988

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