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harold s bender

Hist Mss. 1-278
Harold S. Bender (1897 – 1962) Collection
Papers, 1919-1962
125 Boxes (111 Green, 12 Large, 2 Oversize)



Table of Contents

            Series, Subseries and Box Listing            Page 1
            Biographical Sketch                               Page 2
            Administrative Information                     Page 2
            Box Shelf Listing                                   Page 2
            Inventory Listing                                   Pages 6 -  90
            Name and Subject Tracings                    Pages 91 - 95
            Appendices (Additional indexes)             Pages 96 - 140


Series, SubSeries, and Box Listing

General Correspondence, 1917-1962
     General Correspondence, 1917-30            Boxes 1 - 4     (Green)
     General Correspondence, 1931-38            Boxes 5 - 13   (Green)
     General Correspondence, 1939-47            Boxes 14 - 24 (Green)
     General Correspondence, 1948-57            Boxes 25 - 42 (Green)
     General Correspondence, 1958-62            Boxes 43 - 49 (Green)

Mennonite Central Committee, 1929-62
    Mennonite Central Committee, 1929-38     Boxes 50 - 51 (Large)
    Mennonite Central Committee, 1939-47     Boxes 51 - 57 (Large)
    Mennonite Central Committee, 1948-52     Boxes 57 - 60 (Large)
    Mennonite Central Committee, 1953-62     Boxes 60 - 61 (Large)

Boxes 62-125 (Inventory of 10 Additional Series, Listed Below)
   Mennonite Organizations, A - Z                 Boxes 62 - 92     (Green)
   Non-Mennonite Organizations, A - Z         Boxes 93 - 96     (Green)
   Articles and Manuscripts of Bender           Boxes 97 - 101   (Green)
   Articles and Manuscripts of Others            Boxes 102 - 107 (Green)
   Bender's notes as a student                       Boxes 108 - 111 (Green)
   Bender's notes as a teacher                       Boxes 112 - 115 (Green)
   Sermons of Bender                                  Boxes 116 - 117 (Green)
   Bender research and historical notes          Boxes 118 - 119 (Green)
   Personalia                                               Boxes 120 – 123 (Green)
   Index of Correspondence (Card Index)      Boxes 124-125(Oversize)

Appendices (Additional indexes)

Biographical Sketch

   
For biographical information see the April 1964 issue of The Mennonite Quarterly Review.

Administrative Information

    Processed by Bryan Kehr, Steve Reschly, and Janet Lind, along with Mary Amstutz, Elizabeth Bauman, Elizabeth Bender, Dirk Eitzen, John Gingerich, Suzanne Gross, Lydie Hege, Sharon Klingelsmith, and Joe Springer.  General listing and Subject Tracings prepared by Bryan Kehr and Steve Reschly.  Specific subject tracings for "General Correspondence through 1930" prepared by Steve Reschly and Joe Springer. Project director, Leonard Gross.  Project completed July 27, 1981.

    Photograph, series and box Listing posted on web, ca. 2000. Checked by Monica Zimmerman, August 6, 2001.  Reformatted by Kathryn Yoder, March 15, 2004.

Boxes #1, 48 and 91 have been scanned as part of the Gutenberg to Gigabytes Scanning Project, 2003.  Individual files in Boxes 1, 50 and 97 listed by Nelda Nussbaum, April 8, 2004.

Entire inventory listing entered into the computer by Helen Hostetler, and completed May 24, 2006.  Posted on internet on August 16, 2006.  Listing funded by Showalter Foundation.

Box Shelf Listing

Box 1 General Correspondence through 1930, A - F        Green
Box 2 General Correspondence through 1930, G - K       Green
Box 3 General Correspondence through 1930, Ka - Sl     Green
Box 4 General Correspondence through 1930, Sla - Z     Green
Box 5 General Correspondence, 1931-38, A - B             Green
Box 6 General Correspondence, 1931-38, C - E             Green
Box 7 General Correspondence, 1931-38, F - Hei             Green
Box 8 General Correspondence, 1931-38, Ho - Ka             Green
Box 9 General Correspondence, 1931-38, Ko - L             Green
Box 10 General Correspondence, 1931-38, M             Green

Box 11 General Correspondence, 1931-38, N - S             Green
Box 12 General Correspondence, 1931-38, S - U             Green
Box 13 General Correspondence, 1931-38, W - Z             Green
Box 14 General Correspondence, 1939-47, A - Be             Green
Box 15 General Correspondence, 1939-47, Be - D             Green
Box 16 General Correspondence, 1939-47, De - F             Green
Box 17 General Correspondence, 1939-47, G - Ha             Green
Box 18 General Correspondence, 1939-47, He - Ka             Green
Box 19 General Correspondence, 1939-47, Ka - L             Green
Box 20 General Correspondence, 1939-47, M - Me             Green

Box 21 General Correspondence, 1939-47, Mi - O             Green
Box 22 General Correspondence, 1939-47, P - Sh             Green
Box 23 General Correspondence, 1939-47, Sm - W             Green
Box 24 General Correspondence, 1939-47, Wa - Z             Green
Box 25 General Correspondence, 1948-57, A - Bee             Green
Box 26 General Correspondence, 1948-57, Ben - Bz         Green
Box 27 General Correspondence, 1948-57, C             Green
Box 28 General Correspondence, 1948-57, D - E             Green
Box 29 General Correspondence, 1948-57, F             Green
Box 30 General Correspondence, 1948-57, G             Green

Box 31 General Correspondence, 1948-57, H - Ho             Green
Box 32 General Correspondence, 1948-57, Ho - Kz             Green
Box 33 General Correspondence, 1948-57, Ka - Krah         Green
Box 34 General Correspondence, 1948-57, Krau - L         Green
Box 35 General Correspondence, 1948-57, M - Me             Green
Box 36 General Correspondence, 1948-57, Mi - Mz             Green
Box 37 General Correspondence, 1948-57, N - Q             Green
Box 38 General Correspondence, 1948-57, R             Green
Box 39 General Correspondence, 1948-57, S - Sh             Green
Box 40 General Correspondence, 1948-57, Sm - T             Green

Box 41 General Correspondence, 1948-57, U - W             Green
Box 42 General Correspondence, 1948-57, X - Z             Green
Box 43 General Correspondence, 1958-62, A - D             Green
Box 44 General Correspondence, 1958-62, Dy - F             Green
Box 45 General Correspondence, 1958-62,G - H             Green
Box 46 General Correspondence, 1958-62, I - L             Green
Box 47 General Correspondence, 1958-62, La - M             Green
Box 48 General Correspondence, 1958-62, N - Sz             Green
Box 49 General Correspondence, 1958-62, Sc - Z             Green

Box 50 MCC through 1938                         Large
Box 51 MCC through 1938                         Large
Box 52 MCC, 1939-47                         Large
Box 53 MCC, 1939-47                         Large
Box 54 MCC, 1939-47                         Large
Box 55 MCC, 1939-47                         Large
Box 56 MCC, 1939-47                         Large
Box 57 MCC, 1939-47                         Large
Box 58 MCC, 1948-52                         Large
Box 59 MCC, 1948-52                         Large
Box 60 MCC, 1948-52                         Large
Box 61 MCC, 1953-62                         Large

Box 62 Mennonite Organizations, A -Goshen College         Green
Box 63 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green
Box 64 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green
Box 65 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green
Box 66 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green
Box 67 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green
Box 68 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green
Box 69 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green
Box 70 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green

Box 71 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College             Green
Box 72 Mennonite Organizations, Goshen College - IN/MI Conf.     Green
Box 73 Mennonite Organizations, IN/MI Conf. - Ins         Green
Box 74 Mennonite Organizations, Ins - Menno. Board of Ed.     Green
Box 75 Mennonite Organizations, Menno. Board of Ed.         Green
Box 76 Mennonite Organizations, Menno. Bd. of Ed. - MBMC     Green
Box 77 Mennonite Organizations, Menno. Bd. of Missions        Green
Box 78 Mennonite Organizations, MBMC - Menno. Campground    Green
Box 79 Mennonite Organizations, Menno. Community  – MGC    Green
Box 80 Mennonite Organizations, MGC                 Green

Box 81 Mennonite Organizations, MGC                 Green
Box 82 Mennonite Organizations, MGC - Menno. Historical Soc.     Green
Box 83 Mennonite Organizations, MHS - Conrad Grebel materials     Green
Box 84 Mennonite Organizations, MHS, Grebel materials         Green
Box 85 Mennonite Organizations, MHS, Grebel materials         Green
Box 86 Mennonite Organizations, MHS, Grebel materials         Green
Box 87 Mennonite Organizations, MHS, Grebel materials         Green
Box 88 Mennonite Organizations, MHS, Grebel materials         Green
Box 89 Mennonite Organizations, MHS                 Green
Box 90 Mennonite Organizations, Menno. Pub. Bd. – MWC    Green
Box 91 Mennonite Organizations, Menno. World Conf. - T-AK    Green
Box 92 Mennonite Organizations, Taufer-Akten Kommission - Z     Green

Box 93 Non-Mennonite Organizations, A - Ca             Green
Box 94 Non-Mennonite Organizations, Ca - Fr             Green
Box 95 Non-Mennonite Organizations, Fr - Ind             Green
Box 96 Non-Mennonite Organizations, Int - Z             Green

Box 97 Bender published mss., A `                     Green
Box 98 Bender published mss., B - Me                 Green
Box 99 Bender published mss., Me - Z, book reviews, etc.        Green
Box 100 Bender unpublished mss., B - Mi                 Green
Box 101 Bender unpublished mss., My - Z                 Green

Box 102 Manuscripts of others, A - Cl                 Green
Box 103 Manuscripts of others, Co - Ha                 Green
Box 104 Manuscripts of others, He - La                 Green
Box 105 Manuscripts of others, Le - Ok                 Green
Box 106 Manuscripts of others, Os - Wi                 Green
Box 107 Manuscripts of others, Wo - unidentified authors         Green

Box 108 Bender's notes as a student                     Green
Box 109 Bender's notes as a student                     Green
Box 110 Bender's notes as a student                     Green
Box 111 Bender's notes as a student                     Green
Box 112 Bender's notes as a teacher                     Green
Box 113 Bender's notes as a teacher                     Green
Box 114 Bender's notes as a teacher                     Green
Box 115 Bender's notes as a teacher                     Green

Box 116 Sermon notes                         Green
Box 117 Sermon notes                         Green

Box 118 Bender research and historical materials             Green
Box 119 Bender research and historical materials             Green

Box 120 Personalia                             Green
Box 121 Personalia                             Green
Box 122 Personalia                             Green

Box 123 Card file recording disposition of Bender's books         Green

Box 124 Index to Correspondence, 1917-30 (Card File)        Oversize
Box 125 Index to Corres., 1931-38, 1939-47 (Card File)        Oversize


August 16, 2006 / Posted on Internet by Dennis Stoesz.  Inventory and posting of collection made possible with funding from Showalter Foundation.
May 24, 2006 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
File "Hm1-278 Harold S. Bender.doc"

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