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Hist. Mss. 1-743
Esther (Miller) Bigler

Papers, 1917-94
11 Boxes (Large)

Introduction


These materials were deposited into the Archives by Esther Miller Bigler in 1984-85 and again in 1994-95.

Inventory


Box 1 (Large)

Data Files, A - Menn. N.
File Listing: No. Includes 6 folders on Mennonite
Nurses' Association Correspondence and Representation,
1953-1985.

Box 2 (Large)

Data Files, Menn. N. - Z.
File Listing: No. Includes 3 folders on Mennonite Nurses' Association Correspondence and Representation, 1953-1985.

Archival material also includes Clippings from Goshen, Indiana, and files on Cleo Mann.

Box 3 (Large)

Clippings, programs, newsletters on Prairie Street Mennonite Church, and on Mennonite and community life in Elkhart, Indiana, circa 1940s-1980s, as collected by Esther Miller Bigler

Box 4 (Large)

Diary, 1917-18
Diary, 1918 (Notes on Derstine Sermons)
Diary, 1924-29
Diary, 1946-48

Includes guest books, clippings, articles, photographs, and many other collected items, on Prairie Street Mennonite Church, on Mennonite Nurses Association, and on general Mennonite and community life in Elkhart, Indiana, and around North America, ca. 1910s-1990s, as collected by
Esther Miller Bigler. Organized generally within folders.

Box 5 (Large)

Collected items, ca. 1910s-1990s (Continued)

Box 6 (Large)

Collected items, ca. 1910s-1990s (Continued)

Box 7 (Large)

Collected items, ca. 1910s-1990s (Continued)

Box 8 (Large)

Collected items, ca. 1910s-1990s (Continued)

Box 9 (Large)

Prairie Street Mennonite Church Bulletins, circa 1969-77 Collected periodicals, publications and programs, including Mennonite Medical Messenger, Agape, Voice, Bethany Christian High School, Mennonite Board of Missions, Gospel Evangel and Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, circa 1965-94

Box 10 (Large)

Collected periodicals, publications and programs, including Goshen College Record, 1952-83; Prairie Street Mennonite Church records, 1964-75; Family Almanac, 1948, 1953-54 (Publishing House); Eastern Mennonite Missions Yearbook, 1965; Mennonite Yearbooks, 1956-65 (4); andMennonite Board of Missions, Annual Reports, 1935, 1955-66, Anniversary issue, 1906-1956.

Box 11 (Large)

Collected items, including Hesston College, etc., circa 1950s-1980s.



March 15, 2004 / Updated by Kathryn Yoder
September 27, 1995 / Dennis Stoesz
Archives of the Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana

 

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