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Hist Mss 1-845
Vernon and Evangeline (Matthies) Neuschwander
Personal Papers, 1894-1951
1 Box (Large)


Administrative Information

Photographs contained in Hist Mss 4-325.  Maps contained in Hist Mss 7-28.  Artifacts contained in Hist Mss 12-1.

Processed by Marilyn Voran, March 15, 1998.  Typed into the computer by Helen Hostetler, October 12, 2004.

Inventory Listing

Box 1 (Large)
Das Christliche Bilderbuch, 1894
Vibel fur den Lese und Schreibuntericht, 1894
Collection of choir songs, folk songs and poems, early 1900s
Study Notes, Gerhard Matthies, 1920s
German books from library of Gerhard Matthies and Johanes Retzloff, early 1900s
Im Wechselder Tage, 1926

Winkler Bible School, Teachers's Diploma, Composite School Photos, 1941, 42, 44
The Lark (Hesston College) 1942
The Niagara Torch, 1945
The Morning Star, Winkler Bible School, 1946, 1950
A Place Called Peniel, Winkler Bible School, 1975

Directory of Civilian Public Service, 1941-47
Mennonites and Their Heritage, booklets II-VI, 1942
National Planning Association Pamphlets, European recovery after World War II, 1944
I Was Interned (war time internment experiences)
War Prisoners, 1945

Greetings from Refugees, 1942
Paraguay Calling, John E. Bender
Lists of Russian Mennonites in Holland under MCC Care
Identification Cards (Russian Mennonite refugees) MCC insignia
Mennonite Colonization, J. Winfield Fretz, 1944
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1945

Box 1 (Large) (Continued)
Roverstein Refugee Home, Christmas Program, 1946
Lederen Bundel (A reminder of Christmas at Roverstein), 1946
Poems Collected by Refugees at Roverstein, 1946
Poetry and Songs Collected by Refugees at Roverstein, 1946-47
Paraguay Notes 1945
Songbooks Used With Refugees, Roverstein, 1946-48

European Relief Notes, 1946-47
The Reporter March, 1947 (National Service Board for Religious Objectors)
Dutch Mennonites, 1946
Lieber Glaubensgenosse… C. F. Classen, 1947
Leitfaden zur Besseren Landwirtschaft im Sub Tropischen Paraguay, 1949
A Relief Worker's Notebook, Norman Wingert, 1952

Aux Chandelles, 1970-71
Gutenberg Museum, 1974
Miscellaneous booklets on non-resistance, 1945-50
Mennonitsche Rundschau, (death of C. F. Classen, May, 1954)
Mennonite Life April, October, 1961 (Latin America, Africa)
A. H. Unruh, Stalwart for the Truth, by David Ewert
A. H. Unruh, Lebensgesichte, 1878-1961, by H. P. Toews

Beltsville CPS unit 126, 1962
Mennonite Weekly Review June 18, 1970 (Russian Mennonite Refugee Era described)
Mahlon D. Souder, by J. C. Wenger, 1986
Harbin Group writing by Evangeline Neuschwander, 1988
From Exile in Russia to Mission Work in India, by J. J. Dick
Retzlaff Roots From the Scrolls, by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander

Correspondence and Activity Reports - MCC Service, Paraguay, Argentina 1948-51
Correspondence - MCC Service, Europe, 1945-48

Mennonitentum in der Ukraine, von Dr. Dietrich Neufeld, 1922
Mennonite Life, January 1950, "Pioneering in Paraguay"
Mennonite Life, January 1951, "Die Flucht" J. Neufeld
Unsere Flucht as der Ukraine bis nach Roverstein, J. Isaac?  Neufeld
Smoke Jumper
Twenty-Five Years MCC 1920-1945


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January 24, 2005/ Reformatted and posted on the Web by Martha Miller
October 12, 2004 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
File: "HM1-885.doc"
Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700 S Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526




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