I.            General Conference 1859-1969

              W.         Women’s Missionary Association

                            1.           1881-1972 (8.75 cu. ft.)

                            2.           Financial records (bound volumes) 1926-1961 (transferred from the General Conference vault 4 December 1990) (4 cu. ft.)

                            3.           Records brought over from General Conference vault on 4 December 1990 (includes ledgers that probably fit in with those in MLA.I.W.2) (3 cu. ft.)

                            4.           Records brought over from General Conference vault on 4 December 1990 (1.8 cu. ft.)

                            5.           Financial work sheets 1935-1941 (1 map folder) (transferred from the General Conference vault, 4 December 1990)

                            6.           Deposit slips 1950-1952 (.15 cu. ft.)

                            7.           Treasurer’s correspondence 1940-1947 (3 cu. ft.) (transferred from the General Conference vault, 4 December 1990)

                            8.           Literature Committee correspondence 1946-1947 (.3 cu. ft.) (transferred from the General Conference vault 4 December 1990)

                            9.           Files of Elizabeth Voran, secretary, 1938-1942 (.3 cu. ft.) (transferred from the General Conference vault 4 December 1990)

                            10.         Correspondence from missionaries and the Board of Missions 1943-1946 (.15 cu. ft.) (transferred from the General Conference vault 4 December 1990) (These copies of letters partially overlap the correspondence in the Board of Missions general files.)

                            11.         Financial files 1947-1958 (.15 cu. ft.) (transferred from the General Conference vault 4 December 1990)

                            12.         Bound copies of Missionary News and Notes 1926-1960 for microfilming and scanning (1.6 cu. ft.) (transferred 22 Dec 2010)

                            13.         Unbound copies of Guide to Mission Study 1954-1962 for microfilming and scanning (.15 cu. ft.)




Total volume: 23.35 cu. ft.



MLA.I.W.1 Women's Missionary Association 1881-1972


Box       Folder                 Contents


                                           Correspondence


 1             1                        [not used]

                2                         1917-1918

                3                         1919

                4                         January-June 1920

                5                         July-December 1920

                6                         1921

                7                         1922

                8                         1923

                9                         1924

               10                        1925-1927

               11                        1928-1929

               12                        1930

               13                        1931


 2             14                       1932

               15                        1933

               16                        1934

               17                        1935

               18                        1936-1937

               19                        1938-1939

               20                        1940-1943

               21                        1944

               22                        1945

               23                        1946

               24                        January-June 1947

               25                        July-December 1947


 3             26                       1948

               27                        1949

               28                        1950

               29                        1951

               30                        1952-1953

               31                        1954

               32                        1955

               33                        1956

               34                        1957

               35                        1958

               36                        1959

               37                        1960-1961

               38                        1962-1963

               39                        1964


 4             40                       1965-1968

               41                        1969

               42                        1970-1972

 4             43                       undated

               44                        undated

               45                        Round robin correspondence 1923-1924

               46                        Round robin correspondence 1925-1929

               47                        Round robin correspondence 1930

               48                        Round robin correspondence 1931

               49                        Round robin correspondence 1932-1934

               50                        Round robin correspondence 1935

               51                        Round robin correspondence 1936-1938


                                           Subject files


               52                        Advisory Council 1947-1950

               53                        American Indian stations - Montana and Arizona 1948-1956

               54                        American Indian stations - Oklahoma 1948-1962


 5             55                       Bethel College 1948-1962

               56                        Board of Christian Service 1952-1954

               57                        Budgets 1942-1949

               58                        Canadian societies 1937-1950

               59                        Canadian societies 1951-1959

               60                        Central Conference 1944-1948

               61                        Christian Education 1949-1953

               62                        Christmas accounts 1958-1961

               63                        Civilian Public Service 1940-1943

               64                        Civilian Public Service 1944-1948

               65                        Congo Inland Mission 1943-1952

               66                        Congo Inland Mission Women's Auxiliary 1946-1951

               67                        Congo Inland Mission Women's Auxiliary 1952-1956

               68                        Constitutions

               69                        Contributions 1948-1956

               70                        Credentials 1933-1935

               71                        Discussion groups 1956


 6             72                       District Advisors Committee 1938-1942

               73                        District Advisors Committee 1943-1953

               74                        District Advisors Committee 1954-1972

               75                        Education in Church, Home, and Community, Committee on - minutes 1955-1956

               76                        Executive Committee of Societies, Reports of, 1932

               77                        Executive Committee of Societies, Reports of, 1934

               78                        Executive Committee of Societies, Reports of, 1935

               79                        Executive Committee of Societies, Reports of, 1936

               80                        Executive Committee of Societies, Reports of, 1937

               81                        Executive Committee of Societies, Reports of, 1938

               82                        Executive Committee of Societies, Reports of, 1939

               83                        Executive Council agenda lists 1947-1953

               84                        Executive Council correspondence 1917-1918

               85                        Executive Council correspondence 1919-1922

               86                        Executive Council correspondence 1923-1925

 6             87                       Executive Council correspondence 1926


 7             88                       Executive Council correspondence 1927

               89                        Executive Council correspondence 1928-1943

               90                        Executive Council correspondence 1944-1950

               91                        Executive Council correspondence 1951-1953

               92                        Executive Council - Decisions of Executive Committee 1944-1953

               93                        Executive Council meetings 1948-1955

               94                        Fellowship of Church Vocations for Women 1956

               95                        Financial papers 1924-1941

               96                        Financial papers 1946-1951

               97                        Financial papers 1952-1963

               98                        General Conference Advisory Committee 1948-1953

               99                        General Conference correspondence 1933-1957

              100                      General Conference Executive Council 1948-1950


 8            101                      General Conference - Winnipeg conference literature

              102                      Home missions correspondence 1939-1951

              103                      Home missions correspondence, January-June 1952

              104                      Home missions correspondence, July-December 1952

              105                      Home missions correspondence 1953 and undated

              106                      Home missions workers supplies 1933-1950

              107                      India Calling correspondence 1948-1953

              108                      Japan mission 1951-1957

              109                      Joint Missionary Education Council 1966-1968

              110                      Journal and memo booklet

              111                      Junior-Intermediate work 1939-1947

              112                      Junior-Intermediate work 1948-1953

              113                      Kansas Council of Church Women 1948-1953

              114                      Leaves for Your Notebook correspondence 1956

              115                      Leaves for Your Notebook literature

              116                      Lists - In Memoriam 1917-1935


 9            117                      Lists - Mission requests 1919-1923

              118                      Lists - Mission requests 1924-1928

              119                      Lists - Mission requests 1935-1943

              120                      Lists - Mission requests 1944-1945

              121                      Lists - Mission requests 1946-1949

              122                      Lists - Mission requests 1950-1956

              123                      Lists - Mission requests - undated

              124                      Literature Committee 1922-1942

              125                      Literature Committee 1943-1948

              126                      Literature Committee 1949-1955

              127                      Literature Committee 1957-1962

              128                      Literature Committee 1963-1965


10          129                      Literature Committee 1966-1969

              130                      Memorial Loan Fund 1947-1956

              131                      Mennoheim - Berlin, Germany, 1953

10          132                      Mennonite Mission Center 1953-1954

              133                      Migrant work 1945

              134                      Migrant work 1946

              135                      Migrant work 1947-1949

              136                      Migrant work 1950-1955

              137                      Migrant work - reports, notes, etc., 1941-1952

              138                      Ministers' Retreat 1947

              139                      Missionary correspondence 1920-1927

              140                      Missionary correspondence 1928-1944

              141                      Missionary Home 1935-1947

              142                      Missionary News and Notes correspondence 1936-1945

              143                      Missionary News and Notes correspondence 1946-1947

              144                      Missionary News and Notes correspondence 1948-1950


11          145                      Missionary News and Notes correspondence 1951-1960

              146                      Missionary News and Notes mailing lists 1929

              147                      Missionary pension 1952-1965

              148                      Mission Board China correspondence 1946-1948

              149                      Mission Board Colombia correspondence 1945-1948

              150                      Mission Board general correspondence 1946

              151                      Mission Board general correspondence 1947-1951

              152                      Mission Board India correspondence 1945-1948

              153                      Mission Board Indian (U.S.) correspondence 1946-1947

              154                      Mission Board Indian (U.S.) correspondence 1948-1949

              155                      Mission Board meetings and reports 1941-1951

              156                      Mission Fields, Sketches of, 1921-1946

              157                      Mission societies correspondence 1940-1947


12          158                      Mission societies - histories of, 1881-1935

              159                      Mission societies - lists of, 1931-1932

              160                      Needs and projects 1921-1925

              161                      Needs and projects 1926-1946

              162                      Needs and projects 1947

              163                      Office help, correspondence on, 1946-1952

              164                      Officers - district and national 1939-1951

              165                      Officers - district and national 1952-1956

              166                      Pacific District Conference 1960-1961

              167                      Pension Fund 1951-1953

              168                      Personnel Survey - General Conference central offices, September 30, 1959

              169                      Printing samples 1938-1951

              170                      Promotion 1948-1950


13          171                      Questionnaires and reports 1919-1930

              172                      Questionnaires and reports 1931

              173                      Questionnaires and reports 1932-1936

              174                      Questionnaires and reports 1937-1938

              175                      Questionnaires and reports - undated

              176                      Relief sewing project 1940-1951

              177                      Reports - District 1943-1948

13          178                      Russian delegation 1956, 1965

              179                      Secretary correspondence 1920-1937

              180                      Service Committee 1941-1943

              181                      Service Committee 1944-1945

              182                      Service Committee 1946-1947


14          183                      Service Committee 1948-1953

              184                      Unser Missionsblatt 1946-1963

              185                      Visitation Program correspondence 1944-April 1946

              186                      Visitation Program correspondence, May 1946-1952

              187                      Visitation reports 1946-1947

              188                      World Day of Prayer 1943-1953

              189                      World Mennonite Conference 1948

              190                      Yearbook and Council of Boards 1946-1953


                                           Appendix


                                           Correspondence


15          191                      1933-1948

              192                      1951-1959

              193                      1960-1962

              194                      January-April 1963

              195                      May-December 1963

              196                      1964

              197                      1965

              198                      1966-1970 and undated

              199                      Civilian Public Service 1941-1943

              200                      Civilian Public Service 1944-1945


                                           Subject files


              201                      Christian Service, Board of, 1958-1963

              202                      Conference materials 1930-1948

              203                      Executive Council reports 1970

              204                      Executive Secretary's notebooks 1923-1950


16          205                      Junior and intermediate work 1937-1968

              206                      Young Mission Workers 1969-1972

              207                      Literature Committee study course workbook 1948-1949

              208                      Migrant work 1950-1953

              209                      Minutes and reports 1947-1972

              210                      Missionary News and Notes correspondence 1925-1927

              211                      Mission Board Colombia correspondence 1948-1970

              212                      Program materials 1935

              213                      Projects and material aid correspondence 1952-1968

              214                      Programs - miscellaneous 1905-1934

              215                      Triennial WMA (Women's Missionary Association) conferences 1956-1971

              216                      Brochures - miscellaneous


17          217                      Annual reports for Council of Boards

              218                      Congo Inland Mission auxiliary 1969-1972


                                           Correspondence


              219                      1958-1959

              220                      1960-1962

              221                      1963-1965

              222                      1966-1968

              223                      1969-1970

              224                      1971

              225                      1972


                                           Subject files


18          226                      District WMA (Women's Missionary Association) organizations - Canadian 1970-1972

              227                      District WMA (Women's Missionary Association) organizations - Central 1970-1972

              228                      District WMA (Women's Missionary Association) organizations - Eastern and Northern 1968-1972

              229                      District WMA (Women's Missionary Association) organizations - Western 1950-1972

              230                      Echo Project booklets 1970-1971

              231                      Financial reports 1962-1972

              232                      History project 1935-1938

              233                      Literature Committee correspondence 1967-1972

              234                      Literature Committee - WMA page in The Mennonite 1967-1973

              235                      Manuals - correspondence 1966-1975

              236                      Missionary societies 1947-1954

              237                      Missions Today 1968-1972

              238                      Women in Church Vocations 1954-1959



MLA.I.W.2 Financial records (bound volumes) 1926-1961


Box       Folder                 Contents


 1             1                        General journal 1938-1941

                2                         General journal 1941-1944

                3                         General journal 1944-1945

                4                         General journal 1946-1949


 2             5                        General journal 1950-1952

                6                         General journal 1953-1955


 3             7                        General journal 1956-1958

                8                         General journal 1959-1961


 4             9                        General ledger 1948-1950

               10                        General ledger 1951-1952

               11                        Receipts 1926-1944

               12                        Receipts 1945-1948

               13                        Junior-Intermediate Mission Societies of the General Conference - Financial record book 1950-1958



MLA.I.W.3 Records brought over from General Conference vault on 4 December 1990

(includes ledgers that probably fit in with those in MLA.I.W.2)

Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

Annual Letters to the WMA 1943-62

 

2

Balance Sheets, etc. 1947-

 

3

Bank Statements, Jan. 1959-

 

4

Bd. of Foreign Missions 1933-62

 

5

China - Mission Life/Work 1930-

 

6

Corres. WMA 1942-45

 

7

Day Book 1947

 

8

Financial Reports 1948-50

 

9

Guide to Mission Study 1949-74

 

10

Guide to Mission Study 1960-70

 

11

Guide to Mission Study 1967-75

 

12

History

 

13

History - Gladys Goering

 

14

Journal 1926-38

 

15

Junior Mission Lessons - Mary Wiens Toews 1954

 

16

Junior Mission Lessons - Harriet Rutschman 1954

 

17

Junior Lessons - Joanna Andres 1956

 

18

Leaders Resource Manual 1962-65

 

19

Literature 1927-80

 

20

Literature 1940-75

 

21

Manual - WMA 1968

2

22

Minutes/Reports 1902

 

23

Minutes of the Executive Committee 1943-45

 

24

Minutes/Reports of the Trienniel Sessions of the WMA 1945-

 

25

Minutes/Reports of WMA 1945-

 

26

Minutes of the Executive Committee/Council WMA 1945-52

 

27

Minutes of the Executive Committee/Council WMA 1953-62

2

28

Minutes of the Executive Committee/Council WMA 1962-64

 

29

Mission Bd. 1945-

 

30

Missionary News & Notes 1928-

 

31

Missions Today 1968

 

32

Missions Today 1969-70

 

33

Missions Today 1970-71

 

34

Nyanga Girls School, AIMM Auxiliary Project 1973-74

 

35

Prayer Concerns 1965-74

 

36

Projects 1978-

 

37

Promotional Material

 

38

Receipts 1945-48

 

39

Records of the funds for Missionary Literature, 1925-27

 

40

Voucher No. 1-163, 1967-69

3

41

Weierhof School photo album 1953

 

42

Budget worksheets ca. 1960

 

43

Congo Mission Auxiliary “material coming in” 1954-1956

 

44

Journal 1962

 

45

Ledger cards 1974

 

46

Literature Committee journal 1927-1941

4

47

Literature Committee journal 1941-1947

 

48

Receipts - Young Mission Workers 1959-1966

 

49

Receipts - Young Mission Workers 1967-1979

 

50

Statistics on congregational societies 1949-1954



MLA.I.W.4 Records brought over from General Conference vault on 4 December 1990

Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

Budget 1948

 

2

Corres. - Gladys Goering 1979

 

3

Corres. 1979 - Gladys Goering

 

4

Day Book 1917-29

 

5

Day Book 1948

 

6

District Adviser Assignment 1953-56

 

7

Expense Budget 1948-50

 

8

Financial Reports - Monthly Receipts 1951-61

 

9

Financial Reports - Monthly Receipts 1951-61

 

10

Financial Reports- Monthly Receipts 1951-61

 

11

Financial Reports - Monthly Receipts 1951-61

 

12

Financial Reports - Monthly Receipts 1951-61

 

13

Journal 1947-49

 

14

Ledger 1947

 

15

Literature Committee Members - Elma Sprunger & Elva Schrock 1947-51

 

16

Literature Comm. Members - E. Sprunger & E. Schrock 1948-60

 

17

Literature Comm. Members - E. Sprunger & E. Schrock 1953-57

 

18

Mennonite Life - Oct. 1950, July 1955 & July 1956

 

19

Mennonite Life - Oct. 1957

 

20

Mennonite Life - April 1961

 

21

Mission Bd. 1948

 

22

Mission Study Course 1948-49 by Elva May Schrock

 

23

Missionary News & Notes 1929-39

 

24

Missionary New & Notes 1937-44

 

25

Missionary News & Notes 1940-42

 

26

Missionary News & Notes 1943-49

 

27

Missions Today 1970-71

1

28

Missions Today 1973

2

29

Missions Today 1972

 

30

Missions Today 1968-69

 

31

Missions Today 1967

 

32

Missions Today 1966

 

33

Missions Today 1965-66

 

34

Project Booklet 1962-68

 

35

Women’s Missionary Association - Secretary’s Cash Book

3

36

Art work by Winifred Waltner (original)

 

37

Loose photos

 

38

Photo album



MLA.I.W.5 Financial work sheets 1935-1941


Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

Financial work sheets 1935-1941



MLA.I.W.6 Deposit slips 1950-1952


Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

Deposit slips, January 1950-December 1952



MLA.I.W.7 Treasurer’s correspondence 1940-1947


Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

1940 before A

 

2

1940 A-B

 

3

1940 C D

 

4

1940 E F

 

5

1940 G

 

6

1940 H I J

 

7

1940 K L

 

8

1940 M N O P Q

 

9

1940 R

 

10

1940 S

 

11

1940 T U V W Y Z

 

12

1940 News & Notes

 

13

1941 before A

 

14

1941 A B C D

 

15

1941 E F G

 

16

1941 H I J

 

17

1941 K L

 

18

1941 M N O P Q

 

19

1941 R S

 

20

1941 T U V W Y Z

 

21

1942 before A

 

22

1942 A B

 

23

1942 C D

 

24

1942 E F

 

25

1942 G H I J

 

26

1942 K L

 

27

1942 M N O P Q

1

28

1942 R S

 

29

1942 T U V W Y Z

 

30

1942 Missionary News & Notes

2

31

1943 before A

 

32

1943 A B C

 

33

1943 D E F

 

34

1943 G H I J

 

35

1943 K L

 

36

1943 M N O P Q

 

37

1943 R

 

38

1943 S T U V

 

39

1943 W Y Z

 

40

Missionary New & Notes 1943

 

41

1944 before A

 

42

1944 A B

 

43

1944 C D E F

 

44

1944 G H I J

 

45

1944 K L M

 

46

1944 N O P Q R

 

47

1944 S T U V

 

48

1944 W Y Z

 

49

1945 before A

 

50

1945 A B C

 

51

1945 D E F

 

52

1945 G H I J

 

53

1945 K L

 

54

1945 M N O P Q

 

55

1945 R

2

56

1945 S

 

57

1945 T U V W Y Z

3

58

1946 before A

 

59

1946 A B

 

60

1946 C D E F

 

61

1946 G H I J

 

62

1946 K-L

 

63

1946 M N O P Q R

 

64

1946 S

 

65

1946 T U V W Y Z

 

66

1946 Missionary Notes & News

 

67

1947 before A

 

68

1947 A B

 

69

1947 C D E F

 

70

1947 G H I J

 

71

1947 K L

 

72

1947 M N O P Q

 

73

1947 R

 

74

1947 S

 

75

1947 T U V

 

76

1947 W Y Z



MLA.I.W.8 Literature Committee correspondence 1946-1947

Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

A-B

 

2

C

 

3

D E F G H I J

 

4

K L

 

5

M

 

6

N O P Q R S

 

7

T U V W



MLA.I.W.9 Files of Elizabeth Voran, secretary, 1938-1942

Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

A B C

 

2

G H I J

 

3

K L M

 

4

N O P Q R S

 

5

T U V

 

6

W



MLA.I.W.10 Correspondence from missionaries and Board of Missions 1943-1946


Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

Letters and missionary reports 1943

 

2

Letters and missionary reports 1944

 

3

Letters and missionary reports 1945

 

4

Letters and missionary reports 1946



MLA.I.W.11 Financial files 1947-1958



Box

Folder

Contents

1

1

Haury & Haury - accounting 1947-1958

 

2

Bank statements - Executive Committee of Mission Societies 1953-1955