I.            General Conference 1859-1969

              A.          Board of Missions

                            6.           India

                                           a.           1907-1970 (1.6 cu. ft.)

                                           b.           Miscellaneous items found in Bound Manuscripts (Bd. Ms.) and Small Archives (SA) sections

                                           c.           1923-1968 (1 cu. ft.) (These are files that were transferred to the MLA at various times before 1994. Apparently these items never got incorporated into any regular filing system of the Board of Missions.)

                                           d.           Minutes and reports (bound volumes) 1950-1966 (see also continuation of same series in MLA.VII.A.3) (.6 cu. ft.) (transferred from COM office, February 1994)

                                           e.           Materials gathered by Ruth Unrau 1908-1972 (.15 cu. ft.) (transferred to MLA May 1996) These are materials used by Ruth Unrau when writing her India missions history. It isn’t clear whether these came from somewhere in the MLA or whether they are new things she found elsewhere while working on the project. I didn’t find any record of them in the MLA finding aids, so I’m adding them here.

                                           f.            Posters in Hindi; 2 of Bible verses from John, one health/food chart; from the 1950s? (1 map folder)

Total volume: 3.35 cu. ft.

MLA.I.A.6.a Board of Missions - India files 1907-1970

Box       Folder                 Contents

                                           Subject files

 1             1                        Plans for Champa bungalow

                2                         Draft for Property Trust Association 1957

                3                         Papers by P. A. Penner and O. A. Waltner's on history of mission work in India 1956

                4                         Anna Stauffer manuscript on India

                5                         Champa station diary 1959

                6                         Mission helper and protege records

                7                         Mission helper and protege records

                8                         Mission helper and protege records

                9                         Mission helper and protege records

                                           Bound volumes

 2                                        Jagdeeshpur station minutes 1935-1948

                                           Jagdeeshpur station minutes 1948-1953

                                           Jagdeeshpur station minutes 1954-1958

                                           Jagdeeshpur station minutes 1958-1966

                                           Janjgir station diary 1902-1965

                                           Champa station diary 1949-1958

                                           Champa station diary 1960-1975

                                           Secretary-treasurer journal 1910-1928

                                           Secretary-treasurer journal 1930-1940

                                           Receipts and disbursements 1911-1932

                                           Receipts 1907-1910

 3                                        Conference catering 1950-1967

                                           Basna station minutes 1927-1934

                                           Korba station diary 1911-1976

                                           Champa station minutes 1946-1954

                                           Champa station minutes 1954-1960

                                           Champa station minutes 1959-1960

                                           Champa station minutes 1961-1970

                                           Women's Committee 1938-1960

MLA.I.A.6.b Miscellaneous items found in Bound Manuscripts (Bd. Ms.)

and Small Archives (SA) sections

Bd.Ms. 76            Mission station diary or logbook from Champa, India, 1900-1948

Bd.Ms. 77            Minutes of conferences of Mennonite missionaries in India 1909-1933

Bd.Ms. 78            Minutes of conferences of Mennonite missionaries in India 1934-1953

Bd.Ms. 79            Medical station diary 1925-1949, India (Champa?)

SA.I.182              Basna Newsette, Oct. 1941, vol. 1, no. 2, GC India missionaries

SA.II.1168           "Excerpts copied from the Jagdeeshpur Station Diary while we visited in India, November, 1973" compiled by Dr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Dester, items copied run from 1925-1957; typed

MLA.I.A.6.c Board of Missions - India files 1923-1968

MLA.I.A.6.d India minutes and reports (bound volumes) 1950-1966

(see also continuation of same series in MLA.VII.A.3)

Box       Folder                 Contents

 1             1                       1950-1953

                 2                        1954-1959

 2             3                       1960-1966

MLA.I.A.6.e Materials gathered by Ruth Unrau 1908-1972

Box       Folder                 Contents

 1            1                          Jagdeeshpur station diary 1925-1972

              2                          Mauhadih station book 1911-1955

              3                          P. W. Penner reports to mission board 1908-1916

              4                          “Annie C. Funk - Our Missionary” by Christine Duerksen, undated typescript