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Conferences - Mennonite World - 1952

2006-0125



Description: On the back is a typed caption, "9. Zurich Celebration. On the closing day of the Conference fifteen bus loads of Mennonites travelled from Basel to Zurich for a special service. After dismounting from the buses they streamed into the Gross Münster Cathedral where in the 16th century, the first Anabaptist conversions occurred under Zwingli's preaching.[sic] Here are the leaders of the procession entering the cathedral area. The four in front, left to right, are, Prof. Oscar Farner, President of Zurich Church Council, C. F. Claassen [sic, Klassen], MCC representative in Basel, H. S. Bender, Presiding Officer of the Conference, Prof. Fritz Blanke, Church Historian, University of Zurich; used in Mennonite Life, June 1978, p. 13
Date: 1952
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
MLA filing: Conferences - Mennonite World - 1952
Original size: 19.5 x 24 cm
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2016-0045



Description: tour group on the street; slide 79.7
Date: 1952
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
MLA filing: Conferences - Mennonite World - 1952
MLA filing: Slides folder 79
Original size: 35mm
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2016-0049



Description: group of American delegates? on a ship; slide 79.10
Date: 1952
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MLA filing: Conferences - Mennonite World - 1952
MLA filing: Slides folder 79
Original size: 35mm
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2016-0053



Description: large group outdoors; slide 79.12
Date: 1952
Location: Basel, Switzerland
MLA filing: Conferences - Mennonite World - 1952
MLA filing: Slides folder 79
Original size: 35mm
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