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Hist. Mss. 10.1.4
9 sleeves containing 167 35mm colour slides. They are dated from 1961-1974. The theme is primarily Old Order Mennonite with a few other subjects also included.
The slides were donated to the Archives in December 1974 by J. Winfield Fretz (1910-), Professor of Sociology and former President of Conrad Grebel College. The slides were gathered in the course of Fretz's research on the Old Order Mennonite community.
Created Oct. 1997 by Sam Steiner
The slides are numbered 83-121 - 83-294.
83-121. Old Order Mennonite school girl, n.d.
83-122. Old Order Mennonite school girl, n.d.
83-123. Three Old Order Mennonite school girls, n.d.
83-124. Old Order Mennonite school girl, n.d.
83-125. Old Order Mennonite school girl, n.d.
83-126. Old Order Mennonite school girl, n.d.
83-127. Old Order Mennonite school girl, n.d.
83-128. Old Order Mennonite school girl, n.d.
83-129. Four Old Order Mennonite boys on way to school, 1964
83-130. Old Order Mennonite brother and sister on way to school, 1965
83-131. Old Order Mennonite girls (group) from Mennonite school, June, 1964
83-132. Old Order Mennonite schoolgirls on way from school, Nov. 1968
83-133. School children playing, including Old Order girls, n.d.
83-134. Three Old Order Mennonite school girl, n.d.
83-135. School children playing, including Old Order girls, n.d.
83-136. Old Order Mennonite boys and girls (group) walking from school, 1961
83-137. Three conservative Mennonite children, June 1964
83-138. Old Order Mennonite school, with children approaching, Oct. 1968
83-139. School children playing, including Old Order girls, n.d.
83-140. Loaf of bread, broken, n.d.
83-141. Gather sap to make maple syrup (two horses), 1968
83-142. Stoking fire to boil sap for maple syrup, 1968
83-143. Maple syrup shack west of Martin's school, 1968
83-144. Old Order Mennonite delivering maple syrup in Waterloo (horse and buggy), 1964
83-145. Sign in carpet weaver's widow, 1967
83-146. Amos Bowman, carpet weaver in St. Jacobs at 200 year-old loom, 1967
83-147. Amos Bowman, carpet maker and rural mail delivery, died 1969, standing in shop
83-148. Rural mail delivery by horse and buggy, 1965 (winter scene)
83-149. Rural mail delivery by Amos Bowman and his horse, Pearl. They travelled 6000miles a year, 1965
83-150. At Martin's Juice Factory, St. Jacobs, 1967
83-151. Sign - Snider Flour Mill, St. Jacobs, 1965
83-152. Old Order buggy in St. Jacobs
83-153. Old Order boy at Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, 1966
83-154. Making pancakes at Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, 1966
83-155. Old Order Mennonite women and children at auction in association with Maple Syrup Festival, 1965
83-156. Old Order Mennonite girl at Maple Syrup Festival, 1965
83-157. Old Order Mennonite couple selling goods at Maple Syrup Festival, 1966
83-158. Soap making at Elmira Syrup Festival (large boiling pot), 1967
83-159. Mennonite women quilting at Maple Syrup Festival, 1967
83-160. Crowd scene, Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, 1970
83-161. Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale, New Hamburg - Interior overhead shot of tables, 1968
83-162. Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale, New Hamburg - Interior overhead shot of tables, 1968
83-163. Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale, New Hamburg - Interior overhead shot of tables and quilts, 1968
83-164. Making pancakes, Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale, New Hamburg, 1968
83-165. Old Order Amish men at MCC Relief Sale, 1967
83-166. Old Order Amish man at MCC Relief Sale, n.d.
83-167. Old Order Mennonite couple at MCC Relief Sale, 1968
83-168. Conservative Mennonites at MCC Relief Sale, 1968
83-169. Old Order Amish man at MCC Relief Sale, 1968
83-170. Old Order Amish man at MCC Relief Sale, 1968
83-171. Amish couple at MCC Relief Sale - shot from back of head gear, 1968
83-172. Old Order Amish men at MCC Relief Sale, 1968
83-173. Conservative Mennonite women looking at quilts at MCC Relief Sale, 1970
83-174. Old Order Amish at MCC Relief Sale, 1967
83-175. Old Order Mennonite man and boy on buggy, n.d.
83-176. Old Order Mennonite couple on buggy, n.d.
83-177. Old Order Mennonite man (head and shoulders), n.d.
83-178. Old Order Mennonite man, n.d.
83-179. Old Order Mennonite girl, n.d.
83-180. Old Order Mennonite couple with horse and buggy, n.d.
83-181. Buggy repair shop, Hawkesville, 1968
83-182. Sleigh, 1968
83-183. Buggy seats at Buggy Shop two miles west of Elmira, 1968
83-184. Back view of buggy seat
83-185. Buggy step
83-186. Interior of buggy shop, two miles west of Elmira, 1968
83-187. Shop from interior of buggy shop, 1968
83-188. Supplies for making buggy wheels, 1968
83-189. Duplicate of 83-185
83-190. Interior of buggy shop, 1968
83-191. Carriage seats and carriage body, 1968
83-192. Upholstery of buggy seat, 1968
83-193. Duplicate of 83-181
83-194. Buggy springs, 1968
83-195. Interior of buggy shop, 1968
83-196. Buggy construction, 1968
83-197. Duplicate of 83-190
83-198. Duplicate of 83-195
83-199. Blacksmith Jon Martin, St. Jacobs, 1968
83-200. Blacksmith Jon Martin, St. Jacobs, 1968
83-201. Old Order Mennonite women and children outside Martin's Meetinghouse, Waterloo, 1970?
83-202. Old Order Mennonite women and children outside Martin's Meetinghouse, Waterloo, 1970?
83-203. Sleigh outside Martins Meetinghouse, Jan. 1970
83-204. Sarah Bearinger (1851-1944) tombstone, Martins Mennonite cemetery
83-205. Old Order Mennonite women and children outside Martin's Meetinghouse, Waterloo, 1970?
83-206. Old Order Mennonite boys, and rows of horses at meetinghouse, 1971
83-207. Martins Meetinghouse cemetery in foreground, church in background, 1971
83-208. Old Order Mennonite women and children outside Martin's Meetinghouse, Waterloo, 1970?
83-209. Old Order Mennonite farm, n.d.
83-210. Anna Bauman, 1858-1923) tombstone, Martins Mennonite cemetery
83-211. Black cars outside Martins Mennonite Meetinghouse, 1970
83-212. Black cars outside Martins Mennonite Meetinghouse, 1970
83-213. Black car belong to member of Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference Mennonites, 1970.
83-214. Rows of horses outside Old Order Mennonite Meetinghouse, Elmira, Jan. 1969
83-215. Sleigh outside Old Order Mennonite Meetinghouse, Elmira, Jan., 1970
83-216. Tombstones in Elmira Mennonite cemetery, 1970
83-217. Old Order Mennonite farm
83-218. Old Order Mennonite farm
83-219. Doon Pioneer Tower (Kitchener, Ont.), 1964
83-220. Hydro Tower (Blair, Ont.), 1965
83-221. Sleigh along snow bank, 1962
83-222. Old Order Mennonite couple in buggy, n.d.
83-223 Two Old Order Mennonite buggies, 1970
83-224. Five-horse team working the field, Oct. 1969
83-225. Team of horses pulling wagon loaded with tank, n.d.
83-226. Row of buggies, n.d.
83-227. Unfinished buggy outside buggy shop two miles west of Elmira.
83-228. Horse and buggy at Waterloo Town Square, Jan. 1968
83-229. Six horse team in field near Conestogo, May, 1974
83-230. Team of horses pulling wagon loaded with tank, n.d.
83-231. Old Order Mennonite man and two women leaving church in buggy, n.d.
83-232. Horse and buggy entering roadway, n.d.
83-233. Old Order Mennonite man and two women leaving church in buggy, n.d.
83-234. Old Order Mennonite family in buggy leaving church, n.d.
83-235. Horse and closed buggy.
83-236. Buggy wheel (closeup)
83-237. Duplicate of 83-184
83-238. Duplicate of 83-194
83-239. Horse shed on Regina Street, Waterloo, 1965
83-240. Old Order Mennonite couple in buggy on Elmira street, 1967
83-241. Three Old Order Mennonite girls outside church, n.d.
83-242. Quilt racks at Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale, 1968
83-243. Harvesting hand-stooked sheaves with horses, 1965
83-244. Stooks of grain near Hawkesville, 1965
83-245. Old Order Mennonite family at Conestoga Lake, 1964
83-246. Conservative Mennonite picnic at Conestoga Dam, 1964
83-247. Four conservative Mennonite women at Conestoga Dam, 1964
83-248. Two conservative Mennonite women at Conestoga Dam, 1964
83-249. Three Amish girls at Conestoga Dam, 1972
83-250. Conservative Mennonite couples at Conestoga Dam, 1963
83-251. Buggy bridge in front of St. Jacobs dam, 1965
83-252. West Montrose Covered Bridge, 1965
83-253. Old Order Mennonite Home (Hawkesville, Ont.), 1968
83-254. Meshing on door to keep chickens in, Hawkesville, Ont., 1968
83-255. Hawkesville General Store, Apr. 1968
83-256. Mennonite man and women (bronze figures) given to Queen Elizabeth II, June, 1973
83-257. Auction sale in St. Jacobs (winter scene), early 1960s
83-258. Conrad Grebel College, Jan. 1965 (night scene of building)
83-259. Pumpkins
83-260. Interior of Hawkesville General Store, 1968?
83-261. Group of Old Order women outside church, n.d.
83-262. Interior picture, content uncertain
83-263. Community Farm of the Brethren (Bright, Ont.) - girl with boxes of goslings, 1968
83-264. Community Farm of the Brethren (Bright, Ont.) - young men with goose eggs, 1968
83-265. Communal living quarters - Community Farm of the Brethren (Bright, Ont.), 1968
83-266. Community Farm of the Brethren (Bright, Ont.) - group of children, 1968
83-267. Community Farm of the Brethren (Bright, Ont.) - children in classroom, 1968
83-268. Quilt displayed at K-W Art Gallery, 1974
83-269. Crazy quilt made by Mrs. Noah Reesor in 1925; displayed at K-W Art Gallery, 1974
83-270. Wooden artifacts displayed at K-W Art Gallery, 1974
83-271. Quilt from Snider family dated 1874; displayed at K-W Art Gallery, 1974
83-272. Quilt displayed at K-W Art Gallery, 1974
83-273 - 83-280 Unused
83-281. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-282. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-283. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-284. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-285. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-286. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-287. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-288. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-289. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-290. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-291. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-292. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-293. Old Order Mennonite barn raising, Dec. 1965
83-294. Same barn, spring 1966
83-295. Old Order Mennonite farm, Mar. 1966