Wesley Brubacher slide fonds

Date of creation: 1946-1947   

4 sleeves containing 79 35mm colour slides. The slides were taken during Brubacher's term of service in the Netherlands (1946-1947) as a member of the Holland Reconstruction Unit under Mennonite Central Committee. Brubacher served as a Unit Project Foreman. Photos include many other members of the unit. Photos also include a trip taken in Europe following his service.

For further information see the Wesley Brubacher fonds at Hist. Mss. 1.181

The collection was donated by Olive Brubacher in October 1997.

Seventy-nine (79) slides from the same period. Some slides contain identification; others do not:

1.     Unidentified (Bakery scenes?)
2.     Unidentified        
3.     Unidentified
4.     Mathijssen House before reconstruction
5.     Henry Detweilers
6.     Barley where water stood a year before at our camp
7.     P. van Sluis house
8.     H. Buller, P.C. Hiebert, H. Yoder
9.     P. van Sluis farm home
10.     Unidentified
11.     Unidentified
12.     Doopsgezinde Jongeren Kring weekend
13.     Bieren family
14.     The camp
15.     The Sturm House completed
16.     Doopsgezinde Church, Aardenburg
17.     Christmas packages
18.     Unidentified
19.     Damaged street between Middelburg and Vlissingen
20.     Damaged house, Middelburg
21.     Unidentified
22.     Tulips
23.     Unidentified
24.     Domisse family
25.     Main street, Soutelande
26.     Mina Sturm
27.     Fishing boats at Veere
28.     Aden Horst at stranded tank, floating docks
29.     The Queen and Mayor Kassembrood, Westkapelle
30.     Unidentified
31.     Unidentified
32.     Unidentified
33.     Baker on Walcheren
34.     Afsluitdijk, 20 miles long
35.     Unidentified
36.     Typical Holland in festive garb
37.     Enos Bontrager and Howard W. pointing [bricks]
38.     Tank barriers near Middelburg
39.     German bunker near Vlissingen
40.     Cleaning out the ditches after the flood
41.     R.Ms. [Russian Mennonites] at Roverstein
42.     Taking away bunkers
43.     Unidentified
44.     Unidentified
45.     Jan van Sluis & Kleinepier girls Bouwdewijnskerke Dunes
46.     Unidentified
47.     Unidentified
48.     Unidentified
49.     Unidentified
50.     Unidentified
51.     Railroad Station, M. Gladbach
52.     Unidentified
53.     Unidentified
54.     Unidentified
55.     Unidentified
56.     Unidentified
57.     Ready for work
58.     Unidentified
59.     Starting on G. Sturm's barn
60.     At the first job
61.     A[braham] Kleinepier's house half done
62.     C. Visser's after
63.     C. Visser's house before
64.     Main street, Westkapelle
65.     Inspecting ruins on arrival at Walcheren
66.     Unidentified
67.     Unidentified
68.     Ds. Van der Zijp, C.F. Klassen, Ds. Hylkema
69.     Unidentified
70.     H.H. Janzen at Elspeet
71.     Alsatian Mennonites Fr. W. Nusbaum, Pastor M쬬er and W. M쬬er
72.     Damaged church, Arndem; Elly Anker
73.     Middelburg Stadhuis built 15^th cent.
74.     The criminal stand at Veere Stadhuis
75.     Damaged church, Middelburg
76.     Mr. & Mrs. Siegfried Janzen on the Volendam, Feb. 1947
77.     Refugees boarding the Volendam
78.     Swiss Mennonites at Elspeet Int. Conf.
79.     A. Beachy, Bob Kreider, Irvin Horst at Elspeet Peace Conf.

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