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Louise Stoltzfus Papers, 1984-2002

Collection Overview

Title: Louise Stoltzfus Papers, 1984-2002

ID: MSS/MSS-0008

Creator: Stoltzfus, Louise (1952-2002)

Extent: 1.8 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 00/00/2014

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Includes three boxes of research, correspondence, manuscripts, and other notes pertaining to Louise Stotlzfus’ work and particularly her work on Amish and Mennonite women. In the first box there are materials relating to Amish Women and Two Amish Folk Artists as well as a few short stories and lectures she gave. Folders 50-53 in Box 1 are communications Stoltzfus exchanged with people either through email or letters. Boxes 2 and 3 focus on Quiet Shouts with Box 2 containing general information and Box 3 focusing on specific women featured in the book.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Source: Transferred with Donald B. Kraybill Papers


Box and Folder Listing

Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Good Enterprises, 1984-1996Add to your cart.
Tourism/publishing/real estate company in Intercourse that filed Chapter 11 of bankruptcy in July 1996
Item 1: Tourism/ publishing/ real estate company in Intercourse that filed Chapter 11 of bankruptcy in July 1996, late 1996-1997Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Good Enterprises - Listening Committee, late 1996-1997Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Philadelphia Food Press, Dec. 1996Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Simple Life Cookbook Proposal, 1997Add to your cart.
Folder 5: "The Grace of Sharing Food and Faith", 1995Add to your cart.
Virtue Magazine article
Folder 6: Amish Women - Correspondence, 1994-2001Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Amish Women - News Articles, 1995, 1996Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Amish Women - ReviewsAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Amish Women - Quiet in the Land, 1998Add to your cart.

Speech about Amish Women given at Millersville Conference, no date [I think 1995]

Article “From Anna Baptist and Menno Barbie to Anna Beautiful” by Julie L. Musselman, fall 1998

Folder 10: "Meet Me on the Côte d'Azur", 1997Add to your cart.
Folder 11: "Searching for Harmony", 1997Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Traces of Wisdom - Hypertension Press Catalogs, 1998Add to your cart.
Traces of Wisdom: Amish Women and the Pursuit of Life’s Simple Pleasures published 1998
Folder 13: Traces of Wisdom - Contract, 1996-2000Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Traces of Wisdom - NotesAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Traces of Wisdom - ReviewsAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Traces of Wisdom - Fan Mail, 1998Add to your cart.
Photos, flyers, correspondence
Folder 17: "My Turn", 1999Add to your cart.

Newsweek- Common Sense

An opinion piece, rejected from publication

Folder 18: Lapp/Ebersol Correspondence, 1986, 1991, 1994Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Lapp/Ebersol Exhibit, 1995Add to your cart.
Exhibit on Henry Lapp and Barbara Ebersol
Folder 20: Lapp/Ebersol Exhibit - ArtifactsAdd to your cart.
Folder 21: Lapp/Ebersol Exhibit - InsuranceAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: Lapp/Ebersol Exhibit - PublicityAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: Lapp/Ebersol News Stories, 1980, 1991, 1992, 1994Add to your cart.
Regular and news print
Folder 24: Lapp/Ebersol "Two Amish Folk Artists", 1995Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Barbara Ebersol Special PapersAdd to your cart.
deeds, wills, etc.
Folder 26: Henry Lapp Special PapersAdd to your cart.
deeds, wills, patent, etc.
Folder 27: Lapp/Ebersol Amish Art for Landis Valley Museum, June 20, 2001Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Country Amish Doctor, Lehman, 1998-1999Add to your cart.
Stoltzfus helped with this project
Folder 29: "Lucky in Love", 1998Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Research - Amanda and Mary: Mennonite Women in Love, 1998-1999Add to your cart.
Mary lived from December 3, 1867 until January 22, 1958
Folder 31: Research - Musselman, AmandaAdd to your cart.
Amanda lived from October 17, 1869 until June 17, 1940
Folder 32: Mennonite Women - PA Mennonite HeritageAdd to your cart.
Folder 33: Mennonite Women's Calendar, 1984-1986Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Research - HomosexualityAdd to your cart.
Folder 35: Research - Orlean, SusanAdd to your cart.
Folder 36: Research - Taylor, Florence StarrAdd to your cart.
Folder 37: Notes from Interviews, 1996Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Lecture - Annual Meeting Lancaster Menno. Conf., 1999Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Lecture - Women's Fall Fest, 1999Add to your cart.
Mennonite Women
Folder 40: Lecture - St. Mark's UCC/ Lebanon, Dec. 1999Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Lecture - Willow Valley - Donna Albert, May 2000Add to your cart.
Folder 42: Lecture - Business and Professional Women, 2001Add to your cart.
Mennonite Women
Folder 43: Lecture - Willow Valley, 2002Add to your cart.
Folder 44: Lecture - Red Rose Quilt GuildAdd to your cart.
Folder 45: Book Promotion/Media ContractsAdd to your cart.
Folder 46: Writing Business LettersAdd to your cart.
Folder 47: Writing Creative Non-FictionAdd to your cart.
Folder 48: Hemmingway on WritingAdd to your cart.
Folder 49: Voice - Reflections on WritingAdd to your cart.
Folder 50: Kasdorf, Julie, 1998-1999Add to your cart.
Folder 51: Kraybill, Donald, 1997-2002Add to your cart.
Folder 52: Lantz, Jonathan, 2002Add to your cart.
Folder 53: Waxman, Scott - Literary Agent, 1995-1998Add to your cart.
Folder 54: Obituary and Funeral, 2002Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: MB Beginnings RecordsAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: John A. Lapp on Menno. Women, March 22, 1998Add to your cart.
Lecture at Lancaster Conference
Folder 3: Menno Women Conference, 1999Add to your cart.
Laurelville, PA
Folder 4: Menno. Women ReprintsAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Women in Love and Bishop Board, 1998Add to your cart.
research notes
Folder 6: Elderhostel Talks, 2001, 2002Add to your cart.
Talk from 2001, Mail from spring 2002
Folder 7: Quiet Shouts - ProposalAdd to your cart.
Herald Press
Folder 8: Quiet Shouts - Contract, etcAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Quiet Shouts - Introduction or Chapter 1Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Quiet Shouts - Correspondence, 1996-1999Add to your cart.
draft reviews, fan mail, notes from telephone conversations
Folder 11: Gonzalez, MercedesAdd to your cart.
Brooklyn, NY
Folder 12: Siegrist, Joanne HessAdd to your cart.
Another female author writing about Mennonite Women
Folder 13: Steffy, Mildred, Oct 4, 1997Add to your cart.
Interview
Folder 14: Wenger, Chester and Sarah Jane, Sept 22, 1997Add to your cart.
Telephone Interview
Folder 15: Quiet Shouts - Mennonite Women's Spirituality ChapterAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: WILS DisplayAdd to your cart.
Women in Leadership Subcommittee, No date
Folder 17: Quiet Shouts - Final Edit on ManuscriptAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: Quiet Shouts - ReviewsAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Trivia on Women Leaders/Paul ZekrAdd to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Quiet Shouts - Bair, Esther MellingerAdd to your cart.
Known as the founder of the Hinkletown Mennonite Church
Folder 2: Quiet Shouts - Book, MiriamAdd to your cart.
Missionary teacher around the world, served on the General Board
Folder 3: Quiet Shouts - Breneman, JanetAdd to your cart.
Missionary teacher in Honduras and in Guatemala City
Folder 4: Quiet Shouts - Brown, Lena HorningAdd to your cart.
Somalia and Grantham, PA
Folder 5: Quiet Shouts - Charles, Sylvia ShirkAdd to your cart.
Alsace region of France and Goshen, Indiana
Folder 6: Quiet Shouts - Good, Minnie Eberly HolsoppleAdd to your cart.
Akron, PA
Folder 7: Quiet Shouts - Lauver, Mary HottensteinAdd to your cart.
Puerto Rico and Akron, PA
Folder 8: Quiet Shouts - Leatherman, CatherineAdd to your cart.
Bukiroba, Tanzania and Mount Joy, PA
Folder 9: Quiet Shouts - Mellinger, Lydia Stauffer SauderAdd to your cart.
Millersville, PA, Children’s Home
Folder 10: Quiet Shouts - Nikiema, Mattie CooperAdd to your cart.
West Africa and Philadelphia, PA
Folder 11: Quiet Shouts - Nissley, LibbyAdd to your cart.
Mount Joy, PA
Folder 12: Quiet Shouts - Shenk, Jean KraybillAdd to your cart.
Hospital chaplain, Mount Joy, PA
Folder 13: Quiet Shouts - Yoder, Phebe EthelAdd to your cart.
Kenya; Mugagno, Tanzania and McPherson County, Kansas