AR7. CASE
Case: Bloodletting kit
Description: scratch marks on light-coloured wooden surface, three
empty compartments out of a total of 15. Measures 11cm high, 35cm
wide. Used in Russia to reduce high blood pressure and alleviate
arthritic pain by Margareta Friesen Wiens Driedger Warkentin,
grandmother of Anna Wiens Tiessen (donor).
Year: used in the 1860's in Russia.
Donor: Anna Wiens Tiessen
Location: display shelf
Accession number: 992.109.1
Case: diaper bag
Description: used by Agatha Dueck Wiens, wife of Henry B. Wiens.
Black leather bag with silver coloured clasp and handle.
Cover of beige cloth, red trim, red embroidery... "zieh Froehlich
hinaus - kehr gluecklich nach Haus."
Buttoned tab closures at ends. Measures 35cm long, 30cm high, 16cm
wide at bottom, 10cm wide at top.
Year: before 1923 (immigration)
Donor: Anna Wiens Tiessen
Location: display shelf
Accession Number: 992.109.2
Case: for carrying headdress
Description: Box used for carrying headdress Haube to church or
when going visiting.
belonged to Mrs. Warkentin (Mrs. Henry B. Wiens mother)
circular box with wooden lid
leather strap to close with buckle over lid, broken off at one end.
Measures 27cm wide, 15.5 cm high, 40cm around.
Year:
Donor: Henry Derksen family
Location: display shelf
Accession number: 992.92.4
Case: Midwife case
Description; used by Mrs. Sara Matthies (nee Retzlaff) 1910-1924,
upper and lower villages of Kalantarowka, Russkowaja in Stavropol district.
brown leather case, metal frame, leather inside, very worn.
Several straps to hold canister, soapdish, 3 boxes, instruments.
Lock broken, case does not close tightly. Handwritten note included
(see next page).
Year: 1910 - 1924
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Cornie Hamm
Location; display shelf
Accession number: 992.99.1
Handwritten note for 992.99.1
This professional nursing case and contents belonged to Mrs. Sara
Matthies (nee Retzlaff) - daughter of Johannes and Katherine
Retzlaff of Gnadenfeld and later Kalantarowka, Caucasus. Sara
studied midwifery and some medicine in Riga, Latvia after
completing studies in Gnadenfeld. She supplied midwife as well as
some medical services in both the Upper and Lower villages
(Oberdorf and Unterdorf) of Kalantarowka, Russkowaja in Stavropol
district cuca 1910-1924.
In 1924 Gerhard and Sara Matthies came to Manitoba, Canada with
their 3 remaining children:
Evangeline (Mrs. Vernon Neuschwander), Goshen Indiana
John, living at Belleville, ON
Erna (Mrs. Cornelius Hamm), RR #1 Kingsville, ON
Sara Matthies died in 1926 in Gnadental, Manitoba. In 1930 the
Matthies family moved to Ontario.
Case: Passport purse
Description; black leather, dark green cloth inside trim.
snap closure on front outside. Foldup style. One large pocket, two
smaller. Contains passports, etc. of A and M Rempel (992.79.19a
-b)
43.5cm when open, 33.5 cm wide.
Year:
Donor: Mrs. Margaret Rempel
Location: archival box
Accession number: 992.79.20
Case: mathematical\drafting set
Description: Black leather case (27cm x 12cm) with fifteen piece
drafting set. Used for engineering and drafting purposes by
Dietrich Isaak, Centralschule teacher in St. Petersburg, Russia,
father of Nickolai, grandfather of Edith Isaak Tiessen, great
grandfather of Douglas Tiessen.
Year: c 1900
Donor: Douglas Tiessen
Location: display cabinet
Accession number: 994.348
Case: Pencil case
Description : wooden pencil case (24.5cm x 4.5cm) used in
elementary
school in Reesor, ON by Edith Isaak Tiessen. Painted decoration on
slide lid.
Year: c 1930
Donor: Edith Isaak Tiessen
Location: display
Accession number: 994.28.5
Case:Suitcase
Description:This suitcase belonged to Margaret’s motherr,
Margaretha Friesen Driedger/1895 – 1984 – (also mother
To Agattha Neufeld,Corelius Driedger, John Driedger,
Abe Driedbger) who vame from Russia to Manitoba in 1924 From Mantitoba they came to Essex County. This suitcase is presumed to have travelled with her from Russia.
Year:
Donation Date:Feb.2007
Location:On display
Accession Number:007.359.3