AR7. CASE
Case: Bloodletting kit
Description: Wooden case containing a scarificator, nine glass cups, and two small glass jars. Some 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.
Donation Date:
Donor: Anna Wiens Tiessen
Location: Glass front display cabinet
Accession Number: 992.109.1
Case: Diaper bag
Description: Black leather bag with silver coloured clasp and handle. Cover of beige cloth, red trim, red embroidery... "zieh froehlich hinaus - kehr gluecklich nach Haus." (Translation – “travel away cheerfully and return home happily”)
Buttoned tab closures at ends. Measures 35cm long, 30cm high, 16cm wide at bottom, 10cm wide at top. Used by Agatha Dueck Wiens, wife of Henry B. Wiens.
Year: before 1923 immigration to Canada.
Donation Date:
Donor: Anna Wiens Tiessen
Location: On display
Accession Number: 992.109.2
Case: For carrying headdress
Description: Circular wooden box with lid used for carrying headdress (Haube) to church or when going visiting. Leather strap with buckle to close over lid, broken off at one end. Measures 27cm wide, 15.5 cm high, 40cm around. Belonged to Mrs. Warkentin (Mrs. Henry B. Wiens mother)
Donation Date:
Donor: Henry Derksen family
Location: On display
Accession Number: 992.92.4
Case: Midwife case
Description: Brown leather case, metal frame, leather inside, very worn. Lock is broken and case does not close tightly. The case contains a curved scissor with rounded tip, forceps, a hollow curved instrument, metal box with lid (3.5cm.X7cm.X2.5cm.) containing 2 vials and cotton, metal box with lid(4cm.X8.5cm.X2cm.) containing a hypodermic syringe and assorted needles, rounded metal box (soap dish?) (96.5cm.X9cm.X4cm.) with hinged lid, rectangular metal case or box with lid (10cm.X13cm.X3.5cm.), two metal canisters (10cm. diameter X 20cm.) with 9 8mm holes around top & bottom, both top and bottom lids removable and can be rotated to open or close the holes. All metal items appear to be stainless steel. Used by Mrs. Sara Matthies (nee Retzlaff) 1910-1924, upper and lower villages of Kalantarowka, Russkowaja in Stavropol district.
Handwritten note included (see next page).
Year: 1910 - 1924
Donation Date: August 9, 1992.
Donor: Cornelius and Erna (Matthies) Hamm
Location: On display
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 - circa 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.
Foldup style with snap closure on front outside. One large pocket, two smaller. Contains passports, ID cards, health cards, border pass, birth certificates etc. of Abram and Margaret Rempel (992.79.19a-b)
43.5cm when open, 33.5 cm wide.
Donation Date: August 26, 1992.
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
Donation Date: November 14, 1994.
Donor: Douglas Tiessen
Location: Glass front display case.
Accession Number: 994.348
Case: Pencil case
Description: wooden pencil case (24.5cm x 4.5cm) used in elemetary school in Reesor, ON by Edith Isaak Tiessen. Painted decoration on slide lid.
Year: c 1930
Donation Date: November 14, 1994.
Donor: Edith Isaak Tiessen
Location: Glass front display case.
Accession Number: 994.28.5
Case: Suitcase
Description: This suitcase belonged to Margaret’s mother, Margaretha Friesen Driedger (1895–1984 – (also mother
to Agatha Neufeld, Cornelius Driedger, John Driedger,
Abe Driedger) who came from Russia to Manitoba in 1924 and from Manitoba 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