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Hardback, 330 pages, illustrated

Typed copies on loose-leaf binder paper, 88 pages

The Ferdinand community received permission to recite the Divine Office in 1936 from Bishop Ritter.

Correspondence, photograph album, prayerbooks, biographical data and related materials, Ferdinand

Kordes Hall was built as a St. Benedict College residence hall. It became the Kordes Enrichment Center in 1978 and the Kordes Retreat Center in the early 2000's.

These correspondences, for the most part, were from Father Ignatius to Mother Seraphine Kordes or to all the prioresses of the congregation.

Albert A. Krampe, son of Bernard Krampe, was the monastery's Properties Superintendent, beginning in 1925. Marie Krampe Daunhauer, Albert's daughter,
helped copy the logs, property of the family, for the monastery archives in 2007.

These are agreements (contracts) for the sisters' services at the Cannelton school in 1899 and 1918; also letter between Ferdinand Benedictines and Cannelton Trustee re: fees for student transfers between Cannelton and St. Michael schools (1942). The file also contains a letter from the State of Indiana regarding underpayment of transfer fees to Convent in Ferdinand (1949)