Scanned Archival Records and Images

The MLA has a very rich collection of photographs and other visual images. This is partly due to the years of publishing Mennonite Life as an illustrated journal.

A few samples from our holdings can be found through the links below. These are several collections that have drawn a higher-than-average level of interest from researchers.

• Ad Building - Exterior - South View before lamp post - earliest first story (see also below)
• Arkansas Valley Interurban
• Cheyenne ledger drawings from Rodolphe Petter papers
• Hopi Alcatraz photos
• Martyrs Mirror illustrations
• 1870s immigrants (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper)
• 1870s immigrants, C. B. Schmidt
• WPA Dioramas in Newton, Kansas
• Rodolphe Petter's English-Cheyenne dictionary (1915)
• Heinrich Donner prayer book, Abendmahls-Andachten: Gebete und Liedern vor und nach dem heiligen Abendmahl zum Gebrauch der Taufgesinnten Gemeine in Preußen [ca. 1788]
• Michalin Formularbuch
• Miscellaneous scanned photos (with thumbnail photos)
  Some subgroups of the miscellaneous scanned photos:
  • Africa
  • Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries/Mennonite Biblical Seminary
  • Bethel College Administration Building (see also above)
  • Bethel College Women's Association
  • Clinton, Oklahoma (Cheyenne missions)
  • Darlington, Oklahoma (Cheyenne and Arapaho missions)
  • "Flags in Mennonite Spaces"
  • Annie Funk (Titanic)
  • Scanned for Horst Gerlach in 2004 (mostly Russia)
  • Goerz House details at Bethel College
  • Lawrence Hart and family
  • Mennonite Library and Archives
  • Molotschna colony in Ukraine
  • Unidentified and partially identified (CAN YOU IDENTIFY ANY OF THESE?)
• Miscellaneous scanned photos, without thumbnails (loads faster than the above)
• Danzig 1806 Choralbuch (manuscript organ accompaniment book)
• Mennonitisches Adressbuch 1936
• Franz Isaak, Die Molotschnaer Mennoniten: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte derselben. Halbstadt: H. J. Braun, 1908.
• H. R. Voth photo list
• Udalrich Hugwald, Adulescentia dialogus, studiorum suorum prooemium et militiae initium (1520) with marginal notes by Conrad Grebel
• Goessel Mennonite Brethren church records, Goessel, Kansas
• Prussian/Polish Mennonite church record books:
  • Alexanderwohl/Przechowka
  • Danzig/Gdansk Mennonite congregation
  • Elbing/Elblag Mennonite congregation
  • Fürstenwerder Mennonite congregation
  • Heinrichsdorf, Volhynia, Mennonite congregation
  • Heubuden Mennonite congregation
  • Karolswalde, Volhynia, church book notes
  • Königsberg congregation
  • Ladekopp Mennonite congregation
  • Michalin-Gnadenberg-Grace Hill Mennonite congregation
  • Montau
  • Orlofferfelde
  • Rosenort
  • Schönsee-Kulmer Niederung congregation
  • Thiensdorf-Markushof
  • Tiegenhagen
  • Tragheimerweide
• Graudenz and Schwetz land records