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Mennonite Library and Archives
Mennonite Church USA Archives - North Newton

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
• H. R. Voth photo list
• Goessel Mennonite Brethren church records, Goessel, Kansas
• Prussian/Polish Mennonite church record books:
  • Alexanderwohl/Przechowka
  • Danzig/Gdansk Mennonite congregation (in process)
  • Elbing/Elblag Mennonite congregation (in process)
  • Fürstenwerder Mennonite congregation (in process)
  • Heinrichsdorf, Volhynia, Mennonite congregation (in process)
  • Heubuden Mennonite congregation (in process)
  • Königsberg congregation (in process)
  • Ladekopp Mennonite congregation (in process)
  • Michalin-Gnadenberg-Grace Hill Mennonite congregation (in process)
  • Montau (in process)
  • Orlofferfelde (in process)
  • Rosenort (in process)
  • Schönsee-Kulmer Niederung congregation (in process)
  • Thiensdorf-Markushof (in process)
  • Tiegenhagen
  • Tragheimerweide (in process)