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.
- 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