Digital Collection Spotlight #40: Labrador

Digital Collection Spotlight #40: Labrador

Posted May 31, 2023 in Digital Access

As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series here. These maps […]

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Digital Collection Spotlight #39: Travel Journals

Digital Collection Spotlight #39: Travel Journals

Posted April 28, 2023 in General

One of the collections we have digitized and made available online is several Travel Journals, accounts written by Moravians recounting their travels, typically for pastoral or missionary work in the […]

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Moravian History featured in Ben Franklin’s World Podcast

Moravian History featured in Ben Franklin’s World Podcast

Posted April 25, 2023 in General

Director and archivist, Paul Peucker joined Ben Franklin’s World Podcast for their most recent episode to investigate the establishment of the Moravian Church in North America. Episode Summary “During our […]

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Digital Collection Spotlight #38: The Martin Hauser Papers

Digital Collection Spotlight #38: The Martin Hauser Papers

Posted March 29, 2023 in Digital Access

The pages shown here are from the personal papers of the Moravian minister Martin Hauser (1799-1875), one of the many collections that we have digitized and made available online over […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #37: Hope, New Jersey

Digital Collections Spotlight #37: Hope, New Jersey

Posted February 28, 2023 in Digital Access

Drawings and Print Collection (DP oversize 13) “General Plan Moravian Church Camp, Camp Hope Eastern district Moravian Church Hope Township New Jersey” This unusually shaped map from the 1970s shows […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #36: Year in Review

Digital Collections Spotlight #36: Year in Review

Posted December 29, 2022 in General

As this year draws to a close we would like to offer an overview of some of what we have been working on during the year in regard to digital […]

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Moravian Mission Coffee

Moravian Mission Coffee

Posted November 28, 2022 in General

Just by drinking your morning cup of Moravian Mission Coffee, you support Moravians around the world. Each bag purchased enables the Moravian Board of World Mission to provide more Mission […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #35: Anatomy Textbook

Digital Collections Spotlight #35: Anatomy Textbook

Posted November 1, 2022 in Digital Access

This interesting, if perhaps slightly macabre, engraving is from a 18th-century book on art that belonged to the noted Moravian artist Johann Valentin Haidt (1700-1780) and offers an intriguing glimpse […]

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Digital Collection Spotlight #34: Phonograph Records

Digital Collection Spotlight #34: Phonograph Records

Posted September 27, 2022 in Digital Access, General

Most of the items that have been highlighted in these posts have been textual and visual materials so we thought it would be interesting to highlight a different aspect of […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #33: Schoenbrunn School

Digital Collections Spotlight #33: Schoenbrunn School

Posted August 1, 2022 in Digital Access

As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. This […]

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