Digital Collections Spotlight #56: First Bethlehem Bridge Across the Lehigh River

Digital Collections Spotlight #56: First Bethlehem Bridge Across the Lehigh River

Posted October 22, 2024 in Digital Access

While the main focus of our upcoming exhibit, “Bridging Bethlehem: 100 Years of the Hill to Hill Bridge”, is the planning for and construction of the Hill to Hill Bridge […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #55: The Marquis de Lafayette in Bethlehem

Digital Collections Spotlight #55: The Marquis de Lafayette in Bethlehem

Posted September 20, 2024 in Digital Access

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s return to and tour of the United States, and in light of this anniversary we would like to highlight […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #54: Eugene A. Rau Photograph Collection

Digital Collections Spotlight #54: Eugene A. Rau Photograph Collection

Posted August 23, 2024 in Digital Access

As this warm summer, with its repeated heat waves, draws to a close we can begin looking forward to colder weather and perhaps even winter scenes, such as the one […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #53: Minutes of the Provincial Helpers’ Conference

Digital Collections Spotlight #53: Minutes of the Provincial Helpers’ Conference

Posted July 25, 2024 in Digital Access

In our previous post we looked at the ongoing digitization of a series of 19th-century letter books recording correspondence from presidents of the Provincial Elders Conference (PEC), so this is […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #52: Digitization for Preservation: PEC Letter Books

Digital Collections Spotlight #52: Digitization for Preservation: PEC Letter Books

Posted May 17, 2024 in Digital Access

Often in these posts we have discussed the digitization projects here at the Moravian Church Archives, Bethlehem, in terms of improving access to material in our holdings, but they are […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #51: Tremont Terrace’s 172nd Anniversary

Digital Collections Spotlight #51: Tremont Terrace’s 172nd Anniversary

Posted April 26, 2024 in Digital Access

Happy 172nd anniversary to Tremont Terrace Moravian Church, founded as “Second Moravian Church” on April 27, 1852. It has its origin in the Moravian Church’s Home Mission Society and was […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #50: Fries’s Rebellion

Digital Collections Spotlight #50: Fries’s Rebellion

Posted March 22, 2024 in Digital Access

This month marks 224 years since eastern Pennsylvania was embroiled in a conflict over taxation known as Fries’s Rebellion, which culminated in a standoff at the Sun Inn in Bethlehem, […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #49: Mixed Media AV Items

Digital Collections Spotlight #49: Mixed Media AV Items

Posted February 23, 2024 in Digital Access

Last year we presented an unusually shaped map of the area around the Hope Conference and Renewal Center, also known as Camp Hope, a Moravian Church facility operated in Blairstown, […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #48: Storage of Slides

Digital Collections Spotlight #48: Storage of Slides

Posted January 17, 2024 in Digital Access

In recent months we have highlighted the magic lanterns and glass plate lantern slides in the holdings of the Moravian Church Archives, Bethlehem. As an extension of this we would […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #47: Year in Review

Digital Collections Spotlight #47: Year in Review

Posted December 19, 2023 in Digital Access

As 2023 comes to an end we would like to take the opportunity to look back at a few highlights of what the Moravian Church Archives, Bethlehem, has accomplished this […]

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