Digital Collections Spotlight 62: Great Kills Scrapbooks

Digital Collections Spotlight 62: Great Kills Scrapbooks

Posted June 25, 2025 in Digital Access, General

One of the highlights of working at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, is always seeing how material in our holdings shed light on not only the history of the Moravian Church […]

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Anniversary of Moravian Daily Texts

Anniversary of Moravian Daily Texts

Posted May 16, 2025 in General

This month marks 293 years since the first publication of one of the Moravian Church’s longest running and most impactful programs, the Daily Texts. These devotional materials, consisting of a […]

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Intern Highlight: Ry Kral

Intern Highlight: Ry Kral

Posted May 16, 2025 in General, Intern Highlight

Our Spring Intern Ry recently completed her internship at MAB. Today, Ry reflects on her project digitizing many (many!) accession records spanning nearly 100 years and the methods of creating […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #61: Additions to the Frueauff Collection

Digital Collections Spotlight #61: Additions to the Frueauff Collection

Posted April 30, 2025 in Digital Access, General

  Several years ago we digitized artwork found in the personal papers of the Freauff family and presented a digital collections spotlight showing a few examples of artwork from the […]

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Intern Highlight: Ryan Rissmiller

Intern Highlight: Ryan Rissmiller

Posted April 23, 2025 in Digital Access, General, Intern Highlight

Our Spring Intern Ryan recently completed his internship at MAB. Today, we talk with Ryan about his experience at the Archives, challenges he faced, and how the Archives fits into […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #60: Bethlehem Airship Revisited

Digital Collections Spotlight #60: Bethlehem Airship Revisited

Posted March 26, 2025 in Digital Access, General

In one of our earliest Digital Collection Spotlights, published April 23, 2020, we presented a fascinating illustration of an early airship[1] found in the then recently digitized Rufus A. Grider […]

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Meet our Spring 2025 Interns!

Meet our Spring 2025 Interns!

Posted February 26, 2025 in General, Intern Highlight

The Moravian Archives is thrilled to be hosting 2 interns this spring semester! MAB always enjoys having interns at our institution. They challenge the staff to think differently about our […]

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Interview with a Researcher: Frank Crouch

Interview with a Researcher: Frank Crouch

Posted January 16, 2025 in General, Interview with a Researcher

This interview marks the seventh in a series where we meet with a user of the Moravian Archives to discuss their unique experience working with our collections in Bethlehem. In […]

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Interview with a Researcher: Anca Wilkening

Interview with a Researcher: Anca Wilkening

Posted October 18, 2024 in General, Interview with a Researcher

This interview marks the sixth in a new series where we meet with a user of the Moravian Archives to discuss their unique experience working with our collections in Bethlehem. […]

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Interview with a Researcher: Luke Soderstrom

Interview with a Researcher: Luke Soderstrom

Posted July 2, 2024 in General, Interview with a Researcher

This interview marks the fifth in a new series where we meet with a user of the Moravian Archives to discuss their unique experience working with our collections in Bethlehem. […]

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