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 […]
Digital Collections Spotlight #59: Casimir Pulaski
Posted February 28, 2025 in Digital Access
This week marks the birthday of Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779), a Polish noble and soldier who joined the Continental Army during the American Revolution and played a central role in the […]
Digital Collections Spotlight #58: Maintaining Existing Digital Collections
Posted January 29, 2025 in Digital Access
It can be easy to think of digitization as a once and done project, material simply being scanned, processed, and made available through our online finding aid. In reality it […]
Digital Collections Spotlight #57: Thanksgiving
Posted November 20, 2024 in Digital Access
Next week Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving, a popular holiday often associated with gratitude, family gatherings, and lavish meals. While Thanksgiving did not become a national holiday until a 1863 proclamation […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]