Digital Collections Spotlight #44: Magic Lanterns

Digital Collections Spotlight #44: Magic Lanterns

Posted September 26, 2023 in Digital Access

While much of our holdings here at the Moravian Church Archives, Bethlehem, are printed materials we also house and maintain a wide range of other materials. These fascinating items from […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #43: Cammerhoff Papers

Digital Collections Spotlight #43: Cammerhoff Papers

Posted August 24, 2023 in Digital Access

Our holdings here at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, include a number of collections of the personal papers of individuals important to the history of the Moravian Church. These collections are […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #42: Bethlehem Iron Works

Digital Collections Spotlight #42: Bethlehem Iron Works

Posted July 28, 2023 in Digital Access

This map from 1882 helps trace the development of what would become one of the most important industries in the history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and more broadly the United States […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #41: Provincial Synods of the Moravian Church

Digital Collections Spotlight #41: Provincial Synods of the Moravian Church

Posted June 28, 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. Last week, […]

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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 #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 #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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