Photographs presently are indexed in a database that can be searched by subject below. About 30% have thumbnails attached to them at this time. If you wish to see a thumbnail of a particular photo noted in the database that does not currently have a thumbnail, please forward the request to Mennonite Archives of Ontario. At this time we will only scan five photographs per request; they should be available in the database within one week. Presently the database does not include slides; check the listing below for these items.
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Digital images may be purchased from the Archives for personal use. A charge of $5.00 per electronic image is made for a high quality .tif or .jpg image. If they need to delivered on a CD, there is an additional cost of $1.00 for the CD plus mailing costs. Ask for details before sending an order. Cash or personal cheques only please. The cost of images to be used in publications of any sort should be checked with the Archives. These may also require permission of the original copyright holder.
Listed below are slide sets donated to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario, primarily around the theme indicated by the title. They may contain unique photographs of persons, congregations or institutions within the collecting interest of the Mennonite Archives of Ontario. A small percentage of these images are presently available online.
The Peter Etril Snyder negative collection of 52,000 images is also classified in this area as there are no print images in the collection. Selective images will be scanned and available in the photograph database as processing continues.
1.1 Dennis, Aleta (Old Order Mennonite and Amish schools)
1.2 Schneider Bible
1.3 Michael Bird Fraktur slides
1.4 J. Winfield Fretz Old Order Mennonite slides, 1960s
Last modified
06-Oct-2011
by Sam Steiner