Oral history interview with photographer Dennis Hughes conducted by Archivist Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh, Emily Erdlen '23, and Eric Schubert '23 on October 6, 2021 in Elizabethtown College's High Library. Filming by Zachary Klinedinst in the College's Office of Marketing and Communications. Hughes discusses his donation of over 18,000 images of the Amish to the College's Hess Archives. The photographs date from the 1980s through the early 2000s and depict Amish life and culture in the United States with a special emphasis on the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Subjects include buggy styles, agricultural work, mud sales, Amish schools, Amish children, and more. The collection includes photographs taken for Dr. Donald Kraybill’s books Amish Enterprise and The Riddle of Amish Culture.
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