This collection consists of selected images taken by East Petersburg, Pennsylvania photographer Dennis L. Hughes of Amish life and culture in the United States with a special emphasis on the Amish in Lancaster County. Images date from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Hughes first became interested in the Amish when he was a young boy growing up in Lewistown, Pennsylvania near the Big Valley area. The physical collection housed in the Hess Archives contains over 18,000 images, primarily color slides. 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.
Amish women making strawberry pies
Registering to bid at quilt auction
Amish boys sledding
Making soft pretzels for sale
Amish women at Gordonville mud sale
Young Amish woman in downtown Lancaster
Orthodox Jewish tourists visit with Amish man
Amish man and woman with white top buggy
Nebraska Amish house auction
Nebraska Amish boy
Amish and Mennonite children playing baseball
Buggies outside store in LaGrange County, Indiana