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 family harvests corn
Quilts on clothesline
Amish girl on swing
Open buggies along road
Amish clothesline in front of barn
Plowing with mule
Red barn
Amish farm
White barn and buggy in snow
Amish boys with goat and calf
Sleigh scene with horse
Buggies parked in snow