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Virginia Mennonite Conference Archives shelves, Harrisonburg, Virginia, a photo by MennoniteArchivesofVirginia on Flickr.
A hundred and seventy-five years worth of materials are stored in these archives. Like a detective, the historian searches through these boxes for the stuff of history: letters, journals, diaries, receipts, advertisements, photos, and scrapbooks.