New currents in research: “Finding hidden faces: an exciting day in the AIMM archives”
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[During a busy two-week trip to the United States, crammed full of meetings and visits, I had managed to reserve a day and a half for some time in the MC USA archives in Elkhart, Indiana. I planned to consult the records of Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission (AIMM)’s work in Congo. I was familiar with this collection, which contains 139 linear feet of materials created between 1905 and the early 2000s, from my dissertation research. Between 2016 and 2020, I had spent days frantically scanning documents on four separate occasions. I had scanned more than what was relevant only to my own research, hoping that the scans would one day be useful for Congolese Mennonite historians, and indeed I have had opportunities to share those scans with researchers in
Congo.]
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