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Community School Oral History Project

April 26, 2022
Tehran Community School, 1940. 

The Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) is pleased to partner with Dr. Matthew Shannon—Associate Professor of History at Emory & Henry College and Research Fellow at the Baskerville Institute—for the Community School Oral History Project.

The Community School Oral History Project (CSOHP) explores the history of the...

Author: 
Kristen
Tags: 
Digitization, News and Events
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Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection Update

March 31, 2022
Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, 1995. Pearl ID: islandora:171115

PHS is excited to spotlight some developments made in an inter-institutional effort to publish the personal records of the founding voice of Womanist/feminist/mujerista theology, Katie Geneva Cannon. Researchers can now view the first installment of records from the Burke Library at Union Theological...

Author: 
Allison
Tags: 
Digitization, African American History, Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection, Womens History, Pearl Digital Collections
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Bryn Mawr and Norris Square Records Digitized

November 3, 2021

PHS is happy to announce completion of the digitization of original records of two Philadelphia-area churches: Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr, PA and the former Norris Square Presbyterian Church in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The PHS digitization team scanned nearly 13,000 pages of Bryn Mawr's historic records including session minutes, registers, and a church newsletter. Norris Square's records, amounting to 1800 pages, were included in the digitization project as a token of...

Author: 
David S
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Digitization
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Past PHS LIVE: Saving Your Congregation's Records

July 21, 2021

On July 15, 2021, Records Archivist David Staniunas hosted a webinar on Zoom and Facebook Live about preserving original records of PC(USA) congregations.

Almost uniquely among large national archives, PHS collects and preserves records at the local level, bringing in more than 200 churches’ records in more than 350 cubic feet every year. In this webinar, David Staniunas shared simple tricks and lifehacks for keeping your original records decently and in order before they are...

Author: 
Kristen
Tags: 
PHS Live, Congregational Records, Digitization, Preservation
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AALC Records and Digitization

July 7, 2021
Documents in Gayraud Wilmore's collection from his work with Black Presbyterians United. [Pearl ID: 160325 and 160390]

The Presbyterian Historical Society needs your help to document African American lives, work, and witness in our increasingly multicultural Church.

Through the...

Author: 
David S
Tags: 
African American History, Digitization
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