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New RNS Instagram Account

June 22, 2021

The Presbyterian Historical Society is pleased to partner with the Religion News Service (RNS) to launch a new Instagram account that will feature digitized archival images from the Religious News Service photograph collection. 

The account will highlight images scanned as part of the Religious News Service Photographs Digitization Project. Digitization for the project began with a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant and was completed in 2019. A new...

Author: 
Kristen
Tags: 
Religious News Service, News and Events, Digitization
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First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York records digitized

June 8, 2021
Image via Pearl ID: 15971

PHS is happy to announce completion of the mass digitization of many of the original records of the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, an undertaking paid for by the congregation. We salute the labor of our archives technicians and digitization coordinator, Cecilia, Sharon, and Allison. We thank the archivist at First Church, David Pultz, for his labor...

Author: 
David S
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Congregations, Digitization, New York
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Correspondence of Golden and Dick Baird, Missionaries to Korea

April 5, 2021
Letter written by Golden Baird to her mother, father, and Aunt Sophia from Kanggye, Korea, January 8, 1927. From Golden Baird's outgoing correspondence to her family, ca. 1920-1929.

The Presbyterian Historical Society has recently digitized the personal correspondence of twentieth century missionaries Golden and Dick Baird. The collection consists of almost 3,000 pages of the couple’s letters, primarily written from their mission station in...

Author: 
Allison
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Digitization, Korea, Missionaries
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Starting the Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Archive

February 3, 2021

PHS is pleased to announce progress in an inter-institutional effort to publish the personal records of the founding voice of Womanist/feminist/mujerista theology, Katie Geneva Cannon. This week, records belonging to the Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, were transferred here for imaging. In 2022, PHS will begin scanning records from the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University Libraries). 

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Author: 
David S
Tags: 
Digitization, Collections, African American History, Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection
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Digitized King Sermon: “Paul’s Letter to American Christians”

January 15, 2021
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ., 1965. Pearl ID: 143453

There are a plethora of items in our collection that relate to racial justice, and to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today we are choosing to highlight Dr. King’s sermon, "...

Author: 
Sonia
Tags: 
Digitization, African American History, Martin Luther King Jr
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