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Digital Collections Roundup: May 2017

May 28, 2017

Recent additions to the Pearl digital archive include a variety of new archival, photographic, book, audio, and video items covering topics such as domestic and foreign mission work, Civil Rights, and Cuban and Palestinian refugees. 

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Author: 
Natalie
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Pearl Digital Collections, Digitization, News and Events
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Digital Collections Roundup: February 2017

February 16, 2017
This post is the first in a new series highlighting recent additions to the Pearl digital archive. This month, we are especially excited to share a variety of new archival, photographic, book, audio, and video collections covering topics such as the American Revolution, mission work, Civil Rights, and the Vietnam War. Featured historical figures include John Witherspoon, George Duffield, Isabel Rogers, Joseph P. Cochran, John A. Redhead, James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Calvin Thielman....
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Natalie
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Pearl Digital Collections, Digitization, News and Events
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Shiny New Pearls

June 2, 2016

A few months ago, we announced the launch of our new digital library, Pearl--a digital asset management system (DAMS) built on the open-source software framework, Islandora. Today, we are excited to announce that we have added...

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Natalie
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Digitization, Pearl Digital Collections, News and Events
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Lo Mo: The Beloved Mother of Chinatown

March 16, 2016

In post-Gold Rush California, San Francisco’s Chinatown was ruled by tongs—secret associations of Chinese men who originally banded together to defend themselves against the xenophobia of the West but devolved into warring gangs in a violent underworld of human and drug trafficking. In this terrifying landscape, a young Scottish missionary from New Zealand managed to infiltrate the Chinese underworld to save more than 3,000 women and children from slavery. To the tongs she was known as Fahn Quai, the White Devil; to those she saved she was Lo Mo, Beloved...

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Natalie
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American History, Womens History, Immigration
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New Environmental Monitoring Program Launches at PHS

April 27, 2015

This year, the Presbyterian Historical Society is celebrating Preservation Week in a big way—we’ve just launched our first environmental monitoring program! Sixteen Preservation Environment Monitor (PEM2) data loggers now permanently collect temperature and relative humidity data in all of our collection spaces. Collecting and analyzing environmental data is the first step to...

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Natalie
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News and Events, Preservation
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