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PHS Staff Profile: Allison Davis

June 21, 2023

What is your role at PHS? What do you do from day-to-day?

I am the Digital Collections Specialist at PHS. My job is to oversee all of the day-to-day activities of our digitization program, which includes the physical scanning of collection materials, post-production, billing and correspondence with patrons, staff training and equipment maintenance, metadata creation and review, and file preservation. I also manage and maintain...

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Allison

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Get to Know PHS, Staff

African American Leaders: Warren Julius Nelson, Sr.

June 9, 2023

Warren Julius Nelson. Image from Black Presbyterians in ministry, 1978.

Each month, the Presbyterian Historical Society is bearing witness to the lives of African American leaders throughout the history of the denomination. Click here to learn how PHS is collecting records of the Black...

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Allison

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African American Leaders Series, African American Presbyterians

Stories of RNS Photos: Prayers for Gemini 4

June 2, 2023

Pat McDivtt and family leave home for a special 5:30 a.m. Mass on the day of Gemini 4's takeoff. Pearl ID: islandora:151479

PHS is the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant. The $330,678 grant will fund digitization of 22,500 images, newspaper clippings, and related...

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Allison

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Religious News Service, Pearl Digital Collections

Board of Foreign Missions Photographs

April 10, 2023

Pakistan, 1960. Pearl ID: islandora:339914

Now available in Pearl are images from the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations photograph collection (RG 223).

The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) was organized in 1837 with a self-described purpose of...

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Allison

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Digitization, Pearl Digital Collections, Mission History

Barber-Scotia College Photographs

March 7, 2023

Barber-Scotia students in college library, circa 1960s. Pearl ID: islandora:309464

Now available in Pearl are photographs of Barber-Scotia College, a historically Black women’s college in Concord, North Carolina. Spanning 1928 through the 1960s,...

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Allison

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Digitization, Pearl Digital Collections, Womens History, African American History

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PHS Staff Profile: Allison Davis

African American Leaders: Warren Julius Nelson, Sr.

Stories of RNS Photos: Prayers for Gemini 4

Board of Foreign Missions Photographs

Barber-Scotia College Photographs