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Digitized "Hidden" Sermons by Tennent and Alison

September 2, 2020
Portraits of Rev. Francis Alison, left, and Rev. Gilbert Tennent, right. Pearl ID: 101271 and 5356
 
The Presbyterian Historical Society is excited to announce the digitization of manuscript sermons by ...
Author: 
Cecilia
Tags: 
Digitization, News and Events
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Story of an RNS Photo: The Anniversary of the Liberation of Dachau

April 27, 2020
Last year, PHS completed the Religious News Service digitization pilot project. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, we were able to scan nearly 500 photographs from the Religious News Service photograph collection and add them to our digital collection in Pearl.

Early in the project, I scanned photographs from the 1980s. So why, I asked myself, did I find an...

Author: 
Cecilia
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Religious News Service, World War II
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Story of an RNS Photo: The Celis and Rotenberg Families

October 22, 2019
RNS photo showing Father Hubert Celis, a prison chaplain in Brussels, Belgium, being welcomed on his arrival in New York City to serve as "grandfather" at the Bar Mitzvah of Norman Wolbrom. Pearl ID: 151705

On June 18, 1965, Father Hubert Celis of Belgium arrived in New York City to be present for the Bar Mitzvah of Norman Wolbrom, son of Regine Rotenberg Wolbrom. Regine and her siblings survived the Holocaust thanks to the Celis family, and Father Hubert was...

Author: 
Cecilia
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Religious News Service, World War II
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Presbyterian America: Baltimore

July 16, 2019

The Presbyterian Historical Society documents the experiences of Presbyterians from across the country. As part of our series on regional history, here are five stories about the Baltimore area collected by PHS.

Baltimore's first Presbyterian church

Mt. Paran Presbyterian Church is the oldest church in the Presbytery of...

Author: 
Cecilia
Tags: 
Maryland, Congregations, General Assembly
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Preserving PC(USA) Websites

January 15, 2019

In 2013, the Presbyterian Historical Society began collecting the websites of the national agencies, synods, presbyteries, and General Assemblies of the PC(USA) through the Internet...

Author: 
Cecilia
Tags: 
Mission History, Digitization, Pearl Digital Collections
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