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How Big Is PHS Anyway?

March 28, 2013

Occasionally, when members of congregations which are only a couple of hours away stop by to deposit records, I'm able to give them the nickel tour of our archival collections. The peak of the tour comes when I open the door to the secure, climate-controlled, city-block-long area known as the Archives Annex, where our visitors are greeted...

Author: 
David S
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Ask the Archives, Collections
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Martin Luther King Jr. recordings uncovered

January 16, 2013
Martin Luther King in Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963. via National Archives and Records Administration, ARC ID#542014

Several recordings of public appearances by Martin Luther King, Jr. have recently

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Author: 
David S
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Martin Luther King Jr, American History, Civil Rights
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Thomas Kirkpatrick in Iran

January 10, 2013

Entrance of the Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran, between 1911 and 1914.

We've recently received a collection of diaries and photographs by the Presbyterian missionary to Iran, Thomas Kirkpatrick. Assigned to evangelistic work in Tabriz and Urumiyah in 1911, Kirkpatrick traveled throughout the Caucasus, taking photographs. His photographs reveal an interest in Persian...

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David S
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Iran, Mission History
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Hurricane Sandy Records Recovery

November 28, 2012

After Sandy, a rainbow over Manhattan. Via Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.

As residents of New Jersey and New York work toward the full restoration of their households and livelihoods after Hurricane...

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David S
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Congregations, Preservation
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J. Oscar McCloud Papers Received

September 27, 2012

We're pleased to report that J. Oscar McCloud, notable Presbyterian minister and civil rights worker, has donated a large body of his personal papers to the Presbyterian Historical Society. Ten cubic feet of sermons and correspondence, journals from his travels abroad, historic photographs and other materials document McCloud's 50 years of service to the denomination.

Born in 1936 in rural Georgia, raised on a plantation, McCloud attended Boggs Academy and Warren Wilson College before graduating in sociology from Berea College. While pursuing a master's in divinity from...

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David S
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Archives, American History, African American History, Civil Rights, Collections
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