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Illuminating the Past: More Light Presbyterians Records

October 8, 2024

--by Nick Skaggs and David Staniunas

This Spring, PHS received 48 cubic feet of original More Light Presbyterians (MLP) records from Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives. The records, which date back to the organization’s founding in 1974 are now processed and accessible to the public for the first time.

What were the records of the chief grassroots LGBTQIA+ advocacy organization in the PC(USA) doing at Rutgers in the first place? At...

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PHS Staff

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Presbyterian Heritage, LGBTQIA+ History, Archival Processing, Collections

Now Processed: Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Records

August 21, 2024

Seal of the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations, 1961. [Pearl ID: islandora:372046].

The United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA) Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations (COEMAR) Records have been processed as RG 547, and the guide to the records is now available:...

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Nick

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Archival Processing, Collections, Mission History, Missions, Missionaries

Case Study in Reparative Description: Tucson Indian Training School Records

July 22, 2024

Tucson Indian Training School students ready to leave for a basketball game off campus, Spring 1937. Pearl ID: islandora:362723

--by Elaine Shilstut, Nick Skaggs, and Allison Davis

In 1906, an 8-year-old Akimel O'odham (Pima) student named Annie Moore enrolled at the Tucson Indian Training School. “We were not allowed to speak the Pima tongue at school,” Moore would recall almost 70 years later...

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PHS Staff

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Reparative Description, Native Americans, Archival Processing

Now Processed: Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers

March 19, 2024

Group photograph at the wedding of Eunice Blanchard and Richard Poethig (left to right: Erna Poethig, Eunice Blanchard & Richard Poethig, Juliet Rumsey Stroh Blanchard, David Blanchard), June 7, 1952. Pearl ID: islandora:356169 [RG 545, Box 43, Folder 17]

The Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers have been processed as...

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Nick

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Archival Processing, Poethig, Collections, Missionaries, Womens History