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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...

Author:

PHS Staff

Tags:

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...

Author:

Nick

Tags:

Archival Processing, Poethig, Collections, Missionaries, Womens History

Now Processed: Presbyterian Peacemaking Program Records

January 3, 2024

Slide from "I hope they don't bomb my lilypad: peacemaking, a child's view, about 1982." [Pearl ID: 348007].

The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program Records have been processed as Record Group 542, and the guide to the records is now available:...

Author:

Nick

Tags:

Collections, Archival Processing, Peacemaking

Now Processed: Ralph Carter Papers

November 14, 2023

The Ralph Carter Papers have been processed as Record Group 543 and as part of the Pam Byers Memorial Collection (PBMC), and the guide to the records is now available: https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-543

The collection, processed by Lincoln...

Author:

Nick

Tags:

Archival Processing, Collections, LGBTQIA+ History

Now Processed: Advisory Council on Church and Society Records

September 28, 2023

Previous chairpersons and directors of the Advisory Council on Church and Society reunite at Ghost Ranch, August 2002. Pearl ID: islandora:344190 [RG 540, Box 106, Folder 6].

The Advisory Council on Church and Society Records have been processed as Record Group 540, and the guide to the records is now available:...

Author:

Nick

Tags:

Collections, Archival Processing