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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...

Author: 
PHS Staff
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Presbyterian Heritage, LGBTQIA+ History, Archival Processing, Collections
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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:...

Author: 
Nick
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Archival Processing, Collections, Mission History, Missions, Missionaries
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PHS Welcomes New Batch of More Light Records

April 25, 2024

On Tuesday, March 29, in the late afternoon, a very exciting shipment arrived at the PHS building on Lombard Street: 64 boxes of records of More Light Presbyterians (MLP) records.

Several of our staff assisted Records Archivist David Staniunas in getting the five-dozen boxes of archival materials into the building. At the request of More Light Presbyterians leadership and with the enthusiastic support of the records’ original donor, Jim Anderson, the records made their way to the Presbyterian Historical Society from Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives...

Author: 
McKenna
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Archives, Collections, News and Events, LGBTQIA+ History
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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
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Archival Processing, Poethig, Collections, Missionaries, Womens History
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Archives Sneak Peek: Florence Helen Ray Boyes Papers

February 5, 2024

Each month, the Presbyterian Historical Society is diving deep into the archives and sharing stories from the family and personal papers in our collections. This month, we’re highlighting the Florence Helen Ray Boyes Papers.

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After visiting Kennedy Memorial Hospital in 1950, Dr. Paul S. Rhoads, working under the Board of Foreign Missions of the PCUSA, typed up a descriptive account of all he’d witnessed. The report is full of...

Author: 
McKenna
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Collections, Archives
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