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RNS Digitization Project Update

October 10, 2024

We are back again to share some more updates from the Religious News Service Photographs Digitization Project.

During the third quarter of 2024, PHS was thrilled to welcome Lauren Pash to the team as our new RNS Project Archivist. Working alongside Megan, the two of them were busy appraising, rehousing, scanning, and describing historical RNS...

Author: 
Allison
Tags: 
Religious News Service, From the Archives, Digitization
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Religious News Service Project Update

July 12, 2024
1,050 University of Wisconsin undergraduates assembled in the First Congregational church here attending a twice-weekly lecture on political science. The rapid influx of college students this fall, most of them veterans taking advantage of the federal education benefits, has crowded the usual college classrooms, 1946. [Pearl ID: islandora:360547.]

The Presbyterian Historical Society is excited to share some digitization highlights as part of the Religious News...

Author: 
Allison
Tags: 
Religious News Service, Digitization, News and Events
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AALC Collecting Update

February 21, 2024

We bring you peace and blessings this Black History Month! Your archivists are excited to share the progress we've made in documenting the Black Presbyterian experience, and we thank you for supporting the African American Leaders and Congregations Collecting Initiative.

With your support, we made site visits to appraise and pack up records for storage and for digitization. Thanks to the following congregations...

Author: 
David S
Tags: 
African American History, Digitization
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New in Pearl: RNS Photos

February 9, 2024

The Presbyterian Historical Society is thrilled to announce that the first batch of images digitized as part of the Religious News Service Photographs Digitization Project have been added to Pearl Digital Collections.

The 1,117 records added to the Society’s online archive include 753 images and 424 records of accompanying text including press releases and clippings. The records are the first to be digitized as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant funded project that will make 22,500 images and related documents from the...

Author: 
Kristen
Tags: 
Religious News Service, Digitization, Pearl Digital Collections
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The Clifton Kirkpatrick Oral History Project

December 6, 2023

PHS is happy to announce that three oral history interviews with Stated Clerk Emeritus Cliff Kirkpatrick are now live and available for viewing in Pearl.

Clifton Kirkpatrick was elected as Stated Clerk of the PC(USA)’s General Assembly in 1996. At the end of his term of service in 2008, he was elected as Stated Clerk Emeritus. Prior to his becoming Stated Clerk, he served for fifteen years as the...

Author: 
McKenna
Tags: 
Digitization, Archives, Pearl Digital Collections
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