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Our Work in the Archives: Third Quarter 2024

October 24, 2024
Take a peek into the work of the PHS archivists. Above: Youngsters take a look at their grinning jack-O'-lantern, in an unusual view from the inside looking out. (Wide World Photos, Inc., October 26, 1970.) Pearl ID: islandora:293411

It was a busy summer for the PHS archival staff, and here we are just a few days away from Halloween! Summer is always a busy time in the Reading Room, and this quarter our Reference Archivists welcomed...

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Natalie
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Our Work in the Archives: First Quarter 2024

May 8, 2024
Eunice Blanchard Poethig at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Presbytery of Western New York Leader Training, circa 1990. Pearl ID: islandora:356168 [RG 545, Box 40, Folder 10]
 
The first quarter of 2024 flew by! Here’s an update on the impressive work the PHS archives staff have been doing so far this year.

Our 52 in-...

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Natalie
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Our Work in the Archives, Fourth Quarter 2023

February 28, 2024

Let's dig in to the work of your archivists in the fall and winter of 2023!

We had a quiet quarter of new accessions to end the year: 60.54 feet in 83 groups, among them 29 feet of records from 32 active and dissolved congregations. We brought in seven feet and 250MB of personal papers in the quarter, including the work of Liz Knott, a Presbyterian advocate for Palestine, an oral history with Rev. Cedric Portis of Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.), and records from Rev. Jude Michaels, a Presbyterian minister active in the...

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David S
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Our Work in the Archives, Third Quarter 2023

November 6, 2023

Let's look back at our work from over the summer!

We're pleased to have imaged select records of five churches via our African American Leaders and Congregations inititative: the Presbyterian Church of St. Albans (St. Albans, N.Y.), First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica (Queens, N.Y.), Hollis Presbyterian Church (Queens, N.Y.), Davie Street Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, N.C.), and Edisto Presbyterian Church (Edisto Island, S.C...

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David S
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Our Work in the Archives, Second Quarter 2023

July 24, 2023

Let's take a look back at what your archivists were doing in April, May, and June!

For the quarter, we brought in 201.32 cubic feet of new records in 97 groups. These included the records of 16 active and 50 dissolved PC(USA) congregations, for 88.74 cubic feet. Among these were major shipments from the Grace Presbytery, Hudson River Presbytery, and the Presbytery of Scioto Valley.

Archivist Nick Skaggs completed processing our new RG 540, records of the ...

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David S
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