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 Service Photographs Digitization Project.
The 2,627 new records added to the Society’s online archive, Pearl, include 1,857 images and 770 records of accompanying text including press releases and clippings. The most recent addition of photographs originates from 1945, 1946, 1963, and 1974. The records were 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 Religious News Service Photograph Collection available online.
Since the project began last fall, over 3,571 images have been scanned and added to Pearl.
Learn how RNS Project Archivists are digitizing images from the Religious News Service Photograph Collection.
RNS Project Archivists, Isabella Fidanza and Megan Genovese, were busy these past few months appraising, rehousing, and digitizing the photographs, which offer a range of topics, settings, faces, and emotions.
Eighty-thousand cheese sandwiches, with apples and pieces of marble cake, were packed into lunchboxes at Riverside Church in New York City, then rushed in refrigerated trucks to the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 1963. [Pearl ID: islandora:358094.]
An outdoor vesper service is held above Lake Geneva at the National Adult Work Planning Conference, sponsored by six major interdenominational agencies, 1946. [Pearl ID: islandora:359873.]
The policies of the Diem government are assailed by Buddhist monks before a huge crowd attending memorial services outside the Xa Loi Pagoda in Saigon, August 1963. [Pearl ID: islandora:358117.]
Rev. Harry T. Bridwell, pastor of the Central Church of the Disciples of Christ in Buffalo, New York, stands beside the church bulletin board which carries a Jewish New Year’s message, 1946. [Pearl ID: islandora:360330.]
A member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars wears a badge showing his opposition to amnesty for young men who fled the country to escape induction and those in legal trouble for resistance and desertion during the Vietnam war, 1974. [Pearl ID: islandora:361244.]
A caravan of nearly 5,000 camels moves towards a remote area of Niger carrying food sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization into drought zones, 1974. [Pearl ID: islandora:361530.]
Cases of powdered milk, part of a shipment of 43,440 pounds to aid the people of Luxembourg, are inspected by members of the Washington State United Church Overseas Relief. The shipment is equal to 195,480 quarts of reconstituted milk. [Pearl ID: islandora:359863.]
A statue of Christ in a Port Arthur, Tex., cemetery stands above flood waters following Hurricane Cindy, September 1963. [Pearl ID: islandora:358069.]
School buses carrying Black students are given a police motorcycle escort as they head for South Boston High School on the second day of court-ordered busing in Boston, September 1974. [Pearl ID: islandora:361268.]
A crowd outside a Pittsburgh hotel where President Ford was addressing a transportation conference holds signs protesting his decision to grant a pardon to former President Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed while Chief Executive, September 1974. [Pearl ID: islandora:361263.]
