Recent additions to the Pearl digital archive include a variety of new archival, photographic, book, audio, and video items covering topics such as domestic and foreign mission work, Civil Rights, and Cuban and Palestinian refugees.
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
Presbyterian Historical Society photographs
Images documenting the construction of the society's building at 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Phineas Densmore Gurley Papers
Phineas Gurley served as chaplain of the United States Senate in 1858 and as moderator of the General Assembly in 1867. He is perhaps best remembered for having been the pastor in attendance at the deathbed of Abraham Lincoln and for the sermon he preached at the President's funeral. The Phineas Densmore Gurley Papers include photographs, correspondence, and manuscript sermons, including a facsimile and transcript of "Faith in God," the sermon Gurley preached at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, and a transcript of the sermon he preached at the funeral of Lincoln's young son, William.
Kenneth E. Wells family photo album
Album documenting Kenneth E. Wells’s April 1935 journey to Chiang Rung (Kiulungkiang) and Keng Tung; also family, missionary colleagues, and friends, circa 1930-circa 1936.
Presbyterian Life and AD Magazine photographs
Photographs from the Presbyterian Life and AD Magazine photo morgue.
PUBLICATIONS
Cover of Close-ups of Presbyterian Home Missions by H.N. Morse [islandora:80151]
Christian zeal : a sermon preached before the Third Presbytery of New York, in Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church by James W.C. Pennington, 1854
A discourse, delivered in the Presbyterian Church in Wall-Street, March 23, 1806 by Philip Milledoler, 1806
A sermon, delivered, on the 4th of February 1816, for the benefit of a Society of Ladies, instituted for the relief of poor widows with small children by Philip Melancthon Whelpley, 1816
Little Joe Carter, the cripple by Martha Finley, ca. 1864
Baptism into the name of the Lord Jesus the one baptism that will unite all Christians into the one body of Christ by William A. Cutler, 1900
Catechism ya Bolenaka by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Africa Mission, 1933
Close-ups of Presbyterian Home Missions by H. N. Morse, 1921
Chahta uba isht taloa holisso (131 Choctaw hymns without music) by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1844
Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Korea : 1929 (yearbook) by Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Korea, 1929
The divine goodness displayed, in the American Revolution: a sermon preached in New York, December 11th, 1783 by John Rodgers, 1784
AUDIO
B.J. Bingle in front of University Community Presbyterian Church, 1950 [islandora:9950]
Five radio spots, approximately one minute each, concerning Cuban refugee relief in Miami. Produced with cooperation of the UPCUSA Division of Radio and Television. Representative of Lutheran Emergency Center speaking in the name of Rev. E.F. Gruell about distribution of food to refugees -- Rev. Humberto Carrazana, Methodist Com. of Overseas Relief speaks about resettlement of refugees -- Carmen Ibanez, social worker, Latin Episcopal Center, concerning English lessons being given to refugees -- Rev. Sosa, First United Presbyterian Church, Miami, concerning resettlement of refugees -- Rev. Sosa's wife, describes kindergarten for refugees supported by the Church.
Bill Lytle interviewed by Charles Quirk
One of a series of interviews conducted by Charles E. Quirk in connection with a research project entitled: The United Presbyterian Church and Race.
Faith "Birdie" Lytle interviewed by Lois Boyd and Doug Brackenridge
Mrs. Bill Lytle discusses her experiences as the wife of the Moderator of the United Presbyterian Church. Interview conducted by Lois Boyd and R. Douglas Brackenridge.
Interviews on the Palestinian question
Interviews with Arab Christian Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem, recorded May 8, 1964, in Jerusalem. Includes Najib Khoury, secretary for the Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem; Herbert Schwartz, director of the Mennonite Central Committee in Jordan; William Alonzo, clerk, Bank of the Middle East. Notes indicate interviews are "radio programs for John Groller." Groller was director of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Radio station WSB's broadcast of "Witness," a public affairs program on the Second Ministers' Manifesto, 1958. In November 1957, after witnessing the school integration crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, eighty members of the Atlanta Christian Council issued a statement of conscience discouraging city officials and ordinary citizens from pursuing a course of massive resistance to federal authority. Better known as the "Ministers' Manifesto," the statement called for moderation, communication between the races, racial amity, and most importantly, obedience to the law. One year later, after the Temple bombing in Atlanta aroused new fears of racial extremism, more than 300 ministers issued a second manifesto calling for the creation of a citizens' commission to debate alternatives to massive resistance.
Cuban refugees at Newark Airport
Radio broadcast by Good News Radio on the arrival of Cuban refugees, resettled in Newark from Miami in 1962. Includes brief interviews with refugees deplaning. Concludes with remarks by Eugene Carson Blake.
Kenneth G. Neigh interviewed by Susan Miller
Kenneth Neigh, General Secretary of the UPCUSA Board of National Missions, interviewed by Susan Miller of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Buck Hill Falls mission consultation
Consultation on foreign missions, including Chile, Brazil, Cameroon, Syria, Lebanon. Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, after 1957.
R. Rolland Armstrong on Presbyterian missions in Alaska
Includes partial radio broadcast of "You Bet Your Life," followed by R. Rolland Armstrong's account of Presbyterian mission work in Alaska from 1940 to 1966.
Interviews with teachers at Sheldon Jackson College
Sheldon Jackson College broadcast of radio interviews of teachers, before 1959, including Elizabeth Peters, Maud Holt, and Frank Latta.
Bert Bingle on Alaska ministry
Rev. Bingle describing his life as a minister in Alaska.
VIDEO
The story of cowboy missionaries. Ralph Hall and others in the cattle country of New Mexico, 1947. Ralph Hall and Roger Sherman travel on horseback. [islandora:8421]
The story of Ralph Hall and Sunday school missions in the Southwest, circa 1945.
140th General Assembly, Presbyterian Church U.S.A., Tulsa, Okla., 1928
Includes footage of commissioners Lewis Mudge and Robert Speer; scenes outside of meeting; close-ups and group shots of meeting participants; aerial views of Tulsa; oil refineries; and First Presbyterian Church. Contains caption frames identifying participants.
Board of Pensions promotional filmstrip, introducing the Service Pension Plan. Script by Helen L. Kromer and Robert H. Heinze. One in the series, "Making Tomorrow," on the work of the boards of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
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