A Musical Finding Aid – The Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt Collection

As alluded to in a previous blog entry, we have been working on the creation of a musical finding aid for the Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt collection.  I am happy to announce that this finding aid is now complete and available for use! In case you’re not familiar, a finding aid is a descriptive, but [...]

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Robert Proud: Quaker, Classicist, Historian, and Loyalist

I never thought that when working as an Archives Intern at HSP I would come across a collection that had some personal resonance.  But when handed the Robert Proud collection to process, I learned that history can connect to one’s life in bizarre ways. Robert Proud was born in Yorkshire, England in 1728.  He attended [...]

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When “small” means anything but

One of our volunteers, Bryan Shinehouse,  recently completed an inventory of our Society Small collection (#22B).  Now, perhaps you’re thinking “Society Small”?  How is that even a collection title?  Well, at HSP it’s actually a very important title, and we have several others that are similar: Society photograph collection (#V59), Society Print collection (#V89), Society [...]

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New finding aids available!

Finding aids are now available online for the following collections: George G. Meade collection (#410) [This collection combines formerly separate collections 410 and 1407.]  Grand Army of the Republic. Philip R. Schuyler Post No. 51 records (#1825)

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For your enjoyment: more collections that are now available

In terms of processing, the HSP archives department had a good 2009 and is off to a good start in 2010.  In this time, staff processed and improved access to almost 50 collections.  Following up on Cathleen’s previous post, here are just a few highlights.  Others can be found on our website. HSP collection of [...]

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Papers from the Bartram family…really?

The Chew family?  Yep, pretty sure we have their records. The Hopkinson family?  Yeah, we’ve got them too. The Logan family?  Yes, them too, and related families. The Cadwalader family?  We’ve got boxes and boxes…and more boxes! The Bartram family?  Believe it or not, yes! HSP is well known for its collections from various political, [...]

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