Cox Transportation Collection in the news

Last week, Cary wrote here about the end of the PACSCL Hidden Collections Processing Project at HSP. While she was composing that post, two local news organs were covering one of the HSP collections that the PACSCL team processed.  The Harold E. Cox transportation collection caught reporters’ attention because of an unusual stipulation from the [...]

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Parting is such sweet sorrow: the really real and official end of PACSCL processing at HSP

Earlier this year, I posted about the end of the PACSCL Hidden Collections Processing Project at HSP.  Well…it wasn’t quite the end.   Earlier this month, Holly and Courtney, spent time finalizing the finding aids for the six collections that they and Michael and Celia processed during their months here from January to June.  It was very [...]

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From 3 Musketeer boxes to document boxes: the Belfield papers

When we chose the Belfield papers (Collection 3159) for the PACSCL Hidden Collections Processing Project, we weren’t entirely sure what the processors might find in those 3 Musketeer boxes.  We only knew for certain that (1) they contained papers of members of the Wister family, the Starr family, Logan family, and Daniel Blain. (Belfield is [...]

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Ring, ring, ring goes the trolley!

Before SEPTA, public transportation in the city was largely the responsibility of the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) and its predecessor, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT).  HSP’s Harold E. Cox Transportation collection (#3158) is an invaluable resource that documents the history of these organizations and of public transportation generally in Philadelphia from the mid 1800s [...]

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