2. Presbyterian Historical Society, built 1967
The Presbyterian Historical Society was organized in PHS moved four times in its first 50 years, in 1898 ending up at Juniper and Walnut, in the national headquarters of the PCUSA, the Witherspoon Building.
In 1967—50 years ago—PHS relocated to 425 Lombard Street in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Presbyterian Historical Society, built 1967

3. COLLECT PRESERVE SHARE
The Presbyterian Historical Society is the national archive of the Presbyterian Church. We collect historical documents and artificacts of the Presbyterian. Our mission is to Collect, Preserve and Share the story of the American Presbyterian Experience.
SHARE

4. COLLECT

5. Your national archives
Here is a picture of Our Archives Annex and it stretches a whole city block.
We hold approximately 30,000 cubic feet of archival records and personal papers
We have about 250,000 monographs, serials and rare books
Your national archives

6. SESSION MINUTES Records we accept
Session minutes and registers are of chief importance, but we also hold minutes of other church councils, including deacons, trustees, women’s associations and youth groups.

7. PRESERVE

8. RECORDS STORAGE
Records are housed in an environmentally controlled archival storage area with specialized fire detection and security systems. Congregations retain ownership of the records on deposit and may request the return of records at any time with written authorization from the clerk of session.

9. RECORDS DIGITIZATION
The Presbyterian Historical Society provides in-house digitization services for PC(USA) congregations, mid councils, and the general public. High quality digital facsimiles provide unlimited, remote access to collections and protect materials from damage and deterioration by eliminating the need to handle fragile originals. Digitization is available for bound or flat original materials up to 16" x 24" as well as for microfilm and filmstrips.

10. SHARE

11. OUR WEBSITE www.history.pcusa.org
PHS has invested a lot of time and money into our website. You can go onto the website to search our Online Catalogs, to learn more about and services and to access our blogs. Our blog help to connect historical information that is in our collection to current events.

12. HIDDEN FIGURES BLOG
One of the blogs we would like to highlight is a blog about the movie Hidden Figures.
In this movie Taraji P Henson portrays Katherine G. Johnson whoism was a devoted Presbyterian and has served her church and Presbytery for many years.
She is also famed for her trajectory calculations of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, the first human voyage to the moon and on-the-fly computations that enabled the Apollo 13 astronauts to return safely home from space. In her later NASA career, Johnson worked on the Space Shuttle program and the Earth Resources Satellite and encouraged students to pursue careers in the science and technology fields.
In addition to the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Johnson co-authored more than 20 important scientific papers for NASA. On May 5, 2016, the 55th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s historic rocket launch and splash down, the new Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility was formally dedicated at the NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

13. HIDDEN FIGURES BLOG
Katherine G. Johnson, Photograph (Commissioner to the 187th General Assembly).
Katherine G. Johnson, Photograph (Church Officers). Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church, Virginia. “The Harvest of Christian Involvement through the Years (Our 83rd Anniversary),” Newport News, Virginia. [PAM. FOL. BX 9211 V83607 C ]

14. Those are some of the ways to stay in touch with the Society’s historical ministry, and to let us know what’s going on at your church.
We’d like to further encourage those interactions by giving out free church memberships today to all churches who attended this luncheon. Each membership is at the Associate level, a $50 value, and they entitle you to free PHS publications, including the digital Journal of Presbyterian History.
We’ll pass out the free membership forms now and collect them at the end of the luncheon.
Church membership

15. MAKE A DONATION TO PHS