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Matt served as the project archivist for the processing of the Oliver H. Bair collection

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Interesting discoveries in the Oliver H. Bair Company records

An earlier blog post gave a brief introduction of the Oliver H. Bair Company collection, which is now properly preserved and accessible to users at HSP. This collection is comprised of nearly 83,000 burial records that span the time of 1920 to 1980. There were many surprises within these records, and this post is going to highlight some of the most interesting people that were located within these records.

Fondly, Pennsylvania
4/25/12
20th century, Economics, Genealogy, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Recreation and Sport, Women
Re-housing History

In the fall of 2011, through a generous grant by Ancestry.com I was given the task of re-housing the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s largest funeral home collection, the Oliver H. Bair Company collection. The collection consists of over 1050 boxes of burial records that the company had amassed over six decades of operation, from 1920-1980 to be exact.

Fondly, Pennsylvania
4/20/12
20th century