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HSP Partners with Ancestry.com to Post 7 Million Records Online
1/26/12

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) has partnered with Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, to make our collection more accessible to researchers. As part of this partnership, Ancestry.com has digitized more than 7.5 million Pennsylvania vital records from HSP’s collection, including church, cemetery, and undertaker records from every county in the state from 1708 through 1985.

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Author David McCullough and Former HSP Chairman Collin F. McNeil to be Honored
1/17/12

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that it will honor Pulitzer-Prize winning author and historian David McCullough with its prestigious Founder’s Award. The annual dinner and awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 17, 2012, at the National Museum of American Jewish History.

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Grant from the Mellon Foundation Supports Archives Project
12/14/11

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of its Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR).  HCI-PSAR is a three-phase project to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of the numerous small, primarily volunteer-run archival and manuscript repositories throughout Pennsylvania, including small historical societies, museums, historic sites, and other institutions.

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Free Admission for Students in Grades 6-12
10/22/11

Students grades 6 to 12 may now research for free at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. They simply need to show their student ID to get this benefit. We are open after school – until 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays and until 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. 

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Baseball Scavenger Hunt at HSP
9/1/11

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) invites you to a baseball scavenger hunt on Thursday, September 15 at 6 p.m. It’s this season’s best double header! The event, presented by the Young Friends of HSP, will showcase some of the Society’s finest baseball documents, including turn-of-the-century baseball cards, old photos from Shibe Park, score cards from the Pythian Base Ball Club, 19th-century sporting goods catalogs, and much more. Guests who compete in this document-based scavenger hunt will have the chance to win fantastic prizes.

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