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Run (Away) to Johnson House The Colonial Georgian structure of the Johnson House looks beautiful today, but imagine how good it must have looked in the early 19th century to enslaved African Americans on a harrowing trek northward. The Johnson House was a stop on the Underground Railroad for many Freedom Seekers passing through Philadelphia. Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Wednesday, 6/19/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org 19th century, Abolition, African American, Slavery, Women Comments: 2	Ephemeral Adventures at Haycock Hist. Soc. The first store in Haycock (Bucks County, Pennsylvania), and the only store in the area for the latter half of the 19th century, was the Frankenfield Store. It was built in 1868 by Henry Frankenfield and carried on by family members including M. D. Frankenfield, Abel Frankenfield, John Bergstresser, E. A. Frankenfield, and A. H. Frankenfield. In 1872, M. D. Frankenfield began operating the Haycock Run Post Office from within the store. The post office and store shared the space for several decades until the store went out of business in the early 1900s. Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Wednesday, 6/12/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org
Go Panthers! under Quakertown Coach John O. Barth I am a big fan of the TV show "Friday Night Lights," so when Faith and I found a set of scrapbooks about high school sports at the Quakertown Historical Society, my first thought was, "Go Panthers!" Of course, this collection pertains to the Quakertown Panthers, not the Dillon Panthers; and the "molder of men"--and creator of the scrapbooks--is Coach John O. Barth, not Coach Eric Taylor. Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Wednesday, 5/29/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org 20th century, Recreation and Sport	Sanctuary at the Richard Wall House For over 330 years, the Richard Wall House and surrounding Eastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania have been a place of sanctuary--for Quakers, slaves, and birds--but not for horse thieves! Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Wednesday, 5/22/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org Comments: 2
Surveying to Begin in Chester and Delaware Counties The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories is gearing up to begin surveying in Chester and Delaware counties. Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Wednesday, 5/15/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org	MayDay 2013: Disaster Preparedness for Archives The Society of American Archivists (SAA) focuses on disaster preparedness every May 1st by promoting "MayDay: Saving Our Archives." Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Wednesday, 5/1/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org
Carversville Christian Orphanage The property on which local historian Ned Harrington lived in Carversville (Bucks County, Pa.) has a long, complex history. At times a school, a resort, a sanitarium, and an orphanage, chronicling the property's tangled background might have taken a lesser historian decades. Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Thursday, 4/25/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org Comments: 2	Forget Fulton; Fitch Was First! Did John Fitch start the transportation revolution in Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania? The John Fitch Steamboat Museum argues that the answer to this question is a resounding "Yes!" After all, it was in Warminster in 1785 that Fitch invented the first American steam engine feasible for propelling a boat. Several years later, he ran the world's first commercial steamboat service in 1790, along the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Trenton. (Although, even free beer, rum, and sausages could not entice enough customers to keep the operation viable.) Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Wednesday, 4/3/13 11:42 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org 18th century, inventions, John Fitch Comments: 6
Nominations Open for "HIP" Awards 2013 Mark your calendars! The second annual History Affiliates Awards Luncheon will be held on October 25, 2013 at the Union League of Philadelphia. Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Tuesday, 3/26/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org History Affiliates	Work with the Collier Papers at Hilltown Township HS The United States unemployment rate for February 2013 was 7.7%, which isn't great, but really isn't that bad. Especially when compared to unemployment rates during the Great Depression. When William E. Collier began working for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Employment Security in the 1930s, the national unemployment rate was upwards of 20%. His work with the Works Progress Administration, unemployment compensation, and labor unions--as well as his local history research and photographs of Bucks County--are meticulously documented in Collier's collection at the Historical Society of Hilltown Township. Archival Adventures in Small Repositories Friday, 3/15/13 12:00 am ccaustellenbogen@hsp.org Depression, Economics, Government and civics, World War II

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