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The Scrapbook of Edith Madeira & PHL's Connection to the Red Cross' Commission to Palestine.

Fri, 2015-05-29 12:25

Edith Madeira's Red Cross nursing certificate. Madeira attends the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School in Baltimore, MD.

Group photo of the Red Cross’ Commission to Palestine, comprised of 10 nurses, six surgeons, three sanitary engineers, and 20 additional staff, including social workers and teachers.

A view of Cape Town taken by Madeira during the Commission’s voyage to Palestine.

Madeira and other Red Cross staff sightseeing in Egypt.

Celebrations of the hard work and sacrifice of emergency medical services personnel have marked this year's National EMS Week.

20th century, World War I, Philadelphia, Science and Medicine, Women

Meet the Speakers - Before Stonewall: The Gay Pride Movement

Tue, 2015-05-26 16:34

Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer, director, and actor, and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting. Ain is HSP's inaugural "Embedded Artist".

Bob Skiba, director of the William Way Center’s archive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender materials, displays a Pride Fest T-shirt from the 1990s. Image: ED HILLE / Staff Photographer, Philadelphia Inquirer.

Ada Bello (far right), a founding member of the Daughter’s Of Bilitis Philadelphia Chapter and the Homophile Action League. Image: John J. Wilcox Jr. LGBT Archives.

July 4, 1965, Philadelphia, PA - 7 women and 33 men picketed in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. On the very spot where Americans first asserted their rights and liberties, this small gr

21st century, Arts and Culture, Civil Rights, Ethnic history, Philadelphia, Politics, Women

First Wednesdays Coffee

Tue, 2015-05-26 12:51

Some of our summer research fellows taking a break from their work.

HSP's Director of Publications and Scholarly Programs,Tammy Gaskell, talking with some of our research fellows.

Staff enjoy the opportunity to informally mingle with researchers and hear about their projects.

Tammy Gaskell and Director of the Library, Lee Arnold, enjoying an afternoon break over a quick cup of coffee.

One of our research fellows, fueling up before getting back to work on her PhD dissertation.

July's coffee break had a great turn-out as visiting researchers, college and university students, and HSP members also joined in the fun.

Join us for our next coffee hour from 3-4 on September 2nd!

Take a break from your research and mingle with our staff and research fellows over a free coffee and baked goods at our First Wednesdays Coffee! On the first Wednesday of every month, th

Artist Embedded: Their Story; Our Story - African American Women and the Fight for Freedom

Fri, 2015-05-15 13:18

Ain Gordon, playwright of If She Stood and our Artist Embedded.

The African American Museum in Philadelphia’s Adrienne Whaley and historian, Dr. Judith Giesberg of Villanova University.

Actress, Melanye Finister performing a monologue from Ain Gordon's play, If She Stood.

Ain Gordon and Melayne Finister discussing African American women's role in the abolishment of slavery.

Ain Gordon and Melyane Finister performing an excerpt from If She Stood.

Ain Gordon and Adrienne Whaley discussion African American women's role in the abolishment of slavery.

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Philadelphia: City of Music

10/27/16

https://vimeo.com/181791585

Philadelphia has an extraordinarily rich and important musical history. From the late eighteenth century, when it was the political and cultural capital of the American colonies, to the present, the city has nurtured numerous ground breaking musical styles and artists and been at the forefront of some of the world’s most significant musical developments. Music historian Jack McCarthy explores some of the highlights of Philadelphia music over the course of the city’s 330+ year history.

18th century, 19th century, Arts and Culture

An Artist Embedded: Unpacking a Psychatrist: 217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous

8/18/16

https://vimeo.com/179068608

Playwright Ain Gordon unveils the first excerpt of his upcoming play exploring Fryer's story with a dramatic performance and conversation discussing Gordon's process - creating historical fiction from intensive primary source research - and connecting Fryer's address with the current fight for LGBT rights.

Arts and Culture, Civil Rights, Philadelphia, Science and Medicine

Rogues, Rascals, and Rapscallions

6/6/16

https://vimeo.com/165886289

Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist presents “Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions: The Family Black Sheep", in which she discusses how to sort through legal and other records and understand how to find and unmask those ne’er-do-wells in everyone’s family!

Genealogy

Act for the Relief of Gregory Thomas and Others

6/2/16

https://vimeo.com/165891237

Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist presents “An Act for the Relief of Gregory Thomas and Others” – The Private Laws of the Federal and State Government, which discusses how many early and federal state laws were private laws written specifically for the benefit of individuals or families. These records can be a great find for genealogists.

Ethnic history, Genealogy

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