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Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia ARCHIVES Northeast Regional Archives • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America • Vol. 6 No. 1, WINTER 2021 dvocateFROM THE Progress and Change A DIRECTOR by Kim-Eric Williams in the Archives by Lisa Minardi t is hard to imagine that it was thirty-five years ago when I was first made aware of the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia. Pastor Robert Brusic Dear Readers, of Trinity Church in New Haven, Conn., was then president of the board and As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lutheran Iinvited me to attend as the president of the New England Lutheran Historical Archives Center continues to prepare Society. As a Church historian, I found the meetings fascinating with such for the future and making our collection luminaries as Helmut Lehmann and E. Theodore (Ted) Bachman, to say nothing more accessible than ever. Our staff is hard of the extensive reports by curator John E. Peterson. By 1989 I joined the Board, at work on multiple projects that will take initially representing New England and later Southeastern Pennsylvania. us through 2021 and beyond. With the In the fall of 1999, I was asked to become editor of a new publication that need for remote access more important was to be sent to all pastors and leaders in the Northeast. The Archives Advocate than ever, we are prioritizing efforts to became a vehicle for the Archives to spread the word about its work and to honor get our collections database online by the significant ministries in the Northeast. It was particularly important when we were end of this year. Stay tuned as we progress fundraising for the restoration of the Muhlenberg Journals (2009–11) and for our towards this goal. Justus Falckner celebration and publications in 2003. Danielle McCleary, a ULS graduate, is wrapping up a project to process the With the building of the Brossman Center on the Philadelphia campus we papers of Rev. Henry Eyster Horn— were able to finally move out of our cramped and outgrown quarters in the whose ministry covered more than seventy basement of the Krauth Memorial Library in 2005. It was at this time that I became years. Although the Archives is best a salaried part-time employee of the Archives, assisting with the move. There was known for housing congregational records, continued on page 5 we also preserve the personal papers of various Lutheran ministers and laypeople. As we process these papers, finding aids will be made and put on our website for researchers to explore. Danielle’s next big project will be working with the contents of the Augustana Museum (see image, left), which will be photographed, cataloged, and shared online in a searchable database. She will also continue work on our research library, in particular the collection of Swedish books, and adding that information into our forthcoming online database. We are grateful to the Augustana Institute for their support of these efforts. Sheila Joy, our associate archivist, handles our genealogy requests and research inquiries—which have increased Partial view of the continued on page 3 Augustana Museum Greetings from our new Archivist By Sheila Joy t has been a very productive year Many congregation collections were in the archives! There has been processed this year, including Epiphany exponential progress made in both Lutheran Church (Roxborough, PA). Iprocessing collections and the creation Other records nearing completion are of finding aids and inventories. One of Grace (Norristown, PA), Holy Cross my first tasks was to create a procedure (Philadelphia), Zion (Nesquehoning, Associate Archivist Sheila Joy at work in the Archives office. so that every new collection we receive PA), and St. Paul (Catasauqua, PA). is properly accessioned and prepared All of this progress could not be made public. Having such lists available on for processing. Since my arrival, we with the help of our archives assistants, our website would allow researchers have received more than two dozen Courtney and Danielle, and our gracious to see what records we have without new unprocessed collections—sixteen volunteers, Linda Beck and Phyllis Linn. needing to contact us first. I am of them congregation records—that Research inquiries have also been creating these listings at the county have been put through this new flooding in almost daily. With people level based on the many questions procedure. staying at home due to the pandemic, from patrons asking what records Danielle McCleary, a ULS graduate, there has been a surge in family history we have from a certain county. Berks is making great progress in processing research. Much time goes into carefully County, PA has been completed and is the Henry Horn Collection. She has tending to these requests, including available in PDF format. Next up will started a finding aid which will replying to emails and phone calls, be Southeastern and Northeastern PA be available on our website when conducting reference work, checking Synod counties, New Jersey Synod, completed. ULS student Courtney Smith inventory listings, carrying out research, and so on. A list of our holdings for is discovering many new treasures while and making high-quality scans. St. Michaels & Zion, Philadelphia, is also inventorying our oversized records and This uptick in research inquiries now available as it is one of our most artifacts—thanks to an ELCA regional has made evident the need to create highly requested collections. archives grant. collection inventory listings for the On top of all this, we manage to squeeze in weekly Facebook posts to maintain and grow our online presence. Folks seem to particularly enjoy our quick archives tips and Friday Finds from the Vault. The impact of COVID-19 also continues to be felt. All in-person work has been suspended since November 21 in accordance with the ULS campus shutdown and Philadelphia’s Safer at Home restrictions. The safety and wellbeing of our community and staff is of utmost importance and I am grateful that there is plenty of work that can be done remotely. Associate Archivist Sheila Joy returns the parish registers of Mulberry Street Evangelical Lutheran Church, Newark, NJ, to the vault after conducting genealogy research on 2 behalf of a patron. From the Director (continued from page 1) greatly over the past year. She is The Henry Eyster compiling county-by-county listings of our congregational records. She has also By Danielle compiled a detailed list of the records Horn Collection McCleary we hold from St. Michael’s and Zion, Philadelphia. These will be made available his fall I started on our website and should be of great processing the papers help to genealogists and researchers to see what relevant records we may or may of Rev. Henry Eyster not have at the archives. Sheila has also THorn (1913–2007). Our new implemented a streamlined process for archivist, Sheila Joy, trained documenting all incoming collections and me on the ins and outs of best has worked with multiple synod offices archival processing practices. to share guidelines for the preservation Thankfully, Henry Horn was of congregational records. also a highly organized ULS student Courtney Smith has been man. He indexed just about exploring every nook and cranny of our everything, including his main vault, searching for oversize objects notebooks on readings, to inventory, photograph, and catalogue. Archival boxes housing the Henry Horn Collection These objects include everything from sermons, lectures, course after processing communion vessels to shovels used in materials, correspondence, groundbreaking ceremonies as well as and more. As I await my first many framed documents, artworks, and call, I enjoy the eye-opening photographs. Because the compact shelving experience of learning how in our main vault is designed for storing useful it is in the long-term to standard size bankers boxes, oversize objects stay organized. Horn’s focus were often relegated to back corners or on organizing has helped squeezed onto bottom shelves where they me understand how he were crowded and inaccessible. Now they stayed engaged as a father, are being relocated to more commodious pastor, advocate, friend, and shelving in a second vault; some oversize chair of several committees documents and photographs are also being unframed and placed into archival folders throughout his lifetime. within a large flat file drawer unit. We are Researchers using this grateful for an ELCA regional archives collection will learn about ULS graduate Danielle McCleary processing papers grant to help fund this project. Horn’s extensive ministry from the Horn Collection To help us continue with these efforts to in Boston, Georgia, and preserve and share the diverse collections Churchwide. It was refreshing for me to discover that Horn was an advocate in our care as widely as possible, we need for the ordination of women, writing several essays and appeals to help push it your help. Your donations enable us to hire forward. His advocacy did not stop there. Horn did not shy away from writing, ULS students to assist with these projects, lecturing, and engaging in committees that talked about topics such as racism, helping us to fulfill our mission and sexism, and homophobia in our Church and nation and what to do about it. Horn providing valuable, hands-on experiences was also very passionate about Campus Ministry. With its inception in the 1970s, for ULS students interested in Lutheran history. Please consider making a donation Horn was a major voice in this movement. He wrote several papers, gave lectures, to support the Lutheran Archives Center, and served as a delegate to the World Council of Churches for Campus Ministry. either online at lacphila.org/donate or via Many readers likely know that Horn lived to celebrate his 70th ordination check in the enclosed envelope.
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