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Digging Around and Knocking the Dust Off- City of Philadelphia, City Archives
presented by Theresa Condon and Joshua K. Blay.
From its new location on Spring Garden, the City Archives continues to be a repository for many of Philadelphia's municipal, genealogical and audiovisual records. The staff at the City Archives helps to maintain, and provide stewardship of, one of the best collections of municipal records in the country. Since its establishment as part of the home rule charter of 1951, the City Archives has helped preserve thousands of records which document the City's history from the 1700s to the present. A review of the history and resources available at the City Archives will highlight the work that is being done to preserve these records.
Theresa Condon, Archivist I, recently completed a dual MLS/MA at Queens College, in Queens, NY. Though originally from New York, Theresa has worked at several institutions in Pennsylvania, including the Mercer Museum in Bucks County and Independence National Historical Park. Before starting at the City Archives, Theresa spent a decade in museums improving her interpretive and archival skills, most recently at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York City, and the College Park branch of NARA.
Joshua K. Blay is a Registrar and Collections Manager of the City Archives unit of the City of Philadelphia Records Department. He started volunteering with a county historical society in Upstate New York at the age of thirteen which led to an interest in collections management. He has worked as a collections manager for a transportation company and a museum curator/associate director for a county historical society. Before coming to Philadelphia, Joshua worked for the University of Montana in Richmond, VA on a cultural resource project for the Army Corps of Engineers and the US Navy.
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