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Records of Zook Post No. 11, Grand Army of the Republic
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Held at: Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library [Contact Us]4278 Griscom Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19124
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Zook Post No. 11 was active in Norristown, PA, from 1866 to the early 1900s. No other information is available on the Post.
The records of Zook Post No. 11 span the years 1866 to the 1900s and consist of one bound volume and one file. The collection is organized into one series, Membership History. It is not known how G.A.R. Civil War Museum and Library acquired the records or if additional records survived or existed.
Series I: Membership History - This series consists of a descriptive book and a descriptive book abstract. The descriptive book is one bound volume that includes detailed information on the Post’s members. Its entries run from 1866 to approximately 1885 and include the following information: member’s name, age, birthplace, residence, occupation, details on entry into service and final discharge (which includes date, rank, company, and regiment), length of service, cause of discharge, the details of his G.A.R. membership, and remarks (which include death notices or membership ending through leaving or transferring).
The descriptive book abstract is a file of typed, stapled, loose-leaf papers that have abbreviated entries from the descriptive book. It is not known whether this record was compiled by the Post or was compiled by another person/organization later. All Post members are included in the abstract, but not the entire descriptive book entry.
The records were rough sorted and placed in archival boxes by board members and volunteers of the GAR Civil War Museum & Library in 2008. In 2009-2010 they received preliminary processing by Archival Consultant Jack McCarthy and Intern Megan Atkinson, working on a project funded by grants from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and National Endowment for the Humanities. This finding aid is the result of that project. The grant funds allowed for only minimal processing and very little re-housing of the records; as noted above, the records require more thorough processing.
The finding aid created by McCarthy and Atkinson was converted to the EAD format in 2011-2012 as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR), funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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- Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library
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- Finding aid prepared by Jack McCarthy and Megan Atkinson, 2009-2010. EAD conversion was completed through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories.
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- This preliminary finding aid was created by staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) using data provided by the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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