Research guide for parish histories
...ributions to church renovations. Early parish calendars often include historical sketches. They also frequently contain information on Catholic doctrine and advice on how to behave as a good Catholic. Advertisements often provide information on the local businesses in the parish. Parish calendars are accessible through CHRC's online catalog. League of
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...he journal kept at the hospital by a Sister of Charity." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society 8, no. 4 (December 1897): 399-449. West, Nathaniel. History of the Satterlee U.S.A. Gen. Hospital at West Philadelphia from October 8, 1862 to October 8, 1863. The Hosptial Press, 1863. (Call# IC0135)
Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate
Black Catholic periodicals
...rs to have been due to the significant increase in missionary work among African Americans around this time as evidenced by the considerable number of journals devoted to black Catholic missions that began to be published towards the end of the 19th century. It was in 1886 that Daniel Rudd