Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...Harper’s Weekly in 1871 shows an Irish man with an ape-like face attacking Columbia, a common representation of America. However, Columbia was able to stop the attack and defiantly clutches the Irishman by the neck as he drops his shillelagh. The contrast between the two is clear, the Irishman in

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Research guide for parish histories

...ecords Although CHRC has some administrative materials concerning Archdiocesan schools as well as information regarding the history of some educational institutions, CHRC in general does not have school records. The Archives has some school records, report cards mostly, for three parochial schools: St. Teresa of Avila, St. Peter Claver, and

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Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...r 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 December 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of

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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

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