Research guide for parish histories

...rials CHRC has numerous images of churches, religious persons, events and places relating to the history of the Archdiocese. Although not comprehensive, researchers can view lists of miscellaneous religious images as well as church images that the Archives has in its collection. Researchers can contact CHRC staff for images that

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

...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) Archives

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Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...tize the negatives to fulfill this prediction.   Luciano Pavarotti and the late Cardinal Bevilacqua, 1989 The collection currently consists of 39 archival boxes filled with envelopes of negatives. The various types of negatives in the collection demonstrate how the photographic process evolved throughout Halvey’s career. With the exception of

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Black Catholic periodicals

...y. It was in 1886 that Daniel Rudd started the weekly black newspaper American Catholic Tribune, initially titled Ohio State Tribune in Springfield, Ohio. The newspaper was then published in Cincinnati before moving to Detroit where it continued to operate until 1899. Rudd noted the paper would "give the great

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