Research guide for parish histories
...lection of monthly parish calendars, also known as parish bulletins, for many of the parishes in the current Archdiocese of Philadelphia. There are a limited number of parish calendars for other parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The earliest parish calendars begin in the mid 1890's. The bulk of the
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts of milk. During the war,
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