Research guide for parish histories

...e accessible through CHRC's online catalog. League of the White Cross (theatrical society), St. Patrick, Philadelphia, circa 1900 St. Mary's Beneficial & Charitable Society, St. Peter Claver, circa 1961 Scrapbook Collection, 1864-1970 This collection contains newspaper clippings of articles relating to the Archdiocese. Scrapbooks covering events after circa 1950 are

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

...he hospital's chaplain was Father Peter McGrane who was stationed at St. Patrick's at 20th and Locust Streets. Every day, Father McGrane traveled from St. Patrick's to Satterlee to say mass, hear confessions, instruct and baptize and frequently arrange for burial. He labored throughout the war ministering to the wounded

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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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Black Catholic periodicals

...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 Catholic Church a hearing

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