Research guide for parish histories

...other information on the practice of the faith within the parish. The financial report includes information such as income from weekly and special collections, total yearly expenditures for parish management, mortgages on church buildings and other financial information. In 1953, the spiritual and financial reports were divided and filed separately.

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

...umber of wounded were admitted to the 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

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Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...phic Negatives: Nature and Evolution of Processes. Rochester: Image Permanence Institute, 2004. Young girl with The Catholic Standard and Times, 1958 Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December

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Black Catholic periodicals

...Though it lasted less than a year, The Journal spoke to Philadelphia’s growing number of Black Catholics. It appears that PAHRC is the only institution that has this publication. PAHRC also has a single issue of The Catholic Herald (February 18, 1905) which was published in Washington D.C. I have

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