Black Catholic periodicals

...nd high school graduates from several parish schools and academies in Baltimore and the surrounding area (July-August 1923 issue) Other journals in PAHRC's collection include The Flight, published by the Institute of Mission Helpers in Baltimore, and Mission fields at home followed by Mission published by the Sisters of the

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Research guide for parish histories

...un by a particular religious order, researchers should contact the order's archives for information. Rectory ground-breaking ceremony, Most Precious Blood, 1916...

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

...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, more than 100 Daughters of Charity passed through the doors of Satterlee Hospital, ministering to the wounded soldiers' spiritual

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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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