Internships/Volunteer

...n skills. Interested candidates must submit a resume and three references. Contact: Patrick Shank, archives@chrc-phila.org VOLUNTEERS If you are interested in volunteering at CHRC, please contact us stating your skills, hours available per week, and your time commitment (a few weeks, months, etc.). Some of the kinds of projects for

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Visiting CHRC

...on below to help make your time with us as productive as it can be. Please contact us at archives@chrc-phila.org or at (215) 904-8149 to make an appointment to visit the archives. Researchers should also contact CHRC to ensure that we have the appropriate materials. Hours of operation: CHRC is

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

...ing the Battle of Gettysburg which occurred during July 1863, the greatest number 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

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