Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...husetts, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and a few from Canada, mainly Montreal. Almost nothing is known about why the company chose to specialize in church lithographs or how they solicited business or performed the execution of
Archbishop John Carroll
...tered to Catholics in the city as well as most of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, would be made Carroll’s vicar-general when Carroll was made bishop. [6] Vatican postmark featuring Carroll, Krol90.3.99 After several years of continued growth of Catholicism, America was ready for its first bishop. Twenty-six priests met
Research guide for parish histories
...e 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 collection covers the years 1920-1955, though there may be some parishes with calendars continuing into the early 1960's or even later. There
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...as finally answered.[2] Two national conferences were held in New York and New Jersey in 1900 and 1901 to lay the groundwork for the new organization. It was at these sessions that the name, The American Federation of Catholic Societies (AFCS), was decided on as well as the new group’s