Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...e not limited to Nast, with other papers such as Puck and Judge also using caricatures of Irish as primitive and violent.[8] "Bravo, Bravo!" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7356 The other drawing that Nast published on the front cover of Harper’s Weekly in 1871 shows an Irish man with an ape-like face attacking Columbia,
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...journal kept at the hospital by a Sister of Charity." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society 8, no. 4 (December 1897): 399-449. West, Nathaniel. History of the Satterlee U.S.A. Gen. Hospital at West Philadelphia from October 8, 1862 to October 8, 1863. The Hosptial Press, 1863. (Call# IC0135) Archives
Misericordia Hospital
...ld allow students to be exposed to more treatments of various diseases.The last class of nurses graduated in 1971 due to the closing of the the nursing program.[15] The hospital would continue to expand with a new cancer treatment center opened in 1992 and and an emergency care facility in
Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...sed without cost to the servicemen. After the war it was run by the CYO to cater to all Catholic men before being turned into a rented hall.[3] In summer of 1941, the United Service Organizations (USO) started a campaign to open clubs throughout the country to build and preserve