Research guide for parish histories
...Pennsylvania. Inquiries on parishes outside of Pennsylvania can be made by phone or e-mail. Some material for parishes outside of Pennsylvania may be found in the General Pamphlet Collection which can be searched through our web site. The Parish History Collection and General Pamphlet Collection are accessible through our online
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...ts capacity to accommodate 4,500 wounded soldiers. A 14-foot high fence surrounded the property, which now sprawled south to Baltimore Avenue and west to 46th Street. On the grounds there was a post office, clothing store, laundry facility, carpenter shop, printing shop, dispensary, library, and three kitchens referred to as
Black Catholic periodicals
...ue to the significant increase in missionary work among African Americans around this time as evidenced by the considerable number of journals devoted to black Catholic missions that began to be published towards the end of the 19th century. It was in 1886 that Daniel Rudd started the weekly black
Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...lm. These negatives are in 4x5 single sheets and 3x5 35mm or 7.5x1.5 70mm strips. Safety film is named for its inflammability, but is nonetheless unstable and subject to deterioration. This makes reformatting the images crucial to their preservation. The first step in preparing the photographic negatives for digitization was