Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...f a horse drawn carriage and bystanders. St. Mary's Church, Massillon, Ohio A color lithograph of the burning of St. Xavier's Church in Cincinnati, Ohio also breaks from the standard format. Burning of St. Xavier's Church, Cincinnati, Ohio PAHRC also has about a dozen preliminary drawings of churches by Packard,

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Black Catholic periodicals

...ted the weekly black newspaper American Catholic Tribune, initially titled Ohio State Tribune in Springfield, Ohio. The newspaper was then published in Cincinnati before moving to Detroit where it continued to operate until 1899. Rudd noted the paper would "give the great Catholic Church a hearing and show that it

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Research guide for parish histories

...descriptions of consultors meetings. The Diocesan consultors are a certain number of priests in each diocese of the United States who act as official advisers of the bishop in certain matters pertaining to the administration of the diocese. Information relating to parishes usually consists of votes on a request to

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

...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 consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts of milk. During the war,

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