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...ation of the Catholic Standard & Times Thanks to generous support from the American Catholic Historical Society, fourteen more years of Catholic Standard & Times, spanning from 1916 to 1930, have just been added to the Catholic News Archives, a free online resource that provides access to twenty historic Catholic
Lawrence Francis Flick papers, 1889-1930 (MC 18)
...e was not hereditary but contagious. He organized the first American tuberculosis society in 1892, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, to educate the public and founded White Haven Sanitarium in 1901. Having a great interest in history, Flick was one of the founders of the American Catholic
A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia
...ard and Times, (July 29, 1976); “The Catholic Church in Pennsylvania before 1800,” http://omeka.pahrc.net/admin/items/show/id/7133. [6] Christine Friend, “Philadelphia’s First Bishop,” CHRC (February 22, 2010), http://www.chrc-phila.org/philadelphias-first-bishop/. [7] Martin I. J. Griffin, “Life of Bishop Conwell,” Records of the American Catholic History Society of Philadelphia, vol. 25, no. 2 (June, 1914), 160.
Walter George Smith papers, 1836-1933 (MC 47)
...ian Commissioners, a Manager of the Drexel Institute, and President of the American Bar Association. The collection contains correspondence, including family correspondence; diaries, journals and travel logs; speeches, addresses, published and unpublished writings. Scrapbooks, memorabilia, and obituaries are also included. A significant portion of the materials concern Smith’s resignation as