Digital Collections
...r of items that have been digitized through various digitization projects, partnerships, patron research requests, and social media initiatives. We endeavor to provide standardized descriptive practices and open access to this growing collection over the web. CHRC's Omeka site features a growing set of digitized graphics, photographs, documents, and ephemera.
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...hed a fear that Catholics posed a genuine threat. Conspiracy theories of a papal takeover of the United States abounded. A large dimension of the Protestant revival that began in the late 1820s included militant attacks against the Catholic Church which claimed that the Catholic religion was threatening to America’s
Friendly and Adopted Sons
...ty, 1884), P001.2003 [2] Redmond P. Conlon, Toast the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick: Forty-first Annual Banquet of the Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Newark, NJ, March 17, 1911 [3] Samuel Hood, A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick :
Research Request Forms
...py of the record. CHRC has some school records, mainly report cards, for a number of parochial schools: Ascension of Our Lord, St. Catharine of Sienna, St. Donato, St. Frances Cabrini Regional School, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Gertrude, St. Hugh, St. Joan of Arc, St. Madeline Sophie, Mater Dolorosa,