Medical Mission Sisters

...] It was shortly after this that the sisters moved their headquarters from Washington D.C. to Philadelphia at the request of Cardinal Dougherty. [7] Medical Mission Sisters Photograph album https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7369 Now that the Medical Mission Sisters were officially recognized, they began to grow quickly in both membership and service locations.

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Associations & Institutions

...institutions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Maryland and Washington, D.C. A variety of types of institutions are included, especially hospitals, orphanages, and colleges. Types of material include institutional histories and anniversary books, annual reports, prospectuses and course catalogs. Also included are ephemera such as brochures.   Some material

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Robert M. O’Reilly papers, 1862-1925 (MC 34)

...both of President Grover Cleveland’s administrations, attending surgeon in Washington, D. C., and chief surgeon for several units during the Spanish-American War. He also served as a delegate at the International Conference for the Revision of the Geneva Convention in Geneva in 1906. During his time as surgeon general, O’Reilly

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Historic Resting Place for Famous and Faithful

...t. 1733) as well as in the Catholic section of the public burial ground at Washington Square. In the latter part of the 18th century, the German congregation of Holy Trinity acquired a strip of land from St. Mary’s to be used specifically for burials of their members. The two

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