Services and Fees

Service and Fees General Research $20.00 for per hour Sacramental/Orphanage Research* $20.00 for one hour Photocopies: .20 cents for letter size .25 cents for legal size .35 cents for 11” x 17” Scans $1.00 per image High Resolution Images $10.00 per image Image Rights Usage** $100.00 per image * For

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Serra Club of Philadelphia

...riests through their Ordinati Luncheon and honored altar servers for their service. One of the biggest ventures of Philadelphia club was the “In His Footsteps” pamphlet, a look into life at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary. The collection housed at the Catholic Historical Research Center covers Serra club material from the

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Cartooning Catholics

...oning Catholics: Depictions of Catholics in Cartoons and Comics exhibit is open to the public through October 2020. Cartooning Catholics examines how Catholics were portrayed in secular drawings and how Catholics portrayed their own beliefs through cartoons. Cartoons are a unique window into the past because they both express and

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Marian Year of 1954

...r 13, 1954 Here in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Archbishop John O’Hara opened the Marian Year at the Shrine of then-Venerable John Neumann on December 8, 1953. While Bishop of Philadelphia, Neumann travelled to Rome and was present at St. Peter's Basilica on December 8, 1854, when Pope Pius IX

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