Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

...llection includes some of Coad’s correspondence, his lecture notes and medical remedies, testimonials noting the capabilities of his galvanic battery, as well as related ephemera. Ephemeral materials include newspaper clippings, pamphlets and broadsides publicizing his invention, lectures, as well as the school that Coad opened for boys and girls. Also

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Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia

...ress, 1975; O'Toole, James M. The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008; Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Our faith-filled heritage : The church of Philadelphia bicentennial as a diocese 1808-2008. Strasbourg : Editions du Signe, 2007. PAHRC has a significant number of

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The Bishop’s Bank

...is time. If a person was illiterate and unable to write their name, a physical description or personal information was the only way to prove identification. Other notations, though brief, offer insights into the personal life of the depositor. Mary Reynold's opened an account in 1848. Her notation reads, "wife

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Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France

..., France) along with letters from Herman Joseph Heuser, editor of The American Ecclesiastical Review, referencing the letters from Geoffroy. Letter from Theophile Geoffroy, dated January 6, 1921 It seems that Kite had sent some of Geoffroy’s letters, along with a short article written by her, to The American Ecclesiastical

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