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
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
Carmelite Monastery
...temporary chapel at 1518 Poplar Street Over a century ago in 1902, four Discalced Carmelite nuns arrived in Philadelphia from Boston in order to establish a monastery. Recently, a large number of Philadelphians had applied to enter the Boston Carmel, so the community saw the City of Brotherly Love as
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