Research Request Forms
...s, Most Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady of Victory, St. Peter Claver, St. Philip Neri, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Vincent de Paul. We also have records for schools administered by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Please contact CHRC
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...s which appears to have comprised the majority of their work. Biographical information on Packard and Butler and Packard, Butler and Partridge came from the Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers at the Library Company of Philadelphia and Philadelphia City Directories. More information can be found at: http://www.librarycompany.org/pos/posdictionary.htm Archives
Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...(1783-1872), an Irish immigrant who settled in Philadelphia, was the first American patentee of a graduated galvanic battery with insulated poles. Coad was a noted teacher and lecturer of medicine and the natural sciences, but gained wider notoriety after he invented and patented his galvanic battery in March 1842. The
Liturgical Week
...phia. To that end, he invited the Liturgical Conference, an association of American clergy and laity that promotes understanding of the liturgy, to hold its 24th Annual North American Liturgical Week in the city. His goal was to have “full, active participation of the congregation to the extent permitted by