Mary Brackett Willcox papers, 1807-1864 (MC 10)
...center of Catholicity in Delaware County, and served as the beginnings of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, the oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. During the 1840s and 1850s, students and the Vincentian administrators of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary spent their summers at the Willcox estate. The letters in
In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell
...pril, 1893 looked at the life of Mary Grew, a key anti-slavery and suffragist activist.[6] This section often focused on Philadelphia area women, such as Dr. Hannah E. Croasdale, a professor of Gynecology at the Women’s Medical College or M. Carey Thomas, president of Byrn Mawr College.[7] The correspondence collection
Marian Year of 1954
...events took place during the Marian year. A two-year exhibition of Vatican stamps, the first time displayed in the United States, opened at the short-lived National Philatelic Museum. By far, the biggest Philadelphia event was the Marian Congress of the Oriental Church held on October 22, 1954. It was a