Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...nce Institute, 2004. Young girl with The Catholic Standard and Times, 1958 Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 May 2022

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Parish and School Closing

...2, Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua announced plans to examine the closing of a number of parishes in North Philadelphia and the city of Chester. Both areas saw a major decrease in parishioners, with both areas losing around 60% of registered members from 1970 to 1990. Due to this and lingering financial

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The Centennial Fountain

...tholic Total Abstainers all over the United States.”[1] CHRC Catholic Standard, March 25, 1876, SB1, page 224 With the approval and backing of the national society, the Philadelphia chapter began planning and fundraising. After an original design focusing on the connection between America and Ireland was rejected, a main theme

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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

.../omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7894. [7] Cardinal Dougherty, “Letter to Margaret Grudy,” 01.04/1935, MC 78- 81.184; https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7896. [8] Christina Casey, “Letter to Cardinal Dougherty,” 04/04/1938, MC 78-81.183; https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8103. [9] Thomas Doherty, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration, (New York: Columbia Press, 2007), 67. Archives Archives Select Mon...

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