Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate
Black Catholic periodicals
...the 19th century. In November 1889, a number of prominent men (the actual number is not known) gathered in Baltimore for the first black Catholic lay congress in the country’s history. The emergence of this community was largely due to the efforts of Daniel Rudd, the “leading Catholic representative of
Papal Infallibility
...ility: Extracts of a Sermon Preached by the Rt. Rev. M. Domenec, Bishop of Pittsburgh, After His Return from the Vatican Council,(Pittsburgh: Jacob Porter, 1873) ” P001.1398, 10, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8252. [7] Domenec, “Papal Infallibility,” 5. [8] W. E. Gladstone, “The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation,”
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
... The prints seem to have been produced for a variety of uses. There are a number of prints that were used as certificates commemorating First Holy Communion and Confirmation. St. Mark's Church, Bristol, Pennsylvania Some were given as gifts for contributions to the church building fund. The remainder