Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts of milk. During the war,

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Black Catholic periodicals

...s newspaper. The Research Center also has several issues of The Journal, a weekly Philadelphia newspaper published in 1892 by Swann and Hart. Though it lasted less than a year, The Journal spoke to Philadelphia’s growing number of Black Catholics. It appears that PAHRC is the only institution that has

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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

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Portrait photograph of Robert M. O'Reilly, circa 1870

A lengthy and active military career

...lling of an agency clerk. The military encampment was named Camp Robinson (Fort Robinson). One of the letters from O'Reilly to his mother discusses the troop's arrival to the camp. In the letter, O'Reilly writes The Indians looked pretty blue when we arrived and well they might. A command of

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