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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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

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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,”

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American Federation of Catholic Societies

...that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and the

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