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
A lengthy and active military career
...rsity of Pennsylvania to enlist as a medical cadet during the Civil War. A good deal of correspondence in the collection is O'Reilly's letters to his mother that he wrote while stationed in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Order for O'Reilly to report to the General Field Hospital near Chattanooga Creek, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
The Church and Labor
...oblem since the papal encyclicals taught “no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true Socialist.”[8] Indeed, many priests and bishops called for the creation of unions with a religious foundation in order to better “restore all things in Christ.”[9] Other theologians, worked on how
The Bishop’s Bank
...er States of the Union, and all kinds of fancy stocks. Some of them may be good, but they are liable to ruinous fluctuations: Safety and quick sale, when needed, and not speculation, must always be the rule". The story of the Bishop's Bank is not just the history of