Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...e Kensington Critic. He was then a U.S. Army photographer during World War II, for which he received a Legion of Merit, and later a staff photographer for Pennsylvania Hospital. Having never discarded a photo, the collection contains negatives from the entirety of Halvey’s career, from 1935 to 1999. These
The Church and Labor
Pope Leo XIII CHRC has a large collection of pamphlets and writings that deal with Catholics and its teaching on the economy. The Catholic Church has a long connection to labor and the plight of the worker, beginning with Pope Leo XIII's famous Encyclical, Rerum Novarum (Latin for Of New
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...ems/show/7868 On May 23, 1934, Cardinal Dougherty called on all Catholics living in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to boycott motion picture theaters.[1] By doing so, Dougherty declared it sinful for any of the area’s 800,000 Catholics to enter a movie theater. In his letter to the priests of the Archdiocese,
Irish Land War
...ty of topics. I recently came across a number of documents related to the “Irish Question.” The Irish Question, concerning Irish nationalism and independence, spanned the time period from around the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. Religion and politics were both prominent topics in this time of conflict,