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
Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...lphia USO Council, 05/01/1942, MC78_80.8310 [8] The Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home, 1946, P018.034 [9] The Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home, 1946, P018.034 [10] “A Report on the USO Activities in Philadelphia,” Philadelphia USO Council, 05/01/1942, MC78_80.8310 [11] The Story of 100,000 Shaves: USO Annual report:1942-1943,
Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...depicts a wolf with a papal and Democrat party collar trying to force its way into a school room as the children barricade the door. Nast makes clear that public schools need to be made safe from the Catholic menace since they are the “bulwark of the American Republic.” Indeed,