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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Pilgrimage of Hope

...nd and along a narrow road called Via Cornelia. The origins of this sacred site can be traced back to the 1st century AD when Saint Peter, one of Jesus Christ's apostles and considered the first pope, was martyred in Rome. The location of his burial became a place of

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American Czestochowa

...ion to President Johnson, two other presidents of the United States have visited: Ronald Reagan in 1984 and then-Presidential Candidate George H.W. Bush in 1980. Polish government officials have also visited the Shrine: Solidarity movement leader Lech Walesa in 1989 and President Andrzej Duda in 2024. When it comes to

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