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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Irish Land War

...nd War in Ireland over the centuries old landlordism system. By 1879, about 800 families owned half of the country’s land and acted as landlords, renting small plots of land out to the majority of the population (an estimated five million people). The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and the American

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Catholic Newspapers in Philadelphia

...this slogan. The January 3, 1862 issue does not have the slogan. The CHRC does not have any issues of Volume 30, January 10, 1862-January 3, 1863. The January 2, 9 and 16, 1864 issues of The Universe: The Catholic Herald and Visitor has the slogan “Official Organ of the

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Research Request Forms

...he Rosary, Our Lady of Victory, St. Peter Claver, St. Philip Neri, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Vincent de Paul. We also have records for schools administered by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Please contact CHRC staff for more information. CHRC does not hold the following records: death, burial,

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