Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute

...their charitable activities.   For more on the Philopatrians check out our online catalog or visit their website   [1] Hall of the Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute, 02/10/1868, MC26 F2 Constitution and Bylaws; https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8290. [2] Letter to Father Connery from Francis Burns, 7/7/1950, MC78_80.3436 [3] “Philopatrian Literary Institute 90 Years

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Photographs

...epicting Sunday Mass, Catholic schools, ordinations, and seminary life. Highlights include photographs of Catholic hierarchy such as Pope John Paul II's visit to Philadelphia in 1979. Other photos that stand out are Halvey's sports images. Currently the photographs cannot be searched online. If there is something that you would like

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Civil Rights

...onists to a misbehaving child that needs to be controlled and corrected by American society. McGovern, “I Raised Him from a Puppy,” March 22, 1968 McGovern is commenting on the need for white Americans to reflect on and address the role they have played in fostering racism. McGovern, “Step in

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Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon General

...Surgeon of the First Independent Division at the beginning of the Spanish-American War, and delegate at the International Conference for the Revision of the Geneva Convention in Geneva in 1906. The collection contains correspondence, general orders, assignments, certificates of appointment, circulars, clippings, invitations, a notebook and a scrapbook. O’Reilly led

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