Josephine Walsh (center) on her way to Europe, July 1900

A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries

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The Immaculata Mighty Macs

...esa Halvey Photograph Collection. Sources: Byrne, Julie. O God of Players. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. “Remember the Glory Days!, Program for the 25th Anniversary of First National Women’s Collegiate Basketball Championship won by the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College”. Immaculata, PA: Immaculata College, 1997. Archives Archives Select Month

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Other resources/repositories

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Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

...842. The patent Coad received was for the “improvement in the mode of constructing the galvanic battery so as to vary the intensity of its effect, and in the construction of insulated conductors applied to the same for adapting it to medical purposes.” The instrument, which Coad and others touted

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