Patrick Reilly papers, 1828-1878 (MC 42)

...gion. Attendance at the school dropped significantly during the Civil War due to the fact that more than one third of the student body was from the southern states. It closed in 1866. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, most of it covering the years 1841-1866 when Reilly ran

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Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...lvey Memorial Library, (2011), https://exhibits.library.villanova.edu/chaos-in-the-streets-the-philadelphia-riots-of-1844. [7] Allison O’Mahen Malcom, “Loyal Orangemen and Republican Nativists: Anti-Catholicism and Historical Memory in Canada and the United States, 1837-67,” in The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era, eds. Jerry Bannister, Liam Riordan, (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012), 218. [8]

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Catabloging

...ed as link that will show a user all of the collections that share subject terms. Entry for Coad, Patrick family. Papers, 1798-1880 Our goal is to create entries for all of our manuscript collections as well as to provide full finding aids, both xml and PDF versions, for each

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The Right Reverend Monsignor Louis Meyer papers, 1910-2007 (MC 91)

...ved as an Army chaplain during World War II, and was stationed in the China-Burma-India Theater until 1946. Upon his discharge from the service, Meyer resumed his parish duties in Philadelphia. He was elevated to Monsignor in 1965, retired in 1972, and passed away in 1985. The Right Reverend Monsignor

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