Digital Collections

Digital Collections CHRC has a large number of items that have been digitized through various digitization projects, partnerships, patron research requests, and social media initiatives. We endeavor to provide standardized descriptive practices and open access to this growing collection over the web. CHRC's Omeka site features a growing set of

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...anti-Catholic cartoons date back to the Protestant Reformation, around the 1870s there was a renewed focus on the Catholic Church in the United States. World events, such as the new dogma of papal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics

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Research Request Forms

...1904-April 22, 1940), St. Francis’ Industrial School in Eddington (July 17, 1888-June 15, 1970), The Catholic Protectory (January 1916- February 1947) as well as St Vincent’s Tacony (1892-1994), which housed both boys and girls. We will conduct research for these records. Only records prior to 1940 can be searched for

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Fundraisers

...ers to contribute to fundraisers. They often showed the parish fighting off a caricature of its debt. The Handsome Hand-Sum, St. Anne Parish, April 17, 1920 Real Leaf, House of the Good Shepherd, November 20, 1921 The Score Board, St. Mary Phoenixville, March 3, 1917 Jerry Doyle, Please Help St.

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