Herman Joseph Heuser Papers
...ter. He studied and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and frequently painted portraits. In this letter to Heuser, Eakins asks him to translate a phrase into Latin for a portrait of a woman who plans on giving the painting to her son who is
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...ous figures called for the support of the Nationalist cause. Two prominent Philadelphia Catholics, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty and Msgr. Edward Hawks, were large supporters of the war effort. Cardinal Dougherty was always quick to condemn the persecution of Catholics, such as the protest against the persecution of the church in