Manuscript Collections
...consulted by visiting the Archives. Staff are currently working to create online finding aids. All of these collections are open to researchers. Some smaller collections, including the Fenian Brotherhood papers and materials relating to the Molly Maguires and the Nativist Riots of 1844, have been digitized as part of the
Francis B. Gallagher collection of Fenian Brotherhood records, 1862-1870 (MC 14)
...in military activity against the British, leading two failed invasions of Canada. Factionalism within the organization led to the Brotherhood’s decline by the 1880s. This collection primarily contains the correspondence of Francis B. Gallagher, a Fenian Senator and district treasurer from Buffalo, NY with other senior Fenian officials. Also included
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...erior views of Catholic churches throughout the United States and parts of Canada. This collection has been digitized and is available through Villanova's digital library The firm of Packard and Butler was started by Herbert S. Packard and William H. Butler. Packard was an artist and lithographer from Boston where
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...s said on November 23. “the crowd filled the backyard, the passages, the stairs, and even the living rooms above. So large was the assembly on the sidewalk that many passersby thought that a tragedy had taken place. In order to preserve a moral unity in the congregation, the electric