1832 Cholera Outbreak in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut
...e worst month with well over a hundred cases a day reported. A significant number of those cases resulted in death. The worst days in the city were August 6, when there were 176 cases and 71 deaths, and August 7, when there were 136 cases and 73 deaths reported.
Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...d States and by age 15 he had begun drawing for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News.[1] He joined Harper’s Weekly in 1862 and at his height of fame was earning close to $20,000 a year (roughly $500,000 in today’s dollars) drawing for the paper.[2] Studying these cartoons can help us better
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
... The prints seem to have been produced for a variety of uses. There are a number of prints that were used as certificates commemorating First Holy Communion and Confirmation. St. Mark's Church, Bristol, Pennsylvania Some were given as gifts for contributions to the church building fund. The remainder
Education
...cs believed that parents deserved some government assistance to offset the cost of paying taxes for public schools, and tuition for parochial schools. Knudsen, “Vanishing Americans?” June 17, 1971 Knudsen comments that the high costs of a Catholic education has led to an entire generation of Catholic children being unable