Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...During the Battle of Gettysburg which occurred during July 1863, the greatest number of wounded were admitted to the hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients
Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
.... This makes reformatting the images crucial to their preservation. The first step in preparing the photographic negatives for digitization was getting an estimate of the number of images, or negatives, in the collection. Due to the large size of the collection, another volunteer, Gillian Grady, and I used sampling
Black Catholic periodicals
...ough incomplete, run of The Josephite Harvest, previously The Colored Harvest, from the first year of its publication in 1888 to 1956. Based in Baltimore and educated at St. Joseph’s Seminary, the Josephites established black missions throughout the country and abroad. The Colored Harvest (October 1893) A photograph of St.
A lengthy and active military career
...ff on a ship to Santiago...They are yellow fever nurses. O'Reilly to his sister, August 16, 1898, page 1 He continues on the second page: We are moving the troops out of here as fast as possible and by the end of week they should all have gone. I suppose