Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...tives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate that the collection has approximately 350,000 negatives. Our next step is to begin cataloging the images using Past Perfect. Stay tuned for more blog

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Catholics in WWII

...penmanship. On a few occasions, Boylan goes into details on some of his wartime experiences, for example seeing the German costal fortifications in France. He stated in the letter that the coast itself was like New Jersey, however, “all of the beaches are one mass of tank barriers and fortifications

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...time period. Born in Dublin in December of 1797, Kenrick first came to America after completing his clerical studies in Rome in 1821 and served as a professor of theology and history in Kentucky for the next nine years. The early years of Kenrick’s time in Philadelphia were not without

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Research

...that some of these records be closed to researchers for varying lengths of time. Access to American Catholic Historical Society collections is practically unlimited and major portions of the Seminary, Archdiocesan and Drexel materials are open to researchers. Use of Archdiocesan departmental records requires the permission of the department. The

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