Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection

...endars are those from parishes currently located within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Others are from parishes located in surrounding dioceses as well as from parishes located throughout the country. The Parish Calendars are similar to current parish bulletins in that they contain such information as parish events as well as

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Lawrence Francis Flick papers, 1889-1930 (MC 18)

A graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (1879), Lawrence F. Flick (1856-1938) was a pioneer in the antituberculosis campaign and one of the first to discover that disease was not hereditary but contagious. He organized the first American tuberculosis society in 1892, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of

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