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...elow to listen to him describe this memory, or read the excerpt below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-edited-online-clip.wav And I remember going into the church and being there for the whole Mass. Now she had to carry my brother in her arms and my sister just about walking, and I was about 4 years

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...] Letter to John James Campbell from Sarah Jane Campbell, 08/18/1920, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7891; Letter to William Campbell from Sarah Jane Campbell, 03/01/1918, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7887. [10] Letter to Elizabeth A. Campbell from Marianne Campbell, 08/13/1908, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8202. [11] Letter to William James Campbell from Sarah Jane Campbell, 07/10/1904, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/...

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Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection

...or its praise of a non-Catholic at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was commonplace. Hackett was able to put religious differences aside to work with Catholics and entertain the troops, which the tone of the article seems to imply did not happen too often back then. Hackett is virtually unknown

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Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence

...tion is housed in approximately seven boxes. The bulk of the collection is comprised of incoming correspondence. Some of the larger files with twenty or more letters are from notable figures who helped Shea during his scholarly years. For instance, the collection contains a large file of correspondence between Oscar

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