Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...ent 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 posts about this project! Sources: Baldwin, Lou. "Today's Picture - Tomorrow's History." The Catholic
The Church and Labor
...l Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, declared that Pope Leo was the “Pontiff of the Workingman” and that he had “hurled his thunderbolts of authoritative doctrine” against “the world of pagan industrialism.”[5] Another Catholic theologian at the University of Illinois, Father John O’Brien, compared Pope Leo’s work
Philly in Focus: Robert Halvey’s Photographic History of Catholic Philadelphia
...d the Legion of Merit, a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.​ Halvey later went on to become a staff photographer for Pennsylvania Hospital. The Robert Halvey Collection contains approximately 350,000 negatives from
Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...a would last for a week and be attended by over 1.5 million people, including 44 Cardinals and 417 bishops from around the world. The exhibit is a way to highlight that Eucharistic Congresses have been a mainstay in Catholic life, and how the past resonates with today....