Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...sland, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and a few from Canada, mainly Montreal. Almost nothing is known about why the company chose to specialize in church lithographs or how they solicited business or performed the execution of the lithographs. Packard appears to be the main artist with Butler and Partridge executing the

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Catholics in WWII

...on, Philadelphia priest Father Louis Meyer’s collection contains his personal material from his time as a chaplain in the Pacific. (This is the same Meyer that took pictures of his fellow seminarians burying the dead during the Spanish Flu.) While he has little correspondence relating to his work, he photos

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CORDUM

...arch Center contains various drafts of sub-committee reports and of the final report from 1975. Also included are various correspondence between members of the Committee and meeting minutes from the sub-committees. https://archives.chrc-phila.org/repositories/2/resources/50# Collection processed and blog created by Richard Girkin Search Search Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April

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Portrait photograph of Robert M. O'Reilly, circa 1870

A lengthy and active military career

...t experience many dull moments during his career as it coincided with several national and international wars and conflicts. O'Reilly's career began in 1862 when he interrupted his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania to enlist as a medical cadet during the Civil War. A good deal of correspondence

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