Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
Among the recently digitized images added to our online collection are a number of drawings by cartoonist Thomas Nast. In 1846 at the age of six, Nast immigrated with his mother to the United States and by age 15 he had begun drawing for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News.[1] He joined
A Philadelphia Artist
...r, Captain John Martin, mainly conducted business with New Orleans and the Caribbean as well as Western Europe and China. William spent much of his young life at sea. One item in the collection includes his passport from age 12-signed by Secretary of State Henry Clay- when he travelled through
Medical Mission Sisters
...l formed this new order because of her experience working at a hospital in northern India (in what is now Pakistan), providing medical assistance to women and children.[2] Dengal hoped the order would be made up of women trained as doctors or nurses who would be sent around the world
James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?
...mination. Indeed some of their leading men say, they will support no other Northern man. Page 1 Part of the second page reads: There is an element now actively at work which may defeat all calculations and many leading men of both parties are engaged in it. Even the Washington