Digital Collections
...ices and open access to this growing collection over the web. CHRC's Omeka site features a growing set of digitized graphics, photographs, documents, and ephemera. These materials can be found here. Through a partnership with CHRC, the Digital Library@Villanova has digitized books, papers, and periodicals owned by the American Catholic
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...comprised of groups from monarchists to fascists while the Republicans contained liberal democrats to anarchists. The Catholic Church found itself thrust into the conflict and forced to choice a side. Catholics from around the world, and in particular the United States, began to weigh in on the fight. Here at
1832 Cholera Outbreak in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut
...ractor Philip Duffy to construct mile 59 of the Pennsylvania and Columbia Railroad. The cholera epidemic that was ravaging parts of the U.S., including New York City, spread to Philadelphia and reached the laborers' camp in mid-August. Within two and a half weeks, all of the men were dead. All
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...from 1862 until the hospital closed in 1865. Nurses and staff The 12-acre site where the Satterlee Hospital was located in West Philadelphia, bounded roughly by 40th to 44th Streets, from Spruce to Pine Streets, was at that time very rural, far removed from the cramped and crowded conditions of