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
...ief that it would restore and protect the Catholic Church. Go to our Omeka site to see some of the Spanish Civil War pamphlets or come to the archive to view the whole collection and the Msgr. Hawks slide collection. [1] Santiago Martínez Sánchez, "The Spanish Bishops and Nazism during
1832 Cholera Outbreak in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut
...o, scholars and other interested parties began an archeological dig at the site of the mass grave to try and determine whether foul play had indeed occurred. Although downplayed in histories concerning the 1832 cholera epidemic, the toll that the disease took on Philadelphia that summer was high. Many residents
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