Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...rt the Nationalist cause. Pamphlet on the Spanish Civil War. Others in the United States who supported the Nationalists during the Civil War wrote numerous pamphlets on the conflict. One notable writer was Father Edward Lodge Curran of New York, who created the International Catholic Truth Society in order to

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Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate

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Collection Development Policy

...negatives) that Robert Halvey took for the Catholic Standard & Times, the official Archdiocesan newspaper, from 1935 to 1999 as well as photographs for Catholic institutions that Halvey took as a freelance photographer. The object collection is largely comprised of Catholic artifacts, and includes the Cardinal Krol Memorabilia Collection. In

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The Centennial Fountain

...working in Germany, it did not reach Philadelphia until June. There were a number of reasons for the delays including payment debates between the CTAU and Kirn as well as problems with the marble that Kirn received.[11] Due to these delays, when the CTAU had the official dedication and celebration

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