The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...ed for fun, not profit. These thoughts may just be nostalgic longing for a time that never really existed. But there are stories that illustrate there once were simpler times. One of these stories took place in a Catholic parish in Philadelphia and involved the greatest baseball player of his
Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...tives 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 that the collection has approximately 350,000 negatives. Our next step is to begin cataloging the images using Past Perfect. Stay tuned for more blog
Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...do it!'"https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7364 Another cartoon a few years later also illustrates anti-Irish sentiment but in a different way. In this cartoon, a group of children representing Irish Catholic Democrats have cut down the tree of truth and have put up a sign for a new school with the slogan, “our rule,
Archbishop Ryan
...eldon, 100 Years Ago: Archbishop Ray Averted Strike, Catholic Standard and Times, December 14, 1995. [12] Ryan, His Life and Times, 240 & 252 [13] Letter to Katharine Drexel from Archbishop Ryan, 09/23/1890, Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Collection, H10B, Box 48, F2. [14] 100,000 Pass His Bier: Imposing Obsequies,