Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...pher began in the 1930’s, taking photos for the Roman Catholic High School newspaper and neighborhood newspaper The Kensington Critic. He was then a U.S. Army photographer during World War II, for which he received a Legion of Merit, and later a staff photographer for Pennsylvania Hospital. Having never discarded

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Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...ing the Battle of Gettysburg which occurred during July 1863, the greatest number of wounded were admitted to the hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients

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Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.

...ather than join an established order, it was Connelly's mission to start a new order which she called the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. As Superior, she and the nuns that joined her opened a boarding school for girls with a full curriculum including English, foreign languages, social studies,

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American Czestochowa

...Michael Zembrzuski, OSPPE at the dedication of the Shrine, 10/16/1966   As news of the Shrine quickly spread, the barn was becoming too small for the large number of pilgrims. The vision of a larger Shrine was realized when a solemn procession was led to nearby Beacon Hill on September

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