Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home

...rst year about 200 men visited the club each day and by 1943 that was up to 800.[11] The women volunteers, called the Morale Corps, would organize various themes for the dances as well as staff the offices and service desks and serve food and refreshments. The military men described

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Access Policies and Guidelines

...nd reshelve all materials in storage areas for patrons. Researchers should look through records one folder at a time, maintaining the order in which they were received. Researchers are requested to notify the Archivist if anything appears to be out of order; do not rearrange them yourself. Please use a

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Francis B. Gallagher collection of Fenian Brotherhood records, 1862-1870 (MC 14)

...nd can be viewed at the Digital Library @ Villanova University. The collection was also used for Villanova Library’s virtual exhibit: Torn Between Brothers: A look at the internal divisions that weakened the Fenian Brotherhood. View Finding aid (HTML)...

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Serra Club of Philadelphia

...ggest ventures of Philadelphia club was the “In His Footsteps” pamphlet, a look into life at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary. The collection housed at the Catholic Historical Research Center covers Serra club material from the 1950s to the mid- 1980s. It is subdivided into many different categories, from correspondence to

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