The Immaculata Mighty Macs

...ecognizably playing the same sport. Immaculata still preserved some of the more modest aspects of early women’s basketball. Their players wore skirts on the court until the 1974-1975 season. But these women still played aggressively and intensely - running, jumping, and reveling in the opportunity to play hard. Immaculata vs.

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Parish Mapping Project

...nds to on our modern maps. Some of these changes are easy to find, such as Columbia Avenue now being Cecil B. Moore Avenue. However, others are a bit more challenging to track down, such as "the north end of the Brennan property" as a boundary for St. Mark, Bristol.

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Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find

...ions due to rising publication costs. By August 1883, the paper had become more literary and less a vehicle for Irish freedom and social activism with more space devoted to serialized fiction, including French and Russian works translated by associate editor, Jeremiah C. Curtin. Included were perhaps the earliest serializations

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Citation Information

...ections: [Indicate cited item or series here], Collection Name, Collection number, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photographs: In general, only photographs from the Robert Halvey Collection are to be published with written permission from CHRC. These photographs are to be captioned: Courtesy of the

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