Research guide for parish histories
...catalog. League of the White Cross (theatrical society), St. Patrick, Philadelphia, circa 1900 St. Mary's Beneficial & Charitable Society, St. Peter Claver, circa 1961 Scrapbook Collection, 1864-1970 This collection contains newspaper clippings of articles relating to the Archdiocese. Scrapbooks covering events after circa 1950 are not as comprehensive as those
Parish Histories and Calendars
...eprinted articles and editorials. Parish histories and calendars can prove useful for researchers interested in the history of a parish as well as for those conducting genealogical research. For social and cultural historians, they offer a glimpse into parish, and more broadly, Catholic life. Search the collections via our online
Eucharistic Congress
...procession from the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which was attended by 350,000 people. Another feature of the Congress was Peoples of the World Day, where 22 different ethic Masses were held, ranging from Armenian to Korean, with 40,000 attending the Irish
Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence
...collection; it was previously processed at the item-level which may prove useful to researchers. After discussing an appropriate processing plan with Faith Charlton, PAHRC’s then Reference and Technical Services Archivist, we devised a plan that included: keeping the item-level correspondence intact while updating correspondents’ names to Library of Congress Name