Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

...Yellow fever deaths, Summer 1798 2. The other item of interest is another list, this one a list of food items requested by military personnel and civilians who were stationed at St. Paul’s Church during the first phase of the Nativist riots in May 1844. After violence had spread from

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Parish Mapping Project

...ar boundaries. For instance many of the suburban or ethnic parishes do not list any boundaries at all, while others list the boundary without giving any clear streets or locations, such as "bordered on the north by x parish". This lack of data has required us to dig deeper into

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Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists

...intain accessible, systematic record-keeping systems. Even though the 1917 Code of Canon Law mandated the creation of diocesan archives, there were not many in existence in the United States, and some did not have properly trained archivists. In 1978, while at the Society of American Archivists meeting in Nashville, there

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Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal

...eteenth century in the United States; a descriptive bibliography and union list. Second series: Part Five, Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1964. Archives Archives Select Month July 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 September 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March

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