Colored print of Rev. Matt Ryan, who was imprisoned for refusal to break seal of the confessional. Issued as a supplement to Weekly Freeman (weekly edition to the Freeman's Journal), April 9, 1887. Printed underneath portrait: "Imprisoned in…
Print from Harper's Weekly, March 4, 1876. Print shows Lady Liberty pointing at a tree labeled "Truth" that has been cut down and admonishes a group of children representing Irish Catholic voters supporting Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. Two figures…
Poster advertising the First Annual Course of Lectures of the American Catholic Historical Society of Pennsylvania at the Academy of Music of Philadelphia, March 13, 20 and 28, 1895.
Note adhered to verso reads: "In 1895, the old wooden chapel of St. Veronica was dismantled, taken downtown, and used as the first church of St. Monica." Title taken from verso. Photographer unknown.
Print and communion certificate for the first communion of Sarah Beideman at St. John the Evangelist Church, showing the santuary of the church. Inscribed below the print in black ink: "Sarah Biedeman made her first Communion, in the Church of St.…
Print of portraits of the first five Archbishops of Baltimore, Maryland: John Carroll, Leonard Neale, Ambrose Marechal, James Whitfield, and Samuel Eccleston. Printed at bottom of item: "Published by John [name missing], Chambersburg, Pa" (could…
Knudsen compares the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) to a robin announcing the thaw of winter. Beginning with negotiations in 1969, SALT resulted in an agreement to limit the number of ballistic missiles held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
The Prague Spring, a series of political and economic reforms that attempted to create "communism with a human face." Many feared that like a weed the Soviets would kill off any reforms before they had time to blossom.
Group photograph of the delegates to the Forty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America held in Scranton, Pennsylvania, August 7-9, 1917. In the background is a navy recruitment poster reading "Be a Submarine…
Lithograph portrait of Reverend Francis H. Kessing, a priest in Cincinnati, Ohio. Printed in bottom left corner of lithograph: "Packard & Butler, Lith, Phil."
Conjectural pen and ink sketch of Fr. Joseph Greaton's residence and St. Joseph's Church, Willings Alley, Philadelphia, ca. 1740s. Signed "A. E. Jones" in bottom of item. Title devised by cataloger.
Despite the suppression of religion in the Warsaw Pact countries, Catholicism in Poland not only survived but thrived as many Poles saw their religion as a way to oppose communism.
Photograph of body of Archbishop Patrick John Ryan being carried down the steps of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul at his funeral on February 16, 1911. Title devised by cataloger. Photographer unknown.
Photograph of body of Archbishop Patrick John Ryan being carried down the steps of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul at his funeral on February 16, 1911. Title devised by cataloger. Photographer unknown.
Photograph of body of Archbishop Patrick John Ryan being put into the funerary carriage in front of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul at his funeral on February 16, 1911. Title devised by cataloger.
Photograph of the delegates to the Conference to Revise the Geneva Convention of 1864 relating to the treatment of wounded soldiers and sailors. Held in Geneva, Switzerland, 1906. Note on verso indicates it was part of the O'Reilly collection.…
Photograph of some of the delegates to the Conference to Revise the Geneva Convention of 1864 relating to the treatment of wounded soldiers and sailors. Held in Geneva, Switzerland, 1906. Note on verso indicates it was part of the O'Reilly…
Photograph from St. Vincent's Orphanage in the Tacony section of Philadelphia, Pa., showing young girls on a ride. Title devised by cataloger. Photograph of original.
Photograph from St. Vincent's Orphanage in the Tacony section of Philadelphia, Pa., showing girls eating in the cafeteria. Title devised by cataloger. Photograph of original.
Photograph from St. Vincent's Orphanage in the Tacony section of Philadelphia, Pa., showing girls in a recreation room. Title devised by cataloger. Photograph of original.
Native Americans and Pilgrims sharing the first Thanksgiving comment how modern Americans have missed the point of the tradition and ignored caring for the planet
Engraving with scenes from the life of Mary. At the top are the words "Salve Maria", and at the bottom are the opening sentences of the "Hail Mary". Printed below engraving: "Designed and engraved by Edward Charles Keatinge". Printed below title:…
Colored lithograph portrait of Cardinal John McCloskey, First Cardinal of New York (born 1810; ordained 1834; consecrated 1844; died 1885). Printed below lithograph: "Copyrighted by G. F. Gilman, 18[?]" Text below title reads: "[Ta]ken from life in…