The Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited the discrimination of housing based on race. The cartoon highlights that more work is needed until African Americans could enjoy full equality.
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
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.
On the evening of August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, to put an end to the Prague Spring. With the Soviets in charge of the country, they overturned the earlier reforms with a period of "normalization." McGovern equates this…
In the cartoon, the use of DDT insecticide did kill the mosquitoes and other pests but in the process it destroyed all other life on the planet. DDT would be banned in the United States in 1973.
Letter to Cardinal Dougherty from Reverend Aloysius McGrann, notification that Father McGrann is a Chaplain at the 12th General Hospital in North Africa.
Colored lithograph of exterior of the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Philadelphia. James O'Reilly was pastor from 1868-1877. Printed below lithograph: "Edwin F. Durang, Architect."; "Printed by Fred'k J. Wade, 230 So. 5th St. Phila."; "On Stone by…
Reproduction of aerial photograph of the main buildings at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Date of original photograph is unknown. Title devised by cataloger.
Photograph of exterior of St. Charles Borromeo Church, Philadelphia. Printed below photograph: "Samuel McMullin, Photographer, 1119 South Eighth Street, Philada."
Autographed engraving of Rev. Daniel William Cahill. Printed below portrait: "Engd. by J. C. McRae, N.Y." Published by D. & J. Sadlier & Co. in 1860. Note inscribed in ink under engraving reads: "I consider the portrait of me, executed by the Messrs.…
Group photograph of participants in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Pilgrimage to Rome posed on the deck of the S.S. Ohio, May 2, 1925. Photo by T. H. Merritt, 31 Lincoln St., Winchester, Mass.
Photograph of a depiction of St. Stephen's Farm, Loretto, KY, in 1812. Buildings are labeled at bottom of photograph as: "#1 - Bishop Flaget's Residence. #2 - St. Stephen's Church. #3 - Father Badin's Residence. #4 - Seminary." Notes below photograph…
Photograph of the interior of the Chapel of Divine Love, Philadelphia. Title taken from verso. Stamp on back reads: "Office of Paul Monaghan, Architect., Drexel Bldg., Phila."
Color print celebrating 50 years of education in the Archdiocese of New York. In the center is Jesus surrounded by children and flanked by banners, one of which is inscribed with "Suffer little children to come unto me" and the other, "and forbid…
Color lithograph portrait of Pope Benedict XV. Printed in bottom left corner: "Copyrighted 1914 by Muller, Luchsinger & Co. New York." Print is numbered No. 665.