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Print from Harper's Weekly showing an allegorical figure of Lady Liberty protecting the public schools from two Roman Catholic Priests. Signed by Thomas Nast.

Print from Harper's Weekly, October 1, 1870. Print shows the Pope and other clergy looking at the United States, ostensibly with plans to conquer it.

Print from Harper's Weekly, July 15, 1871. Print shows a figure (most likely supposed to depict Ignatius von Dollinger) standing in front of a broadside he has hung over a confessional that contains a statement titled "Papal Infallibity. Church and…

Print from Harper's Weekly, July 29, 1871. Print shows Lady Liberty, holding a whip labeled "LAW", choking a stock caricature of an Irish American holding a dagger.

Print from Harper's Weekly, September 30, 1871. Print shows children on a beach being attacked by Catholic Bishops with mitres depicted as crocodile jaws.

Print from Harper's Weekly, December 30, 1871. Print shows a Catholic priest (most likely Henry Edward Manning, an English Cardinal) beckoning to an African-American family while hiding shackles labled "Priestly Slavery" behind his back. Printed…

Print from Harper's Weekly, July 13, 1872. Print shows Uncle Sam, holding an axe labeled "Order", attacking a large snake with the head of a caricature of an Irish American, while Lady Liberty shields children.

Print from Harper's Weekly, October 12, 1872. Print shows Uncle Sam offering to free an American Catholic priest from the control of the Pope. Printed below title: "U.S. 'Allow me to Sever you from your Foreign Mother (Church). You are as able to…

Print from Harper's Weekly, November 2, 1872. Incluldes four small cartoons. "Our Foreign Ruler(?). F.K. 'I will do your bidding, as you are unfallible'" shows shows a man kneeling before the Pope. A Catholic priest in the background holds a paper…

Print from Harper's Weekly, December 19, 1874. Print shows a Catholic priest and another Man (a politician or lawyer) huddled in front of a court bench while holding a paper that reads "Reduce the salaries of the public school teachers." Printed…

Print from Harper's Weekly, January 15, 1876. Print shows the United States as Hamlet standing in front of a public school blocking a member of the Grey Nuns from entering as a teacher. Printed below title: "U.S. (as Hamlet). 'Go they ways to a…

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…

Print from Harper's Weekly, July 29, 1871. Two page spread showing various cartoons. The center cartoon depicts the Draft Riots of July 1863. On the right are cartoons titled "July 11" showing New York politicians submissive to Irish Catholics. On…

Print from Harper's Weekly, Sept. 16, 1876. Two page spread showing children holding the door of the "Public-School System" against a wolf that is trying to squeeze through. The wolf's collar is labeled "Democrats" and the tag is labeled "The Foreign…

The U.S. Centennial International Exhibition Certificate of Award for Mark Devine. Dated September 27, 1876.

Pastoral letter from Bishop Neumann to the Diocese of Philadelphia on a Plenary Indulgence.

Pastoral letter on the state of the Catholic Church in Philadelphia.

Print (drawing of the Catholic Protectory buildings overlaid with cut out of group photograph) of the Catholic Protectory Fife & Drum Band, Arlington, NJ. Published by New York Process Publishing Co.

Engraving of a bust taken from the corpse of Bishop Simon Brute, first bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, (now Indianapolis) from 1834-1839. Printed bottom left of engraving: "Drawn on stone by A. Newsam from a bust taken from the Corpse." Printed bottom…

Lithograph portrait of Right Reverend Francis X. Gartland, first Bishop of Savannah, GA (1850-1854). Printed below lithograph: "[Drawn on st]one by A. Newsam from a Daguerrotype" (partially mising); "P.S. Duval's steam lith. press, Philada."

Lithograph portrait of Right Reverend Francis X. Gartland, first Bishop of Savannah, GA (1850-1854). Printed below lithograph: "Drawn on stone by A. Newsam"; "From a Daguerrotype by Bradly, [340] Market St., Philada." (possibly G. P. Bradley, a…

Portrait lithograph of portrait of Father Theobald Mathew, with extract from a letter to Col. J. H. Shelburne, dated Sept. 19, 1848. Printed below lithograph: "On stone by A. Newsam."; "P. S. Duval's steam Lith. Press, Pha." Printed below title:…

Colored lithograph portrait of Rt. Rev. John Hughes, Coadjutor to the Bishop of New York. Printed to bottom left of lithograph: "From life on stone by A. [Albert] Newsam". Printed to bottom right of lithograph: "P. S. Duval, Lith., Phila.". Printed…

Portrait lithoraph of unidentified priest. Printed in bottom left corner of lithograph: "On stone by A. Newsam". Printed in bottom right corner of lithograph: "P. S. Duval's Lith. Philada."

Photograph of interior of Old St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia, PA in 1885 before alterations. Photographer's signature appears in bottom right corner and reads: "Ign. F. Norshmann[?]"

Letter to Lady Gilbert from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses Father Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses the Sheehan memorial project.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses life of Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses life of Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses the Sheehan memorial project and letters and poems by Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses the Sheehan memorial project and writings by Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses the Sheehan memorial project and an article published about Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses the Sheehan memorial project and life Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses the Sheehan memorial project and letters by Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Ita O'Connell. Discusses collecting money for the Sheehan memorial.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses a sick sister and delays in the Sheehan memorial project due to the war..

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses an upcoming visit from a friend of Heuser's a Mr. Galbally.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses the visit by Mr. Galbally.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses letters by and too Father Sheehan.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses letters of Father Sheehan and a work on his life.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses correspondence between them, Sheehan's notes, and influenza.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses the Sheehan memorial project.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses Heuse's health.

Letter from Ita O'Connell, asks for the censors to be quick reviewing Sheehan's letters so they can be used for his biography.

Letter to Heuser from Mother Ita O'Connell. Discusses Sheehan's interest in music.
Also includes a letter to O'Connell from J. Groon about a publication mentioning Sheehan.

Portrait photograph of Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Signature in bottom right corner reads "Copyrighted by David O'Hara".

Letter to Cardinal Dougherty from Bishop John F. O’Hara, regarding number of chaplains.