Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Father Daniel Magorien. Informing Wood that he is not in the best of health and sometimes has people in the room with him in order to help him while he says Mass
Group portrait of a group of unidentified young priests. Item has been removed from frame; dated 1916 on the back of the frame. Photographer's mark appears in bottom right corner.
Portrait lithograph of John Cheverus (Jean Louis LeFebvre de Cheverus), First Bishop of the Diocese of Boston, Massachusetts (1808-1823), Bishop of Montauban, France (1823-1826), and Bishop of Bordeaux, France (1826-1836). Text below title in French.…
Photograph of group of clergy and laymen at the consecration of the Crypt of the Oratory (i.e., Oratoire Saint-Joseph) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. John O'Hara is second from the left in the front row. Photographer's mark appears below photographs.
Bust portrait of Pope Pius IX. Printed below engraving: "Copyright 1877 by Oscar Marshall, 697 Broadway, New York. All rights reserved. Painted and engraved by Wm. E. Marshall."
Group portrait of clergy and other men, taken in Japan. Seated figure in the front center may be Bishop George Caruana. Embossed in gold below photograph: "R. Maruki. Atarashibashi Kado, Shiba, Tokio, Japan."
Portrait photograph of Archbishop Patrick Ryan. Title devised by cataloger. Printed in bottom left of photograph: "Copyrighted 1901 R. Cameron McConnell".
Letter to Bishop Wood, from Father Charles A. McFadden (St. Canicus), the acquisition of property sold by Father McEvoy to a Protestant near church owned-lots.
Letter to Bishop Wood, from Father Charles A. McFadden. Difficulties McFadden is encountering building a new Church in Mahanoy City, a report of McEvoy and Julia Purcell, who lives in his rectory in Coarteville.
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.