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

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

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…

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 showing an allegorical figure of Lady Liberty protecting the public schools from two Roman Catholic Priests. Signed by Thomas Nast.

Side 1 Bill Murray & Irving Kaufman: Are You From Dixie?; Side 2 Irving Kaufman: Don't Bite the Hand that Feeding You

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.

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…

Letter to Cardinal Dougherty from Mother M Josephine, work at hospital and parish.

Letter to Mary Brackett Willcox from Patrick E. Moriarty, O.S.A., June 25, 1842

Print in memoriam of Archbishop Predendergast. A small picture of Prendergast appears on left side. Signed "J.P. Moore. 1918."

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."

Transcript of the funeral sermon give by Rev. Molyneux for the Rev. Farmer.

Letter to Archbishop Ryan, from Aloysius Misteli, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Churchville, PA, assignment to St. Clair, Pennsylvania.

Guide for Catholics on making good confessions.

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…

Side 1 Glenn Miller: Let's Have Another Cup O' Coffee; Side 2 Chip Off the Old Block

Life story of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Photograph a seminarian's photo album of the seminarians.

Photograph from a seminarian's photo album of caskets in a mass grave.

Photograph from a seminarian's photo album of seminarians digging graves.

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.

A few people in the photograph are circled and…

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.…

Correspondence between Cardinal Dougherty and Bishop McNeil. Discusses the health of Bishop Crane.

Letter to Father Patrick Sheehan from Father Vincent McNabb. DIscusses the their writings and NcNabb visiting Sheehan.

Photograph of exterior of St. Charles Borromeo Church, Philadelphia. Printed below photograph: "Samuel McMullin, Photographer, 1119 South Eighth Street, Philada."

Reproduction of aerial photograph of the main buildings at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Date of original photograph is unknown. Title devised by cataloger.

Letter to Archbishop Ryan, from Reverend H.J. McManus, McManus requests a change from Lost Creek parish; describes the winter conditions in general.

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…

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Hugh McKenney (Barclay), Molly Maguires and Towanda, PA

Letter to Cardinal Dougherty from Reverend Aloysius McGrann, report of Father McGrann’s activities.

Letter to Cardinal Dougherty from Reverend Aloysius McGrann, notification that Father McGrann is a Chaplain at the 12th General Hospital in North Africa.

Letter to Cardinal Dougherty from Reverend A.P. McGrann, report on service as a Chaplain.

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.

McGovern questions which communist country the Soviet Union would invade next in order to impose its version of communism.

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…

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.