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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

History of St. Callistus Parish (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Letter to Mary Brackett Willcox from Mariano Maller, C.M., June 3, 1844

Photograph portrait of unidentified man, marked "Artist Proof". Photographer's stamp below photograph reads "Marceau, 1609 Chestnut St., Philadelphia". Title devised by cataloger.

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."

To Bishop Wood, from Nick Mauron, C.SS.R. St. Boniface Church – debt of $175,000.

Lithograph of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Printed below lithograph: "J. W. Sheehy & Co., Publishers, 33 Barclay St., N.Y. Copyright by J. W. Sheehy & Co. 1881. Meyer, Merkel & Ottmann, Lith., 23-25 Warren St., N.Y."

Portrait lithograph of Bishop James Wood of Philadelphia, seated in chair. Published by P. H. McCawley, New York. Autographed in lower right corner.

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Letter to Bishop Wood, from McDermott, McDermott is “superceded” as pastor of Centralia.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from D.I. McDermott, financial status – St. Patrick’s, Pottsville; more accusations.

To Archbishop Wood, from D.I. McDermott, will wait for Wood’s return to Philadelphia to take action.

Letter to Cardinal Dougherty from Reverend Francis P. McDonald, acknowledging his appointment to St. Brendan parish.

Correspondence between Cardinal Dougherty and Reverend Francis P. McDonald about the running of St. Brendan parish.

Letter to Bishop Wood, from Father M. McEvoy, Father McEvoy is writing to Bishop Wood saying that Father McFadden’s charges are false.

To Bishop Wood, from Father Charles A. McFadden, reporting to Wood about money problems, the people, and the dishonesty of Father McEvoy

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.

Side 1 Anna McGarry: Homecoming at St. Elizabeth Parish; Side 2 Untitled [music and fragments of talks]

Side 1 Anna McGarry: Son Behold Thy Mother; Side 2 La Salle College Student: Dating

Side 1 Anna McGarry: The Work of the Catholic Interracial Council; Side 2 Untitled

Side 1 Anna McGarry: Love the Sacred Heart; Side 2 Untitled

Side 1 Anna McGarry: Armistice Day Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow; Side 2 Untitled [music]

Side 1 Anna McGarry: Oblate Sisters of Providence; Side 2 Battle Hymn of the Republic

Side 1 Mrs. Anna McGarry; One Fold and One Shepherd; Side 2 Ralph Allen: Blessed Martin

Side 1 Mrs. Anna McGarry: Blessed be God, Blessed be His Holy Name; Side 2 untitled

Side 1 Anna McGarry: Advent; Side 2 Untitled

Side 1 Anna McGarry: Hoey Award Winners; Side 2 Untitled

Side 1 Mrs. McGarry: Last Sunday in December; Side 2 The Sailor

Anne McGarry: The Catholic Interracial Council in Action

Side 1 Anna McGarry: The Early History of St. Elizabeth Parish; Side 2 Untitled

Side 1 Anna McGarry: All Men are Brothers Conclusion; Side 2 La Salle College Students: Debate Tariffs Conclusion

Anna M. McGarry article on St. Elizabeth Parish

Side 1 Guy McGee & Ralph Allen: Brotherhood; Side 2 Untitled

The obsession of purchasing presents for Christmas has caused shoppers to trample over others in order to get to the next sale.

Referencing a contemporary anti-smoking slogan, the cartoon shows that Catholic school students are left on the hook for the cost of their education.

Opposition to state aid for parochial students takes the form of a threatening forest with the children left alone and afraid.

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.

Commentary on the need for white Americans to reflect on and address the role they have played in fostering racism.

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

McGovern satirizes the United States' priorities that spends billions on weapons of war while its citizens live in poverty.

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…

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

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 A.P. McGrann, report on service as a Chaplain.