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: ACUA Photographic and Audiovisual Collections; This digital collection includes photographic collections from the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Included are images and prints of Catholic University's buildings and grounds, faculty, students, and University community from different periods of its history. So far, this collection contains images from the 1890's and 1917-1921; additional images are continually added to this collection., Approximately 420 selected items from the Archives of Catholic University of America., As historical objects, these photographs can reflect the customs and perspectives of their times. Some of the images in these collections may be offensive to contemporary viewers. We have chosen to leave all of the digitized contents intact as part of the historical record, though as with other records and objects in our archive, we do not endorse the views depicted in the archival materials we make available to the public.

: The Ancient Order of Hibernians Collection; The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) was founded in 1836 in order to provide assistance of various forms to Irish immigrants in the United States. It exists today as a fraternal organization for Catholics of Irish birth or descent. These limited records include membership flyers, event programs, issues of the National Hibernian Digest, The Irish People, and The Irish Echo, digital photographs, as well as completed membership applications, notebooks, and account ledgers for the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Warren County, Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

: Anti-Catholic Literature Collection; The collections consists of largely undated original and photostatic copies of material circulated at the time of the 1928 U.S. presidential campaign and includes both campaign-related items and general examples of the literature. The material in this collection presents anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant rhetoric directed at the campaign of Al Smith, the 1928 Democratic candidate for U.S. President and first Catholic to be a major party presidential nominee. As historical objects, these documents reflect the customs and perspectives of their times. The images and language in these documents may be seen as offensive to contemporary viewers. We have chosen to leave all of the digitized images intact as part of the historical record, though as with other records and objects in our archive, we do not endorse the views as depicted in the archival materials we make available to the public.

: Brooks - Queen Family Collection; The Brooks-Queen Family Papers document the activities of members of two Washington families of the nineteenth century. The Brooks and Queen families united in 1828, when Jehiel Brooks and Margaret Queen, the daughter of Nicholas Louis Queen, married. The papers of Jehiel Brooks and Nicholas Queen constitute the bulk of the collection. Brooks came to the District to secure political appointment, but with the exception of an appointment in the Red River Indian Agency in Louisiana during the administration of Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), he had little luck. Instead, he assumed the role of the gentleman farmer on a tract of land adjacent to property that later became part of The Catholic University of America. One of the largest holders of real estate in the District, Nicholas Queen ran the Queen's Hotel near the Capitol until his death in 1850. The collection also includes the papers of Brooks' and Queen's descendants, including John Henry Brooks, who sold his parents' real estate to early twentieth century developers of the Brookland neighborhood. These digitized papers offer a view into the agrarian past of the District of Columbia, the lives of nineteenth century property holders, political patronage during the mid-nineteenth century, and the work of federal agents among Native Americans as well as slavery and the Civil War.

: Catholic Heroes of the World War Collection; Digitized here are the contents of a scrapbook detailing the weekly newspaper column, “Catholic Heroes of the World War,” 1928-1933, written by Daniel J. Ryan. The scrapbook highlights Catholics who had won medals for service in World War I. Ryan began in December 1928 to write and supply to the feature service of the National Catholic News Service a weekly column profiling men, and some women, who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor (CMH), the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC), and/or the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM). There are about 250 stories in all, covering persons from all 48 states and the majority of American Catholic dioceses

: Catholic University of America - Alumni Magazines

: Catholic University of America - Historical Documents; The documents contained within this collection represent the early history of the Catholic University of America. These documents come from a variety of University and institutional record groups and are curated here to provide ease of access in one digital location.

: Cecilia Parker Woodson Collection; The Cecilia Parker Woodson Collection contains correspondence, photographs and memorabilia related to the Parker-Woodson family. The bulk of the correspondence is from Walter Woodson to Cecilia Parker during their courtship and early marriage; and to Cecilia Woodson from Charlotte Virginia Woodson while the latter lived in Peru with family friends Mary and William Montavon until her death in 1918.

: Changing Spirituality of Emerging Adults Project Collection; The Changing Spirituality of Emerging Adults (Changing SEA) Project Collection was the final project initiated by Catholic University of America sociologist Dr. Dean R. Hoge (1937-2008). It was conceived as a project to study the "spiritual hunger" of young adult Americans, with the purpose of providing information to religious leaders on how to better minister to the needs of this age group. The project consisted of a series of 15 essays written by scholars on different aspects in the lives of emerging adults, including finances, spirituality, and politics; case studies conducted at various religious institutions that have successfully maintained and added to their emerging adult membership; and surveys of emerging adults on social influences that have molded their attitudes and practice. This collection consists of the fifteen original essays, written circa 2008; four commentaries written by religious and secular authors on the essays and their possible effects on the programs with which they are involved; and nine case studies of religious institutions that have been successful in the area of emerging adult ministry. This early twenty-first century project focuses on emerging adults and offers researchers information on the spirituality of this age group. The digital collection includes essays, commentaries, and case studies

: Co-Workers of Mother Teresa of America Records; Inspired by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa in Amerca were inaugurated in New York City in 1971 as an affiliate to the Missionaries. Membership was ecumenical and efforts focused on administering to the poor in areas where the Missionaries of Charity were not present. Prayer, visitation, and a helpful hand were the emphasis and a series of regional and national links were established and maintained with other contemplative orders. The American Co-Workers records are those of Vi Collins while serving as Regional Link, a National Link, and International Speaker/Councillor of the Co-Workers to the Missionaries of Charity. Later additions to the collection include materials donated by Victoria Schmidt and Diane Hattery, fellow Co-Workers. The collection consists of correspondence, financial ledgers, meetings materials, the Co-Worker Newsletter, newspaper clippings, photographs, and audio tapes and film reels accumulated during their forty year association with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity. Presented here are an assembled collection of materials handwritten or signed by Mother Teresa.

: Commission on American Citizenship of the Catholic University of America; The records of the Commission of American Citizenship of the Catholic University of America spans 1938 to 1970, consists of manuscripts (mostly correspondence) and the publications by the Commission, including guides for social teaching and textbooks for grade schools as well as periodicals for the youths and children. Digitized here are the textbooks produced by the Commission of American Citizenship of the Catholic University of America spanning 1938 to 1970. The collection spans to 1970 but the textbooks to 1960.

: CUA Yearbooks; Catholic University's undergraduate yearbook, known as The Cardinal Yearbook, was first published in 1916. It has been published ever since though it was on hiatus for a few years, 1918-1919 and 1944-1947, due to the world wars. It has also changed size and shape a few times though it has on average been about nine by eleven inches and two hundred fifty pages. As historical objects, yearbooks can reflect the customs and perspectives of their times. Some of the images and language in these yearbooks may be seen as offensive to contemporary viewers. We have chosen to leave all of the digitized images intact as part of the historical record, though as with other records and objects in our archive, we do not necessarily endorse the views as depicted in the archival materials we make available to the public.

: Eileen Egan's Mother Teresa Collection; This is a collection of Mother Teresa material compiled over the years by Eileen Egan of New York City, author of the Christopher Award winning biography, Such a Vision of the Street: Mother Teresa, The Spirit and the Work (1985). Ms. Egan served for many years in the Indian Affairs division of Catholic Relief Services (CRS). She also assisted the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW) in its overseas efforts and edited the international newsletter of the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa. Eileen Egan's Mother Teresa Collection features a wide variety of documents and memorabilia useful to persons studying her cause and career. Included are correspondence to and from Mother Teresa, audio cassettes of her lectures, press releases and newspaper clippings, photographs, and numerous books. A close friend and colleague of the saint, Egan preserved hundreds of handwritten letters and documents sent to her by Mother Teresa, spanning the 1950s through 1990s.

: Fenian Brotherhood Collection; Established in Ireland in 1858 as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, their American branch was known by 1859 as the 'Fenians,' with the avowed purpose of overthrowing British rule in Ireland and establishing an Irish Republic. The Fenians in the United States grew to include over 50,000 members and hundreds of thousands of sympathizers by the end of the Civil War, but, rocked by internal factionalism and opposed by the formidable military power of the British Empire, they never came close to achieving their aims. The American wing mounted two short-lived invasions of Canada in 1866 and 1870 and the Irish Fenians launched a small rebellion in Ireland in 1867. The American Fenians faded out of prominence after the last unsuccessful assault on Canada. Many Irish and Irish American nationalists, first recruited to the cause as Fenians, continued to fight for Ireland's independence after the order's decline. The digital collection consists of letters to and from John O'Mahony, James Stephens, John Mitchel, O'Donovan Rossa, and other Fenian leaders; ledgers of accounts; rosters of Fenian soldiers in New York; speeches; pamphlets; newspapers; chromolithographs; cartes de visit photographs; tickets; and legal records. Letters between O'Mahony and Stephens and between Mitchel and O'Mahony touch upon major conflicts and points of debate within the Fenians in the 1860s. Roster books, ledgers, subscription lists to the United Irishmen and Proceedings of Fenian Conventions document the membership and the general activities of the movement. The bulk of the collection is concentrated in the 1860s through 1880s, but it also includes assorted newspapers and pamphlets from the 1850s to the early 1900s that address a wide range of topics in Irish history and nationalism., The full manuscript collection at the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives (ACUA) consists of letters to and from John O'Mahony, James Stephens, John Mitchel, O'Donovan Rossa, and other Fenian leaders. It also includes speeches, pamphlets, newspapers, chromolithographs, cartes de visit photographs, tickets, and legal records. Membership and the general activities of the movement are documented in roster books, ledgers, subscription lists to the United Irishmen, as well as Proceedings of Fenian Conventions. The bulk of the collection is concentrated in the 1860s through 1880s, but it also includes assorted newspapers and pamphlets from the 1850s to the early 1900s that address a wide range of topics in Irish history and nationalism.

: First Vatican Council Photograph Album; This digitized album consists of a leather-bound album containing 30 pages of carte de visite albumen prints. The album features prints of Pope Pius IX, and 730 cardinals, patriarchs, primates, archbishops, bishops, and abbots who attended the Vatican Council I from 1869-1870., The First Vatican Council Photograph Album was most likely created sometime during the council sessions, from 1869-1870. Around 800 church leaders attended the sessions, including cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, abbots, and religious superior generals. Most of the carte de visite prints are live portraits, though some are based on oil or charcoal prints.

: Fulton J. Sheen Collection; Born in El Paso, Illinois, in 1895, Fulton Sheen attended St. Viator College and was ordained in 1919. He taught at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., from 1926 to 1950. In 1930, he began his radio program on "The Catholic Hour" which ran until 1952. He also hosted a weekly television series called "Life is Worth Living" from 1951 to 1957. He served as Bishop of Rochester, New York, from 1966 to 1969 and died in 1979. The digitized Fulton J. Sheen Collection consists of his philosophy notes taken while a student at the University of Louvain, several published booklets, press clippings, and many published and non-published material and personal notes related to his work for the Commission on Missions at the Second Vatican Council.

: George G. Higgins; The Higgins Papers document his life and work from the 1940s when he was in school at The Catholic University of America to the early 2000s when he assisted the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) with organization efforts in Catholic hospitals. The bulk of the collection consists of paper records in the correspondence, subject, writing, and labor series. Much of the material overlaps into other series, reflecting Higgins' busy life as a labor supporter, writer, and self-described church bureaucrat. Papers digitized here relate particularly to his correspondence with Catholic intellectual Richard John Neuhaus.

: Harry Cyril Read Papers; Harry Cyril Read was born on May 13, 1892, in Chicago, Illinois, to Harry Carleton and Margaret Ann (Griffin) Read. He attended Chicago grade schools and later worked on a business degree at Northwestern University from 1919 to 1921. Prior to his higher education work, he served in the United States Army during World War I as a Sergeant Major of the 346th Tank Battalion. After returning from the war, he married Mary Sue Kain on December 10, 1918. They had three children: Harry Carleton, John Kain, and Mary Sue. After the death of his wife in 1928, he married Lucia Florence Jennings on February 23, 1938. As a newspaperman for nearly three decades, Read worked as both a reporter and an editor. His newspaper career began in 1912 when he worked as a reporter for the Cheyenne Leader in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He did not remain in Wyoming long and, in July 1912, returned to Chicago where he worked for The Pullman Company and The Chicago Bridge and Iron Company before returning to the journalism field in 1916 as a reporter for the Chicago Daily Journal. He continued to work for the Chicago Daily Journal after returning from World War I until 1919 when he accepted a position at the C. E. Thomas Publishing Company. He worked there until 1920 when he formed an advertising service partnership, which lasted until 1921 when Read became a reporter for the Chicago American, one of two Chicago newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst. The Chicago American first went to press in 1900 as an evening newspaper with the other Hearst newspaper, the Chicago Examiner, beginning publication in 1902 as a morning paper. By the time Read began as a reporter for the Chicago American, Hearst had bought the Chicago Herald in 1918 creating the Herald-Examiner, which, with the Chicago American, became two of the most successful daily newspapers in Chicago with a circulation of about 300,000. After working as a reporter for four years, Read became the editor of the Chicago American in 1926 during some of the most intense crime in Chicago and United States history. Chicago had always had a violent reputation and the statistics to back that claim, but the 1920s proved to be unusually bloody primarily as a result of competition over illegal liquor distribution during the Prohibition Era. Read carried on the tradition of aggressive newsgathering by the Chicago American by forming a relationship with Al Capone, one of the most notorious gangsters in Chicago and the country at the time. Read left the Chicago American in 1932 to publish his own newspaper, the Northwest Sun, but returned as the night editor for the Herald-Examiner in 1934. By the 1930s, the CIO-affiliated American Newspaper Guild had organized Local 71, the Chicago Newspaper Guild, and negotiated generous contracts, which had become difficult for Hearst to honor by the late 1930s as advertising revenues failed to recover from the effects of the Depression and the price of newsprint increased. After layoffs in both of the Hearst Chicago newspapers, the guild called for a strike that began on December 4, 1938. As a significant guild member, Read was included in a suit filed by the Hearst papers to restrain strike activity in February 1939, and his wife was arrested for assaulting a police officer that same year. By the time the strike ended in April 1940, the two Hearst newspapers had been merged into the Chicago Herald-American. Read did not return to his former job, but his experience with the labor movement led to positions in several labor-affiliated newspapers including the United Auto Worker, the Wage Earner (a Catholic-related publication as well), and as editor of the Michigan CIO News. In 1945, Read and his wife moved to Washington, D.C., when he accepted a job as Assistant to the Secretary-Treasurer of the CIO, James B. Carey. In this capacity, Read represented the union at the United Nations Conference for International Organization in San Francisco in 1948 and at the World Federation of Trade Unions in Rome in 1948. While in Rome, Pope Pius XII received him in private audience. Read had been involved with Catholic-related groups as a member of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, the Catholic Economic Association, the Catholic Labor Alliance, and the Catholic Inter-racial Council. In addition to his work with Catholic organizations, he also became more active on health and safety committees in Washington, D.C. and was recognized posthumously by the National Safety Council, which established the Harry Read Memorial. Read worked as Carey's assistant until the 1955 merger of the AFL-CIO when he became the assistant to William F. Schnizler, the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Read's writing career was not limited to the pages of newspapers. Early in his career with the C. E. Thomas Company, he co-authored two booksHistory of World War I and Woodrow Wilson, Life and Works. In the 1930s, he researched and wrote extensively on crime and politics, especially Al Capone, and later turned to the subject of parliamentary procedure in the 1940s. The House of Whispering Hate, a book about the prison experience at Leavenworth in Kansas, was published in 1932 with Read as a co-author. He self-published Manual of Parliamentary Law in 1941 and provided that work as a resource to assist the labor community with conducting meetings and negotiating with management. His wife, Lucy Read, continued to promote her husband's work after his death on November 22, 1957.

: International Federation of Catholic Alumnae (IFCA) Committee on Motion Pictures and Broadcasting; Founded in 1914, the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae (IFCA) promoted the educational activities of Catholic women, especially teachers. IFCA hoped to be an example of integrity, culture, and charity to help rid the country of bigotry. Among their activities was a Motion Picture and Broadcasting Committee. The collection below is the fifth series of the IFCA records, focused on the Motion Picture and Broadcasting Committee's work reviewing movies to judge which were suitable for Catholics. These files include correspondence and monthly reports from the Committee. Most of the films are from the late silent and early talkie era. The reports are also very extensive and give long descriptions of the films and correspondence with the motion picture studios.

: Irish Home Rule Political Cartoons; This digital collection consists of 19th century political cartoons addressing Irish political issues of the time, including the Irish Repeal Movement, Irish Home Rule, Irish Nationalism and the Land War. While the majority of the collection consists of chromolithographs published in the 1880s by Irish newspapers, there are a few examples of political cartoons published in the 1840s by the British satire magazine Punch.

: Irish Repeal Campaign Cartoons; Illustrating opposing attitudes to the 1801 Act of Union which created a legislative union between England and Ireland. Three anti- union cartoons published in Dublin flatteringly portray Daniel O'Connell, (Irish statesman, founder in 1840 of the Repeal Association which sought restoration of the Irish parliament), in his struggle against English rule as personified by Arthur Wellesley, (Duke of Wellington, British Prime Minster, 1828-1830, 1834), and Sir Robert Peel, (Prime Minister, 1834-1835, 1841-1846). Accompanying O'Connell in two cartoons is a figure that may represent Thomas Osborne Davis, (Irish writer, organizer of the Young Ireland movement, founder of the pro-repeal newspaper, The Nation). In contrast, a fourth cartoon, by English caricaturist, George Cruikshank, represents O'Connell as an ax-wielding bully attempting to sever the hands of England and Ireland united in friendship. The final item, a damaged election flier entitled, "Under the British Flag," depicts Liberal policies favorably in comparison to those of the Tories (Conservatives).

: Iturbide-Kearney Family Papers; Throughout his life, Agustin de Iturbide III (1863-1925) regarded himself the rightful heir of the Mexican empire, first established by Agustin de Iturbide I in the 1820s. Born in Mexico City, the son of a longtime Washington resident and a Mexican diplomat, he became ensnared in the political machinations of Mexico. In 1865, Emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlotta claimed guardianship over two-year-old Agustin Iturbide III to provide an heir to the throne. Two years later, Maximilian's regime fell. Subsequently, Maximilian, Carlotta, and Agustin Iturbide III lived as exiles in Cuba. Shortly afterwards, Agustin Iturbide III was re-united with his birth parents and lived in Washington until, at the age of twelve, he began his education in Brussels. Illness interrupted his stay in Europe, and he finished his education at Georgetown University. In 1887, he moved back to Mexico and enrolled in a military academy. Retaining his dreams of becoming emperor, Agustin Iturbide III engaged in a dispute with President Porfirio Diaz, was court-martialed in 1890, and subsequently exiled. He returned to Washington, became a professor at Georgetown University, and married Mary Louise Kearney, a descendant of James Kearney who emigrated from Ireland during the French Revolution and settled in Fairfax County. The bulk of the digital collection consists of papers and memorabilia from both the Iturbide and Kearney families, including correspondence, Mexican governmental documents, military medals and coins, newspapers, magazines, and portraits.

: John A. Ryan Papers; From the first decade of the twentieth century to his death in 1945, John Augustine Ryan was the Catholic Church in America's leading expert on social and economic questions and one of its strongest advocates for improving the living and working conditions of American workers. Ryan was born in Minnesota in 1869, was educated and ordained there in the 1890s, and earned a doctorate in Sacred Theology from Catholic University in 1906. He taught in the seminary at St. Paul, Minnesota from 1902 until 1913 and then at Catholic University and Trinity College in Washington until his death. Ryan helped found the Catholic Association for International Peace in 1927 and served in a number of federal government posts during the New Deal era of the 1930s. From 1920 until 1945, he headed the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Ryan wrote sixteen books and hundreds of articles and spoke frequently to audiences around the nation and on radio. His books include: Living Wage (1906), Distributive Justice (1916), and A Better Economic Order (1935). In 1919, he wrote the advanced draft of the Bishop's Program for Social Reconstruction, which advocated national health and old age insurance, a minimum wage, factory safety legislation, and labor's right to organize. His papers consist of personal diaries and journals from Ryan's seminary days; correspondence from 1925 to 1945, including letters written to him after his attack on Coughlin; drafts and copies of many of his writings; outlines and lecture notes from his courses; reference files; and scrapbooks. The papers digitized here focus heavily on the last twenty years of his life, 1925 to 1945. Ryan's correspondence is the largest portion of materials, occupying over half of the collection. There are also articles, sermons, clippings, reports, pamphlets, lecture notes, scrapbooks, a personal journal, a small number of photos, and some audio recordings.

: John Brophy Papers

: John Luddy Notebooks; John Luddy was born in County Limerick, Ireland in 1830. A farmer, he married Honora Barlow in 1854 in the Parish of Galbally, County of Limerick. Between 1867 and 1869, Luddy completed three notebooks of Fenian prose tales and poetry while living in the parish of Ballylanders, Limerick, Ireland. John Luddy died in 1877 at the age of 47 from pneumonia in Mitchelstown, Ireland, after which his wife immigrated to the United States with their children. The Luddy family settled in Waterbury, Connecticut. Michael G. Luddy, the grandson of John Luddy, received a LL.B. degree (1916) and a LL.D. degree (1964) from The Catholic University of America and bequeathed the notebooks of his grandfather to the University's Department of Celtic Languages in 1968. Written in Gaelic, the three notebooks digitized here largely contain copied fragments of Fenian prose tales and poetry. Fine examples of Irish calligraphy, they were the work of Luddy while living in the parish of Ballylanders in Limerick, Ireland.

: John M. Cooper and Regina F. Herzfeld Ethnographic Field Notes; This collection contains the field notes of Catholic University anthropologists John M. Cooper and Regina F. Herzfeld, taken during their ethnographic studies of the James Bay Cree of Ontario, Canada in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. John Montgomery Cooper, priest, theologian, anthropologist and sociologist, served as professor and administrator at the Catholic University of America from 1909 until his death in 1949. Regina Flannery Herzfeld trained under Cooper in the Catholic University Department of Anthropology, then joined the faculty herself. This digital collection contains the field notes of Cooper and Regina Flannery Herzfeld taken primarily during their ethnographic studies of the James Bay Cree of Ontario, Canada in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. These voluminous notes, both handwritten and typed, are comprised of a series of 3 x 5 index cards and depict observations on the traditions, culture, language, and territories of the Cree and additional tribes. The collection also contains museum objects, teaching notes, student-faculty correspondence, published material, and chapter and article drafts by both Cooper and Herzfeld, Field notes, both handwritten and typed, are comprised of a series of 3 x 5 index cards, and depict observations on the traditions, culture, language, and territories of the James Bay Cree.

: The John Mitchell Photographic Collection; Mitchell, a legendary leader of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), was born 4 February 1870 in Braidwood, Illinois, to Robert Mitchell and Martha Halley. Though mostly working in Illinois, he also worked in both Colorado and New Mexico. Mitchell was first a member of the Knights of Labor and then, successively, legislative agent, organizer, vice president and president of the fledgling UMWA. He was also vice president of the American Federal of Labor (AFL) and member of the National Child Labor Committee, the National Civic Federation, Federal Milk Commission, Federal Food Board for New York City, New York State Labor Industrial Commission, New York State Food Administration, and the New York State Council of Farms and Markets. It was, however, as president of the UMWA, 1899-1908, that Mitchell would have his greatest impact. His leadership in the momentous Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 resulted in significant gains for coal miners and greater recognition for the UMWA. Often in poor health, Mitchell stepped down as UMWA president in 1908 and died in 1919. He is buried in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His published works include Organized Labor: Its Problems, Purposes, and Ideals (1903) and The Wage Earner (1912). The photographs digitized here, 1898-1924, entail many portraits of important people, such as Clarence Darrow and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as significant events like the 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike. There are also photographs illustrating mining techniques of the time., This is a collection of 207 photographs collected by John Mitchell from 1896 to 1924. These images are part of the John Mitchell Papers and relate to Mr. Mitchellbs personal and professional life as the President of the United Mine Workers of America.The collection includes images of Mr. Mitchell, his family, prominent Americans such as US Presidents and labor leaders (among others), union activities, and glimpses of what the workplace was like for coal workers around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States.

: Joseph F. Byron Humanae Vitae Controversy Collection; Born in Albany, NY, in 1924, Joseph Byron attended parochial schools and Siena College for two years. After serving as an infantryman in World War II, he attended the seminary of Theological College in Washington in 1946 and was ordained in 1953 as a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, serving in the Washington area through the 1960s. Following the promulgation of Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae, on July 26, 1968, Byron was among 40 signers of the Statement of Conscience, which expressed concern over issues surrounding artificial birth control. As a result of the Statement of Conscience, Byron and the other signers were suspended from priestly ministry to varying degrees by Cardinal O'Boyle. Byron was one of 19 priests who disputed their suspension and he undertook to have their case brought before the Church judicially. Paul VI gave the Congregation for the Clergy the task of hearing the case and rendering a decision. After drawing together information from interviews with the priests and meeting with proxies (including Byron) and representatives of O'Boyle, the Congregation reached a decision based on their findings. It was determined that O'Boyle had followed the requirements of the Code of Canon Law, and the priests' representatives were able to clarify their position on the authority of the magisterium, conscience, and pastoral practice in a statement that was acceptable by them and the Congregation. Eventually the priests who still sought to resume their duties, by endorsing the findings, were able to do so. In 1972 Byron was made the founding pastor of St. Rose of Lima Parish in Gaithersburg, MD. In 1976 he was asked to write an article about the case of the Washington 19 and it was published in the theology journal Consilium in 1977. He was appointed pastor of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Potomac, MD, in 1988, retired in 1992, and died in 1997. This digitized collection consists of correspondence, meeting notes, reports, press releases, newspaper clippings, transcripts of interviews, and a publication file.

: Margaret Richards Millar Papers; Margaret Richards Millar was born in 1858 in Vermont to Jonas DeForest Richards and Harriet Bartlett Jarvis. Her father, a New England Congregationalist pastor, decided late in life to move the family to the American South. Immediately following the end of the Civil War in 1865, the family relocated to Alabama, having purchased a cotton plantation in Wilcox County. Margaret was educated at home and ultimately obtained a degree from the Bradford Academy in Massachusetts in 1880. Marrying Stocks Millar, a Scottish immigrant educated at the University of St. Andrews, she spent her married life on the Wyoming plains, where she developed a reputation as a hostess for army personnel stationed in the Territory. When her husband passed away in 1890, she spent the next several years in France and Germany with their three children. In 1896, she converted to Catholicism alongside her son, future Jesuit Morehouse F. X. Millar (later collaborator with John A. Ryan). In 1918, as a representative of the American Bureau of Education, she was sent to France to recruit French women to attend college in the United States. Shortly thereafter, she was sent back to France as a representative of the Committee on Special War Activities of the National Catholic War Council (NCWC), in order to organize and supervise service clubs for American soldiers. She would open the Etoile Service Club in Paris that same year. In 1919, she was sent as the only American Catholic delegate to the Women's Peace Conference in Switzerland, serving alongside Jane Addams. In October 1919, Millar was unexpectedly recalled to the United States by Rev. John Burke, head of the NCWC. She subsequently remained in Texas the following year, helping to organize the first conference of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), held in 1920. An active member of the NCCW and NCWC for the remaining years of her life, Millar passed away in 1947. This digital collection consists of correspondence, clippings, a diary, and photographs, and memorabilia highlighting the work of Mrs. Margaret Millar and the National Catholic War Council "Women Workers" in France immediately following the First World War.

: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Collection; Mary Harris, reportedly born May 1, 1830, but more likely born in 1837, in Cork, Ireland, was an active participant in the labor movement in the United States for nearly sixty years. Before acquiring the name "Mother" Jones and earning the nickname the "Miners' Angel," Mary Harris had taught in Catholic schools in Michigan and Tennessee, had married George Jones and had four children. By 1867, Jones had lost her family to a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the 1870s, "Mother" Jones began her long involvement in the labor struggle, by participating in various strikes such as the Pittsburgh Labor Riots (1877), the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Strike (1902), and the Colorado Coal Field and Arizona Copper Field organization movements. She also led the Children Textile Workers March from Philadelphia to Teddy Roosevelt's home in Oyster Bay, Long Island (1902). Mother Jones was affiliated with the Knights of Labor and a lifelong friend of Terence V. Powderly. She was an official labor organizer for the United Mine Workers. Up to her death on November 30, 1930 in Maryland, Mother Jones spoke out against labor injustice and for the protection of "her boys." The digitized Mother Jones Collection consists of an assortment of letters, articles, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets gathered together from a variety of sources including the John Mitchell and Terence V. Powderly papers.

: Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton Diaries; Diaries of Catholic priest Joseph Clifford Fenton during the years of 1948-1966. The Right Reverend Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton (1906-1969) was a priest of Springfield, Massachusetts, Dean of the School of Theology at the Catholic University of America, and editor of the American Ecclesiastical Review. He also served on the Pontifical Theology Commission in preparation for the Second Vatican Council. He retired from Catholic University in 1963 and is probably best remembered as an aggressive opponent of Jesuit John Courtney Murray regarding Church and State. The diaries digitized here cover the years of 1948-1966, with most dealing with his trips to Rome to participate in the Second Vatican Council.

: Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey Papers; Monsignor Furfey (1896-1992) was a provocative Catholic sociologist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was educated at Boston College, St. Mary's University, and The Catholic University of America (CUA), where he obtained a doctorate. Ordained in 1922, he taught at Trinity College (DC), the National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS), and CUA where he headed the Sociology Department, 1934-1963. He served as Co-Director of CUA's Bureau of Social Research (BSR) and the Center for Child Development; Associate Director of D.C. Catholic Charities and the Juvenile Delinquency Evaluation Project in New York City; president of the American Catholic Sociological Society, and was a co-founder of Fides and Il Poverello settlement houses. His voluminous papers contain correspondence, reference and research material, student notes and papers, photographs and other memorabilia, financial records, and printed material reflecting decades of education, religion, and social activism from a Catholic intellectual and spiritual perspective. Provided here are scanned documentation and correspondence pertaining to Dorothy Day, Catholic Worker, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, and the Madonna Houses.

: National Catholic War Council; Responding to the challenge of World War I, American Catholics led by Father John J. Burke created the National Catholic War Council, the forerunner of the National Catholic Welfare Conference that has been known since 2001 as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), the secretariat of the American Hierarchy. The War Council of 1917 represented the first coming together of American bishops in voluntary association to address great national issues affecting the Church. The records concentrate on the years 1917 to 1921 and contain files of Bishop Peter J. Muldoon, Chairman of the NCWC Administrative Committee, and those of Father John J. Burke, Chairman of the Committee on Special War Activities (CSWA). They also have office files of the Executive Secretary of the CSWA and individual sub-committees such as Reconstruction, Men, Women, Overseas, and Historical Records. Included in these digital files are administrative, financial, and legal records as well as personal correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, posters, news clippings, and memorabilia. The census of Catholic armed forces preserved on microfilm is of special interest. Digitized here are photographs, selected publications, scrapbooks containing information on burials and deaths of service members, postcards, and selected documents.

: National Council of Catholic Men; The NCCM was established in 1920 as part of the Lay Organizations Department of the National Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC). Its various functions included the federation of Catholic men's groups, to be a central clearinghouse for information on lay activities, to promote lay cooperation, to help existing Catholic lay organizations on the local level, to contribute to national and international movements with moral questions, and to inculcate appreciation of Catholic principles in society. It operated through a committee system on national, diocesan, and parish levels and published a monthly news organ and other publications as well. It operated a film distribution office and a New York radio and television office, from which it produced The Catholic Hour, 1930-1968. It was briefly merged with NCCW to form the National Council of Catholic Laity, before going defunct in 1975. Records include constitutions, bylaws, and incorporation; minutes of the Board of Directors; reports and convention proceedings; general correspondence including national organizations and diocesan; Catholic Hour radio and television scripts, transcripts, audio tapes, photographs, and phonographs; and miscellaneous publications.

: The Papal Autograph Collection; This digital collection is comprised of digitized letters and formal documents signed by several popes from Gregory XIII to Pius IX. Included are the rare signature of Gregory XIV as pope, an office he only held from 1590-1591, and a bull of Clement XII, 1737 (with seal removed). The donor of the collection, John D. Crimmins, a New York contractor and philanthropist, was a noted collector of books and manuscripts and a trustee of The Catholic University of America., This collection contains 23 letters and official documents signed by several popes from Gregory XIII to Pius IX, mostly concerning administration of the Papal States.The collection dates from 1578 to 1865. Included are the rare signature of Gregory XIV as pope, an office he only held from 1590 to 1591, and a bull of Clement XII from 1737 (with seal removed).

: Philip Murray Papers; Philip Murray was born in Blantyre, Scotland, on May 25, 1886. He began working in the mines at age 10 and immigrated to the United States with his father, also a miner, in 1902. Murray's long career as a union official began soon after entering the mines in the United States. In 1905 he was elected president of his United Mine Workers of America Union (UMWA) local in Horning, Pennsylvania. Murray subsequently went on to become one of the most important American labor leaders of the twentieth century. As president of the Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC), the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), he played a pivotal role in the creation of industrial unions as well as the utilization of federal government support in the growth of unions in the United States. The Murray materials digitized here include a range of photographs and selected documents related to his labor activities and relationship with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

: Photographs of theCatholic Educational Exhibit, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,1893; In May 1890, a group of Catholic educators met with members of clergy and religious orders and decided that a Catholic Educational Exhibit at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago would be an appropriate way to showcase advances in Catholic education as an important aspect of American Christianity. The result was the Catholic Educational Exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago. This digital collection consists of photographs of fifty 8"x10" images documenting the building, hall, and alcoves where the Catholic educational institutions displayed their objects and printed material. The educational exhibits occupied 115 alcoves, though the photographs document just under than half of these., This series of 50 images shows booths created by numerous Catholic Diocese in the United States that highlight their contributions toCatholic Education. These booths were part of the Catholic Education Educational Exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair) in Chicago.

: Robert Lincoln O'Connell Papers; The Robert Lincoln O'Connell papers document the service of an Irish-American soldier who served as a combat engineer in the First Division of the American Expeditionary Force (A.E.F.) in World War I, 1917-1919. The digitized papers include correspondence he wrote to his family during his service and include items such as passes, orders, publications, postcards, and photographs. There are also some materials, like copies of federal census forms and his 1972 obituary, gathered recently by family members and Archives staff to supplement the collection.

: Shane MacCarthy Humanae Vitae Collection; Shane MacCarthy, a fifth-generation Washingtonian, graduated from the Catholic University Campus School in 1952, Gonzaga High School in 1956, and Holy Cross College in Worchester, Massachusetts, in 1960. His seminary studies were at Saint Vincent's Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1960-1965. He served as a priest for the Archdiocese of Washington at St. Camillus Parish in Silver Spring, Maryland, 1965-1967, and at Assumption Parish in Southeast Washington, 1967-1975. Following the publication of Humanae Vitae in 1968, he was part of a group of mostly Archdiocesan priests, who signed a Statement of Conscience expressing disagreement with the encyclical's approach to artificial birth control. As a result, he and the other signers were penalized by Patrick O'Boyle, the Cardinal Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington. Many, like MacCarthy, were suspended from preaching, teaching, or hearing confessions, with some others expelled from their parish rectories. MacCarthy was one of 19 priests who disputed their suspension and brought their case before the Church judicially, with an eventual decision that Cardinal O'Boyle had followed the requirements for the Code of Canon Law. Eventually, the priests who still wished to resume their duties were able to do so by signing a statement crafted by Cardinal Wright that seemed to mollify the encyclical's original intent. MacCarthy left active ministry with the Roman Catholic Church in 1975, working thereafter with the Peace Corps and the Agency for International Development (AID), retiring in 2009. The digital collection consists of correspondence, clippings, meeting notes, publications, photos, and audio cassettes.

: St. Thérèse of Lisieux Collection; Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (b.1873) was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun. She is a well known figure around the world and one of the most popular saints in the Roman Catholic Church. She is a patron saint of missions and florists. This collection contains 11 glass positives with mostly portraits of St. Thérèse of Lisieux from the 19th century. These were taken at her convent in France in the years circa 1895, 1896, and 1897. Also included are letters exchanged between a French Jesuit priest, and French church figures regarding the matter of publishing an article about St. Thérèse’s portraits. A 1915 publication about St. Thérèse is also included. Letters and the article are in French.

: Strishock Print Collection; This digital collection displays an eclectic mix of etchings, paintings, and wood block prints acquired through collecting clubs and subscription groups and purchased by Daniel and Joan M. Strishock. The Strishocks donated this collection to The Catholic University of American in 1968 and it features a variety of subjects, themes, and artists., Mr. and Mrs. Strishock donated the collection of over 200 original prints and engravings to CUA in 1968 to strengthen the Department of Art.

: Student Army Training Corps (SATC) at Catholic University Collections; The Student Army Training Corps (SATC) was the World War I incarnation of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), whose college campus training programs included The Catholic University of America (CUA). Records include correspondence, memoranda, announcements, pamphlets, surveys, syllabi, a certificate of appreciation from the War Department to CUA, and a mix of 4 x 6 and 8.5 x 9.5 inch index cards related to student courses and grades.

: Terence Vincent Powderly Photographic Prints; Terence Vincent Powderly, the son of Irish immigrants, was born in 1849 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Employed at a young age as a railroad switchman, he later apprenticed as a machinist. Powderly joined the International Union of Machinists and Blacksmiths in 1871, eventually becoming local president, then joined a local Scranton, Pennsylvania, Knights of Labor in 1876 and rose steadily until assuming the national leadership from 1879-1893. In addition to his labor connections, Powderly served as a progressive mayor of Scranton from 1878-1884, practiced law, and became a political operative with the Republican Party. From 1897-1901, he served as Commissioner General of Immigration, following these duties with a position as Chief of the Immigration Division of Information, 1907-1921, then Labor Department Commissioner of Conciliation, 1921-1924. Beyond these professional positions, Powderly was a world traveler, photographer, and author of Thirty Years Of Labor (1889) and his memoirs, The Path I Trod (1921). In 1999, Powderly was honored as the newest inductee into the U.S. Department of Labor's Hall of Fame, joining figures such as Samuel Gompers, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, and Philip Murray. Powderly, a photography enthusiast, took and collected thousands of photographs, nearly 1300 of which are reproduced in this digital collection., Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1924) led the Knights of Labor at the peak of its power as Grand Master Workman (1879-1893), and later held important posts with the Bureau of Immigration (1897-1921).He was also an avid and talented amateur photographer, and several thousand of his photographic images produced in the first decades of this century (ca. 1902-1921) have survived in the form of glass and nitrate-base negatives (the nitrate has since been converted to safety film) and as glass lantern slides. In addition to his own work, Powderly collected prints produced by other photographers. This digital collection currently contains over 300 images selected from the collection.

: Thomas Edward Shields Collection; Professor of psychology and education at Catholic University, 1909-1921, Shields was perhaps the foremost Catholic educator in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Present are: a draft M.A. thesis (author unknown), Dr. Thomas E. Shields and his Educational Theories; twenty-five lessons from a correspondence course in the psychology of education begun by Shields in 1905; a pamphlet containing his 1895 doctoral dissertation, The Effect of Vapours upon the Blood Flow; and a lighthearted article in which he discusses coeducation., As historical objects, these objects can reflect the customs and perspectives of their times. Some of the texts in this collection may be offensive to contemporary viewers. We have chosen to leave all of the digitized contents intact as part of the historical record, though as with other records and objects in our archive, we do not endorse the views depicted in the archival materials we make available to the public.

: Thomas J. Bouquillon Papers; Rev. Thomas Bouquillon was born at Warenton, Belgium on May 16, 1842. He studied philosophy and theology at Roulers and Bruges. In 1865 he was ordained in Rome. Two years later, Bouquillon received his doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University. In that same year he was appointed Professor of Moral Theology in the Seminary of Bruges. Bouquillon was appointed to the Catholic University of Lille, France in 1877 and remained there for the next decade. He came to The Catholic University of America as one of the original faculty members. From 1889 until 1902, the year of his death, he served as Professor of Moral Theology. The collection contains biographical information, general correspondence, miscellaneous lectures and notes, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous publications.

: Thomas Whelan Scrapbooks; Thomas J. Whelan, Sr. was born in 1911 to Irish immigrant parents in New York City. An excellent athlete, Whelan arrived at Catholic University in August 1929 on a football scholarship, playing on the team all four years. Whelan partnered first with Dutch Bergman and then Ben Zola in operating taverns in Brookland, near Catholic University. In 1960, Whelan, who was active in the Democratic National Committee, became an advance man for John F. Kennedy in his campaign for President of the United States. In 1963, he was assigned to the Congressional Liaison Office of the Department of Commerce, and retired from the Federal Government in 1972. The collection contains an oversize photograph and digitized images from two scrapbooks. The images from these scrapbooks are from Whelan's high school, college, post-college career, showcasing his accomplishments in athletics, especially football.

: The Tower; The Tower has served as the student newspaper at The Catholic University of America since the Fall of 1922. In an effort to preserve the newspaper, and to make it easily accessible to researchers, alumni, and the general public, the microfilm versions of the newspaper have been digitized and put online. As historical objects, the Tower issues can reflect the customs and perspectives of their times. Some of the images and language in these issues may be seen as offensive to contemporary viewers. We have chosen to leave all of the digitized images intact as part of the historical record, though as with other records and objects in our archive, we do not necessarily endorse the views as depicted in the archival materials we make available to the public. Dates Available: October 27, 1922 through 2018 (From Fall of 2018, Tower publishes individual articles at cuatower.com, with very few full printed publications. The digital archives of the online Tower issues from 2018 are available at https://archive-it.org/collections/10038).

: Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact; The Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact was an American Catholic comic book that began publication by George Pflaum of Dayton, Ohio, with a cover date of March 12, 1946. It was a response to the undesirable comic books of that time with the intent to use the comic book format to teach tenets of both Catholic faith and American patriotism. It was generally not available for sale at newsstands but rather via distribution through the Catholic parochial school system. Publisher George Pflaum was a well-known Catholic publisher. As head of the company founded by his father in 1885, he was in charge of such titles as The Young Catholic Messenger, The Junior Catholic Messenger, and Our Little Messenger, each addressed to different age groups in the Catholic school system. Pflaum, who died in 1963, was active in the Catholic Press Association and was a founder of the Catholic Civics Clubs of America, a joint project with the Commission on American Citizenship of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The Treasure Chest had a run of 508 issues between 1946 and 1972, almost all of which are digitized here. Contributors included Frank Borth, Bob Powell, and Reed Crandall. In the 1960s the comic began to fade and by the time it ceased publication with Volume 27, No. 8, July (Fall) 1972., The digital collection contains the first eighteen volumes running from 1946 to 1963, which are in public domain. There are some issues missing from Volume 4 (1948-1949). The issues published from 1964 through 1971 are still under copyright protection, which cannot be included in the digital collection at this time. Issues published in 1972 were not copyrighted and will be added to the collection soon.

: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Lantern Slide Collection; The National Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC), consisting of the American bishops and its working secretariat, was established in 1919, and eventually evolved into the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), as it is known today. The Archives houses the papers of the USCCB from its inception to the present day. Among the many records deposited from the organization to the Archives are the glass lantern slides that were donated in 1996. Glass lantern slides were a popular format used for both educational and entertainment purposes throughout the beginning of the twentieth century. More than 100 lantern slides are digitized here, focusing largely on USCCB activities involving service in the Second World War., The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Lantern Slide Collection consists of a series of 111 slides. They appear to have been created for use with a lecture or presentation detailing the National Catholic Welfare Conference's work with veterans of the First and Second World Wars in the United States. The slides dated ca. 1942-1946 are in black and white, the slides dated ca. 1927 are mostly in color.The slides feature photographs of social events, religious events, National Catholic Community Service and National Council of Catholic Men sponsored events, United States' Armed Forces personnel, children, and assorted National Catholic Welfare Conference organizational charts.Many of the slides prominently feature African American soldiers, children, and interracial events or groups. There are also slides of women in Armed Forces uniform and their work contributing to the war effort. Locations named in slides: Connecticut, Georgia Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada New Hampshire, New York, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, DC.Slides 1-8, 10-14, 24-26, 44-46, 49, 51-56, 65-71, and 79 appear to have been created in 1927 to highlight the efforts of the National Catholic Welfare Conference during World War One. Slides 9, 15-23, 27-44, 47, 48, 50, 57-64, 72-78, and 80-111 appear to have been created between 1942 and 1946 to highlight the efforts of the National Catholic Welfare Conference durring World War Two.

: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of the General Secretary; From 1919-1953, the USCCB/NCWC published The NCWC Bulletin, changing its name to The NCWC Review and then to Catholic Action in the 1930s. The publication served as the official publication of the conference for the duration of the years it was issued.