Novices Studying
Novices Studying: Photograph (9.25 x 7). During their “Canonical Year,” novices intently study vows and the Rule of the Sisters of Mercy.
Category Archives: Northeast
Sister Irene Kutsky
Sister Irene Kutsky, ceramics professor.
Nuns get polio shots
Nuns get polio shots: More than 4,500 nuns in the Archdiocese of New York receive polio shots, 1945.
Mother Francis Warde Returning to Pittsburg from Chicago
“Mother Francis Warde Returning to Pittsburg from Chicago,” Watercolor: Illustration, (water color and ink, 5 x 7.25), depicting Mother Frances Warde’s return to Pittsburgh after founding the Chicago Community of the Sisters of Mercy in 1846.
Unidentified Sister and boy, St. Paul’s Orphanage
Unidentified Sister and boy, St. Paul’s Orphanage, Crafton, Pennsylvania: Photograph (5 x 7). The Sisters of Mercy operated St. Paul’s Orphanage in Pittsburgh from 1846 until its closing in 1965.
Mother Madeline Clary
Mother Madeline Clary, English professor and class advisor, and students
Letters of Protest: Letter to President Ford, from Sister Rose
Letters of Protest: Letter to President Ford, from Sister Rose.
Educational TV
Educational TV, New York: Nun uses television as teaching aid in Science class.
Brooklyn Catholic Charities First American Congress of Social Concern
Brooklyn Catholic Charities First American Congress of Social Concern (Item 616B): Nun delivers presentation on “The Pastoral Circle.”