Category Archives: Exhibits

Thank you for your support of “Our buildings and very earth trembled”

“Our buildings and very earth trembled” has completed its run. In all, 338 visitors viewed the exhibit over the last eight days. To all who attended, thank you for your support, your enthusiasm, and your interest.

Many people have asked us whether the gallery talks will be made available and whether we’ll be producing some kind of exhibit catalog. We’ll be putting together a video with pictures from the exhibit and excerpts from the “voices” which will be made available for free viewing online. We will also produce a list of all the items we exhibited and make that available for free download. When they are available we’ll post URLs on Facebook and on our blog. Thank you again for your support of “Our buildings and very earth trembled”.

Now that the exhibit has closed, we will go back to our normal routine: reading room hours from 8 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Friday and public exhibit hours on Wednesdays from 1 to 4 PM. All of our Civil War annals have been transcribed, so if you wish to learn more about the Daughters’ role in the Civil War you are welcome to come and do research in our reading room. For more information about coming to the Provincial Archives to do research see the “For Researchers” page on this blog.

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Highlights from Day 6 and 7 of “Our buildings and very earth trembled”

Satterlee Military Hospital

Images of Satterlee Military Hospital, Philadelphia

Two more sites where Sisters served. Top: sketch of General Hospital in Richmond. Bottom: Patient ledger from St. Mary's Hospital Rochester, NY

Two more sites where Sisters served. Top: sketch of General Hospital in Richmond. Bottom: Patient ledger from St. Mary’s Hospital Rochester, NY

Hospitals where DCs served

Images of other hospitals where Daughters of Charity served during the Civil War: Gratiot St. Prison in St. Louis, Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and St. Mary’s Hospital in Detroit.

Manuscripts showing the history of Satterlee Military Hospital and the journey to  Gettysburg.

Manuscripts showing the history of Satterlee Military Hospital and the journey to
Gettysburg.

Coskery manuscripts

Manuscripts of Sr. Matilda Coskery’s Advices Concerning the Care of the Sick

Omnibus

A horse-drawn omnibus similar to this one transported the Sisters to Gettysburg.

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Images of Days 3, 4, and 5 of “Our buildings and very earth trembled.”

Denise Gallo reading from Sister Matilda Coskery

Denise Gallo reads the “voice” of Sister Matilda Coskery

Exhibit tour

Carole Prietto leads an exhibit tour for Sisters and visitors

Sisters and generals

Left: Pictures of Sisters. Right: Pictures of generals who spent time in Emmitsburg prior to going to Gettysburg: Schurz, Howard, DeTrobriand, Sickles

Kate Hewitt and John Reynolds

Images of Kate Hewitt and Major General John Reynolds

Images and manuscripts describing the Sisetrs journey to Gettysburg

Scenes along the road to Gettysburg, 1863 and 2013. In the middle are original manuscripts which describe the journey made by the Sisters.

Civil War weapons

Civil War weaponry – bayonets, an unexploded shell, round ball, and minie ball. In the center, photo of a soldier with an amputated limb

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