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Special Collections — Catholic Women Resources

A selected list of holdings of the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, at The Catholic University of America.

"Mother" Jones Collection

https://cuexhibits.wrlc.org/exhibits/show/mother-jones-collection

Papers and photographs documenting the life of labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1843?-1930), drawn from the Mother Jones, Terence Powderly, and John Mitchell collections of The Catholic University of America Archives.

She was the "Miners Angel"; she was the "most dangerous woman in America"; she was an "impious Joan of Arc"; she was a "secular nun."


Portrait of Mother Jones in Charleston, West Virginia during the 1912 Paint Creek strike. Postcard can be found in CUA's Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Collection (box 2, folder 4).

Ursuline Convent

https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/achc-ursuline%3A1

The Ursuline Convent (Charlestown, MA) Collection contains documents related to the ministry of the Ursulines of Quebec in the Boston area during the early 1800s.