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Sisters of Charity Archives
Our Sisters on Mission at the New York Foundling, 1888
By Mindy Gordon, Archives Director Did you know… In 1869, with five dollars and the encouragement of her superiors, Sr. Mary Irene Fitzgibbon opened the New York Foundling Hospital as a response to the increase in infanticide and the number of destitute children in...
Professor Darrin Pufall Purdy Documents the Traditional Habit of the Sisters of Charity of New York
By Mindy Gordon, Director, Archives The archives of the Sisters of Charity of New York (SCNY) were fortunate to host Professor Darrin Pufall Purdy, MFA, Director of Theater and Costume Design at Boise State University, during research visits to the Mount Saint...
Astor Place by Francis Criss: A Surrealist Study Features the Sisters of Charity of New York in Greenwich Village, ca. 1932
By Mindy Gordon, Director, Archives and Museum Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art Sr. Marie Noeline Noll, Mount Saint Vincent campus, ca. 1938; Sr. Noeline taught at Bishop McDonnell High School from 1934–1941. Most art critics would agree that Astor Place, a...
Archives Receives St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing Student Cape and Hat
Sr. Miriam Kevin Phillips, a former SVH School of Nursing student and later Director of the school (1991–1999) was happy to pose in the donated cape. By Mindy Gordon, Director, Archives and Museum St. Vincent’s Hospital opened in a brownstone in lower Manhattan in...
Remembering My Teachers at Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School: Reminiscences by Carol Giurlando Corrigan, Class of 1961
A graduate of Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School, Brooklyn, and the archivist for the Sisters of Charity of New York engage in a lively exchange of emails.
