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Manuscript Group 402
PHADRIG CAHILL'S UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS
1954-1975
10 cubic feet

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Phadrig "Pat" Cahill of Camp Hill was a photographer for United Press International's central Pennsylvania Region, 1954-1975. His prints were sent by UPI telephoto to appropriate newspapers throughout the state and country, dramatizing the news events of the area.

The collection includes over 6,000 7x9" and 8x10" prints, each bearing UPI's code, date, and an extended typewritten caption. The reverse often provides additional information. The prints are arranged by year and thereafter by subject. The original negatives are retained by UPI. Use of these prints is subject to the U.S. Copyright Law. Copying of any form, including digital photography, scanning, photocopying, etc. is not allowed without permission from CORBIS, please contact them at www.corbis.com. Copyright must be obtained from CORBIS.

Notable topics include:

1954 - President and Mrs. Eisenhower rehabilitating their Gettysburg farmhouse and receiving visitors; George Leader's gubernatorial campaign; Alger Hiss's release from the federal prison at Lewisburg.
1955 - President Eisenhower at Camp David and his subsequent heart attack; Governor Leader honoring Jonas Salk for his development of a polio vaccine.
1956 - Presidental candidates Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver campaigning; Vice President Richard Nixon campaigning for reelection.
1957 - Governor Leader with Harry S. Truman at a Democratic fundraiser.
1958 - Includes various pictures of Pennsylvania towns, from Berwick to York, also includes images of the District of Columbia and Maryland.
1959 - Governor David Lawrence's inaugural ceremonies; Poet Carl Sandburg's visit to Gettysburg; The Knox Mine Disaster.
1960 - Presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon campaigning.
1961 - Events from various Pennsylvania towns. Governor David Lawrence in Harrisburg; the Pennsylvania Farm Show; Presidet Eisenhower in Harrisburg; John B. Rich Robbery Trial; Little League World Series.
1962 - President Kennedy attending a Democratic fund raiser with Governor Lawrence; Vice President Lyndon Johnson visiting the Pennsylvania State University; Dwight Eisenhower with Governor-elect William Scranton; The National Governors' Conference at Hershey; The activities of U.S. Senator Hugh Scott.
1963 - A Professional Golf Association tournament at Hershey with Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus; Ceremonies at the one-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg; President Kennedy dedicating "Grey Towers," Gifford Pinchot's home, as a national landmark.
1964 - Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson campaigning for president; Governor Scranton seeking the Republican nomination for president; Lady Bird Johnson dedicating a building at Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre.
1965 - The Pennsylvania legislature investigation hearings on State Police corruption; Governor Scranton honoring astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad; The retirement of Pennsylvania State University footboll coach "Rip" Engle and his replacement by Joe Paterno; U.S. House Minority Leader Gerald Ford visiting Eisenhower at Gettysburg; Reapportioning Pennsylvania House and Senate districts; President Johnson visiting Job Corps Trainees at Catoctin Center, MD; Chester County Committee for Freedom Now Members at a sit-in at the Governor's Office.
1966 - Vice President Hubert Humphrey campaigning for Milton Shapp; Activities of the Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women; The Miss America Pageant, Atlantic City, N.J.; President Johnson visiting the Dallastown Centennial celebration; Raymond Shafer and Robert Casey campaigning for governor; President Johnson visiting Fort Campbell, KY; The kidnapping of Peggy Ann Bradnick in Shade Gap; Groundbreaking for the Hershey Medical Center; Activities of U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker.
1967 - The State constitutional convention; Visits to Pennsylvania by U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy and Michigan Governor George Romney; Teamster President James Hoffa at the Federal Prison in Lewisburg; Governor Raymond Shafer's inaugural ceremonies.
1968 - Governor and Mrs. Shafer moving into the new Governor's Home in Harrisburg; Presidential hopefuls George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew campaigning; Senator Edward Kennedy campaigning for his brother, Robert; Filming the movie "The Molly Maguires" at Eckley Miners' Village.
1969 - The parents of Mary Jo Kopechne stopping the exhumation of their daughter's body; Vice President Agnew visiting Governor Shafer.
1970 - Pennsylvania State University students protesting campus policies; Governor Shafer dedicating the "Keystone Shortway" (Interstate 80); Demonstrations at the State Capitol by the National Welfare Rights Organization; West German Chancellor Willy Brandt visiting Camp David.
1971 - James Hoffa's release from Lewisburg Penitentiary; Removing "squatters" from land cleared for the Tocks Island Dam; Protests against the erection of a tourist observation tower at Gettysburg; Vietnam War protestors burning draft cards in Bethlehem; Convicted Johnson aide Bobby Baker entering the Federal Prison at Lewisburg; Governor Milton Shapp's inaugural activities.
1972 - The Reverends Daniel and Philip Berrigan and the trial of the Harrisburg Seven; The first million dollar winners in the Pennsylvania Lottery; Disaster and cleanup from Hurricane Agnes; The presidential election campaign with Hubert Humphrey, Pat Nixon, George McGovern, Sargent Shriver, and Edmund Muskie; Jane Fonda supporting the Indochina Peace Campaign; Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by the Pennsylvania legislature; Writer Ralph Ginzburg entering the Federal Prison at Lewisburg; The National Governor's Conference at White Sulphur Springs, W. VA.
1973 - Heisman trophy winner John Cappelletti; Changing the speed limit to 55 mph; Vice President Gerald Ford speaking to a joint meeting of the Pennsylvania General Assembly; Construction of the Gettysburg Battlefield Tower; Pennsylvania House investigations into State Police and Liquor Control Board corruption; Boxer Muhammad Ali at his Deer Lake training camp; State workers protesting the legislature's failure to pass a budget.
1974 - Governor Shapp and Drew Lewis running for election; Governor Shapp at a House Committee hearing on State contract policies; Watergate conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder entering the Federal Prison at Lewisburg.
1975 - Vietnamese refugees arriving for processing at Fort Indiantown Gap; Governor Shapp establishing the Commission for Women; Governor Shapp's second inaugural ceremonies; George McGovern visiting the State Farm Show.

Subjects common to all years include:

Actitities of charities and other community organizations
Activities by the Pennsylvania National Guard at Fort Indiantown Gap
Airplane, automobile and train accidents
Annual picnics of the Jim Smith Society
Bank and other robberies
Beauty pageants, especially the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant
Hershey Bears hockey games
Little League World Series in Williamsport
Mining disasters
Pennsylvania Farm Show
Pennsylvania State University basketball, football and wrestling
Philadelphia Eagles football team at their Hershey training camp
Pocono 500 automobile race
Washington Redskins football team at its Carlisle training camp

[RESTRICTED] Photographs, 1954-1975. (45 boxes) {#402m.1} [Holdings]

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