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Bethel Lutheran Church

Date: 05 27 1945
Description: Bethel Lutheran Church, located at 318 Wisconsin Avenue. Confirmation class standing in the chancel area congregation, with the choir and ministers visible...
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Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy

Date: 09 26 1935
Description: Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are...
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K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: In the foreground, Erik Jensen, a minister with his hat in hand, shakes K. Doxstad's hand. Nearby a toddler pulls his own baby carriage. Two carriages, a b...
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K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: The K. Doxstad family is posed in their yard around a table covered with heavy books. A baby carriage is on the left and an older woman with her knitting i...
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Reverend Erik Jensen and Wife with Children

Date: 1875
Description: Twenty-one children are seated on wooden benches and the ground in front of a square frame house with a hip roof and cupola. The Reverend Erik Jensen (1841...
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Gathering of Ministerial Families at Parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: A gathering of ministerial families at the parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen (1825-1904). Pastor Ottesen, seated on the far left with Mrs. Cathinka Doderlei...
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Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen and Family

Date: 1879
Description: The Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen (1829-1898), his wife Ragnhild Holland Rasmussen, and their eight children sit around a table in the yard of their hou...
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Herman Amberg Preus Family and Visitors

Date: 1872
Description: The Herman Amberg Preus family and visitors, all wearing hats, are playing croquet in their yard. One child is on a rocking horse and another child is by a...
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Christian Keyser Preus Family at Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1873
Description: The Christian Keyser Preus family posing in the yard of the Spring Prairie parsonage with horse-drawn vehicles, and ducks. Behind them is a rural frame hou...
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Meeting of the Eastern District Norwegian Synod

Date: 1877
Description: A group seated around a table in the yard drinking coffee. Pastor Even Johnson Homme (1843-1903), the founder of the Wittenberg Orphan's Home, is on the le...
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Reverend Carl Christian Aas Home

Date: 1873
Description: The home of the Reverend Carl Christian Aas (1843-1898), with the family posing around a table in front of a fence in the foreground. There is a rocking ho...
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Interior of Perry Lutheran Church Parsonage

Date: 1877
Description: Interior view of the Perry Lutheran Church parsonage, home of the Reverend Jacobson and family. Included in the view is a rocking chair, peacock feathers i...
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Parlor Interior of Herman Amberg Preus's Parsonage

Date: 1871
Description: View of a parlor interior (probably that of Herman Amberg Preus's parsonage) with a bay window and draperies, a statue, plants, an ornate clock on a table ...
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Delegates of the Eastern District Norwegian Synod

Date: 1877
Description: Group portrait of delegates to the meeting of the Eastern District Norwegian Synod, held at the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, May 31-June...
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Ministers at the Eastern District Norwegian Synod

Date: 1877
Description: Group portrait of the ministers who attended the Eastern District Norwegian Synod, May 31-June 6, 1877, at the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Chur...
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St. Peter's Catholic Church

Date: 1875
Description: View of St. Peter's Catholic Church, built 1861 and adjacent priest's house.
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Saint Raphael Cathedral — Bishop's Seat

Date: 02 27 1955
Description: Saint Raphael Cathedral, 216 West Main Street, showing the new bishop's seat.
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Episcopal Ministers Attending Summer School

Date: 07 04 1927
Description: Group portrait of Episcopal ministers (men and women) attending a rural ministers summer school. Taken in front of University of Wisconsin-Madison's Agricu...
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Mockrud Family in Church

Date: 04 24 1949
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Mockrud and their eight children sitting in a front pew at Bethel Lutheran Church while the pastor is standing in the pulpit. The youngest chi...
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Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Pontifical Field Mass

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: Archbishop Philip Pocock of Winnipeg preaching the sermon at the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine pontifical field mass held at Breese Stevens Field. T...

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