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| Description: | A view of the chapel altar, made of carved wood. A vase of carnations sits on the right altar gate. The altar itself has a cloth covering the top, with ca... |
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| Description: | Chapel interior, showing the altar and seating areas. The altar has a lacy covering over the top. The back area contains the tabernacle, a crucifix, vases ... |
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| Description: | View down aisle toward the altar, which is covered with an ornamented textile and is contained in an apse with a pointed archway. Behind this is a crucifix... |
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| Description: | View looking down aisle toward the altar. The columns that run the length of the aisle have light fixtures and are decorated with garland. The sanctuary c... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Gray chapel looking toward a large pipe organ. A congregation is seated in the pews and other people sit in chairs on a raised platform. T... |
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| Description: | View up aisle toward the altar in the chapel in Immaculate Heart Academy. Six women wearing veils kneel in pews, facing the altar. Above the altar are the ... |
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| Description: | View towrd the altar and pipe organ at Evangelical United Lutheran Church. The walls and ceiling of the church are decorated with interlocking pointed arch... |
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| Description: | Interior of the chapel at Saint Clara Academy, built in 1852. Founded by Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, the academy's chapel features large paintings and sculp... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the interior of the First Unitarian Church, which stood on Wisconsin Avenue near the Post Office. |
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| Description: | Interior view towards the front of the Methodist Evangelical Church. There is an altar flanked by two chairs, with an organ on the left. In the foreground ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the First Presbyterian Church chancel decorated for Christmas. There are several decorated Christmas trees, an arch and crosses covered wi... |
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| Description: | The raised altar of the Episcopal Church, with potted palms sitting on the steps. Lilies in vases and candles are displayed on the altar. Elaborate woodwor... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Romola (played by Lillian Gish) and Tito Melema (William Powell) standing before the altar during their wedding in a scene still for Henry King's productio... |
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| Description: | Interior of the International Irish Catholic Church, facing the altar. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Saint Paul's Catholic Church. Tree leaves cover the top-right corner of the image. There is a street sign for "Fourth St." on a power line pole... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down center aisle towards the altar. Pews are on both sides of the aisle, and chandeliers hang from the center of the ceiling. There are sculptures of... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Troitski Cathedral, showing the altar of the cathedral, chandeliers, large floor candle holders, and iconographic wall panels. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Troitski Cathedral, showing the altar of the cathedral, chandeliers, large floor candle holders, and iconographic wall panels. |
| Date: | 09 28 1959 |
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| Description: | Bishop O'Connor tells an overflow crowd of one thousand people about his audience with the Pope in Rome and announced that the Pope extended his personal a... |
| Date: | 03 03 1965 |
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| Description: | The Rev. Paul Abel is standing beneath a mosaic of the Seraphic Cross of St. Francis at the new St. Francis Chapel at the University Episcopal Center, 1001... |
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