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| 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: | 06 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor shows off his chapel at his residence on Lake Mendota at Fox Point. The two ladies will be assisting with hospitality at an open... |
| 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: | 10 20 1958 |
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| Description: | Two Edgewood students, Tom Kuehn and George Bernauer, prepare the altar in the school auditorium for Mass. |
| Date: | 01 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Several soldiers can be are in th... |
| Date: | 01 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Many soldiers surround the jeep a... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down aisle between pews towards the altar in the interior of the Catholic Church. Ornate chandeliers hang from the ceiling. On the left in an arched n... |
| 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: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of worshipers at a shrine featuring a Madonna. |
| 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: | 01 25 1958 |
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| Description: | An interior image of St. Catherine Catholic Church during the marriage ceremony of Mary (Kustermann) Esser (b. 1934) and J. Thomas Esser (b. 1934). |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor standing at the altar of the chapel in the new St. Maria Goretti Parish Center at Gilbert Road and Flac Avenue on Madison's sout... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 04 16 1965 |
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| Description: | A cross of lilies, each lily representing a deceased person, commemorates the resurrection at First Congregational Church, 1609 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Lutheran Church over pews towards the altar. Caption reads: "Interior of Lutherna church, Horicon, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view towards the nave and the altar of St. Mary's Church. Caption reads: "Interior of St. Mary's Church, South Kaukauna, Wis." |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Postcard of the church interior, with pews, altar, nave, statues, and paintings. The church ceiling is decorated with garlands and wreaths. Caption reads: ... |
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