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Going To Mass

Date: 07 09 1870
Description: Irish people on the way to mass, including children surrounding the priest.
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Winnebago County Eastern District Norwegian Synod

Date: 1877
Description: View across road of the Eastern District Norwegian Synod, May 31-June 6, 1877, at the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church (2 1/2 miles west of L...
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Holy Family Convent and College

Date: 1960
Description: Aerial view of The Holy Family Convent and College, motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, and liberal arts for the education of Siste...
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Catholic Holy Hour

Date: 09 20 1953
Description: Catholic evening worship service held outdoors at Breese Stevens Field, lit by two haloed lights and 3,000 candles. Bishop William O'Connor led the congreg...
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Holy Hour At Breese Stevens Field

Date: 09 12 1954
Description: Over fifty altar boys kneel before a stage decorated with a statue of Mary, with flower arrangements and United States flags. Bishop William P. O'Connor of...
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Wisconsin Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: Many priests and altar boys in robes attend a pontifical 'field Mass' at Breese Stevens Field. The Wisconsin Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doc...
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Father Garrigan Giving Pre-March Mass

Date: 08 15 1966
Description: Father Michael Garrigan in the background wearing a white robe and glasses holding 8 a.m. mass at St. Joseph's Church with 30 marchers before a Obreros Uni...
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Eunice Smith

Date: 1977
Description: "Eunice Smith served as an organist for many years at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Theresa."
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Catholic Mass at Saidor

Date: 01 23 1944
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...
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Catholic Mass at Saidor

Date: 01 23 1944
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...
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Church Service in Roundhouse

Date: 10 08 1944
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...
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Church Service in Cherbourg

Date: 10 08 1944
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...
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 2008
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama at the Long Life Celebration (Tenshug) at the Dane County Coliseum.
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Christmas Eve

Date: 1952
Description: Elevated view of a church service held on Christmas Eve.

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