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Episcopalians Commemorate Founders

Date: 06 23 1948
Description: Clarence Lester, Mrs. Arthur (Agnes) Peabody, and the Reverend Edward Potter Sabin, admiring a bronze memorial plaque commemorating the first vestry and fo...
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CROP Train

Date: 07 13 1948
Description: Group portrait of Governor Rennebohm with nine men looking at a boxcar of the CROP (Christian Rural Overseas Program) train. The nine-carload train contain...
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Bishop Northcott

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Methodist bishop, H. Clifford Northcott, seated at a desk.
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Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council Meeting

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Description: Father James Groppi meets around a large table with the NAACP Youth Council. Several of the men are wearing shirts with the word "Commando" on the back.
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Recognition Service for Bishop H. Clifford Northcott

Date: 09 12 1948
Description: Four members of the Methodist Wisconsin conference at a recognition service for their new bishop. Pictured left to right are: Rev. W. Ross Conner, superin...
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Dinner for Bishop H. Clifford Northcott

Date: 09 14 1948
Description: Four attendees at a dinner at the Hotel Loraine welcoming Dr. H. Clifford Northcott, the newly-elected bishop of the Methodist Wisconsin conference. Pictu...
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Dr. E. Stanley Jones with Madison Religious Leaders

Date: 09 15 1948
Description: Dr. E. Stanley Jones, a former bishop and missionary to India, seated with three Madison religious leaders standing behind him. He was in Madison to make a...
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Madison Church Workers' Training School

Date: 10 02 1948
Description: Leaders of the Church Workers' Training School held at First University Methodist Church, 1203 Wisconsin Avenue: Left to right are Mrs. John (Erma) Lonerga...
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Lee Dreyfus and Cardinal Karol Wojtyla

Date: 1976
Description: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Chancellor Lee Sherman Dreyfus and Cardinal Karol Wojtyla. In 1978, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul ll. ...
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Reverend William Waltmire

Date: 10 18 1948
Description: Portrait of Reverend William Waltmire, pastor at the Bashford Methodist Church, as he prepares for the broadcast of the worship service over station WFOW-F...
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Mt. Zion Baptist Church Choir

Date: 06 06 1948
Description: Group portrait of African-American choir on steps in front of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 548 West Johnson Street.
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The Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson

Date: 11 22 1948
Description: British Clergyman and others gathered before the address of The Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, shown on the left. Others, left to right...
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Funeral for Fire Victims

Date: 12 01 1948
Description: Dr. Charles A. Puls, pastor of Luther Memorial church, 1021 University Avenue, looks down on the caskets of a mother and her three children, during funeral...
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Funeral for Fire Victims

Date: 12 01 1948
Description: The funeral for the fire victims of the Bedford Street fire was finalized in the Middleton Junction Cemetery. The caskets are shown as the mourners await t...
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Calvary Gospel Church Groundbreaking

Date: 12 12 1948
Description: Participants in the ground breaking ceremonies for the new Calvary Gospel church located at 3822 Mineral Point Road. Men standing with shovels, are, from l...
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Wisconsin Council of Churches Directors

Date: 01 18 1949
Description: Four of the new directors of the Wisconsin Council of Churches. From left to right are: Rev. Victor L. Thomas, Watertown; Rev. Merrill R. Abbey, Madison;...
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Wisconsin Council of Churches Dinner Meeting

Date: 01 18 1949
Description: Guests at a Wisconsin Council of Churches dinner meeting.
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Boy Scouts Receiving Medals

Date: 02 06 1949
Description: Bishop William P. O'Connor of the Madison diocese leading the Scout Convocation at St. Raphael's cathedral. Twenty scouts received the Ad Altare Dei medal...
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Edward Cary Bass

Date: 1915
Description: Edward Cary Bass (1836-1930), Methodist Presiding Elder of Providence, Rhode Island, and uncle of Dr. Edward A. Bass. Rev. Bass, also identified as Uncle ...
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Madison Bible Fellowship Church

Date: 02 10 1949
Description: Pastor Charles R. Polley, at the pulpit in the Madison Bible Fellowship Church, 1704 Roberts Court.

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