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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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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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Reverend H.A. Preus and Family

Date: 1873
Description: Reverend H.A. Preus and his family pose seated outdoors in front of the Spring Prairie parsonage.
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View of the Ministers Present

Date: 08 30 1876
Description: "View of the ministers present" from the "Dedication of Blue Mounds Church" section of Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." The congregation of t...
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Rev. N. Brandt and Family

Date: 07 18 1876
Description: "Rev. N. Brandt and family, Decorah, Iowa" from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Nils Olsen Brandt was born in Valdres Norway in 1824 and die...
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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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Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
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Francis J. Bloodgood Family

Date: 06 17 1948
Description: Group portrait of the Reverend and Mrs. Francis J. Bloodgood, former pastor of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, and their family, taken at their home, 1102 Li...
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Edgewood 70th Anniversary Mass

Date: 10 24 1951
Description: Mass is celebrated on the stage of the high school auditorium for Edgewood's 70th anniversary.
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Movement Leader Ezekiel Bell

Date: 04 1962
Description: Ezekiel Bell, his wife, and son Frederick posed outside his house. Bell was the chair of the Community Service Committee which was credited with the succe...
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Cornerstone Celebration in Hurley

Date: 07 15 1906
Description: Elevated view from the south of a crowd gathered to witness and celebrate the laying of the cornerstone of the new St. Mary of the Seven Dolors Catholic Ch...
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St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church

Date: 02 08 1978
Description: "St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church. On the first day of Lent, Pastor Paul Kante preaches to his congregation."
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St. Peter's Lutheran Congregation

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Description: "Members of St. Peter's Lutheran Congregation for 50 years or more. Seated: William Beck, Fred Beck, Otto Krueger. Standing: Lillie Kallsen, Norma Beck, ...
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Wedding Party and Pastor

Date: 12 12 1954
Description: Three-quarter-length group portrait of a wedding party with the pastor. The bride is wearing a street-length dress of ivory florentine which featured a bus...
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Governor's Citizens Committee on Public Welfare

Date: 08 09 1936
Description: Outdoor group portrait of fourteen people who make up the Governor's Citizens Committee on Public Welfare. They are posed front of a building at the Northe...
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Holcombe Parsonage

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of the first parsonage occupied by the Reverend Mr. Row.
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Council of Catholic Women

Date: 03 29 1960
Description: Group portrait of four new officers of the Madison Deanery of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, standing behind Bishop William O'Connor, who ...
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We Saw You at YWCA Garden Tea

Date: 05 14 1960
Description: Two newly elected Madison YWCA board members talk with three Madison ministers. Left to right: Rev. Robert Towner, Blanche Hart, Rev. Howard Orians, Violet...

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