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Reverend A. Jacobsen and Family

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t...
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Preacher Delivers Sermon on Tuberculosis

Date: 04 1924
Description: Preacher Chas V. Reed delivering a sermon on tuberculosis in conjunction with an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department lecture. Mr. Ree...
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Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy

Date: 09 26 1935
Description: Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are...
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Gathering of Ministerial Families at Parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: A gathering of ministerial families at the parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen (1825-1904). Pastor Ottesen, seated on the far left with Mrs. Cathinka Doderlei...
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Meeting of the Eastern District Norwegian Synod

Date: 1877
Description: A group seated around a table in the yard drinking coffee. Pastor Even Johnson Homme (1843-1903), the founder of the Wittenberg Orphan's Home, is on the le...
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Reverend Carl Christian Aas Home

Date: 1873
Description: The home of the Reverend Carl Christian Aas (1843-1898), with the family posing around a table in front of a fence in the foreground. There is a rocking ho...
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The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark, looking at a cartoon while sitting on a cot in the boys' hostel at the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road.
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Bishop Schuyler E. Garth

Date: 09 14 1944
Description: Rev. Doctor Schuyler E. Garth, newly appointed Methodist Bishop for the Wisconsin area, seated at a desk.
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Reverend Erling Ylvisaker

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: Portrait of Reverend Erling Ylvisaker, pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross, Milwaukee Street. He preached to the returning veterans...
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Reverend George E. Hunt

Date: 04 13 1945
Description: Reverend George E. Hunt, age 80, interim pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church.
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Lutheran Student Foundation

Date: 01 20 1948
Description: Pictured around the fireplace in the Lutheran Student Foundation, 228 Langdon Street, are counter-clockwise: the Reverend A. Henry Hetland, with University...
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Madison Catholic Diocese Committee

Date: 01 23 1948
Description: Group portrait of the executive committee of the Holy Name Union for the Catholic diocese of Madison meeting to plan the activities for 1948. Left to right...
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Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Grandsons

Date: 1913
Description: Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, well known Chicago minister, with his grandsons Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones (standing) and Jenkin Lloyd Jones on the floor.
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Lutheran Student House

Date: 09 18 1949
Description: Three men instrumental in the building of the recently built University of Wisconsin Lutheran Student Home. Shown at the dedication of the home, left to r...
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Pilgrim Congregational Church Men's Club Turkey Feast

Date: 03 01 1950
Description: Pictured seated at the speakers' table are some of the attendees at the annual turkey feast of the Men's Club of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, 953 Jen...
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SCEF Leaders

Date: 04 1962
Description: James Dombrowski, (left), executive director of SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and Bishop Edgar A. Love, SCEF chairman, during a meeting.
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"Your Pastor Speaks" Radio Program

Date: 04 30 1952
Description: Four pastors are shown seated around a table with a radio microphone in the studio of WIBA-FM and WIBA-AM. They are planning a program that will be on the ...
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Theology Students Get Clinical Training

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: Rev. James R. Love (left), chaplain at Mendota State Hospital for the Mentally Ill, sits at a desk beside four ministers receiving twelve weeks of clinical...
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Theology Students Get Clinical Training

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: An unnamed Mendota patient (left) and Kenneth Smith (right), a theology student receiving 12 weeks of training at Mendota State Hospital for the Mentally I...
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Unitarian Anniversary

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: The head table at a dinner marking the 75th anniversary of the First Unitarian Society of Madison. Seated at the table are Frank Lloyd Wright and, next to ...

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