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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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St. Patrick's 8th Grade Graduation

Date: 06 12 1941
Description: Group portrait of St. Patrick's eighth grade graduation class, with a priest in front of the altar, 410 East Main Street.
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Kennedy & Rusch Wedding Party

Date: 06 08 1929
Description: Don Kennedy & Eleanor Rusch and their wedding attendants poing with the priest outdoors.
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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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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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Sebastian Gebhard Messmer

Date: 10 24 1913
Description: Three-quarter length seated studio portrait of Sebastian Gebhard Messmer, Milwaukee Archbishop.
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William Walter Webb

Date: 02 28 1914
Description: =Quarter-length studio portrait of Reverend William Walter Webb, Milwaukee clergyman.
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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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St. Anthony's Church

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Description: View down aisle toward the altar, and the murals surrounding the altar and on the arched ceiling at St. Anthony's church. The sanctuary consists of a main ...
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Don Bosco College

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Description: A view of a mass held at the grotto shrine on the Salesian grounds. The priest faces the altar, which is in a grotto, and a statue of Mary stands to the ri...
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An Eminent Southern Clergyman

Date: 1860
Description: A clergyman stands at the pulpit with a bible on it, behind him stands the devil. Each has one hand on the open bible. The number 3 appears in the upper le...
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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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Meeting the Pope

Date: 1982
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (in profile) meeting with Pope John Paul II. Obey was heading a congressional delegation that had visited Poland. Obey ...
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St. Maria Goretti Parish Center Opening

Date: 04 28 1961
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...
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Very Rev. J.J. Fox

Date: 1900
Description: Quarter-length profile portrait of J.J. Fox, Bishop of the Green Bay diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Fox was an active member of the Wisconsin...
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Missionary Association of Catholic Women Convention

Date: 10 13 1959
Description: Two men in clerical collars (and one wearing a biretta, cross, cassock, and cincture) examining a monstrance held by a woman. Several clerical vestments ar...
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Pastor of New Lutheran Church

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Reverend James Michael, holding a Bible and standing in front of a large crucifix, in the chancel of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church located at 5201 Old Middl...
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Father Cyril Geary, O.P.

Date: 05 06 1959
Description: Portrait of the Very Rev. Geary, standing in front of a crucifix. He will be the new pastor of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 2181 Rowley Avenue.
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Church of the Saints

Date: 1930
Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Church of the Saints Maria-Anna." Interior of a church with an ornate altar and statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary on the left a...

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