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Sheboygan Airport and Flying Nun

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Description: The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, arriving at Sheboygan County Airport with two Franciscan sisters in a Cherokee C airplane. Sister Mary Aq...
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Nun with Suitcase

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Description: A nun stands on the sidewalk with a suitcase near a woman standing on the steps to a porch. The nun is wearing the traditional habit and headpiece and the ...
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Obey and Lucey

Date: 1965
Description: Assemblyman David R. Obey and Patrick J. Lucey meeting with a group of students and their teacher, a nun, in the Wisconsin Assembly Parlor. Although undat...
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Fitzgerald's Resort

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Description: A man, a nun sit on a bench with an owl perched on the back of the bench between them. Three women stand behind them on the lawn of a resort.
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Students and Teachers Pose at Catholic School

Date: 1926
Description: Large group of students and teachers posed on a slope in front of St. Francis Xavier Catholic School for a group portrait. Many of the children and adults ...
Poster

War Rages in France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of refugees moving along a ruined street; one woman is wearing a nun's habit. Text reads: "They cannot fight & raise food at th...
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Austrian Red Cross

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Description: Austrian Red Cross sisters speaking with Austrian and German soldiers.
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Belgian Nuns Return to Antwerp

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian nuns heading back to Antwerp from refugee camps in the Netherlands.
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Belgian Nuns Returning Home from Holland

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian nuns returning home from camps in the Netherlands. They are welcomed by their families and friends.

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