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Reverend Cutting Marsh

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Reverend Cutting Marsh. Crayon portrait.
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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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Evangelist with Movie Projector

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Description: Rural evangelist John E. Zoller with a Zenith projector and stereopticon with a DeVry generator used during sermons. Original caption reads: "We show excel...
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J. Wesley Carhart

Date: 1880
Description: Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ...
Postcard

Unidentified Boy on His Communion

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of an unidentified boy on the occasion of his First Communion. He is dressed in jacket and knickerbockers (knick...
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Manfred Swarsensky at a Meeting

Date: 12 30 1970
Description: Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky, a holocaust survivor, is seated opposite another person. He is wearing eyeglasses and holding papers and appears to be in a meeti...
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Wedding at Norway Grove Lutheran Church - Anaglyph

Date: 1873
Description: Wedding party at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. Horses and carriages can be seen in the background.
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Reverend M.A. Rowlands And Lowell Colston

Date: 08 04 1954
Description: Reverend M.A. Rowlands (left) of Vellore, India and Lowell Colston of Chicago take part in the clinical pastoral training program at Mendota State Hospital...
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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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Holy Cross Hospital

Date: 05 1974
Description: Dedication of an addition to the Holy Cross Hospital. The Catholic order opened Holy Cross Hospital in 1926 and completed this addition in 1974. The hospit...
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Eleazer Williams

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Eleazer Williams.
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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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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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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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Father Skalitzke

Date: 11 24 1955
Description: Father Skalitzke (who married them), enjoys a lighthearted moment with Grace and David Schommer.
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Frings and Ouellette Wedding

Date: 06 1953
Description: Carol Frings and Dick Ouellette wedding. Father Skalitzke presides over the ceremony.
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Krueger Wedding Party

Date: 06 03 1950
Description: Dorothy Giese and Oliver Krueger wedding.
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Justman-Hahn Wedding Party

Date: 09 18 1948
Description: Ardis Justman and Marvin Hahn are united in marriage at Zion Lutheran Church on Zion Church Road.
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Kuehl-Pribnow Wedding

Date: 08 28 1948
Description: The wedding of Arlene Kuehl and Reuben Pribnow at Zion Lutheran Church.
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Leaving the Church

Date: 11 09 1957
Description: Jim and Shirley Widmer get the "rice treatment" at their wedding at Saint John's Lutheran Church.

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