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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a nun, Josefine Zander. She is wearing a habit and veil with a crucifix around her neck. Her ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Interior elevated view of St. Francis Xavier Church looking towards the altar. Note the American and religious flags and bunting decorating the pillars and... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey meets Pope John Paul II. Obey stands at the microphone while Pope John Paul II is seated on his throne. |
| Date: | 12 2010 |
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| Description: | The Cardinal Raymond Burke, then head of the Vatican Supreme Court, posing for a portrait in Bishop’s Vestry, Saint Joseph the Workman Cathedral. He is wea... |
| Date: | 08 1904 |
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| Description: | View of the grotto on Holy Hill. A statue of the Virgin Mary sits inside a stone arch inside the grotto. |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 06 1964 |
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| Description: | A kerosene lamp standing beside an old family Bible on a table in the antique-filled Harry Lichte home, 5314 Flad Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | Hebrew Brotherhood Synagogue torah. |
| Date: | 04 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Professor Menahem Mansoor holding an ancient Egyptian figurine to be part of "The Book and the Spade" Biblical artifacts exhibit at the Wisconsin Center. |
| Date: | 08 05 2016 |
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| Description: | An elderly man is standing outdoors carrying a large wooden cross in his arms outside the Donald Trump rally. |
| Date: | 08 05 2016 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of a man in a crowd wearing a red yarmulke at the Donald Trump rally. He is wearing an apron with buttons in Hebrew, and is holding a smal... |
| Date: | 10 12 2014 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the altar in St. Patrick's Catholic Church. The walls are of cream colored marble, and on the back wall is a large statue of Jesus on the ... |
| Date: | 01 23 2015 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a small, clay statue of Shou Lao, the Chinese deity of longevity, sitting on a desk near some pens. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 13 1959 |
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| 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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| Description: | Bells and other church-related artifacts removed from endangered towns as a protection against plunder by the Italian troops." |
| Date: | 03 24 1959 |
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| Description: | During a ceremony to bless the altar in the newly built St. Bernard's Catholic Church on University Avenue in Middleton, Bishop William O'Conner seals a pi... |
| Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A man, holding a hammer, is standing behind the new log pulpit to be used for Sunday worship on the porch at Island Lodge. The base of the pulpit is a holl... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An action shot of two sawyers cutting a hollow hemlock log using a 2-person crosscut saw. They are sawing halfway through the log, to create an angle which... |
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