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Razing the First Unitarian Society Meeting House

Date: 03 13 1946
Description: First Unitarian Society Meeting House, 125 Wisconsin Avenue, being razed by Arneson Wrecking Company. View is from Wisconsin Avenue. On the left is the edu...
Photograph

St. Patricks School Graduation Class

Date: 06 09 1946
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the graduation class of St. Patrick's School, taken on front steps of St. Patrick's Church, 410 East Main Street. Includes Revere...
Painting

The Salesianum near Milwaukee

Date: 1858
Description: A Catholic seminary since 1854, the Salesianum was built by Dr. Salzmann, a Catholic missionary from Munzbach in upper Austria. A two-hour walk from the ci...
Photograph

Holy Redeemer First Communion Class

Date: 05 25 1958
Description: Outdoor group portrait of first communion class of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 West Johnson Street. The group is near the church and includes sixtee...
Photograph

Queen of Apostles Seminary

Date: 07 23 1953
Description: Queen of Apostles Seminary, 5810 Cottage Grove Road.
Photograph

St. Francis Xavier School Graduating Class

Date: 05 29 1953
Description: St. Francis Xavier Catholic School graduating class, with priest, taken in front of the church.
Photograph

St. Peter First Communion Class

Date: 04 25 1954
Description: A group portrait of a First Communion class taken in front of the altar, along with a priest, inside the St. Peter Catholic Church.
Postcard

Our Lady of the Angels Chapel at Campion College

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Description: View of Our Lady of the Angels Chapel. Caption reads: "Our Lady of the Angels Chapel, Campion College, Prairie du Chien, Wis."
Photograph

St. Raphael's Catholic School Graduation Class

Date: 06 24 1946
Description: Group portrait of the 8th grade graduation class, St. Raphael's Catholic School, 216 West Main Street. Pictured are the forty-seven graduates and a priest.
Photograph

Norbertine Novitiate Chapel

Date: 10 08 1947
Description: Norbertine Novitiate Chapel, showing Jerome Tremel and Angelo Frascino kneeling in prayer, with John Patrick Shaughnessy lighting the candles at the altar....
Photograph

Sunday School Class at First Congregational Church

Date: 11 09 1947
Description: Sunday School Class at First Congregational Church, showing children sitting on the floor and a teacher sitting on a small chair.
Photograph

Eighth Grade Graduates St. Raphael Catholic School

Date: 06 09 1948
Description: Group portrait of the eighth grade graduating class of St. Raphael Catholic School, 216 West Main Street, with a nun and a priest.
Photograph

Charleston Civil Rights Meeting

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Description: Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislatur...
Postcard

St. Agnes Church and School

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Description: Exterior view of St. Agnes Church, on the left, and school, on the right. Cars line the street along Lake Shore Drive in front of the buildings.
Photograph

Bethany Evangelical Free Church Education Building

Date: 07 11 1954
Description: Bethany Evangelical Free Church pastor Bernhard Rom (right) stands with Cr. Arnold T. Olson of Minneapolis at the dedication of the church's new education ...
Photograph

St. Luke's Episcopal Church Vacation Bible School

Date: 07 16 1954
Description: Portrait of over 50 students and faculty posing on their last day of bible school in front of their church at 4011 Major Avenue. The church is a mid-centur...
Photograph

Saint Anne's Church and School

Date: 1924
Description: View across Packer Drive of Saint Anne's Catholic Church and Saint Anne Grade School. There is a pile of gravel and other material near a fence in the fore...
Photograph

St. Peter's Vacation Bible School

Date: 08 1994
Description: "Shirley Widmer conducts a class at St. Peter's Vacation Bible School."
Photograph

St. Luke's School and Chapel

Date: 1921
Description: View of facade of St. Luke's school, with grounds in the foreground and the chapel in the back.
Photograph

Episcopal Churchwomen Convocation

Date: 09 17 1959
Description: Some of the leaders of the morning workshop sessions for the Episcopal churchwomen are shown. They include, left to right: Mrs. John Adams Thierry of St Ch...

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