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| Description: | View of a grotto at the Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle. A statue of a religious man stands atop a base of rocks. |
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| Description: | A statue of the Madonna stands in a niche of the grotto at the Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle. |
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| Description: | View of a grotto at the College of the Sacred Heart, founded in 1841. A Madonna statue stands in a niche in the grotto, and kneelers can be seen before the... |
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| Description: | Front view of a stone grotto at Saint Louis Academy, founded in 1818. Two kneelers stand before an altar, and a statue can be seen to the right. Atop the g... |
| Date: | 10 08 1945 |
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| Description: | A shinto shrine near Tokyo serves as the starting point of a Wisconsin story as Robert J. Doyle (lower left), correspondent of the Journal, takes the names... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of worshipers at a shrine featuring a Madonna. |
| Date: | 08 1904 |
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| Description: | A prayer station with a depiction of one of the stations of the cross on Holy Hill. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the grounds of the Dickeyville Grotto. The sculpture, which was created by Father Matthias Wernerus in 1929-30, and honors Co... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a group of people at Holy Hill. They are standing above a shrine. There is a large bell beside the group on the right. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a structure that is part of the Angkor Wat Temple, located in Cambodia. |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Bernadette sculptures enclosed in a stone structure. Caption at top reads: "America's Favorite Place ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the stone arch marking the entrance to the Stations of the Cross at Holy Hill. A crowd of pilgrims are standing underneath. C... |
| Date: | 08 01 2015 |
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| Description: | Self-portrait with a gazing ball at the Dickeyville Grotto. Richard Quinney is standing with his camera obscuring the view of his face. Shrines made of sto... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Four young boys standing, with a fifth child sitting, on the top step in front of a Japanese torii, or gate. There is a stone lantern at far right. On the ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Stone lanterns on the shore near a leaning pine tree frame a view of the Great Torii on Japan's Inland Sea. Two Japanese women in traditional kimonos are s... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on back reads: "Log Chapel dedicated to St. Jude, Apostle, at the terminus of a bridge from which a wayside shrine and World War-I Memorial is viewed.... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Main View and Builder, Rev. P.J. Wagner, Grotto Shrine, Rudolph, Wisconsin." A rock and flower shrine with a statue of Jesus in a nic... |
| Date: | 03 08 1923 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The Grotto, near Chapel of the Woods, St. Francis, Wis." The Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes was built in 1894 by German-born seminaria... |
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