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Going To Mass

Date: 07 09 1870
Description: Irish people on the way to mass, including children surrounding the priest.
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Delegates of the Eastern District Norwegian Synod

Date: 1877
Description: Group portrait of delegates to the meeting of the Eastern District Norwegian Synod, held at the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, May 31-June...
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Ministers at the Eastern District Norwegian Synod

Date: 1877
Description: Group portrait of the ministers who attended the Eastern District Norwegian Synod, May 31-June 6, 1877, at the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Chur...
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Historic Evening Mass at St. Raphael Cathedral

Date: 02 15 1953
Description: Historic evening mass at St. Raphael Cathedral, a stately two-hour ceremony closing the parish's annual 40 Hours' Devotion. This was the first evening mass...
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Unitarian Work Camp Participants

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Description: Group portrait of participants of the Unitarian Work Camp at the Highlander Folk School. The central male figure is identified as Fred Lasse.
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Singing a Hymn at Highlander

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Description: A group of people singing a religious hymn at Highlander Folk School.
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Myles Horton with Man Smoking

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Description: Civil rights period, Delta Ministry. Myles Horton speaking with an African American man smoking a cigar.
Poster

Radical Zionist Alliance Poster

Date: 02 1971
Description: Poster advertising for the Radical Zionist Alliance's Radical National Convention. Caption around picture of guerrilla reads, "Be a revolutionary in Zion, ...
Poster

The Hare Krishna Movement! Poster

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster publicizing a Hare Krishna "Self-Awakening Program" sessions in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Radha Krishna Temple, at 313 N. Livingston Street. Includ...
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Wisconsin Council of Churches Radio Committee

Date: 04 28 1949
Description: Standing before a WKOW microphone are, left to right: Arthur Olson, and Mrs Henry (Ruth) Czerysinski, members of the First University Church choir, Allan ...
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Religious Representatives at an Interfaith Event

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Description: Representatives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews gather at the interfaith program "The Holy Land Comes Alive". From left to right are Norman Vincent Peale,...
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Beth Israel Center Shofar

Date: 09 10 1952
Description: Morris Heifetz, a member of the Beth Israel Center congregation, demonstrates how he sounds the shofar (ram's horn) to call members to worship on Rosh Hash...
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Catholic Holy Hour

Date: 09 20 1953
Description: Catholic evening worship service held outdoors at Breese Stevens Field, lit by two haloed lights and 3,000 candles. Bishop William O'Connor led the congreg...
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Wisconsin Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: Many priests and altar boys in robes attend a pontifical 'field Mass' at Breese Stevens Field. The Wisconsin Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doc...
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Father Garrigan Giving Pre-March Mass

Date: 08 15 1966
Description: Father Michael Garrigan in the background wearing a white robe and glasses holding 8 a.m. mass at St. Joseph's Church with 30 marchers before a Obreros Uni...
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Special Novena Opening

Date: 10 03 1958
Description: A special novena in honor of Our Sorrowful Mother was held at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church. Reverend C.M. Brissette of the National Shrine of Se...
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Catholic Mass at Saidor

Date: 01 23 1944
Description: Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Several soldiers can be are in th...
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Catholic Mass at Saidor

Date: 01 23 1944
Description: Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Many soldiers surround the jeep a...
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Church Service in Roundhouse

Date: 10 08 1944
Description: Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us...
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Church Service in Cherbourg

Date: 10 08 1944
Description: Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us...

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