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Mission School Girls Cleaning Rice

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Description: Ten girls are posing in a walled courtyard sitting on the ground, with plates of rice in front of them. In the foreground is a wooden box and a pail. Capti...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 4 Little Chute

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Photograph

London Missionary Society School

Date: 02 24 1945
Description: A group of students at the London Missionary Society School, Tutuila Mission located in Tutuila, American Samoa. The group is posed sitting on the concrete...
Photograph

Entrance to the Alamo

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Description: View of the entrance to the Alamo, also known as Mission San Antonio de Valero, built in 1744.
Photograph

Women's Lutheran Missionary Federation

Date: 05 19 1948
Description: At the seventeenth annual convention of the southern group, Wisconsin District, Women's Missionary Federation of the American Lutheran Church are left to r...
Photograph

Madison Council of Church Women with Relief Project

Date: 11 14 1947
Description: Members of the Madison Council of Church Women are shown with bundles of warm clothing and blankets, shoes and school supplies from Madison Sunday school c...
Photograph

Where Washburn People Worship

Date: 1904
Description: Composite photograph of views of seven Washburn churches, including Mehtodist Church, Swedish Mission Church, Congregational Church, Norwegian Lutheran Chu...
Photograph

Old Mission Inn

Date: 1940
Description: The Old Mission Inn, originally built as a mission house in 1832 by the Congregational mission established by Frederick Ayer in 1830. In later years furthe...
Photograph

Old Mission Congregational Church

Date: 1940
Description: The Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the oldest Protestant...
Photograph

La Pointe, Madeline Island

Date: 1898
Description: Old Mission Residence at La Pointe, Madeline Island.
Photograph

Old Mission

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Description: The Old Mission, including the Old Mission Inn on Madeline Island.
Photograph

Nashotah Mission, Shelton Hall

Date: 1920
Description: Nashotah Mission, Shelton Hall about 1920(?)
Photograph

Old Mission Congregational Church

Date: 1930
Description: The Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the oldest Protestant...
Drawing

Nashotah Mission

Date: 1876
Description: Distant view of Neshotah Mission. River with boaters, two people standing on riverbank, mission on hill in background.
Photograph

St. Turibius Mission

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Description: Students and priests in front of St. Turibius Mission.
Photograph

Grace Episcopal Church Old Rectory Shop

Date: 11 08 1950
Description: Grace Episcopal Church women look over sales reports of used clothing at the Old Rectory Shop. From left are: Mrs. Dorothea Rainey, Mrs. John C. (Mary) Lob...
Postcard

Nashotah Mission Bell Tower

Date: 1915
Description: Nashotah Mission bell tower. Caption reads: "Bell Tower, Nashotah Mission."
Photograph

Nashotah Mission Blue House

Date: 1920
Description: Nashotah Mission Blue House. Built in 1842, it was the mission's first building.
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Nashotah Mission, Blue House, Red House

Date: 1920
Description: Nashotah Mission, Blue House and Red House. The Blue House (right) was the first building of the mission, built in 1842. The Red House was built in 1843 fo...
Photograph

Nashotah Mission, Bishop White Hall

Date: 1920
Description: Front and side view of Nashotah Mission, Bishop White Hall.

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