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| 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... |
| 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: | 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: | 06 25 1939 |
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| Description: | The Dickeyville Grotto is a small shrine made out of stone, mortar, colorful rocks and found objects. The modern door is made of glass and metal. A large s... |
| 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: | 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: | 08 01 2015 |
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| Description: | A small shrine made out of stone, mortar, colorful rocks and found objects. The modern door is made of glass and metal. A large stone cross is at the top o... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a structure that is part of the Angkor Wat Temple, located in Cambodia. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view at Holy Hill over pews towards a shrine. A woman sits in one of the pews on the right. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Four men kneeling and praying at the shrine at Holy Hill. More people are gathered near the church above them. |
| 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: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Way of the Cross station leading to St Anne's Shrine. Behind the shrine are birch and other trees and a view down the hill towards a valley. The station is... |
| Date: | 10 06 1954 |
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| Description: | The Most Reverend William P. O'Connor, Catholic bishop of Madison, signs the letter in which he asks Pope Pius XII for formal permission for the Redemptori... |
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| Description: | Ruins of a Mormon cabin built of squared logs. A harbor is visible in the background. |
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| Description: | View of the grotto at the Putnam Catholic Academy. Flowers surround the grotto with a statue and an altar inside. |
| Date: | 10 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Four-year-old Tania Thousand lights a candle in front of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Green Scapula in the temporary chapel of Immaculate Heart of Mary Pa... |
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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 Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle. A statue of a religious man stands atop a base of rocks. |
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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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