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| Date: | 10 12 2014 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the altar in St. Patrick's Catholic Church. The walls are of cream colored marble, and on the back wall is a large statue of Jesus on the ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Interior of church, towards altar, pulpit, baptismal font, and pews. Rev. E.F. Scherbel is standing surrounded by baskets of flowers and a banner that read... |
| Date: | 03 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Father Robert Schaller is standing next to a casket holding the body of David Marcou's father, David A. Marcou inside St. James Church. There are flower ar... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Night time elevated interior view of Grace Episcopal Church, located at 116 West Washington Avenue. Taken from an elevated vantage point in the balcony, th... |
| Date: | 06 17 1965 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and posing in front of a church altar. He is wearing traditional Lutheran vestments: a stole, crucifix, chasuble, and cassock. He is iden... |
| Date: | 11 28 1957 |
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| Description: | A man wearing an alb and chasuble is blessing a collection of canned goods on an altar. Caption reads: "Canned food collected for the St. John's Home for A... |
| Date: | 08 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the altar and tabernacle in the contemporary sanctuary of the new Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church at 401 South Owen Drive. |
| Date: | 03 24 1959 |
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| Description: | Parishioners gathered in the newly built sanctuary of St. Bernard's Catholic Church on University Avenue in Middleton for a ceremony in which Bishop Willia... |
| Date: | 03 24 1959 |
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| Description: | During a ceremony to bless the altar in the newly built St. Bernard's Catholic Church on University Avenue in Middleton, Bishop William O'Conner seals a pi... |
| Date: | 07 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Rear view looking towards altar of two nuns sitting in a pew in the new St. Joseph Chapel at Edgewood College of the Sacred Heart. The design was inspired ... |
| Date: | 03 23 1959 |
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| Description: | When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot... |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Students of St. Mary's hospital School of Nursing held their annual May crowning ceremony by crowning the statue of the Blessed Virgin with a wreath of flo... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a church service held on Christmas Eve. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A priest says mass in support of migrant farm workers during a grape boycott. |
| Date: | 07 26 2017 |
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| Description: | Cardinal Raymond Burke standing in front of an altar at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. |
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