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Pinata Breaking

Date: 05 30 1971
Description: Children attempt to break a pinata at a Sunday picnic at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.
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Portrait of Father Frederic

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Description: Portrait of Father Janssoone Frederick (11/9/1838 - 8/4/1916) (Le Bon Pere Frederic), missionary at Trois Rivideres, Canada, wearing a robe with a waist co...
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Franciscan Missionaries of Mary

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Description: Campers cook apples around a campfire at St. Joseph's Burghardy, a small convalescent care center for children, with the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.
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Our Lady of the Valley

Date: 1950
Description: Outdoor portrait of a Trappist monk holding a bucket of leaves or greens in one hand and carrying a sack over his opposite shoulder. Trees and a wooden str...
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Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle

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Description: A nun, followed by a dog, walks down a path in the woods. The path is surrounded closely by trees.
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Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle

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Description: iew of a woman sitting with a nun in front of a fireplace in the Maude Adams guest house at Our Lady of the Cenacle convent. The room has low wooden ceilin...
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Don Bosco College

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Description: A view of a mass held at the grotto shrine on the Salesian grounds. The priest faces the altar, which is in a grotto, and a statue of Mary stands to the ri...
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Holy Cross Hospital

Date: 05 1974
Description: Dedication of an addition to the Holy Cross Hospital. The Catholic order opened Holy Cross Hospital in 1926 and completed this addition in 1974. The hospit...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1928
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone wall at Saint Raphael's School. David O'Dea is seated cross-legged on the ground, 3rd from the right. He is poss...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1926
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone building at Saint Raphael's School. Mary Julia O'Dea (born 1917) is standing in the third row, second from the r...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1927
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone wall at Saint Raphael's School. Mary Julia O'Dea is standing in the 3rd row, first on the right. She is possibly...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1929
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone buildings at Saint Raphael's School. Mary Julia O'Dea (born 1917) is standing in the third row, third from the l...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1929
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone building at Saint Raphael's School. David O'Dea is seated cross-legged on the ground, 3rd from the right. He is ...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1923
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone buildings at Saint Raphael's School. Bill O'Dea is sitting cross-legged in the 1st row, first on the right. Rand...
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Class Portrait of Second Grade at Pettit School

Date: 02 04 1918
Description: Class portrait at Pettit School, also known as Saint Raphael's School. Thomas O'Dea is sitting in the 1st row of desks, 3rd from the left. All of the stude...
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Rev. John A. Blaschke

Date: 1895
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Reverend John Blaschke of St. Wenceslas Church.
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Rev. Louis Kaluza

Date: 1895
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Reverend Louis Kaluza.
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Rev. Leo Suchy

Date: 1895
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Reverend Leo Suchy.
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Wedding Party

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Group portrait of the Mary (Kustermann) Esser and J. Thomas Esser wedding party taken at St. Catherine's Catholic Church. The wedding party included Susan ...
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Baptism of Nakam

Date: 1855
Description: Illustration of Father Florimond Bonduel baptizing a Menominee woman named Nakam by pouring water from a clam shell onto her head. The woman is kneeling at...

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