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Gerke Twins at Piano

Date: 03 16 1946
Description: The Gerke twins, Julie and Juliette, 11-years-old, are wearing matching dresses and bows in their hair. They are joined on the piano bench by a man wearing...
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Reverend Fjeld and Family near House

Date: 1877
Description: The family of the Reverend John N. Fjeld (1818-1888) sits at a table in front of their wood frame house near the Vermont Lutheran Church. His wife Gunhild,...
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Gathering of Ministerial Families at Parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: A gathering of ministerial families at the parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen (1825-1904). Pastor Ottesen, seated on the far left with Mrs. Cathinka Doderlei...
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Reverend Carl Christian Aas Home

Date: 1873
Description: The home of the Reverend Carl Christian Aas (1843-1898), with the family posing around a table in front of a fence in the foreground. There is a rocking ho...
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View of the Ministers Present

Date: 08 30 1876
Description: "View of the ministers present" from the "Dedication of Blue Mounds Church" section of Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." The congregation of t...
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Wedding at Norway Grove Lutheran Church

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of wedding party outdoors on the lawn at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. Horses and carriages are in the background.
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Reverend John N. Fjeld and Family

Date: 1876
Description: The Reverend John N. Fjeld, pastor of the Vermont Lutheran Church, enjoying coffee and a pipe with his family. His wife Gunhild on left (it could be his se...
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Andrew and Gjertrud Dahl's Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary

Date: 1903
Description: Andrew Dahl and Gjertrud Dahl's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary celebration, which was robably held at the parsonage at Mt. Morris. The group includes the...
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Lutheran Student Foundation

Date: 01 20 1948
Description: Pictured around the fireplace in the Lutheran Student Foundation, 228 Langdon Street, are counter-clockwise: the Reverend A. Henry Hetland, with University...
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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...
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Zion Evangelical Lutheran Annual Banquet

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: Group portrait of Zion Evangelical Lutheran church members posed at banquet table at 247 Division street. Seated left to right are: Francis Goold, congreg...
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Confirmation Ceremony

Date: 1910
Description: Twins Marie Johanna and Friedrich Wilhelm Ginnow pose in front of a decorated altar on their confirmation day. This was the last confirmation class at the ...
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Evangelical Lutheran Women's Missionary Federation

Date: 09 14 1949
Description: Group portrait of some of the leaders of the Women's Missionary Federation of the Evangelical Lutheran church attending a worker's meeting in Madison. The ...
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Zion Lutheran Church 50th Anniversary

Date: 07 30 1950
Description: The five surviving charter members of Zion Lutheran Church, 247 Division Street, stand in front of a banner at the picnic celebrating the church's 50th ann...
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Madison United Givers's Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: L.E. Rolefson, director of the Lutheran Welfare Society, seated, shows the Reverend E.J. Van Handel, director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, and two Unite...
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Vesper Services, Lutherland

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Description: View across water along shoreline toward a Vesper service held by a lake. Clergymen stand on the dock while members of the congregation stand on the shore ...
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Vesper Services, Lutherland

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Description: Elevated view of Vesper Services. In the background near the shoreline the minister stands near an altar on a stone platform to perform a vesper service. A...
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Wedding at Norway Grove Lutheran Church - Anaglyph

Date: 1873
Description: Wedding party at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. Horses and carriages can be seen in the background.
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Departing Lutheran Pastor

Date: 05 24 1953
Description: Reverend A. Henry Hetland and his wife, Phelva, chat with Arnold Voss who is president of the Lutheran Students Foundation at the University of Wisconsin. ...
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Sunday School at St. Peter's Church

Date: 02 1978
Description: "Brenda Widmer teaches her beginning Sunday School pupils at St. Peter's Church. They are: l-r. Kim Neitzel, Kim Krueger, Jimmy Wendling, Brenda Bernhard, ...

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