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Presbyterian Mission School

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph of Presbyterian Mission school. People gathered in front of building. Fence in foreground of photograph.
Photograph

Presbyterian Mission School

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph. Probably the Presbyterian Mission School grounds on the Chippewa Indian reservation. Two boys and a dog are standing in the foreground, with a...
Postcard

Bethany Indian Mission

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view of the Bethany Indian Mission School. Caption reads: "Bethany Indian Mission, Wittenberg, Wis."
Photograph

Poster Celebrating "The International Safari"

Date: 02 05 1929
Description: Poster or display board describing an expedition across Africa with an International truck. The truck used for the expedition was later promoted by the com...
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

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

Ho-Chunk Women and Children Posing near Building

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Description: A young Ho-Chunk boy and girl are posing standing in front of two Ho-Chunk women in front of a wooden building, possibly the Mission. The girl is wearing a...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Man and Women in Wagon

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Description: Ho-Chunk man and two Ho-Chunk women in a wagon pulled by a two-horse team. They are probably about to cross the bridge toward the Mission at the intersecti...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Man and Women in Doorway

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man and two Ho-Chunk women are standing in front of the entrance door of a wooden building, probably the Mission. The man is wearing a suit, bow...
Photograph

Prize-Winning Poster Promoting Mission Sunday

Date: 04 12 1950
Description: Bishop William P. O'Connor (left) presents a check to Marcia Pilon, an Edgewood College freshman, for her prize-winning poster for the Society for the Prop...
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...
Print

Foreign Missions Receipt

Date: 1856
Description: Receipt issued by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to Frederick Smith for a contribution of ten cents from the Sabbath School of the...
Photograph

American Friends Mission

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Description: Elevated exterior view of the girls' training home and gardens at the American Friends (Quaker) Mission. Girls appear to be hanging laundry on a line in th...
Book or Pamphlet

Ah King

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Description: Ah King, a slave who was rescued on May 18, 1910.
Print

Cameron Mission Home

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Description: Exterior view of the Cameron Mission, a home for rescued Asian (Chinese and Japanese) slaves in San Francisco. Some of the residents are posed in a group a...
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

Nenana Native American Mission

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Description: View of a group portrait before a Nenana Mission in a phase of construction.
Photograph

Christ Presbyterian Church Missionary Tea

Date: 07 16 1954
Description: Esther Hauver puts money into a basket held by Nettie Stafford. Proceeds from the Missionary tea will go to the Embudo Presbyterian Hospital in New Mexico ...
Map or Atlas

French in Wisconsin

Date: 1942
Description: These three maps depict the locations of French missions and French forts in Wisconsin, as well as the French place names in the state.

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