Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities, entertainments and news. Initial fundraising and groundbreaking for the new Pro Cathedral is documented.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities and news. Documents laying of the cornerstone for the Pro-Cathedral (later Basilica) of St. Mary in 1908. Also includes list of parish library holdings.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities, entertainments and news. Progress of the new Pro Cathedral building is documented.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities & news, and special Diocesan notices. Reverse of book includes financial records of expenditures and financial contributions listed by parishioner.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities & news, and special Diocesan notices. Also includes roster of First Communion class attendees for 1883 and the parish choir.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish and civic activities. Documents first two years in the new Pro-Cathedral church. Includes some baptism records.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities and news, annual financial reports. Also includes detailed accounting of the interior finish of the church and its elevation to a minor basilica. Book was also used as a scrapbook for programs and newspaper clippings pertaining to the church and Catholic events in the city.
On the occasion of his Golden Jubilee, Monsignor James Michael Reardon poses beside Archbishop John Gregory Murray, along with a group of priests and altar boys.
The Choir of the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Mary poses with director Father Francis A. Missia outside the northeast door of the church. Mrs. Grace Long stands in the front row, 6th from the left.
Church and rectory seen through trees along 16th Street North. Noted on reverse by the rector, "The New Look" - probably refers to recent work cleaning the stone and retuckpointing.
Building no. 2, sheet no. 100. Notes: Make 1 thus for St. Joseph's Altar (Base detailed on sheet #2). Make 1 thus for Sacred Heart Altar with Base as detailed on sheet no. 101. Noted materials: Ebony inlay on cross, ivory corpus.
Untitled. Pattern sheet for plaster ornamentation, grape clusters, vines and leaves separated by S-curves. Pattern is repeated decorating the narrow ribs cross the overhead arch of the nave. Pattern is broken by smaller rosettes half-way up each side, and at center by a large protruding florette.
Sheet no. 8. Details showing return of cresting at rear of canopy. Metal framework structure. Plan of platform (lower platform in 4 sections for easy removal and storage).
The Solemn Communion Class for 1937 poses on the front steps of the Basilica. Father James M. Reardon and four assistant priests stand at the top. Children include: Colleen Macintosh, Katherine Wolfe, Bonny Howard, Mary Iacona, Pat Haverty, Teddy Lotz, Anthony Mandile, George Mastros, Anthony Battaglia, Joe Battaglia, Russel Favorite, Sammy Iacona, Robert Iacona, Terrence Sweeny, and Danny Skay.
Sheet no. 203. Framed scene, Christ at center greeting Mary, the Cross against his shoulder. A centurion stands behind him to the right, another sketchy figure to his left. Frame design is sketched in to upper right corner. Also measurements, notion for ""inscription." Stations were crafted by McBride Studios - New York and Pietrasanta, Italy.