Cabinet photograph of three prominent SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet in full habit. Sister Seraphine Ireland was the director of the St. Paul Province of the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet from 1882-1921. She was responsible for the establishment of numerous schools and hospitals in urban and rural areas of Minnesota and North Dakota. SisterSt. John Ireland was responsible for the establishment of Holy Angels Academy from 1877-1897. Sister Celestine Howard, a cousin of the Irelands, was supervisor of schools established by SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet; she later (1884) established St. Agatha's Conservatory of Art and Music. This unique school offered classes in various branches of art and music, as well as in dramatics. It closed in 1969. The Irelands were sistersof John Ireland, the first archbishop ofSt. Paul.
Students and one SisterofSt. Josephof Carondelet standing outside St. Mary's Academy. The Sisters opened the Graceville school in 1885. It was destroyed by fire in 1898. Indian children from the nearby Sisseton agency and children of white settlers attended the school. A new school was built in 1900 and a high school was added in 1915. Both the elementary and secondary schools were closed by 1969.
Graduating students stand outside (old) Holy Angels Academy on Fourth Street North, Minneapolis. The grade and high school opened in 1877. In 1907 the high school was transferred to St. Margaret's Academy (first location). The grade school closed in 1928. Both Holy Angels and St. Margaret's were owned and operated by the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet
St. Mary's Grade School students with a SisterofSt. Josephof Carondelet in front of an unusual fountain in lowertown St. Paul. The SistersofSt. Joseph staffed the school from 1869-1970.
Nineteen SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet standing in front of a St. Joseph's Hospital entrance. The Sisters opened the hospital in 1853 in the log cabin Chapel ofSt. Paul on Bench Street. This photo is taken at the hospital's third and current site. The hospital joined the HealthEast System in 1987.
Ten SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet served as nurses during the Spanish American War. This photo, which includes hospitalized soldiers, was taken at a military hospital in Matanzas, Cuba.
Grade school students in a classroom and sitting at their desks. The SistersofSt. Joseph took over the administration and staffing of Notre Dame de Lourdes School from the Grey Nuns in 1906.
Sister Hyacinth Werden, an excellent educator was the first principal at Derham Hall. In January 1905, 70 boarding students from St. Joseph's Academy, St. Paul, moved out to a developing area in the southwestern part of the city, where the new school was located. This was the official opening of the College ofSt. Catherine. In addition to the high school boarding students there were "young ladies of uncertain age who were grouped together as 'specials.' "
Two girls standing in front of the Mahoney residence, the first site ofSt. Joseph's Academy, where three SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet cared for orphans and taught classes in art and music. Six months after their arrival, the Sisters developed an academic curriculum and taught classes in a vacant public school.
A pen and ink drawing ofSt. Joseph's Academy at its new location on Marshall and Western. This school, with later building additions, was the successor to the log cabin Bench Street school. The SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet owned and operated the school until 1971.
Fifteen women, all in nurses' uniforms, sit/stand around Sister Thecla Reid, who established the School of Nursing at St. Mary's Hospital. Three women were in the first graduating class in 1903. The school of nursing opened about 1900.
Young women were recruited from Ireland and Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s to join the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet. (Some considered this increase in membership an unnatural growth.) By the turn of the century there were 428 SistersofSt. Joseph in the St. Paul Province to help administer and staff the schools and hospitals in the care of the community. Pictured here, according to note attached to photograph, back row (left to right): Sisters Matthew, Cuthberta, Peter, Blanda. Middle row (left to right) Sisters Oswina, Odelia, Jarleth, Illirius, Salome, Candida, Placidia, Pius. Front row (left to right) Sisters Honorata, Michael, Celsus, Lucy, St. Kevin, Victor, Erma.
Students stand, in military arrangement, outside ofSt. Bernard's convent school holding rifles. St. Bernard's was a school for boys staffed by the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet from 1905-1910. It was also a military academy with training provided to the boys by a Civil War veteran. Staffing a school with military training was very unusual for the SistersofSt. Joseph. The school was destroyed by fire in 1910.
Interior photograph showing the parlor of the old Holy Angels Academy in North Minneapolis, complete with art works, chairs and other parlor decor. The all girls' school was owned and operated by the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet from 1877-1928.
Three girls sit at pianos in practice rooms at the old Angels Academy in North Minneapolis. The SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet owned and operated the school as a private elementary and secondary school from 1877 to 1907, when the high school was transferred to St. Margaret's Academy. The grade school closed in 1928.
Thirteen people, some from the medical or nursing staffs, work on a patient in surgery at St. Joseph's Hospital. The other people present may be medical interns.
Two nurses and two doctors demonstrate the use of a pulmotor on a patient at St. Joseph's Hospital. The hospital was established by the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet during a cholera epidemic in 1853.