Workcrew in front of the second addition (at Riverside and 24th) to St. Mary's Hospital. In succeeding years, up to 1991, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet continued to add buildings to provide professional services to patients and to attract doctors and nurses to its professional staff.
A pen and ink drawing depicting daily life (1887) and the first three buildings of St. Joseph's Academy at Western and Marshall. The school was owned by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
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 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet during a cholera epidemic in 1853.
Sister Rose Tillemans (left), founder of Peace House (a drop-in community for street people); joins Peace House guests to provide entertainment at a party.
Eighth grade graduating class at Ascension Grade School, Minneapolis. The Sisters of St. Joseph staffed the parish school from 1897 until the middle 1980s.
Three buildings at the former McNair residence (1301 Linden Ave. North) used by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as St. Margaret's Academy, a private secondary school. The school remained at this location until 1960, when a new school was built in the Kenwood area of Minneapolis.
Register of the first 54 patients at St. Mary's Hospital which lists: name, age, sex, nativity, disease, admission date, discharge date, date of death, payer, beneficiary, and physician.
Twelve girls use the library at the St. Paul Girls' Home (orphanage), 933 Carroll Ave., St. Paul. An unidentified Sister of St. Joseph helps two of the students.
Students arranged on the front stairs of St. Margaret's Academy. St. Margaret's Academy (at two sites -- one in North Minneapolis and a second site (1960) in the Kenwood neighborhood) was owned and operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet from 1907-1974. It included a grade school from 1907-1920. It offered an excellent academic education, as well as courses in art and music, and in commercial subjects.
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 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet