Eighth grade graduating class at Ascension Grade School, Minneapolis. The Sisters of St. Joseph staffed the parish school from 1897 until the middle 1980s.
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.
Grade school students in a classroom and sitting at their desks. The Sisters of St. Joseph took over the administration and staffing of Notre Dame de Lourdes School from the Grey Nuns in 1906.
St. Mary's Grade School students with a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet in front of an unusual fountain in lowertown St. Paul. The Sisters of St. Joseph staffed the school from 1869-1970.
Students and one Sister of St. Joseph of 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.