This pamphlet uses American Sign Language to illustrate The Lord's Prayer. The front page has the phrase "The Lord's Prayer" printed in the American fingerspelled alphabet. This pamphlet was used at the Ephphatha Lutheran Church for the Deaf in Faribault, which was attended by local deaf people.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
This photo depicts the cornerstone laying for the United Church Seminary building. The cornerstone is inscribed with the date ""1900,"" but we know the building was not used until 1902, so the exact timing of events requires more research. It was not uncommon to mark cornerstones with the centennial dating to capture the spirit of the age, even if it was not the exact date. This building was later renamed Bockman Hall. Note the people watching the ceremony from the window openings and the open umbrellas even though it doesn't appear to be raining. Back of photograph reads: Bockman Hall, 1899-1900, Luther Seminary, Cornerstone laying.
St. Benedict's Academy (1883-1909). The tradition of preserving records and items of historical importance is passed on from one generation to the next -- from the Benedictine community in EichstÃtt, Bavaria, to the Sisters of St. Benedict in St. Joseph. Now a large archives and a museum, "Art and Heritage Place," preserve the records and objects which have been collected over the years by the Benedictine Sisters of St. Joseph, MN, to depict their life and work here and abroad (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
Dinner for delegates of the General Conference of the Evangelical Association in 1899 held at the Pine Street church in St. Paul. Bishops Horn, Breyfogel and Bowman are identified in the photograph. "St. Paul Pine Street church extended the invitation for the General Conference of the Evangelical Association to hold its annual meeting in St. Paul. A vacant store building was rented and fitted up for a dining hall and kitchen on the first floor. The second floor was made into sleeping apartments" (Utzinger's History of the Minnesota Conference of the Evangelical Association 1856 to 1922, p. 181). This is the only time the General Conference met in Minnesota. To finance the event offerings were taken at all of the Minnesota Conference congregations and $403.29 was raised.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
St. Benedict's Academy (1883-1909). The library became a vital part of the academy. It was one of the most inviting places on the campus -- one that encouraged the Benedictine tradition of love for learning. In the next addition to the academy/college (Teresa Hall in 1914), an entire floor was devoted to the library. Eventually, as the college expanded to the western portion of the campus, a separate building was constructed as the campus library (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
Depicted in this photo is Abraham Mallinen and his family, in of their farmstead, along with their horses. He was the first licensed minister of the Town of Thomson and served as pastor of the Apostolic Lutheran Church of Esko when it was first organized. He settled in Thomson Township with his family in 1883 on his farm, which was located west of the present day Thomson Road and north of the Palkie Road.
The Lake Reno Reformed Presbyterian Church was organized in 1869. Rev. Edward Elsey was the first minister, 1882-1896. In this photo, Rev. Meyer is standing at the door. Rev. Meyer served the church from 1898-1900. This wood frame building replaced the first church which was built in 1882. It was moved from its first site on the Hogan farm to the Cummins farm in 1938. It burned in October 1943.
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
Handwritten document dated 28 April 1898 listing names of 21 early Minnesota Presbyterian Ministers and 14 Elders, from Charles Thayer of Minneapolis, to Brother Covert.
Funeral service for Maren Sahlgaard Johnsen. Maren was the wife of Pastor Thomas Johnsen. Norseland Lutheran Church (originally known as Nicollet Lutheran Church). The churc building was constructed 1866 and enlarged 1884. The Herbjorn Gausta altar painting is visible.
Handwritten document dated 28 April 1898 listing the names of 21 early Minnesota Presbyterian Ministers and 14 Elders, from Charles Thayer of Minneapolis, to Brother Covert.
The Record of Plymouth Congregational Church Volume 5 is the fifth of nine volumes that provide a chronological record of the activities of Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contents include announcements, celebrations and event, membership records, meeting minutes and a few newspaper clippings and photos. The Clerk of the Church maintained the Record. From 1898-1899 Clerk Hendley embellishes the entries with color caligraphy and occasional images.
Distant exterior view of Little Cedar Lutheran Church with horse buggies. Back of photo includes the following information, "given by Miss Ida Anderson, Adams, Minnesota: Date 1902, Rev. Wm. Rasmussen, Pastor. Horsebarns built 1898 or 1899. Church burned down in 1910, and only village church used after that."
Schools in St. Cloud (1869-1909); St. Benedict's Monastery (convent), St. Joseph, Minnesota. The exact location of the convent in this photograph is not recorded, but the Holy Angels Parish records show that it took 25 years for the parish to build a convent for the sisters who taught in Holy Angels Grade School in St. Cloud. "The sisters moved around like nomads. For the first 11 or 12 years, they lived in St. Mary's Convent near the site of the old post office. Then they lived in Captain Taylor's house on Seventh Avenue North for one year; next the Grundman house on Eighth Avenue North and in the (St. Clotilde's) Music Academy. They also lived for a while in the Munsinger Hotel" (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives, Voigt, page 54).
Shown here are the six members of the Red Wing Seminary class of 1898 and their two professors. Top left: Professors Hans Hanson Bergsland (1858-1907) and Martin Gustav Hanson (1859-1915). Top right: Johan Johannesen Dahle (1867-1950) and Ole Jakobsen Malkewick (1865-1932). Bottom row: Mons Olson Wee (1871-1942), H. O. Myhre (d. 1927), John J. Skarpness (1867-1954), and Daniel Tjaeranson Borgen (1871- ). Note that some of these men were over 30 years old, indicating that ""second career pastors"" is not wholly a modern phenomenon. Front of photograph reads: Red Wing Seminary, 1898, Kom Jesus Kristus ihu.
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
Early ventures in St. Joseph, Minnesota (1880-1890). After the closing of the Industrial School, the west end of Marmion Hall (porch added on) accommodated the boarding school for little boys (age 6-12) as a department of St. Benedict's Academy. It was often referred to as "Bethlehem School for Boys." There were 7 students the first year and as the enrollment increased, the maximum number of boys housed per year was set at 36. A total of 715 boys attended during the next 40 years of the school's existence at St. Benedict's. In 1938, it was transferred to Altoona, Wisconsin (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
Reverend J.E.Seth, pastor of the West End Mission Church (now First Covenant Church, Duluth, Minnesota), filled the Svenska Missions Kyrkan pulpit from time to time. This family portrait was taken in 1897.Reverend Seth served the West End Mission Church from 1895-1898.
Revered Albin N. Osterholm, a seminary student at Carleton College, served at Swedish Christian Mission Church during the summer of 1897. This is a portrait of Reverend Osterholm and his wife taken during the summer of 1897. Portrait once belonged to Mrs. Sundquist.
The Plymouth Zouaves (Company A Second Minnesota Regiment of the Boys Brigade) are in uniform on the eighth street side of Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Five of the church's memorial windows are in the background. Some of these windows were donated to the Congregational Church of Wayzata in 1916. In 2014 the windows remain in that church (now the Universalist Unitarian Church of Minnetonka). In 1875, Plymouth Congregational Church opened its third building four blocks south of the second church on the southeast corner of Eighth Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a small boarding house had stood. Unsatisfied with the work of local architects, Plymouth�s minister, Henry Stimson, with the help of choir member Samuel Gale, sketched a design and then recruited New York architect Russell Sturgis, who reluctantly agreed to use the design. The structure was unusual for Minneapolis. The large interior included gallery seating. The exterior combined stone and brick. The congregation worshipped here until 1907, when growing membership once again forced the congregation to move to its location on Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Double wedding of Johanna and Paulina Meyer to John Hespenheide and Christ Woestehoff, respectively. 1897. Guests posed in front of house with grooms seated. The attendants are Henry Hespenheide and Emma Schmalz and Joe Ehlers and Ida Meyer. Bell on pole. Three chimneys visible with smoke coming from them. House is Greek Revival style with roof returns and front porch.
Schools in St. Cloud (1869-1909). The three-story St. Mary's school was built in 1896 to accommodate 650 pupils; at that time eight sisters were teaching 480 students at St. Mary's. The growth of the school was phenomenal because the newly-established Holy Angels Parish, just a few blocks north of St. Mary's, also built a three-story school. St. Mary's reached a peak enrollment of 840 in subsequent years. Sisters of St. Benedict served as the faculty of both St. Mary's and Holy Angels Schools as well as of the eight other parish schools that were eventually established in St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids and Waite Park (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives, Witte, pages 79-80).
Schools in north-central Minnesota (1871-1909). As early as 1880, three sisters took charge of the parish school in Long Prairie, but within four years the sisters withdrew because of misunderstandings with the pastor. Ten years later, the sisters re-opened the mission and the school's subsequent enrollments grew to 280. Pictured are S. Demetria Keller (on left) and Catherine Siefner (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
Exterior view of the Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Peter, which was located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Fifth and Nassau Streets from 1896 until its destruction by fire in 1929. The Nassau Street side of the church is to the left of the corner tower.
Exterior view of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in St. Peter. It was built in 1896 on the northwest corner of the intersection of Fifth and Nassau streets. The church was destroyed in a fire in 1929.
The Record of Plymouth Congregational Church Volume 4 is the fourth of nine volumes that provide a chronological record of the activities of Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contents include announcements, celebrations and event, membership records, meeting minutes and a few newspaper clippings and photos. The Clerk of the Church maintained the Record. In this volume Clerk Hendley embellishes the entries with color caligraphy and occasional images.
The Record of Plymouth Congregational Church Volume 4 is the fourth of nine volumes that provide a chronological record of the activities of Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contents include announcements, celebrations and event, membership records, meeting minutes and a few newspaper clippings and photos. The Clerk of the Church maintained the Record. In this volume Clerk Hendley embellishes the entries with color caligraphy and occasional images.
Black and white albumen print of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Belle Plaine. Seen are the front of the church with the rectory to the right of the building. A man, most likely the then current priest, is standing at the front entrance of the church. Written on the backside of the image is "Sacred Heart/Pelton Photo/1896/ Belle Plaine, Mn. Sacred Heart Church first steeple, which was struck by lightning and burned." The building was demolished in 1989.
Interior of Lake Street Methodist Church decorated for Christmas. Located at Lake Street and Freemont Ave. South, Minneapolis. Lake Street Methodist was begun in 1885 as an daughter church of Simpson Methodist Episcopal. Rev. James Teeter issued a call to start a new congregation in "that district lying in the outskirts of the city, the territory to the East of Lakes Calhoun and Harriet and adjacent to Lake Street." Later it was renamed Joyce Memorial Methodist Church in honor of Bishop Isaac Wilson Joyce.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Exterior view of the Center Chain Congregational Church, built in 1896 by William and Jim Clark. It was later sold to the Rebecca Lodge and moved to Armstrong Iowa.
Luther Seminary moved to this facility on Hamline Avenue in St. Paul in 1899 and remained there until its 1917 merger with Red Wing Seminary and the United Church Seminary at the latter's campus in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood of St. Paul. This building is on the corner of Hamline Avenue and Capitol Avenue. Back of photograph reads: Rev. O.E. Brandt, Luther Seminary, Capitol & Hamline.
Exterior view of church building with congregation out front. Man driving horse and buggy. On back of photo: "Vor Frelsers Meninghedskirke in Sacred Heart, Minn."
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Exterior view of the Horeb Calvinistic Methodist Church with church members in front of the buildings (note: members are listed on reverse of photograph).
Professional studio photograph taken outside of Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church; front view. Back of photograph labeled, "merged with Bethlehem at New Folden, 1958."
Pictured here is the United Church Seminary's first building at the corner of Franklin Avenue and 26th Avenuein Minneapolis. The United Norwegian Lutheran Church was formed in 1890 by a merger of the Anti-Missourian Brotherhood, the Norwegian Augustana Synod, and the Conference for the Norwegian-Danish Lutheran Church in America, commonly known as ""the Conference."" The Conference brought its Augsburg Seminary to the merger and it was to become the seminary of the new church body. The formerly independent St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn, was made a college of the new church. But Augsburg was a nine-year school (two years preparatory, four years college, and three years seminary) and a controversy soon developed over the future of Augsburg's four-year college vis-a-vis St. Olaf. Augsburg was incorporated with an independent board of trustees which when presented with an ultimatum refused to turn control of the seminary over to the United Church while the college question was unsettled. The United Church formed a new seminary in 1893. After a bitter court battle, the supporters of Augsburg formed a new denomination in 1897, the Lutheran Free Church, with Augsburg as its college and seminary. Front of photograph reads: U.C. Seminary 1893-1901. Back of photograph reads: M.E. Waldeland, donor, son Olaf Waldeland.
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Begun by Bishop John Joseph Otto Zardetti (1847-1902), and ceased publication when he was transferred to another diocese. It covers the period from January 1891 to April 1894.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
The Plymouth Record includes information on the Sunday school programs throughout Minneapolis. Unlike its predecessor newspaper the Plymouth Sunday School Record, subsequent newsletters focus more on the internal groups and activities of the church. Persons involved in both the outreach and internal activities include persons active in the civic and business life of Minneapolis
The Kerst sisters, Mother Scholastica (1847-1911) and Sister Alexia (1856-1915) were among the group of Benedictine sisters to come from St. Benedict's Convent in St. Joseph, Minnesota, to found the new Benedictine community in Duluth in 1892.
Schools in north-central Minnesota (1871-1909). In 1892, two sisters (Adela Eich and Casimir Pietron) and a candidate (Miss Rose Carlin - later Sister Josephine) opened a mission in St. Joseph's Parish in Browerville. The parish had built a parochial school, named Holy Angels, consisting of three classrooms and living quarters for sisters. When dissension arose between the Polish and German parishioners that resulted in the establishment of a German parish (St. Peter's), a sister from Holy Angels School taught the German pupils in a rented store. In 1902, when the Germans built their own church, St. Peter's, the school was moved to the church basement. Both schools expanded and prospered, but were eventually consolidated and named Browerville Parochial School, later renamed Christ the King (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).