Category Archives: Groups
Sister Estelle Ghidoni, biology professor
Novices (Eskimo) of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Snow at the Mission of the Little Flowe
Novices (Eskimo) of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Snow at the Mission of the Little Flower, Hooper Bay, Alaska: The Society of Our Lady of the Snow was a local community of religious sisters founded by Reverend John P. Fox, S.J., which served the Little Flower Mission, 1932-1945, when it disbanded. Reverend John …
Reverend Francis M. Craft (Mohawk) and the American Sisters
Reverend Francis M. Craft (Mohawk) and the American Sisters: Mother Mary Anthony Cloud Robe (Susie Bordeaux)(Brulé), Sr. Mary Joseph (Josephine Two Bears) (Hunkpapa), Sr. Mary Gregory or Gertrude (Ellen Clark)(Hunkpapa), and Sr. Mary Bridget (Annie Pleets)(Hunkpapa), at U.S. Military Hospital, Havana, Cuba: Rev. Craft and the sisters were inspired by Sacred White Buffalo Woman of …
Jack Hokeah (ca. 1900-1960)(Kiowa) and an unidentified friend visiting Sister Mary Olivia Taylor
Jack Hokeah (ca. 1900-1960)(Kiowa) and an unidentified friend visiting Sister Mary Olivia Taylor (Choctaw-Chickasaw) of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis (Loretto, Pennsylvania)(O.S.F.)* at St. Patrick’s School, Anadarko, Oklahoma: Hokeah, an internationally known painter in an artists’ group called the “Kiowa Five”, received his first art instruction from Sister Olivia, who was his grade school …
The Administration Building
The Administration Building: In 1890, the Administration building is under construction for Loretto Heights Academy, an elementary and secondary school for girls. The Administration Building, originally called Tower Hall, was the first building on campus. When completed, a year later, nineteen Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross and fifty-one students move in.
Religious sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family (S.S.F.)
Religious sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family (S.S.F.)* of New Orleans at St. Martin’s Church, St. Martinville, Louisiana: Henriette Delille, a free woman of African descent, founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans in 1842 to serve the poor, primarily by educating youth and caring for the …
BVMs in skyscraper elevator bay
Art class outdoors at Marymount College
Art class outdoors at Marymount College: In 1923, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary first established an all-girls school in Los Angeles. Marymount School moved to a new campus on Sunset Boulevard in Westwood and opened a two-year junior college in 1933. In 1948 the school became Marymount College of Los Angeles and …