Nikko
View Full Item in Knox CollegeThis photograph captures the densely forested mountainside at one of the entrances to what is perhaps a secluded shrine. Two ornate lampposts flank the gate to the stairs leading up the hillside. The…
Asakusa Temple at Tokio
View Full Item in Knox CollegeThe Asakusa District and its complex of shrines and Buddhist temples is still a popular tourist magnet today. To the left, a large pagoda rises up into the sky. The structures are built out of heavily…
Great Imambara Mosque, Lucknow
View Full Item in Knox CollegeThis photograph depicts two buildings: The building on the left is the Asfi Mosque and the building on the right is the Bara Imambara (a Shia Muslim shrine). This site is known as the Bara Imambara co…
Grotto, St. Mary's Academy, 1908. 95.28.10
Gordon RayView Full Item in Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake CountyPhotographs taken by Gordon Ray (1893-1987) of his family's farm and Lakeside Cottage resort, and Ray Brothers' resort on Diamond Lake, ca. 1907-1945.
Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration, Mundelein, Illinois
View Full Item in University of Saint Mary of the LakeThis is a color picture postcard of Marytown. The convent, now a perpetual adoration shrine, is built in the same style and with the same brick as the buildings of the University of Saint Mary of the…
Perpetual Adoration Church [Marytown, Libertyville, Illinois]
View Full Item in Cook Memorial Public Library DistrictThe Marytown site in Libertyville, Illinois has been home to a convent, monastery, retreat center and shrine. After the International Eucharistic Congress in 1926 which took place at St. Mary's Semina…
Ancestral Worship
View Full Item in Knox CollegeAn ancestral shrine, possibly around Nikko. A man kneels before the shrine.
Memorial Shrine of Eucharastic Congress held here 1926 -- Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Mundelein, Illinois
View Full Item in Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake CountyBack of card: Memorial Shrine of Eucharistic Congress held here 1926 -- Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Mundelein, Illinois -- Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration pray unce…
Idols of the Mandan Indians
Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893View Full Item in Newberry LibraryTableau 25 in atlas: Illustrations to Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the interior of North America. Mandan shrine outside of a summer villiage near Fort Clark and adjacent to a burial ground…
Asakusa Temple at Tokio
View Full Item in Knox CollegeThe Asakusa District and its complex of shrines and Buddhist temples is still a popular tourist magnet today. To the right, a large pagoda rises up into the sky. The structures are built out of heavil…
Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration [Marytown, Libertyville, Illinois]
View Full Item in Cook Memorial Public Library DistrictThe Marytown site in Libertyville, Illinois has been home to a convent, monastery, retreat center and shrine. After the International Eucharistic Congress in 1926 which took place at St. Mary's Semina…
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