Box 16

Scope and Contents Students near Watab - circa 1908Standing: John Maluszyski (Rev.); Theodore Harter (Fr. Sylvester Harter, OSB); John Gores (Rev.).Bottom row: George Fallu (Rev.); John Cismowski (Fr. Hyacinth Cismowski, OSB).Men are shown as students, probably before they entered seminary. All wear coat, tie, and hat. They are on the west shore of Stumpf Lake, with the Quadrangle behind them.Black and white photograph, mounted on black board.Same...

Scope and Contents Students' Choir - 1885-6Lower row, L-R, 1. John Gans; 2. George M. Schutz; 3. Frank Schaaf; 4. ??? ; 5. Rev. Alexius Hoffmann OSBUpper row, 1. Aloysius Bahner; 2. ??? ; 3. Rev. Isidore Siegler; 4. Leopold BrünnerStudio portrait. Black and white photograph, brown tone. Cabinet card. Tack holes in upper right and lower left corners.Back panel: John Gans became a prof. & teacher of music in St. Cloud.George M. Schutz became a well...

Scope and Contents Baseball - 1905Informal portrait, outdoors, of eleven boys and a monk. The monk is in habit, and wears a bowler hat and wire-rimmed eyeglasses. Most of the boys are in uniform: dark jerseys with light-colored interlocking St. J U logo, light-colored baseball caps with a dark letter J, padded knickers, ribbed strped socks. Some hold mitts. A catcher's mask is on the ground in front of the monk.Black and white photograph, brown tone. On black board with debossed rule...

Scope and Contents Boxing - 1894Studio photograph. The boxing partners wear dark long-sleeved shirts. Their managers stand by in white long-sleeved shirts with detachable cuffs and collars. A referee stands in the background.Black and white photograph, brown tone. Likely collodion print. Cabinet card.Back of card has back mark logo for St. John's University Art Gallery, Collegeville, Minn., with artist's palette, bellows camera, two torches.Written on back: 27A -...

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John Peshges - 1894

Studio portrait of a boy in suit and tie, with his hand on an ivy-covered short pillar.

Written below the photograph: John Pesches, scholarship, 2d Latin, 1894.

Black and white photograph, brown tone, likely an albumen print. Cabinet card.

Back of card has logo for St. John's University Art Gallery, Collegeville, Minn., with artist's palette, bellows camera, two torches.

This photograph has been digitized.

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The Quadrangle - 1898

View of the Quadrangle, looking southwest.A wagon is visible at left, and stacks of firewood are in the right middle ground.

Black and white photo, mounted on white board.

Date from digital copy from Abbey Archives.

This photograph has been digitized.

Scope and Contents Preparatory Dept. - 1884Upper row, left to right: 1. Frank Breuer; 2. John Wessel; 3. ???; 4. William Blakeman (Blackmann).Front left: Rev. Chrysostom Schreiner OSB.Front right: Rev. Oswald Baran OSB (Cleric).Group portrait. Over two dozen boys and young men in suits, along with two monks in habit, on steps outside wooden double doors to the Quadrangle. Three of the boys are in short pants.Black and white photograph, brown tone....

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Students of 1880's

Twenty-five boys and young men stand on steps outside the door of the Abbey Church. All wear coats or jackets; some have ties, vests, or watch chains. In the center of the second row from the back stand a monk in habit. He wears eyeglasses, and has a graying beard and mustache.

Black and white photograph, brown tone. Mounted on pink cardstock. Cabinet card.

This photograph has been digitized.

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First Communion - 1880's

Studio portrait of fourteen boys and a monk (Oswald Baran). The boys are wearing suit and tie, and each sports a white corsage on his left lapel.

Black and white photograph, brown tone. Black cabinet card with gold border.

This photograph has been digitized.

Scope and Contents Singing Choir - 1880'sFirst row, L-R: 1. John Kraker; 2. Frank Beyenka; 3. Alexius Hoffmann; 4. Oswald Baran; 5. Henry Breuer; 6. Frank Mitchell.second row, 1. ??? ; 2. John Traufler ; 3. ???.third row, 1. Athanas Scheffold; 2. Nicholas Schmit; 3. Michael Girsch; 4. John Kevenhoerster; 5. Frank Bernick; 6. John Ortmann.Studio portrait of thirteen boys and young men in suit and tie, and two monks in habit.Black and white photograph,...