St. John's University

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives Photo 1: 1973 Chevrolet Vega hatchback on display outside Refectory."Win a 73 Vega" posters on windshield and driver's sde door. Was raffled off by the Workers' Guild in March 1973 as part of a fundraiser for the Palaestra. Photo 2: Isabelle Durenberger reaches into the drum for the winning raffle ticket in the drawing for the Chevy Vega. Someone is holding a microphone near her. Tom Andert is behind her, in the left background. In the Old...

Scope and Contents

Photos from Abbey Archives

Photo 1: Machine with rollers, a crank, and possibly a punch or scribe.

2 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches. Undated.

Photo 2: Madonna sculpture.

Was used in publication. 5 x 7. Undated.

Both black and white.

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives: LandscapePhoto 1: [blank] Photo 2: View of St. John's University at Collegeville, Minnesota in 1880. Looking southeast. Several students standing in field west of buildings. Old Stone House visible. Church has been built, but bell towers do not have spires yet. It appears that only two wings of the future Quad are built 2 7/8 x 5 1/2" black and white print on 5 x 7 paper. MHS Locator #MS6.9/CL/r3. Negative #15298....

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives: Landscape Photo 1: Looking northwest over Lake Sagatagan to Quadrangle. Boat on lake. Laundry building in picture. 1916. Photo 2: Looking north over Lake Sagatagan.Church spires rise behind planted trees. Lourdes Grotto at right. Bathhouse on the shore to the left (south) of it. Print has a border. 1917.Photo 3: Looking northwest over Lake Sagatagan. Trees and rocky beach in foreground. Quadrangle, Lourdes grotto and laundry at...

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives: Landscape Photo 1: Bird's eye view, possibly taken from water tower with a long lens. Looking west. Buildings include Quadrangle, Benet Hall, Science Hall (Engel, Simons). Baseball diamond approximately where Breuer Science building is now, Handball courts and possibly tennis courts on future site of Alcuin Library. On AZO paper. Undated, circa 1923. Photo 2: Looking east from a field across the Watab. Buildings include Science...

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives: Landscape Photo 1: Looking west. Quadrangle, Benet Hall, Auditorium, tennis courts. Car parked beneath south tower of church. Monastic porch is wood, painted white.Black and white, 3 7/16 x 5 11/16. Stamped "A17" on back. Undated. Between 1928 and 1941. Photo 2: Watab, St. John's. Stream winding through deciduous trees. Water body or field in background. Black and white,3 3/8 x 4 inches. Undated. Photo 3:...

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives: Landscape Photo 1: Waterway lined with trees. Not sure whether this is Lake Sagatagan or the Watab. No date. Photo 2: Lake Sagatagan shoreline. Observatory can be seen above the trees. 1917.Photo 3: River, probably the Watab. Trees on both sides. Contrasty. 1918. Photo 4: Body of water, with scrubby vegetation in foreground, and trees on the other side of the water. 1918. Real photo postcards, black and...

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives: Landscape Photo 1: Looking north across Lake Sagatagan. Trees in foreground. Four men in canoe on lake. Quadrangle is the only visible building. No date.Photo 2: Looking northwest over Lake Sagatagan. Trees and rocky beach in foreground. Quadrangle, Lourdes grotto and laundry at right. Outbuilding on shore left (south) of main campus. Smaller cropped version of real photo postcard in Misc. Photos v. 2, section 12, p. 2 no. 3. 1916.. ...

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives: Laundry Photo 1: Frank L. Blenker Jr. and sock-darning machine, St. John's Univ. Laundry, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn. Taken June 30/15. Boy in white apron sits at window with Singer sewing machine. A wicker basket full of laundry is by his feet.Photo 2: Bro. Pius Rupperd O.S.B., Frank L. Schaller, Pet J. Weyland, Frank G. Loehlein, Frank L. Blenker At the Mangler ironing bedsheets, St. John's Univ. Laundry, at St. John's...

Scope and Contents Photos from Abbey Archives: Laundry Photo 1: [blank] Photo 2: [blank] Photo 3: Bro. Pius O.S.B., Frank C. Schaller, Frank G. Loehlein, Peter Weyland, At the ironing machines, driven with electricity. Taken June 30/15. St. John's Univ. Laundry, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn. Brother Pius, in habit, stands behind machinery with large rollers. Three men in white aprons hold cloth near machines. Photo 4: Bro. Pius Rupperd O.S.B., Frank...