Text transcribed from caption: #4483 TRACTOR NO PUZZLE TO HER Dressed in flowing black and white robes, Sister Mary Othelia operates a tractor at Mount Assisi Convent of the Sisters of Christ the King at Lemont, Ill., where most of the farmwork is done by nuns. During the war, nuns in other communities where there was a shortage of farm labor overcame the difficulty by learning to do their own planting and reaping. (One of a series) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO

Associated Press. (publisher)

1946

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 9 x 7 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Mt. Assisi Convent (Lemont, Ill.)
Franciscans.

Tractor driving--Illinois--Lemont.
Nuns--Illinois--Lemont.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--Illinois--Lemont.
Women farmers--Illinois--Lemont.
Farmers--Illinois--Lemont.

Illinois
Lemont.
Lemont (Ill.)
North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Cook--Lemont

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PHS staff unsuccessfully attempted to identify the full name of “Sister Mary Othelia."

Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-...

RNS RG 1, image no. 4483; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_4483

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