Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Title:
Catholic layman addresses Methodist congregation.
Creator:
Duvall, Owen. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Beirne, Joseph A., 1911-1974., Communications Workers of America., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Clergy., Ross, Edwin A., Hollis, Ardie.
Topics:
Labor leaders--Maryland--Silver Spring., Ecumenical movement--United States., Clergy--Maryland--Silver Spring., Racism--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Silver Spring (Md.), United States--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358126
Title:
Note to photo desk.
Creator:
Everett, Glenn D. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Beirne, Joseph A., 1911-1974., Communications Workers of America.
Topics:
Labor leaders--Maryland--Silver Spring., Ecumenical movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Silver Spring (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357941
Title:
Names (L to R) and caption.
Creator:
Duvall, Owen. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Beirne, Joseph A., 1911-1974., Communications Workers of America., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Clergy., Ross, Edwin A., Hollis, Ardie.
Topics:
Labor leaders--Maryland--Silver Spring., Ecumenical movement--United States., Clergy--Maryland--Silver Spring.
Geographic subjects:
Silver Spring (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357923
Title:
Head of phone workers to speak here Sunday.
Description:
Clipping from an unknown issue of an unknown publication.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Beirne, Joseph A., 1911-1974., Communications Workers of America.
Topics:
Labor leaders--Maryland--Silver Spring., Ecumenical movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Silver Spring (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357838
Title:
Ready for shipment to the world's needy.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: READY FOR SHIPMENT TO THE WORLD’S NEEDY #1191 [sic] NEW WINDSOR, Md. -- These bales of clothes and other relief articles are only a small part of the shipments prepared at the Church Committee on Overseas Relief and Rehabilitation warehouse here. More than 100 workers are kept busy handling the 40 to 50 tons of goods received each week. The CCORR has similar warehouses at Modesto, Calif., Dayton Ohio, and Boston. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JME-BA-MES-1-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church Committee for Overseas Relief and Reconstruction.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief., International relief., Emergency clothing supply.
Geographic subjects:
New Windsor (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357369
Title:
Would outlaw church tax exemptions.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31653 WOULD OUTLAW CHURCH TAX EXEMPTIONS BALTIMORE -- A Maryland attorney who has started court suits aimed at outlawing state and federal tax exemptions for Church properties and businesses was the central figure in ceremonies dedicating a new fountain in Baltimore as he waded into the pool and toasted the event with a paper cup. The lawyer, Leonard Kerpelman, said he believes his suits eventually will reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-10B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Kerpelman, Leonard, 1925-2013.
Topics:
Lawyers--Maryland--Baltimore., Fountains--Maryland--Baltimore., Church tax--Law and legislation.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356661
Title:
Woodstock Jesuit singers.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-31921 WOODSTOCK JESUIT SINGERS WOODSTOCK, Md. -- This group of Jesuit student priests and seminarians from Woodstock (Md.) College is creating quite a stir in the music world with their recording of an LP album and a 45-RPM record. Issued last spring by Columbia, the album includes 13 barbershop, folk and gospel songs -- some old and some new. Six of the numbers were originals by the group members. Also composed by the Jesuits were the two songs on the single record released in December -- “Is the World Still as Fine as It Was?” and “Hallelujah.” The Jesuits’ singing has reached the ear of Ed Sullivan who singed them up for a Dec. 20 appearance on his regular Sunday night CBS program. The singing religious are, back row (left to right): Father Thomas Scott of Philadelphia, Father Raymond Salomone of Brooklyn, N.Y., Father Donald Vega of Buffalo, N.Y., and Father John Daly of Philadelphia. Middle row: Father Louis Savary of Scranton, Pa., and Father Leslie Schnierer of Chicago. Front row: Father Juan Pincheira of Chile, Father Peter Esseff of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Father Lawrence Madden of Philadelphia, the group’s director. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-12C-64-NAB)
Creator:
Woodstock College (Woodstock, Md.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jesuits., Woodstock Jesuit Singers., Woodstock College (Woodstock, Md.)--Bands., Scott, Thomas., Salomone, Raymond., Vega, Donald., Daly, John., Savary, Louis M., Schneirer, Leslie., Pincheira, Juan., Esseff, Peter., Madden, Lawrence J.
Topics:
Seminarians--Maryland--Woodstock., Musicians--Maryland--Woodstock., Male musicians--Maryland--Woodstock., Bands (Music)--Maryland.--Woodstock., Singers--Maryland--Woodstock., Male singers--Maryland--Woodstock.
Geographic subjects:
Woodstock (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356593
Title:
Wants church tax exemptions outlawed.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Kerpelman, Leonard, 1925-2013.
Topics:
Lawyers--Maryland--Baltimore., Fountains--Maryland--Baltimore., Church tax--Law and legislation.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356367
Title:
Woodstock Jesuit singers.
Creator:
Woodstock College (Woodstock, Md.) (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jesuits., Woodstock Jesuit Singers., Woodstock College (Woodstock, Md.)--Bands., Scott, Thomas., Salomone, Raymond., Vega, Donald., Daly, John., Savary, Louis M., Schneirer, Leslie., Pincheira, Juan., Esseff, Peter., Madden, Lawrence J.
Topics:
Seminarians--Maryland--Woodstock., Musicians--Maryland--Woodstock., Male musicians--Maryland--Woodstock., Bands (Music)--Maryland.--Woodstock., Singers--Maryland--Woodstock., Male singers--Maryland--Woodstock.
Geographic subjects:
Woodstock (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356294
Title:
Prayer foe altars sign.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30619 PRAYER FOE ALTARS SIGN BALTIMORE, Md. -- The woman who successfully opposed prayer and Bible reading in Baltimore's public schools alters a billboard advertising the program of the Constitutional Prayer Foundation. Mrs. Madalyn Murray added "Un" to "constitutional" to the sign stationed next to her Freethought Society of America office. The Constitutional Prayer Foundation endorses school prayer. Plaintiff in the suit which brought the U.S. Supreme Court decision against devotional acts in the public schools, Mrs. Murray heads a group she calls "Other Americans, Inc." In late 1963 she acquired title to 80 acres of land near Stockton, Kans., where she plans to establish an atheistic center. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-2C-64-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., O’Hair, Madalyn Murray.
Topics:
Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--Maryland--Baltimore., Freedom of religion--United States., Atheists--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353853
Title:
Top Protestant lay leaders meet.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30680 TOP PROTESTANT LAY LEADERS MEET BALTIMORE, Md. -- Meeting for the first time during the Baltimore, Md., meeting of the General Board of the National Council of Churches, Jackie Robinson of baseball's Hall of Fame and Mrs. Theodore F. Wallace of Shawnee Mission, Kan., discuss programs of the United Church Men and United Church Women, lay movements of U.S. Protestant and Orthodox Churches related to the NCC. Mr. Robinson presides over the 8 million member men's organization and Mrs. Wallace is president of the 10 million church women in the UCW. Both are members of the United Church of Christ and both serve on the NCC's General Board. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-3A-64-NBM)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. National Lay Committee., United Church of Christ., Wallace, Louise.
Topics:
Men in church work--United Church of Christ., Women in church work--United Church of Christ., Congresses and conventions--Maryland--Baltimore., Lay ministry--United States., Christian leadership--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353821
Title:
Church services planned to press for civil rights.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30651 CHURCH SERVICES PLANNED TO PRESS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS BALTIMORE, Md. -- If the pending civil rights bill hasn't been passed by Easter, daily worship services to express support of the legislation will begin in Washington, D.C. churches in the following week, it was announced at a meeting of the General Board of the National Council of Churches at Baltimore. Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the NCC's Commission on Religion and Race, and Dr. Anna Hedgeman, director of special events for the commission, called for the services by Protestant and Orthodox churches. They said other religions may join in sponsoring the worship and prayer demonstration, participating in an initial mass meeting and then holding their own services. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-2E-64-NBM)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. National Lay Committee., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990., Lord Baltimore Hotel (Baltimore, Md.)
Topics:
Passive resistance--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353817
Title:
Top Protestant lay leaders meet.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Rockwood, W.R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. National Lay Committee., United Church of Christ., Wallace, Louise.
Topics:
Men in church work--United Church of Christ., Women in church work--United Church of Christ., Congresses and conventions--Maryland--Baltimore., Lay ministry--United States., Christian leadership--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353622
Title:
Church services planned to press for civil rights.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. National Lay Committee., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990., Lord Baltimore Hotel (Baltimore, Md.)
Topics:
Passive resistance--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353556
Title:
Picket Wallace speech.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998., Catholic Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Rockville., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Governors--Alabama., Primaries--Maryland., Clergy--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Rockville (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348537
Title:
Demonstrators at court house.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Gelston, George Morris., Jaramillo, Louis., Richardson, Gloria, 1922-2021.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Cambridge., Prayer--Maryland--Cambridge., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Generals--Maryland.
Geographic subjects:
Cambridge (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348491
Title:
Clergy pickets segregationist speakers.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-31033 CLERGY PICKETS SEGREGATIONIST SPEAKERS ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Priests and Brothers of the Washington, D.C., area picket a segregationist Southern governor. Carrying placards, the clergy demonstrated at a Rockville, Md., high school rally featuring Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama. Gov. Wallace, carrying his campaign into several Northern states, was on the Democratic ballot in the Maryland Presidential Primary. Noted Democrats, including Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, visited Maryland to oppose his segregationist views. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5D-64-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998., Catholic Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Rockville., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Governors--Alabama., Primaries--Maryland., Clergy--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Rockville (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348409
Title:
Demonstrators pray before dispersing.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31023 DEMONSTRATORS PRAY BEFORE DISPERSING CAMBRIDGE, Md. -- A Roman Catholic priest leads demonstrators in prayer at Cambridge, Md., as they prepare to disperse. The group, which included Protestant and Catholic clergymen, had gathered at the courthouse to protest the arrest of a demonstration leader, Mrs. Gloria Richardson, a Negro. Leading the prayers is Father Louis Jaramillo of the Catholic University of America. To his right is Brig. Gen. G. M. Gelston, commander of the Maryland National Guard forces, who ordered the group to leave the area. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5C-64-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Gelston, George Morris., Jaramillo, Louis., Richardson, Gloria, 1922-2021.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Cambridge., Prayer--Maryland--Cambridge., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Generals--Maryland.
Geographic subjects:
Cambridge (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348327
Title:
Dr. William Foxwell Albright.
Description:
Text transcribed from Religious News Service log book: William Albright. Professor of archeology - Johns Hopkins Univ.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971., Johns Hopkins University--Faculty.
Topics:
College teachers--Maryland--Baltimore., Archaeology--Study and teaching.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348319
Title:
Santa is a cop with a happy summons.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PHOTO NUMBER: PC-50607 SANTA IS A COP WITH A HAPPY SUMMONS BALTIMORE, Md. -- While many police departments are using decoy Santas to catch thieves during the holiday season, the Baltimore City Police are using one to put summons on parked cars. When the motorist takes time to read it, he discovers that it is not for a parking violation, but a summons to have a happy holiday and a reminder to lock his car. The imaginative approach is part of the department's anti-crime campaign. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BAL-12B-77-JH)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Christmas--Maryland--Baltimore., Law enforcement--Maryland--Baltimore.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300794

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