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:
Dunce room for a dunce.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: DUNCE ROOM FOR A DUNCE #1273 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Bobbie Walker re-enacts the plight of another early American who failed his studies by sitting in the special cubby hole in the oldest wooden school in the country. The school was built in 1565. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (ALT-COLO-MES-12-5 ROTO-O-J)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Walker, Bobbie., Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Students., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
School buildings--Florida--Saint Augustine., Punishment--History--18th century., Discipline of children--History--18th century., Schoolboys--Florida--Saint Augustine., School children--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Augustine (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356943
Title:
Inside America's oldest wooden school house.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: INSIDE AMERICA’S OLDEST WOODEN SCHOOL HOUSE #1272 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Using dog-eared books a hundred years old, these children from a nearby school simulate conditions of past years in the oldest wooden school house in America, built here in 1565. Miss Rosemary Pike, their regular third-grade teacher, is the instructor, but in days past the children would have been instructed by a man. The hat of a former teacher still hangs on a peg behind Miss Pike. And that is an original dunce cap Bobbie Walker is sporting. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (ALT-COLO-MES-12-5 ROTO-O-J)
Subject names:
Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Students., Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Faculty., Pike, Rosemary., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
School buildings--Florida--Saint Augustine., School children--Florida--Saint Augustine., Schoolboys--Florida--Saint Augustine., Schoolgirls--Florida--Saint Augustine., Elementary school teachers--Florida--Saint Augustine., Teaching--History--18th century., Teaching--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Augustine (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356942
Title:
Extra instruction.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: EXTRA INSTRUCTION #1271 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Simulating a backward student of bygone days, Bobbie Walker gets special instruction from Miss Rosemary Pike in the oldest wooden school house in America. Built in 1565, the one-room school still has relics of former years (Notice the quilled pen and hand bells on the desk). Bobbie attends nearby Orange Street School and Miss Pike is his regular teacher there. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (ALT-COLO-MES-12-5 ROTO-O-J)
Subject names:
Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Students., Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Faculty., Pike, Rosemary., Walker, Bobbie., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
School buildings--Florida--Saint Augustine., School children--Florida--Saint Augustine., Schoolboys--Florida--Saint Augustine., Elementary school teachers--Florida--Saint Augustine., Remedial teaching--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Augustine (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356941
Title:
Recess at America's oldest wooden school house.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: RECESS AT AMERICA’S OLDEST WOODEN SCHOOL HOUSE #1270 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Recess is a welcome interval at any school, but at this wooden school house, built in 1565, it is particularly charming as it is held in the garden behind the building. The small outbuilding with the ivy-covered chimney is a kitchen where the former masters cooked their own meals. The school is no longer used for instruction. Children attend nearby Orange Street School. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (ALT-COLO-MES-12-5 ROTO-O-J)
Subject names:
Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Students., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
School buildings--Florida--Saint Augustine., School recess breaks--Florida--Saint Augustine., School children--Florida--Saint Augustine., Schoolboys--Florida--Saint Augustine., Schoolgirls--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Augustine (Fla.), Saint Augustine (Fla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356940
Title:
America's oldest wooden school house.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: AMERICA’S OLDEST WOODEN SCHOOL HOUSE #1269 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- This vine-covered cedar cottage is in reality America’s oldest wooden school. Built in 1565, it consists of one large room on the ground floor while overhead there are quarters for the schoolmaster. Here children of nearby Orange St. School enter the building under the surveillance of their regular teacher, Miss Rosemary Pike. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes has termed this building one of the country’s most valuable historical edifices. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (ALT-COLO-MES-12-5 ROTO-O-J)
Subject names:
Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Students., Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Faculty., Pike, Rosemary., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
School buildings--Florida--Saint Augustine., School children--Florida--Saint Augustine., Schoolboys--Florida--Saint Augustine., Schoolgirls--Florida--Saint Augustine., Elementary school teachers--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Augustine (Fla.), Saint Augustine (Fla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356939
Title:
Dunce room for a dunce.
Subject names:
Walker, Bobbie., Orange Street Elementary School (Saint Augustine, Fla.)--Students., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
School buildings--Florida--Saint Augustine., Punishment--History--18th century., Discipline of children--History--18th century., Schoolboys--Florida--Saint Augustine., School children--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Augustine (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356838
Title:
Blessing of children and dolls.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31986 BLESSING OF CHILDREN AND DOLLS MIAMI, Fla. -- Twin girls take their “tiny babies” to the altar of Holy Cross Episcopal church in Miami for the traditional annual blessing of children and dolls. Clutching their dolls, Gloria and Jeannie Rosenkranz receive a blessing from Dean Frank L. Tutus. The old rite is held in connection with the Feastday [sic] of the Holy Innocents, marked on the fourth day of the Christmas Octave (Dec. 28). It commemorates the slaying of babies by King Herod in the Holy land in an attempt to kill the Infant Jesus, Who was taken by St. Joseph to Egypt. Dean Tutus said one of the ideas behind the blessing is for girls to learn through caring for their dolls to love eventually their own babies and bring them up in the nurture of the church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AT-MIA-1A-65-NAB)
Creator:
Miami Herald Publishing Company. (publisher), Kuenzel, Bill. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Rosenkranz, Jeannie., Rosenkranz, Gloria., Tutus, Frank L., Holy Cross Episcopal Church (Miami, Fla.), Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Feast of the Holy Innocents--Florida--Miami., Clergy--Florida--Miami., Sex role--Religious aspects--Episcopal Church., Femininity--Religious aspects--Episcopal Church.
Geographic subjects:
Miami (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355922
Title:
Dolls: 1 (with art).
Creator:
Taft, A.C. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Rosenkranz, Jeannie., Rosenkranz, Gloria., Tutus, Frank L., Holy Cross Episcopal Church (Miami, Fla.), Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Feast of the Holy Innocents--Florida--Miami., Clergy--Florida--Miami., Sex role--Religious aspects--Episcopal Church., Femininity--Religious aspects--Episcopal Church.
Geographic subjects:
Miami (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355687
Title:
"Tommy" helps evangelist teach Bible.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30719 'TOMMY' HELPS EVANGELIST TEACH BIBLE ST. PETERSBURG, Fl. -- "Tommy, the Toon-O-Meter," who can talk and sing, helps Dr. D. D. Gibbons, Methodist lay evangelist, tell Bible stories to children. Dr. Gibbons, who comes from Kalamazoo, Mich., where he founded a medical clinic, takes time off to travel around the country as an evangelist. He is a member of the Free Methodist Church's Southern Michigan Conference and was in Florida for a temperance crusade. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GSJ-LAR-FLA-3B-64-NAB)
Creator:
United Church of Christ. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Gibbons, D. D., Free Methodist Church of North America--Clergy.
Topics:
Robots--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Evangelists--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Church work with children--Florida--Saint Petersburg.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Petersburg (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353825
Title:
Tampa Protestant center aids Cuban refugees.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30508 TAMPA PROTESTANT CENTER AIDS CUBAN REFUGEES TAMPA, Fla. -- Though the heavy flow of refugees out of Castro-dominated Cuba has stopped, the needs of thousands who reached the U.S. mainland continue. At Tampa, Fla, a Protestant Cuban Refugee Center -- supported by seven denominations, several civic groups and individuals -- has operated for three years, providing assistance in the form of direct aid, as seen in the distribution of blankets to youngsters (top photo), and through such activities as English classes (bottom photo), to aid the newcomers in their transition to a new way of life. Miss Agnes Malloy, a Methodist missionary in Cuba for nearly 20 years, directs operations at the Tampa center, which has aided 5,115 refugees since its establishment. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GT-SP-1D-64-NBM)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Cuban Refugee Center (Tampa, Fla.), Barber, Cleo., Tampa Methodist Settlements (Tampa, Fla.), Lopez, Emilia., Lopez, Maria., Lopez, Amalia.
Topics:
Refugees--Cuba., Church work with refugees--Florida--Tampa., Lay missionaries--Methodist Church., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Tampa (Fla.), Cuba.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353778
Title:
Tampa Protestant center aids Cuban refugees.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30508 TAMPA PROTESTANT CENTER AIDS CUBAN REFUGEES TAMPA, Fla. -- Though the heavy flow of refugees out of Castro-dominated Cuba has stopped, the needs of thousands who reached the U.S. mainland continue. At Tampa, Fla, a Protestant Cuban Refugee Center -- supported by seven denominations, several civic groups and individuals -- has operated for three years, providing assistance in the form of direct aid, as seen in the distribution of blankets to youngsters (top photo), and through such activities as English classes (bottom photo), to aid the newcomers in their transition to a new way of life. Miss Agnes Malloy, a Methodist missionary in Cuba for nearly 20 years, directs operations at the Tampa center, which has aided 5,115 refugees since its establishment. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GT-SP-1D-64-NBM)
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Press Relations. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Cuban Refugee Center (Tampa, Fla.), Benoway, F.J.
Topics:
Refugees--Cuba., Church work with refugees--Florida--Tampa., Lay missionaries--Methodist Church., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Tampa (Fla.), Cuba.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353777
Title:
Swinging young pastor.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30500 SWINGING YOUNG PASTOR ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- While clergymen never have confined their ministries exclusively to sanctuary and pulpit, recent years have seen an increasing number of young pastors putting a new emphasis on contacts and activities far beyond the traditional religious scene -- into jazz joints and espresso coffee houses. Such a man is the Rev. William Patton, former assistant pastor at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he combined his parish-pulpit duties with an active ministry in the gymnasium. An award-winning gymnast himself (many first-place honors in Florida meets and high placement at the National Gymnastic Clinic), Mr. Patton coached young acrobats of the local Police Athletic League. This, he says, is "one of the most important things I do -- counseling with the younger people." He maintains that the athletic avocation opens the door to contacts and conversations with young people which would be impossible in clerical collar alone. Now a chaplain at Duke University, Durham, N.C, the pastor continues his swinging trapeze ministry. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GT-SP-1D-64-NBM)
Creator:
Peeler's Portrait Studio (Charlotte, N.C.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Patton, William., American Lutheran Church (1961-1987)--Clergy., Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Saint Petersburg, Fla.), Duke University--Faculty.
Topics:
Acrobatics--Training--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Church work with children--Florida--Saint Petersburg.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Petersburg (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353776
Title:
Swinging young pastor.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30500 SWINGING YOUNG PASTOR ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- While clergymen never have confined their ministries exclusively to sanctuary and pulpit, recent years have seen an increasing number of young pastors putting a new emphasis on contacts and activities far beyond the traditional religious scene -- into jazz joints and espresso coffee houses. Such a man is the Rev. William Patton, former assistant pastor at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he combined his parish-pulpit duties with an active ministry in the gymnasium. An award-winning gymnast himself (many first-place honors in Florida meets and high placement at the National Gymnastic Clinic), Mr. Patton coached young acrobats of the local Police Athletic League. This, he says, is "one of the most important things I do -- counseling with the younger people." He maintains that the athletic avocation opens the door to contacts and conversations with young people which would be impossible in clerical collar alone. Now a chaplain at Duke University, Durham, N.C, the pastor continues his swinging trapeze ministry. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GT-SP-1D-64-NBM)
Creator:
Trabant, G. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Patton, William., American Lutheran Church (1961-1987)--Clergy., Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Saint Petersburg, Fla.), Duke University--Faculty.
Topics:
Acrobatics--Training--Florida--Saint Petersburg.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Petersburg (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353775
Title:
Swinging young pastor.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30500 SWINGING YOUNG PASTOR ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- While clergymen never have confined their ministries exclusively to sanctuary and pulpit, recent years have seen an increasing number of young pastors putting a new emphasis on contacts and activities far beyond the traditional religious scene -- into jazz joints and espresso coffee houses. Such a man is the Rev. William Patton, former assistant pastor at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he combined his parish-pulpit duties with an active ministry in the gymnasium. An award-winning gymnast himself (many first-place honors in Florida meets and high placement at the National Gymnastic Clinic), Mr. Patton coached young acrobats of the local Police Athletic League. This, he says, is "one of the most important things I do -- counseling with the younger people." He maintains that the athletic avocation opens the door to contacts and conversations with young people which would be impossible in clerical collar alone. Now a chaplain at Duke University, Durham, N.C, the pastor continues his swinging trapeze ministry. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GT-SP-1D-64-NBM)
Creator:
Trabant, G. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Patton, William., American Lutheran Church (1961-1987)--Clergy., Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Saint Petersburg, Fla.), Duke University--Faculty.
Topics:
Lutheran preaching--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Church work with children--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Acrobatics--Training--Florida--Saint Petersburg.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Petersburg (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353774
Title:
Pastor William Patton: Man on the move.
Description:
Newspaper article from The St. Petersburg Times.
Creator:
St. Petersburg Times (Saint Petersburg, Fla.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Patton, William., American Lutheran Church (1961-1987)--Clergy., Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Saint Petersburg, Fla.)
Topics:
Lutheran preaching--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Church work with children--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Acrobatics--Training--Florida--Saint Petersburg.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Petersburg (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353478
Title:
Michigan evangelist brings 'Tommy, the Toon-O-Meter' to Florida.
Creator:
United Church of Christ. Office of Communication. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Gibbons, D. D., Free Methodist Church of North America--Clergy.
Topics:
Robots--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Evangelists--Florida--Saint Petersburg., Church work with children--Florida--Saint Petersburg.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Petersburg (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353419
Title:
Door to new life opens for Cubans.
Description:
Newspaper article from The St. Petersburg Times.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Press Relations. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Cuban Refugee Center (Tampa, Fla.), Benoway, F.J., Barber, Cleo., Tampa Methodist Settlements (Tampa, Fla.), Lopez, Emilia., Lopez, Maria., Lopez, Amalia.
Topics:
Refugees--Cuba., Church work with refugees--Florida--Tampa., Lay missionaries--Methodist Church., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Tampa (Fla.), Cuba.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353417
Title:
Christmas 1962: A happy couple.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30247 CHRISTMAS 1962: A HAPPY COUPLE PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A happy moment for the late President and the First Lady. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are shown as they attended a Christmas morning Mass at St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Palm Beach, Fla. They faced tragedy in the year ahead, sorrows in which the nation shared: first, the death of their two-day-old son, Patrick Bouvier, and then the assassin’s bullet which ended the life of the 46-year-old President. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-11E-63-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination., Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994., St. Edward Church (Palm Beach, Fla.)
Topics:
Presidents--United States., Presidents' spouses--United States., Christmas--Florida--Palm Beach.
Geographic subjects:
Palm Beach (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352965
Title:
President attends Christmas Mass.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination., Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994., St. Edward Church (Palm Beach, Fla.)
Topics:
Presidents--United States., Presidents' spouses--United States., Christmas--Florida--Palm Beach.
Geographic subjects:
Palm Beach (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352753
Title:
Episcopal congregation worships in 800-year-old monastery.
Description:
Part of the Domestic Service news run from the Religious News Service (September 9, 1964). Relevant caption is included with captions about other news items.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Batchelor, Harold L., American Church Mission., Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Cistercian monasteries--Florida--Miami., Protestant monasticism and religious orders--Florida--Miami., Church architecture--Conservation and restoration--Florida--Miami., Buildings--Remodeling for other use--Florida--Miami.
Geographic subjects:
Miami (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349372

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