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:
Father Lord addresses summer school group.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-4059 FATHER LORD ADDRESSES SUMMER SCHOOL GROUP CHICAGO -- The Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., editor of The Queen’s Work, national sodality publication, addresses a class at the Summer School of Catholic Action. The meeting here is one of the yearly summer sessions sponsored throughout the country by the Sodality of Our Lady. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AN-CHI-MES-7A-6-C)
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lord, Daniel A. (Daniel Aloysius), 1888-1955., Jesuits., Catholic Church--Clergy., Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Topics:
Summer schools--Illinois--Chicago., Church schools--Illinois--Chicago., Church and education--Illinois--Chicago., Church work with youth--Illinois--Chicago., Missions--Educational work--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359837
Title:
Father Lord addresses summer school group.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-4059 FATHER LORD ADDRESSES SUMMER SCHOOL GROUP CHICAGO -- The Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., editor of The Queen’s Work, national sodality publication, addresses a class at the Summer School of Catholic Action. The meeting here is one of the yearly summer sessions sponsored throughout the country by the Sodality of Our Lady. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AN-CHI-MES-7A-6-C)
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lord, Daniel A. (Daniel Aloysius), 1888-1955., Jesuits., Catholic Church--Clergy., Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Topics:
Summer schools--Illinois--Chicago., Church schools--Illinois--Chicago., Church and education--Illinois--Chicago., Church work with youth--Illinois--Chicago., Missions--Educational work--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359836
Title:
Painting honors Mother Cabrini.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-4012 PAINTING HONORS MOTHER CABRINI CHICAGO -- The finishing touches to his picture of Mother Cabrini are applied by artist Gasper Ruffolo prior to its unveiling at the Mother Cabrini hospital here on July 7, the day on which her canonization ceremonies will take place at the Vatican. Mother Cabrini will be the first U.S. citizen to be so honored by the Church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CME-MES-6D-6-C)
Creator:
Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Cabrini, Frances Xavier, Saint, 1850-1917., Ruffolo, Gaspare J.
Topics:
Christian art and symbolism--Illinois--Chicago., Portrait painting--Illinois--Chicago., Religious art--Illinois--Chicago., Christian saints in art.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359829
Title:
Painting honors Mother Cabrini.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (author.)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Cabrini, Frances Xavier, Saint, 1850-1917., Ruffolo, Gaspare J.
Topics:
Christian art and symbolism--Illinois--Chicago., Portrait painting--Illinois--Chicago., Religious art--Illinois--Chicago., Christian saints in art.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359675
Title:
Baptist retire chapel car.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: BAPTIST RETIRE CHAPEL CAR #S-3420 CHICAGO, Ill. -- Chicago’s Baptists have bidden farewell to one of the last vestiges of a vanishing era in American life--a “chapel” car. A historic relic of Frontier Christianity, the “church on wheels” owned by the Northern Baptist Convention was on exhibition here before making its last trip to the convention’s assembly ground at Green Lake, Wisconsin. Known as “Grace” the car contained pulpit, organ, pews for 65 worshippers and a three-room apartment for the minister and his family. Standing beside the car here are the Rev. and Mrs. Howard Parry who used the car at Provo, Utah for two years. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PA-NY-LM-5A-6-W-B)
Creator:
International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company.
Topics:
Pastoral theology--Equipment and supplies., Rural clergy--Travel., Railroad passenger cars--Illinois--Chicago., Chapels--Illinois--Chicago., Home missions--West (U.S.), Baptists--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359580
Title:
Baptist retire chapel car.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: BAPTIST RETIRE CHAPEL CAR #S-3420 CHICAGO, Ill. -- Chicago’s Baptists have bidden farewell to one of the last vestiges of a vanishing era in American life--a “chapel” car. A historic relic of Frontier Christianity, the “church on wheels” owned by the Northern Baptist Convention was on exhibition here before making its last trip to the convention’s assembly ground at Green Lake, Wisconsin. Known as “Grace” the car contained pulpit, organ, pews for 65 worshippers and a three-room apartment for the minister and his family. Standing beside the car here are the Rev. and Mrs. Howard Parry who used the car at Provo, Utah for two years. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PA-NY-LM-5A-6-W-B)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company., Parry, Howard.
Topics:
Pastoral theology--Equipment and supplies., Rural clergy--Travel., Railroad passenger cars--Illinois--Chicago., Chapels--Illinois--Chicago., Returned missionaries--Utah--Provo., Home missions--West (U.S.), Baptists--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359579
Title:
Chinese cardinal right at home.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CHINESE CARDINAL RIGHT AT HOME #c-3515 CHICAGO -- Thomas Cardinal Tien of China uses the chopsticks of his native land at a dinner given in his honor here by the On Leong Chinese Merchants Association. He was presented with a purse of $1,000 by Msgr. Joseph B. Lux for “whatever mission work the cardinal desires in China.” It was the gift of the Catholic Church Extension Society. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CHI-SUN-MES-5B-6-C)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Tian, Gengxin, 1890-1967., Catholic Church--Bishops.
Topics:
Dinners and dining--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago., Guilds--Illinois--Chicago., Missions--China., Chopsticks.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359562
Title:
Armistice Day.
Creator:
Associated Press. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Soldiers--United States., V-E Day, 1945--United States., World War, 1939-1945--Armistices.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359519
Title:
Archbishop Leonty.
Description:
Text transcribed from notations on envelope: 3524 At ecumenical service L to R Archbishop Leonty and Patriarch Eshai Mar Shimun XXIII Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Chicago
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Leontiĭ, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876-1965., Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Bishops., Eshai Shimun, XXIII, Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East, 1920-1975., Assyrian Church of the East--Bishops., Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States., Interdenominational cooperation--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359464
Title:
Easter flowers at Garfield Park Conservatory.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: EASTER FLOWERS AT GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY Symbolic of the season, 4-year-old Nola Jeanne McKinney of Columbia City, Ind., makes a pretty picture among a display of Easter lilies at the Spring Flower Show at the Garfield Park Conservatory. SUN PHOTO BY CLYDE HODGES.
Creator:
Hodges, Clyde. (photographer), Chicago Sun-Times. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., McKinney, Nola Jeanne., Garfield Park Conservatory (Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Flowers--Illinois--Chicago., Lilies--Illinois--Chicago., Easter--Illinois--Chicago., Children--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359457
Title:
Ecumenical group.
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States., Interdenominational cooperation--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359410
Title:
Ecumenical worship.
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States., Interdenominational cooperation--Illinois--Chicago., Public worship--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359409
Title:
Temperance group holds first council.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: TEMPERANCE GROUP HOLDS FIRST COUNCIL #3417 CHICAGO -- Several hundred temperance advocates met here for the first National Council on the New Approach to the Alcohol Problem. Top photo shows a general view of the opening session with Errol T. Elliott presiding. Below, three delegates display anti-liquor poster. Left to right are: the Rev. Norman Lovein, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Edna Alstrom, Chicago, and Mrs. Jerome B. Wilson, Racine, Wis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AN-CHI-MES-5A-6-W)
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lovein, Norman., Alstrom, Edna.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Alcoholism--Prevention--Congresses., Temperance--Congresses., Temperance--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359406
Title:
Temperance group holds first council.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: TEMPERANCE GROUP HOLDS FIRST COUNCIL #3417 CHICAGO -- Several hundred temperance advocates met here for the first National Council on the New Approach to the Alcohol Problem. Top photo shows a general view of the opening session with Errol T. Elliott presiding. Below, three delegates display anti-liquor poster. Left to right are: the Rev. Norman Lovein, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Edna Alstrom, Chicago, and Mrs. Jerome B. Wilson, Racine, Wis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AN-CHI-MES-5A-6-W)
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Elliott, Errol T.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Alcoholism--Prevention--Congresses., Temperance--Congresses., Temperance--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359405
Title:
Dr. C. C. Morrison.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Christian Century Foundation., Morrison, Charles Clayton, 1874-1966., Disciples of Christ--Clergy.
Topics:
Editors--Illinois--Chicago., Periodical editors--Illinois--Chicago., Christianity--Periodicals., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359363
Title:
Dr. Paul Hutchinson.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Christian Century Foundation., Hutchinson, Paul, 1890-1956.
Topics:
Editors--Illinois--Chicago., Periodical editors--Illinois--Chicago., Christianity--Periodicals.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359362
Title:
Dr. W. E. Garrison.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Christian Century Foundation., Garrison, Winfred Ernest, 1874-1969.
Topics:
Editors--Illinois--Chicago., Periodical editors--Illinois--Chicago., Christianity--Periodicals.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359361
Title:
Church sponsors employment bureau.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CHURCH SPONSORS EMPLOYMENT BUREAU #3319 CHICAGO -- To aid its returning servicemen--more than 700--to find jobs, the North Austin Lutheran church here has opened an employment bureau. Here the Rev. Fred W. Otterbein (left) interviews one of his parishioners, Charles G. Huebner, returned vet who saw service with the Signal Corps, and is seeking placement in the electronics or communications industry. Dr. Otterbein keynotes his interviews with shirt-sleeve informality and after learning the veteran’s qualifications gets in touch with one of the many companies cooperating with the bureau. The service also is open to any of the other 5,000 members of the congregation who are in search of jobs. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AN-CHI-MES-4C-6-L-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Otterbein, Fred W., Huebner, Charles W.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Lutheran Church--Clergy., Employment agencies--Illinois--Chicago., Veterans--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359326
Title:
Soul-saving trip is ended.
Creator:
International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company.
Topics:
Pastoral theology--Equipment and supplies., Rural clergy--Travel., Railroad passenger cars--Illinois--Chicago., Chapels--Illinois--Chicago., Home missions--West (U.S.), Baptists--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.), Green Lake (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359312
Title:
Dinner honors Cardinal Tien.
Description:
Clipping from the May 1, 1946 issue of the Chicago Sun.
Creator:
Chicago Sun Syndicate. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Tian, Gengxin, 1890-1967., Catholic Church--Bishops.
Topics:
Dinners and dining--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago., Guilds--Illinois--Chicago., Missions--China.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359289

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