Fifteen women, all in nurses' uniforms, sit/stand around Sister Thecla Reid, who established the School of Nursing at St. Mary's Hospital. Three women were in the first graduating class in 1903. The school of nursing opened about 1900.
Cabinet photograph of three prominent SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet in full habit. Sister Seraphine Ireland was the director of the St. Paul Province of the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet from 1882-1921. She was responsible for the establishment of numerous schools and hospitals in urban and rural areas of Minnesota and North Dakota. SisterSt. John Ireland was responsible for the establishment of Holy Angels Academy from 1877-1897. Sister Celestine Howard, a cousin of the Irelands, was supervisor of schools established by SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet; she later (1884) established St. Agatha's Conservatory of Art and Music. This unique school offered classes in various branches of art and music, as well as in dramatics. It closed in 1969. The Irelands were sistersof John Ireland, the first archbishop ofSt. Paul.
Young women were recruited from Ireland and Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s to join the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet. (Some considered this increase in membership an unnatural growth.) By the turn of the century there were 428 SistersofSt. Joseph in the St. Paul Province to help administer and staff the schools and hospitals in the care of the community. Pictured here, according to note attached to photograph, back row (left to right): Sisters Matthew, Cuthberta, Peter, Blanda. Middle row (left to right) Sisters Oswina, Odelia, Jarleth, Illirius, Salome, Candida, Placidia, Pius. Front row (left to right) Sisters Honorata, Michael, Celsus, Lucy, St. Kevin, Victor, Erma.
A pen and ink drawing ofSt. Joseph's Academy at its new location on Marshall and Western. This school, with later building additions, was the successor to the log cabin Bench Street school. The SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet owned and operated the school until 1971.
Sister Antonia McHugh had experience at three educational levels: elementary, secondary, and college. She was among the first faculty appointed to Derham Hall / College ofSt. Catherine in 1905. From 1914-1917 she served as the first dean of the college; from 1917-1937 she served as the first president of the college. Her work brought national and international recognition of the scholastic curriculum and faculty at the college.
Workcrew in front of the second addition (at Riverside and 24th) to St. Mary's Hospital. In succeeding years, up to 1991, the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet continued to add buildings to provide professional services to patients and to attract doctors and nurses to its professional staff.
A pen and ink drawing depicting daily life (1887) and the first three buildings ofSt. Joseph's Academy at Western and Marshall. The school was owned by the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet.
Two nurses and two doctors demonstrate the use of a pulmotor on a patient at St. Joseph's Hospital. The hospital was established by the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet during a cholera epidemic in 1853.
Sister Rose Tillemans (left), founder of Peace House (a drop-in community for street people); joins Peace House guests to provide entertainment at a party.
Eighth grade graduating class at Ascension Grade School, Minneapolis. The SistersofSt. Joseph staffed the parish school from 1897 until the middle 1980s.
Three buildings at the former McNair residence (1301 Linden Ave. North) used by the SistersofSt. Josephof Carondelet as St. Margaret's Academy, a private secondary school. The school remained at this location until 1960, when a new school was built in the Kenwood area of Minneapolis.
Register of the first 54 patients at St. Mary's Hospital which lists: name, age, sex, nativity, disease, admission date, discharge date, date of death, payer, beneficiary, and physician.
Twelve girls use the library at the St. Paul Girls' Home (orphanage), 933 Carroll Ave., St. Paul. An unidentified SisterofSt. Joseph helps two of the students.