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1. A Light in the Mist: The Journal of Hope: A Healing Environments Publication: Volume Eight, Number Two: Dark Night of the Soul

   A Light in the Mist: The Journal of Hope: A Healing Environments Publication: Volume Eight, Number Two: Dark Night of the Soul, 2003. This journal is a series of poems, and story excerpts including one by JoAnn Semones (p. 13-14). The journal is used for helping people to reflect and heal from their pain and suffering through mind, body and spirit.

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2. Cris du Coeur: une parole de l'Ecriture sainte pour chaque jour du mois [Cries of the Heart: a word of Holy Scripture for each day of the month] - Unknown

   "Cris du Coeur: une parole de l'Ecriture sainte pour chaque jour du mois" [Cries of the Heart: a word of Holy Scripture for each day of the month]. Published by F. Killinger in Zurich, Switzerland. The small prayer guide contains excerpts from the Christian Bible with illustrations of plants and countryside landscapes. A piece of paper attached to the title page includes a French inscription written in black ink with cursive script. The prayer gu...

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3. Examination of Conscience for Boys and Girls - Wilwerding, A.J.

   Examination of Conscience for Boys and Girls by A.J. Wilwerding, S.J., 1927. This booklet was used by JoAnn Semones during her youth. Includes: information on the ten commandments, common sins, act of contrition, and penance prayers.

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4. Framed Religious Needlepoint from the Greer Family Estate - Needlepoint

   Framed Religious Needlepoint from the Greer Family Estate. Diagonal stitch yarn needlepoint is mounted under glass beneath a thick off-white mat inside a deep gold-painted wooden frame with a shiny gold geometric inner border consisting of overlapping rectangles. Needlepoint is a kit where the image has been printed onto a screen. Artist has filled in all areas with yarn except except for the flesh areas of the three figures depicted. Image i...

   Record Type: Object

   
5. Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization, Vol. XX. - No. 994

   Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization, Vol. XX. - No. 994, Saturday, January 15, 1876. This magazine is "an American political magazine based in New York City..."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Weekly- 10/19/2017]. Includes domestic, foreign, science and religious news, jokes, cartoons, ads, a booklist, and a review of recent inventions. Also includes a two paged article called "A Visit to the Lighthouse", which also includes a pho...

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6. Holy Water Container, c. 1950s - Container, Ritual

   Holy Water Container, c. 1950s. Cylindrical bottle about the size and shape of a lipstick. The bottle is clear glass, with a clear/white plastic stopper set into the top to make the opening smaller. Bottle is surrounded by a thin brass cover with a cross cut out of it, allowing the user to see the water level through it, and "Holy Water" engraved in decorative script near the bottom. The cap is rounded to a slight point, made of black plastic, an...

   Record Type: Object

   
7. Medal of Jesus, c. 1941-1945 - Medal

   Medal of Jesus, c. 1941-1945. Small circular silver metal medal. On one side is a relief picture of Jesus with the words "PER MARIAM AD JESUM." On the other side are Mary and baby Jesus in profile, with the words "NOS CUM PROLE PIA BENEDICAT VIRGO MARIA." Medal is attached to a short length of blue ribbon with a white stripe along each edge. On each side of the ribbon is a silver metal bar.

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8. Our Lady of Guadalupe - Painting

   "Our Lady of Guadalupe" framed painting of the Virgin Mary. Female figure is depicted with palms pressed together, a blue robe draped over her shoulders and a crown on her head. Eleven angels surround the figure and four insets, featuring Mary watching over people, are on each corner of the painting. The painting is matted under glass, shadow-box style, in a decorative bronze metal frame with a woven pattern.

   Record Type: Object

   
9. Philippine Charm Bracelet, 1944. - Bracelet, Charm

   Charm Bracelet, 1944, dark metal,very thin chain with six charms attached to it and two loose parts. The charms are approximately 0.5'' each, and they are shaped like: a fish with a head, three sets of scales and a tail attached together with tiny metal links; an abacus; an oriental style bird house; a siting Buddha; a candlestick rotary phone; a bag embossed with what seems to be a fish symbol on both sides (upside down heart with a triangle on ...

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10. Pray Always: Prayers and Instructions for Children - Rev. Alphonse Sausen

    JoAnn Semones' Prayer Book, published 1936. Small 158-page (plus end papers) book with off-white cover and white pages with gold edges. On the cover is a color illustration of a young white woman in profile wearing a white lace bonnet, veil, and gloves. Her hands are pressed together in prayer and she looks up at a gold chalice with a sun in the upper right corner. White lilies are in the lower right corner. Behind and around her is a light yello...

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11. Redwood City - Veronico, Nicholas A.; Veronico, Betty S.; McGovern, Reg; McGovern, Janet

    Redwood City by Nicholas A. Veronico, Betty S. Veronico, Reg McGovern, and Janet McGovern, 2010.

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12. Rosary, c. 1950s - Rosary

    Rosary, c. 1950s. Rosary is made of black wooden beads on a silver metal chain, fastened in a circle with a smaller chain of beads and a metal cross branching off from this circle. The beads on the circle are arranged in five groups of ten beads linked end-to-end, with each group separated by a slightly larger solitary bead offset by a few empty chain links on either side. Linking this circle with the smaller, dangling chain is a small circular s...

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13. Rosary, c. 1950s - Rosary

    Rosary, c. 1950s. Rosary is made of pearl or pearl-imitation beads on a brass-colored metal chain, fastened in a circle with a smaller chain of beads and a metal cross branching off from this circle. The beads on the circle are arranged in five groups of ten beads linked end-to-end, with each group separated by a solitary bead offset by a few empty chain links on either side. Linking this circle with the smaller, dangling chain is a small oval-sh...

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14. Rosary Storage Pouch, c. 1950s - Pouch, Carrying

    Rosary Storage Pouch, c. 1950s. Pink satin pouch with embroidered pink flowers on the fabric. It is cut from a single piece of fabric folded in half to make a pouch, with one side of the fabric extending farther and folded over to make a flap. This flap is closed with a single centered metal snap, painted pale pink. The inside is lined with white satin and lightly padded, and along the sides of the pouch and edge of the flap is a decorative borde...

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15. Stations of the Cross for Children - A Religious of the Cenacle

    Stations of the Cross for Children by A Religious of the Cenacle, 1936. This book was used by JoAnn Semones in her youth with information on the different stations of the cross. Includes: a foreward by Paul L. Blakely, a prayer, stations of the cross text information with black and white images.

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16. The Rosary brochure, 1955 - Brochure

    The Rosary brochure, 1955. This brochure was used by JoAnn Semones in her youth with pertinent information on and about the rosary. Includes: origins of the rosary, important dates, how to use the rosary, and prayers of the rosary. White small folded brochure with white printed text on a blue background of a woman praying in the middle directly next to a white tower with a bird in the background as a man holding a rosary directly below.

    Record Type: Archive

    
17. Untitled [Portrait photograph of Arthur Borchardt], September 18, 1962 - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Untitled [Portrait photograph of Arthur Borchardt], September 18, 1962. Black and white head and shoulder portrait photograph of Arthur Bordchardt in a suit and tie with a white collared shirt.

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. Untitled [Portrait photograph of Robert Botley], August 26, 1965 - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Untitled [Portrait photograph of Robert Botley], August 26, 1965. Black and white head and shoulder portrait photograph of Robert Botley wearing glasses, a suit and a tie and a white collared shirt. His hands are holding onto the world globe. He has a wedding ring on the ring finger of his left hand. Several books on a bookcase are visible behind him.

    Record Type: Photo