Benedictine nuns

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The papers of Sister Arnoldine Schwarz, OSB consist of personal data, academic records, personal correspondence, needlework samples and patterns. There are samplers of a type of lacemaking called tatting and of Swedish embroidery on cotton huck towels.

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Early materials in this collection are two family photographs from about 1946 and a 1960 photograph from her dorm room at Mount Saint Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas, featuring a JFK campaign poster. The collection includes biographical information as well as material related to her vocation as an educator and her entusiasm for literacy. Sister Barbara saved some of her correpondence with community members, friends, and public figures.

Scope and Contents This collection is a drop file with several folders. It contains personal data of Sister Paschal Engelhardt, OSB, her obituary and other materials from her funeral. It also contains a small series of correspondence from friends and family, a short autobiography that Sister Paschal wrote the year before she died, and several photographs.In 2005, Reinhard Dierkes of Bilshausen, Germany, used material from our archives as an aid in preparing the monograph Veronika...