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Canon City -- Colorado

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Sister Regina Esser, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-ESSEREGI
Scope and Contents Includes a personal data sheet, biographies, familial information and research correspondence, photographs and negatives of her and her family, lists of teaching assignments, and photocopied news articles and baptismal records. Also includes her handwritten account of the founding of the Benedictine community in Canon City, and an invitiation to a 1993 founders day celebration at Saint Scholastica Academy in Canon City, honoring her family specifically for their service to the early...
Dates: 1892-2001

Snapshot Album #15B, 1977-1988

 Collection — Box OSBCHI-Ph.4, Folder: 3
Identifier: OSBCHI-Ph-100-3
Scope and Contents

Within this album, there are several series. They include construction of school building, demolition of West building, Indoors, Outdoors, Camp Sam Benito, residence of Sisters at 602, and white cottage at 502 Pike. A series of special interest is a set of Polaroids of chairs reupholstered by Sr. Karen Bland, OSB. and the sisters.

Dates: 1977-1988

Snapshot Album III, circa 1910-1983

 Collection — Box OSBCHI-Ph.4, Folder: 1
Identifier: OSBCHI-Ph-100-1
Scope and Contents

A note included with the album states: The snapshots on the next three pages were taken at SS. Benedict and Scholastica on Orleans Street. A careful scrutiny of the pictures will show the entire yard or "garden enclose" as well as the tracks of the elevated train. There are photographs of community life, visits, work, and events like graduations and jubilees in Illinois and Colorado.

Dates: circa 1910-1983

Spehar, Anne, 1911-1985

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1911-01-24 - 1985-12-16