1953 photo of four young women standing near the crowned statue of the Virgin Mary. They are in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's Academy and are participants in the religious ritual called May Crowning. Photo #3.
1947 photo of young women and children as participants in a May Crowning religious ceremony at Mount St. Mary's Academy with family present. Nuns can be seen standing on the balconies of the buildings in back. Photo #6.
1946 photo of twelve lovely young ladies in long gowns and spring bonnets gathered around a fellow actor in costume on stage of Mount St. Mary's Academy as a cast of a theatrical production. Stage scenery behind depicts a pastoral wooded area. Photo #2.
1958 photo. Several young women dancers strike a pose holding arched flowered garlands above their heads. They wear ankle length gowns and gloves. They stand on a stepped dais with a curtain backdrop. Location is the stage at Mount St. Mary's Academy in Burlington, Vermont. Photo 29
1957 photo of cast members of a theatrical production at Mount St. Mary's Academy. On stage six actors are gathered in a setting of what may be a room with a couch or bed center and triangular college and state pennants hanging in the background. Photo #2.
1952 photo of seven young women dressed in long white robes and halos standing on stage each holding a sign with the name of a continent or a country. A nun sits center at a table. Photo #1.
1958 print of a photo (developed backwards) of six young women of Mount St. Mary's Academy. One has her foot in a cast. Another holds an accordion. Photo #30.
1952 photo of seven young women dressed in long white robes and halos standing on stage each holding a sign with the name of a continent or a country. A nun sits center at a table. Photo #2.
Young woman kneeling before a statue of Jesus that features the Sacred Heart. This may have been part of a promotional campaign to encourage vocations to the Sisters of Mercy. Dated 1955.
Seven young women admitted to the Sisters of Mercy community as postulants, i.e. possible candidates for the novitiate and perhaps further commitment to the community. Before "taking the veil," they wear a simple black habit and a small headdress of black tulle or lace. Dated 1946.
Large group of young women interested in a religious vocation with the Sister of Mercy (postulants), gathered before a statue of Christ revealing the Sacred Heart. Photo #4. Dated 1948.
Classroom scene at Mt. St. Mary's, with both novices and postulants present, listening to instruction from a Sister of Mercy. (Some of the tall conifers on the campus can be seen through the windows.) Dated 1955.
Large group of young women interested in a religious vocation with the Sisters of Mercy (postulants), gathered before a statue of Christ revealing the Sacred Heart. Same group as in mcalB13F10i16 but lined up along the wall. Photo #3. Dated 1948.
Photo designed (perhaps for promotional purposes) to show the three stages of a vocation to religious life with the Sisters of Mercy: postulant (black lace hairpiece); novice (habit with white veil); and sister (habit with black veil). Dated 1955.
