Post card containing membership application to the Salve Regina — the primary fundraising organization for the National Shrine, led by Thomas J. Shahan and Bernard A. McKenna.
Publisher
Salve Regina
Date
1920
Rights
Courtesy of the Catholic University Archives, National Shrine Collection
View of Caldwell Hall, the University's first new construction. When the University first opened, the campus community patronized the chapel in Caldwell, pictured on the right-hand side of this photograph.
Date
ca. 1900
Rights
Courtesy of the Catholic University Archives, University Photograph Collection
Aerial photograph of Catholic University campus, ca. 1928
Description
The photograph has been labelled to indicate which buildings were erected during Shahan's rectorship. However, the Salve Regina office building erected in 1920 is out of the frame. Note that the crypt level of the National Shrine is incomplete.
Date
ca. 1928
Rights
Courtesy of the Catholic University Archives, University Photograph Collection
McKenna and Shahan, center, posing in front of the foundation stone, which is on the back of the Sexton & Sons truck. James Sexton was the donor of the stone.
Source
Salve Regina Press – August 1, 1924
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Publisher
Salve Regina
Date
August 1, 1924
Rights
Courtesy of the Catholic University Archives, Thomas J. Shahan papers
Unidentified laborer posing with the foundation stone in situ, during the construction of the crypt church. Note that the date inscribed in Latin on the stone follows the Roman calendar; it reads “eight days prior to the first of October,” which translates to September 23.
Date
December 15, 1923
Rights
Courtesy of the Catholic University Archives, National Shrine Collection