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Scarce photo of an early baseball game. Sacred Heart at that time was a Jesuit-operated college.
Hall of Fame pitcher Red Faber attended the school around this time.
Baseball field with the 'basics'. In background, Lawler Hall (left) and Kostka Hall.
Written on negative “Campus Sacred Heart College Prairie du Chien Wisconsin”
Postmarked ‘—AIRIE DU CHI—MAR 20 –' and reception postmark 'DUBUQUE IOWA MAR 20 1906 REC’D'.
Some paper damage right border, UR corner. Slight crack into picture LL. Postmark ink on photo. Some smudges on back.
Campion High School was founded in 1880 as the College of the Sacred Heart. Established on property donated by Prairie du Chien philanthropist John Lawler, the school was originally operated as a college by Jesuits from the Buffalo, New York, mission of the German Province of the Society of Jesus. Its first president was Rev. William Becker, S.J. The school continued as a college until 1888, when it was closed to lay students and became a house of formation for Jesuit priests. Ten years later, in 1898, the school was reopened to the public, as both a high school and college.
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