Trinity Church stands at the head of Wall Street. It is the wealthiest parish in America and is of fine Gothic architecture. The present building is the third one erected on this site. The Churchyard has a 391 1/2 foot front on Broadway, and an average depth of 243 feet. The land is worth $40,000,000 making an average of about $420 a square foot. If you will have the good fortune to be buried in Trinity Churchyard, you will occupy a plot of ground worth the modest sum of $11,760. Burials still take place in the family vaults built beneath the surface. The church owns $10,000,000 worth of productive real estate in the lower part of the city which brings in an annual income of $750,000. Much of this income is used in missions and philanthropic enterprises. The church has several beautiful bronze doors and a wonderful marble altar, the gift of the Astor family. Services are held regularly. Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton are buried in this Churchyard. In an early day, Trinity Church spire was a dominating landmark in the city. Now it is lost among the lofty surrounding skyscrapers. It is about one half the height of buildings immediately around it and one third the height of the Woolworth Building a few blocks to the north of it on Broadway.
Born in Dallas, Oregon, in 1904, Ruby Stafrin entered Oregon Agricultural College, with her sister Mildred, in 1923. Enrolled in the three-year Pharmacy degree program, Ruby married fellow pharmacy student Andrew Irwin in her sophomore year. After graduation, Ruby, Andrew, and Mildred (who was also enrolled in the pharmacy program with Ruby) worked, for the remainder of their lives, in the Dallas drug store established by Ruby's father.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was erected by Constantine about 336 A.D. It is built over the supposed Holy Sepulchre. It has no architectural beauty at present, if it ever had any, for it has been repeatedly destroyed and restored. The church is a very interesting site in Jerusalem to the Christian, because for more than sixteen hundred years it has been accepted as genuine for Mt. Calvary. It is so considered yet except by a few scholars who maintain that this church could not be the true site and point to the Calvary and the Garden Tomb outside the Damascus Gate."
This is the Methodist Episcopal Church - the first protestant church built in Oregon. The building was begun in 1842 and completed in 1844. It was located at the corner of Seventh and Main in Oregon City.
Constantine built a church here in 330, most of which survives in the present church of Nativity. Justinian who reigned from 527 to 565, rebuilt the walls of the town. The first care of the Crusaders, before taking Jerusalem in 1099, was to secure the safety of the Christian population of Bethlehem. Today there are about 8,000 inhabitants with Armenian Greek, and Latin churches, monasteries, convents, and schools for girls and for boys. There are English and German missions.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "From Cobh (or Queenstown) in south-eastern Ireland, for many generations Irish people have been going out to other countries. Almost a thousand years ago missionaries were being sent into other parts of the world. Today one of the most beautiful of the modern cathedrals stands overlooking the harbor. It represents the Roman Catholic church which includes approximately 90 per cent of the population of the Irish Free State. As in other European countries the church stands out as one of the most powerful factors in national development. Here it bids welcome and farewell to the thousands who come and go in Ireland's greatest natural harbor-- one of the most beautiful and most perfect harbors in the world."