Photograph of a St. Augustine graduate kissing the ring of a Josephite priest

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Black and white photograph of a kneeling student kissing a ring of a robed clergy member wearing a biretta. The student, wearing a graduation robe and mortarboard, kneels in front of a row of seated clergy dressed in full ecclesiastic robes. He kneels on a rug in a room with wood furniture and several large urns of plants and flowers. In the photograph's top margin are several handwritten numbers “2" (66), and 2A" on the bottom left corner. On the verso are the stamps "6619" and "W.D. Hogan." The string "1A58G5D" is handwritten at center bottom.

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