IHM PICTORIAL ARCHIVES

IHM General History	This category includes photographs of IHM General History. Sisters gathering in Couer d' Alene, Idaho, circa 1950. In 1897, the congregation opened a mission in Tilamook, Oregon, the first of several in the Northwest.
IHM Government and Structure	This category includes photographs of IHM Goverment and Structures. From the beginning of the congregation, the government remained centralized until 1970, when it expanded to provide for a more participative electorate.
Canonical Superiors	This category contains photographs of IHM Canonical Superiors. The canonical superior is the sister who is the chief officer of the congregation. The title has changed over the years, and today the title is "president."
IHM Membership	This category contains photographs of IHM Membership. IHM membership includes all sisters who have professed vows under the Constitution of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
IHM Ministries	This category contains photographs of IHM Ministries. Since 1845, IHMs have always responded to the urgent needs of the times. Today, we meet the critical needs of people throughout the United States and Latin America through our ministries of education, health care, social services to the marginalized, and pastoral/spiritual ministries.
IHM Religious Life/Spirituality	This category contains photographs of IHM Religious Life and Spirituality. The greatest gift the sisters give to each other and to those they serve is a sharing of a life of personal holiness rooted in prayer.
Sponsored Institutions	This category contains photographs of IHM Sponsored Institutions. The congregation continues to maintain a sponsored committment to six institutions whose missions are an outgrowth of the congregation's mission and who are highly relevant to the needs of today's society.