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Catholic prayer book


This purple velvet Catholic prayer book was published in Prague in 1876, and brought to America by Josef and Josefa Hanna Peterka, who married in 1868.  They emigrated with their seven children from Dolni Hradiste, Kraj Plzen, Bohemia, in 1881, and farmed near Dubois, Pawnee County, NE. On loan from Dorothy Stepan.