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The Right Reverend John S. Foley, D.D., Bishop of Detroit, Mich., USA, 1889 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame studio gates and Grauman's forecourtThe Right Reverend John S. Foley, D. D., Bishop of Detroit, Mich., USA, 1889 an episcopal portrait struck the year of Foley's elevation to the Detroit see, the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds, mitre and pectoral cross doing the quiet work of authority. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National