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"Cemetery Vandalism Shown"

Date: 11 07 1949
Description: Robert Higgins, assistant caretaker of Holy Cross cemetery, is shown attempting to repair the damage caused by vandals. About 12 small monuments near the ...
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Wooded Cemetery

Date: 1970
Description: A country cemetery with a row of pine trees in the foreground. In the far distance is a farm.
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Roselawn Memorial Park Monument

Date: 10 08 1950
Description: The Reverend Benjamin W. Saunders (left), Episcopal director of the DeKoven foundation of Racine, stands beside a marble marker monument inscribed with the...
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Roselawn Memorial Park Monument

Date: 10 08 1950
Description: Monument at Roselawn Memorial Park, 119-122 Monona Drive, inscribed with the Lord's Prayer.
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble m...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: The unveiling of a marble monument dedicated to Madison's war dead at Forest Hill Cemetery as part of Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies. At the right of th...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two veterans with a confederate flag in front of Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery during Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies.
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Captain William Hogbin

Date: 1915
Description: Captain William Hogbin sits on a chair next to the headstone of his late wife, Mary Catherine (Tiffany Knott) Hogbin, in Forest Hill Cemetery. A woman, lik...
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Local Boilermakers and Helpers

Date: 1914
Description: Boilermakers and their helpers pose on and around a horse-drawn wagon that bears a sign that reads "Boiler-makers and Helpers," perhaps for a parade. Man o...
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Catholic Church

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Description: Exterior of the Catholic Church. There is a cemetery behind the building.
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Bird's-Eye View of Town

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Description: View from hill over church and cemetery towards fields and town in a valley.
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Trees on Regent Street

Date: 10 11 1954
Description: Rows of maple trees, turning color, line the 2600 block of Regent Street. The photograph looks east and part of Resurrection cemetery is visible at right.
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Madison Arts Guild Crafts Group

Date: 01 18 1955
Description: Mrs. Charles Watson is shown with her rosemaled plate during the Madison Art Guild Crafts Group exchange.
Print

Fred M. Schlimgen Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Fred M. Schlimgen of Madison, Wisconsin, designer and builder of memorial markers, with a landscape of classical buildings, a cloud-filled sk...
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First Lutheran Church

Date: 08 02 1956
Description: Exterior view of the First Lutheran Church at the corner of Old Sauk Road and Pleasant View Road in Middleton, Wisconsin. It was the site of the Middleton ...
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Tombstone of Tabitha Bird

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Description: A large tombstone marking the grave of Tabitha Burgoyne Bird, the daughter of Major Burgoyne, a surgeon in the English army.
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 07 15 1957
Description: Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris...
Map or Atlas

Map of Dane County, Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: Shows land ownership by name, rural routes, improved roads, railroads, schools, churches, and cemeteries. "For list of small property owners, lift map at f...
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Crucifiction [sic] Group in Catholic Cemetery

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Description: A marble crucifixion monument of Christ and three mourners in the Catholic Cemetery. A groundskeeper stands just behind the statue holding up a scythe. Oth...
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Farmland Vista

Date: 1961
Description: Vista over farmland from a small country cemetery.

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