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| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front members posing with a dead camel. The men are wearing turbans and loose, light clothing. The camel has been skinned. Beh... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Helilift of corpses after a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop mats on the ground in a field. S... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. Children watch as a group of men begin to pick up corpses wrapped in sheets on woven mats. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Funeral services in the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two of the deceased are covered with woven mats and lying on wh... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Funeral services in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two bodies are lying covered with woven mats on top of white pallets. There ar... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | A woman holding a baby stands in front of two dead bodies laid out for a funeral in a open-air, covered building. The men were killed during a Viet Cong at... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Women and children crouch around bodies laid out for funerals covered with woven mats. The deceased were killed during a Viet Cong raid of Vinh Quoi, Vietn... |
| Date: | 02 15 1978 |
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| Description: | "On Feb. 13, Herbert Sellnow died unexpectedly at the age of 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days. As events turned out, this was the last funeral in the Beck ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Bodies of Germans killed by Poles in Lemberg when the Nazis invaded Poland. American journalist Alvin Steinkopf was one of a number of journalists from neu... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of a man wearing a suit and hat holding a dead bobcat standing next to a man wearing a button-up plaid shirt and hat holding a dead coyote. Both men a... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | "While working on St. Paul's Lutheran 'Half Way' church, between Lomira & Theresa, a workman was killed when he fell off the scaffolding on the left." |
| Date: | 02 1924 |
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| Description: | Two dead bucks with locked antlers are nearly buried in snow. The heads were mounted and hung in the Hotz family Europe Lake cottage until they were stolen... |
| Date: | 03 30 1993 |
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| Description: | "Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers carry Dr. Greg Langenfeld's casket from St. Theresa Catholic Church." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Memorial photograph, showing a draped coffin surrounded by floral offerings, among which appears a life-size head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A skull at the bottom of a excavation at Mechta. A digging pick has been included to show scale. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Group standing outdoors in the yard of a small clapboard church at the funeral of a small child. The child's white coffin, surrounded by mourners, stands o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Deceased man's body lying in open veiled coffin, surrounded by flowers, in a residential interior. |
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