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Men with Two Small Bucks

Date: 1910
Description: Bringing in two small bucks, dead and loaded on a sled behind a team of horses, Old Camp 2. The third man from the right is Clarence Deitz.
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Funeral Ceremony at the National Military Home

Date: 1915
Description: View of a funeral ceremony at the National Military Home, which opened in 1867. A group of veterans march before a horse-drawn vehicle pulling a coffin on ...
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Martin Lein/Lien's Funeral

Date: 05 1911
Description: Panoramic view from street of Martin Lein/Lien's funeral procession, showing Main and Water Streets before the flood of 1911. The procession includes sever...
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Corpse of an Elderly Man

Date: 1918
Description: Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations.
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Grave Excavation

Date: 07 13 1918
Description: Boxed bones from graves found on University Hill (later Bascom Hill). Two men, seen from the waist down, are standing behind the boxes containing the remai...
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Funeral Floral Display

Date: 1912
Description: Funeral floral arrangement for William Jaeger. His framed portrait sits on two wooden chairs. He is wearing a suit and has a neckbeard. Flower arrangements...
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Funeral Arrangement

Date: 1912
Description: Floral funeral arrangement for William Jaeger. A large head and shoulders portrait of him is resting on two chairs behind floral arrangements, with "Vater"...
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Funeral Floral Arrangement

Date: 1912
Description: Funeral floral arrangement for William Jaeger. His framed portrait is sitting on two wooden chairs. He is wearing a suit and has a neckbeard. Flower arrang...
Poster

Come On!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an American soldier standing over the body of a German soldier. The soldier is facing the viewer, clutching his bayonet...
Poster

Pvt. Treptow's Pledge

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier, lying dead. Poster text reads: "Straight from the Trenches. Originated and produced for the Liberty Loan Com...
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Advanced Dressing Station

Date: 09 01 1918
Description: Soldiers adorning the grave of a fallen comrade at the advanced dressing station, the farthest point to which ambulances would travel. A sign on an ambulan...

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