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Casket and Flowers at Cemetery

Date: 04 21 1934
Description: Casket and flowers at cemetery for the funeral of Lorraine V. McGraw.
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Houses and Cemetery

Date: 07 17 1960
Description: Houses viewed from an old cemetery lot.
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Anniversary of JFK Assassination

Date: 11 1964
Description: Delegates from the International Labor Press Association place a marker on the grave of President John F. Kennedy to mark the first anniversary of his deat...
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Gravestone of Walter and Ionie Arms

Date: 1960
Description: Walter and Ionie Arms's grave marker in the shade of a tall bush at the Burr Ridge cemetery.
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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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Cassville Cemetery

Date: 1921
Description: Rows of tombstones at the cemetery. The gravestone of Myrtle Schmelz is legible.
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Grave of Colonel Hans Heg

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of women and one child alongside the graves of Colonel Hans Heg, commander of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, and his daughter Annetta....
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 1987
Description: "Memorial Day at the River Church Cemetery."
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Group in Cemetery

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Description: Large group posed standing in a cemetery, possibly Hixton or Schlechterville.
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Procession to St. Anne's Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley of a procession of hundreds of pilgrims walking up the hill to St. Anne's Chapel which is lined with Stations of the Cross. The crowd is w...
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River Church Cemetery

Date: 05 1989
Description: Legionaries place flowers on graves at River Church Cemetery.
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Wendorf Family Monument

Date: 1903
Description: Wendorf family monument located within Oak Hill cemetery.
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Two Women in a Cemetery

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Description: View across grass towards two women posing standing in front of a group of tombstones in a cemetery.
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Traffic Patrolman James Jantz' Funeral

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Mrs. James C. Jantz, wife of the slain policeman, holding the arm of her mother, Mrs. Roger Keith, and leaning on the shoulder of her brother, Jerome Boyer...
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Martha & Emma Schroeder Gravestone

Date: 10 1974
Description: Outdoor portrait of Bernice (Boyum) Bergner standing behind a gravestone for her aunt Martha W. and her mother Emma M. Schroeder Boyum in the Hillside Ceme...
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Bernard and Nellie Arms Grave Marker

Date: 05 1999
Description: A rectangular gravestone bearing the birth and death years of Bernard and Nellie Arms. There are flowers next to the stone.
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Scots Pine

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Pinus sylvestris, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing in the Cooksville Cemetery. Smaller trees and other flow...
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Brumder Burial

Date: 05 1910
Description: Floral tributes, including wreaths and a cross, form a large display at the base of the obelisk marking the Brumder family plot in Forest Home Cemetery. O...
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Grace Raymond Hebard at Sacajawea's Grave

Date: 1926
Description: A woman holding flowers is standing between two graves, looking at the one on the left. Caption reads: "Wind River Indian Reservation (formerly the Shosho...

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