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| Date: | 12 06 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin State Journal staff carry the coffin bearing the body of editor Roy L. Matson from St. Andrews Episcopal Church. Rector Rob... |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the gravesite of Sparky, with four men carrying the co... |
| Date: | 12 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view through an arch towards a large group of people sitting in pews. The body of Msgr. John A. Koelzer, 67, pastor of St. James Catholic Church, ... |
| Date: | 06 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative reads: "At the funeral of Donald Henry Koenen, 4, of South Range, Wis., son of Henry Koenen, on June 22. Picture shows the crowd comi... |
| Date: | 03 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Rose Caroline Muskat Marcou saying her final goodbyes at the open casket of David A. Marcou, her husband of 65 years, inside the St. James Church. |
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| Description: | Floral grave memorial with a photograph of a European-American child in the center. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster memorializing the American casualties of the sinking of the Tuscania. Included are four photographs from the funerary procession. These are t... |
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| Description: | Indoor view of a small, light-colored casket resting on a table covered with a drape. The coffin is surrounded by flowers and flower arrangements on tables... |
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| Description: | Indoor view of a flower-draped casket in a room with walls covered with photographs. |
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| Description: | An illustration depicting various aspects of Indian life, including dancing, a sweat lodge, cooking, and burial of the dead. Indians are referred to as "sa... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Newspaper halftone in Mrs. Louise Lawrence Van Dyke's obituary in the Milwaukee Sentinel. Portion of the text: "Liberal Donor to Charity. Mrs. Louis... |
| Date: | 11 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of funeral and tent/morgue from the Cherry Mine disaster. Caption reads: "#37 Cherry Mine Horror Showing Morgue Dunham Photo Princeto... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Tombs made by Assiniboin Indians in trees. |
| Date: | 12 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing iconic masks and white robes parading down King Street to Schroeder Funeral Home for the funeral of Police officer Herbert Drege... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Indians on horseback along river with Indian grave on hill in background. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | A group of pallbearers carry the casket containing Frank Lloyd Wright's body to its final resting place in the Unity Chapel Cemetery. |
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| Description: | View across board sidewalk towards a hearse being pulled by a team of two horses wearing fly-nets. |
| Date: | 03 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Five-year-old Wilbur Corcoran, son of Frank and Margaret Corcoran, 624 Williamson Street, lying in a coffin surrounded by flower arrangements and a three-t... |
| Date: | 04 21 1934 |
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| Description: | Casket and flowers at cemetery for the funeral of Lorraine V. McGraw. |
| Date: | 05 29 1931 |
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| Description: | A large numbers of cars are shown parked at Peninsula State Park during the reburial ceremony for Potawatomi Chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados. A crowd of p... |
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