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Two Men Standing Indoors

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Description: Two men are standing indoors, one man on the left and the other on the right. In the center is a vintage hand crank phonograph. A sign hanging on the back ...
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Undertaker

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Description: Undertaker's funeral parlor and other buildings along a dirt street with a sidewalk. An oblong sign attached to the balcony hangs over the sidewalk and rea...
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Horse-Drawn Hearses in a Funeral Procession

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Description: View from across unpaved street of four men with horse-drawn hearses lined up in front of an undertaking building. The other storefronts are a stable on th...
Postcard

Haywagon on a Village Street

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard of a haywagon pulled through a village by two horses. The driver is perched on top of the load. One horse wears a blanket with printi...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1928
Description: View down street. On the left is the McCann. Undertaking building and grocery store. Two children play on a wagon on the sidewalk. Five people are gathered...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: View down a rainy commercial street. There is a soda/ice cream shop, garage/gas station, and undertaker. A car is parked on the side of the road. There is ...
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Looking South from Marcus Corner

Date: 1923
Description: View down retail street. The shops include a clothing store, Barig and Son Undertakers, a hotel, and drugstore. Cars are parked in the middle of the street...
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Horse-Drawn Hearse

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Description: Black Earth hearse drawn by horses. Chris Schanel, the Black Earth undertaker, is driving. In the background on the right a small pig is running near a fen...
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Horse-Drawn Hearse

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Description: Black Earth hearse drawn by horses. Chris Schanel, the Black Earth undertaker, is driving.
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Beck Funeral Home

Date: 02 15 1978
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 ...
Photograph

Beck Funeral Home

Date: 02 15 1978
Description: "Lester Beck, Undertaker. In 1913, Lester's father, Fred Beck, and Robert Kietzer formed a partnership as undertakers and, in 1917, Fred went on his own in...
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George L. Thomas

Date: 05 24 1921
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of George L. Thomas, Milwaukee undertaker.
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Scene on Highway 11

Date: 1929
Description: View down a commercial street, with an automobile coming down the street. There is a soda/ice cream shop which offers tobacco, cigars, and candy. The City ...
Print

W.J. Burnham Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of W.J. Burnham of Chetek, Wisconsin, dealer in "Furniture, Undertaking Goods, School Supplies, Stationery, Confectionery, etc.," with an illust...
Print

J.J. & S.D. Hanchett Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of J.J. & S.D. Hanchett of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, dealers in "Furniture and Upholstered Work" and undertaking goods. Features an illustration of ...
Photograph

Utley & Co. Undertakers' Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Men standing near an International truck used by the Utley & Co., a furniture and undertaking company. The Utley & Co. storefront is in the background. The...
Photograph

N.L. Dahl

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Description: Photograph of N.L. Dahl in front of a horse-drawn hearse. Photograph is mounted on an advertising card reading: "For Coffins, Caskets, and Trimmings at rea...
Print

Buckstaff-Edwards Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Buckstaff-Edwards Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, manufacturers of coffins and caskets and wholesale dealers in caskets and undertaking supp...
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Hearse and Undertaker

Date: 1922
Description: Chris Schanel, undertaker, stands next to the back of his hearse. A home and trees are in the background.
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Hoenig Brothers Store

Date: 1900
Description: Hoenig Brothers & Co. two-story hardware and undertaking storefront. A man stands to the left of the building.

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